Kendall Rodriguez/for New York Daily News Alex Rodriguez takes another big hit in his battle with baseball as arbitrator gives Yankee slugger 162-game ban, plus the postseason. He’s out. Alex Rodriguez, once Major League Baseball’s biggest star, was slammed Saturday with an historic drug suspension that encompasses all of the 2014 season, including the postseason, and will cost the Yankee ...
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Baghdad Christians targeted as Christmas bombings death toll hits 37
Karim Kadim/AP Iraqi officials say a car bomb went off near a Baghdad church during Christmas Mass, killing at least 15 people in the city’s southern Dora neighborhood, which has a small Christian population. BAGHDAD — Iraqi officials say a car bomb went off near a Baghdad church during Christmas Mass, killing at least 15 people. A police officer says ...
Read More »‘Wolf of Wall Street’ penthouse hits market at $6.5 million
Han Myung-Gu/WireImage The Midtown penthouse that Leonardo DiCaprio’s character in ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ calls home is now on the market for $ 6.5 million. Welcome to the wolf’s lair. The Midtown penthouse Leonardo DiCaprio calls home in the new Scorsese flick “The Wolf of Wall Street” is now on the market. And at $ 6.5 million for the ...
Read More »Here’s a top 20 of folk music’s finest hits
Peter, Paul and Mary did a stellar take on Gordon Lightfoot’s “Leavin’ on a Jet Plane.” Folk songs strum through the new Coen Brothers movie “Inside Llewyn Davis,” but the film winds up missing its essential milieu. Certainly, there are worthy songs on the accompanying soundtrack — some stemming from the original Village scene it means to depict. They include ...
Read More »Car bomb hits Yemen’s defense ministry, killing at least 18
YAHYA ARHAB/EPA An ambulance drives through as smokes rise from Yemen’s Defense Ministry complex after a car bomb explosion rocked the complex in Sanaa on Thursday morning. SANAA, Yemen — A suicide bomber detonated his explosives-laden car Thursday at Yemen’s Defense Ministry, killing 18 soldiers and wounding at least 40 in an attack underlining the persistent threat to the stability ...
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