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A Texas doctor in town to help with the fight against the coronavirus was ripped off for $11,000 worth of personal items in her Brooklyn hotel room, police sources said Monday. The suspect, a woman believed to be in her 20s, broke into the room in the Brooklyn Hotel on Atlantic Avenue near Nostrand Avenue...

The investment company that employs a white woman who went viral after calling the cops on a black man in Central Park on Monday has placed her on administrative leave. “We take these matters very seriously, and we do not condone racism of any kind,” read a statement from Franklin Templeton. “While we are in...

A viral video shows a mob of Staten Island grocery-store shoppers screaming at a customer who wasn’t wearing a mask. The furious crowd yelled, “Get out!” “Get the f–k out of here!” and “You’re a loser, bro!” at the woman at the ShopRite, according to footage posted on Facebook on Saturday and later widely shared...

Memorial Day weekend brought a wave of violence to the Big Apple, with five homicides, including three fatal stabbings and a man bashed to death with a chunk of concrete, police said. Two of the weekend slayings remained unsolved Monday. One police source told The Post that the ongoing coronavirus lockdown and rising temperatures could...

City University colleges are rolling out plans to slash their adjunct teaching staffs as the system faces a nearly $150 million cut in aid thanks to the coronavirus budget crises at City Hall and in Albany. The famed John Jay College of Criminal Justice is prepared to cut 430 adjunct professors, amounting to roughly 40...

The socialite sister of US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin is suing two potential buyers of her Park Avenue penthouse for a near $1 million deposit after she claims they tanked the deal, new court papers show. Valerie Mnuchin — who bought the 898 Park Ave penthouse in 2014, according to a Real Deal report —...

The head of the nation’s top LGBT rights group is trying to stop conservative Rev. Ruben Diaz Sr. — a Bronx councilman known for his anti-gay stances — from getting elected to Congress. “We have a known homophobe who is running for Congress who doesn’t represent the values of New York voters. He has a...

A video of a white woman calling the cops on a black man because he asked her to leash her dog in Central Park Monday is drawing outrage on social media. The footage, posted on Twitter by the man’s sister, begins with the masked dog walker marching toward the man and demanding that he stop...

Gov. Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio took time amid the pandemic to honor America’s fallen military heroes on a particularly somber Memorial Day. “Today we honor the service members who have lost their lives,” said Cuomo, whose coronavirus press briefing at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum began with his tossing a wreath in the...

He was electrocuted while subway-surfing and left with horrific scars — but that hasn’t stopped a man from appearing on “Swedish Idol” and becoming a role model for other burn victims. “It was the hardest time of my life, having to accept all this,” said Axel Schylstrom — who suffered third-degree burns over 70 percent...