Bronx-native, Greg Armstrong, 62, traces his Knicks fandom back to 1973, the same year the team last won a championship.  Now living in Middletown, NY, he’s in his 34th year as a season ticket holder.  He told The Post that his earliest memories go back to watching games on Channel 9 with his older brother, a Clyde Frazier fan, whose posters covered their bedroom walls. That lifelong obsession hasn’t been cheap.  Armstrong said his full-season tickets started at about $2,000 years ago. The upcoming season is costing him $10,000 before playoff tickets.  Between the regular season and postseason, he estimated…

Morgan Wallen seemingly threw a phone across the stage in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, after snatching the device from a security guard’s hands. Wallen, 33, appeared to launch the phone during his Friday, June 5, show at Acrisure Stadium, with footage from the moment circulating via social media in the following days. In one fan’s post-show clip, shared via X, Wallen is seen walking over to where a security guard is holding the phone up in the air to film his performance from the ground beneath the stage. The musician then appears to gesture into the phone’s camera to halt filming, before…

Caissie Levy attributed her 2026 Tony Award win, in part, to a support network of babysitters. “Thank you to … every babysitter who’s made it possible for me to be both a Broadway actor and a mother,” the mom-of-two, 45, said during her Tony Awards acceptance speech inside New York City’s Radio City Music Hall on Sunday, June 7. Winning in the category of Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play for her work as Mother in the revival of Ragtime, Levy also thanked her children, Izaiah, 10, and Talulah, 5, whom she shares with…

Red, white and due? Summer is the most popular time to give birth in the US, with July and August consistently ranking as the busiest delivery months. The summer surge is fueled by higher conception rates in the cooler fall and winter months. No matter when you become pregnant, preparing for a baby is a major undertaking that can feel overwhelming at times. Fortunately, most pregnancies — even high-risk ones — follow a predictable path, and understanding pregnancy care can make the journey feel less intimidating. From appointments to screening tests, here’s a look at your 10-month journey by trimester.…

Published on 08/06/2026 – 8:00 GMT+2 The two-year transition phase of the EU’s Pact on Migration and Asylum ends on June 12. National governments will soon implement new European rules on migration and asylum. The pact establishes a unified and stricter framework for migration, asylum, border management, and integration. It aims to create a fairer, more consistent, and secure approach to managing migration across the bloc. The measures strengthen external borders, set common asylum procedures, guarantee burden-sharing among member states, and establish international partnerships to fight illegal migration. In January, the Commission presented the European Asylum and Migration Management Strategy,…

The World Series final, Bruno Mars and Inter Miami versus TFC. For the Toronto Transit Commission, they were all dress rehearsals. Some went better than others, but each offered lessons on the road to hosting the 2026 FIFA World Cup.Now that test — new TTC CEO Mandeep Lali’s biggest since taking over the system — is just days away.“Not only are we ready, we’ve practised that, demonstrated that year after year,” he told Global News, sitting in an upstairs office of the transit agency’s control centre, its nerve system.“All of the accumulation of all our experiences now is what we’re…

SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAWelcome to Brisbane Times’ Queensland public sector column, Public Circus. This week: precarious police finances, a proposed department restructure, “Project Invisibility” and more.With just two weeks until the state budget is handed down, we’ve added a fifth notch to the tally of departments feeling the heat about hiring staff.The entrance of the Queensland Police Service is a little different. A crackdown on vacant roles there appears a fate of its own making.Interim Commissioner Brett Pointing said the department had been “living beyond its means”.Matt…

Love Island USA‘s Bryce Alakai Dettlof made a surprising revelation regarding his appearance in the newest episode of the show. During the Sunday, June 7, episode, Trinity Tatum asked Bryce if he had “an ugly face growing up.” Bryce surprised her — and Us — by opening up about how he dealt with quite the opposite. “No, I looked like a girl,” he said. “But it is funny because all the girls liked me.” Bryce shared a specific story from his childhood. “I remember in middle school, I was in 7th grade and there was a girl in 8th grade…

Cops, graduates and parents were seen scuffling after a California high school graduation ceremony – and the melee ended up with four arrests. The aftermath of Kerman High School’s ceremony descended into chaos Thursday over an argument that started between one senior and another boy in the parking lot, KFSN reported. The senior, who was on probation, was detained before the situation escalated.  “It should have stopped there, but at some point, they had family members, emotions are high, decided to insert themselves into that situation,” Kerman Police Lieutenant Wil Barcoma said. Video showed a handful of cops trying to…

Published on 08/06/2026 – 10:26 GMT+2•Updated 10:29 Latvia’s military said on Monday that its fighter jets had shot down a drone that entered its airspace earlier in the day. The National Armed Forces (NBS) said an airspace warning that had been issued had been lifted by 10:30 am local time. The NBS sent alerts to mobile phones of citizens living in the eastern municipalities of Ludza, Balvi and Alūksne. A military spokesperson told the Reuters news agency that the drone entered Latvian airspace from Russia. The latest incident comes just two weeks after the NBS issued a similar alert to…

At the height of concerns over foreign interference in 2023, Canada’s spy agency started adding blanket warnings to assessments of foreign nationals seeking security clearance to work for the federal government. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) started by warning federal departments about China’s national security laws, which allow Beijing to compel Chinese nationals to provide the state with information.The spy agency expanded the warnings to include an undisclosed number of other countries, attaching the general warnings to foreign nationals applying to work in sensitive positions with the federal government.An independent federal review agency is now warning that the practice…

June 8, 2026 — 7:00pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAOpinion pieces from local writers exploring their suburb’s cliches and realities and how it has changed in the past 20 years. See all stories.It is late afternoon in Travancore. The light is soft and flattering, and the heritage facades of stately homes are showing off their best features. The front lawns glow a mellow golden green, scattered with the confetti of fallen elm leaves. If you’re off the main road, and you edit the Land Rovers and Audis out of…

The 2026 Tony Awards started with a bang — meaning a 170-person strong opening number featuring first-time host Pink, Neil Patrick Harris, Megan Thee Stallion and many, many more singing a parody number of Pink’s hit “Lady Marmalade.” The three-hour CBS telecast of the Tonys was just beginning, but for ceremony participants at Radio City Music Hall it has already been an action-packed day on the blue carpet. Keep scrolling for eight things viewers at home didn’t see on the Tonys telecast, complete with intel from the hours-long carpet, backstage media room and more. 1. Whitney Leavitt – who performed…

An NYPD cop appeared to slam a Knicks fan’s face into a pole during an arrest outside Madison Square Garden’s Friday night victory celebration, shocking video shows. Several officers and a captain helped handcuff the baby-faced suspect as the wild crowd booed the unfolding arrest after the NBA Finals Game 2 win, according to the footage. The suspect — with his hands behind his back — didn’t appear to be resisting when a Community Affairs officer grabbed his neck and smashed his face into a green-colored pole, the clip captured. The fan winced in pain while the crowd jeered at the…

In 2025, the EU saw 669,400 first-time asylum requests and 178,000 irregular border crossings. The scale is putting pressure on the five member states along the Central Mediterranean route: Spain, Italy, France, Germany and Greece received 83% of all first-time asylum applications. Frontline countries lack the physical capacity to shelter applicants, and processing can take years, leaving hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people in legal limbo. Local budgets are also unable to provide adequate long-term healthcare, education and social assistance. The EU’s Migration and Asylum Pact aims to ease this pressure by bringing non-border countries forward: states must choose between…