"Mothers and fathers, married and single, rich and poor, in cities and suburbs, all kinds of parents all over this country have been criminalized for private choices."

Who is the worst helicopter parent in America? You know, the one who won’t let the kids go anywhere alone, the one who is sure that around every corner of the house and playground is some risk of s…
nypost.com

“They let down our athletes. They let down Americans.”

U.S. Olympic Committee CEO Scott Blackmun says further action is coming.
nypost.com

“F- -k them cops and swats with night vision,” he raps under the stage name Ka in a 2013 song.

A Brooklyn-based FDNY captain leads a double life as a hip-hop artist whose songs are peppered with the N-word, drugs, violence and anti-cop lyrics. “F- -k them cops and swats with night vision,” h…
nypost.com

“It’s my way of keeping him alive. I feel like it’s my responsibility and I know it would make him happy.”

Flora Kortsolakis has vowed to honor her late husband’s legacy by spending the rest of her days tending to his elaborate re-creation of the Greek island of Crete in their Bay Ridge back yard.
nypost.com

It’s “daily and near-daily users, who are less educated, less affluent and less in control of their use.”

Pot for the poor! That could be the new slogan of marijuana-legalization advocates.
nypost.com
New York Post shared a link.
4 hrs
The US Olympic “Golden Girls” gymnastics team gives new meaning to the term f-ab-ulous — rocking a Rio beach in itsy bitsy bikinis.
nypost.com

Team USA is golden once again.

Behind 30 points from Kevin Durant, the United States hammered Croatia, 96-66, in the gold-medal game Sunday.
nypost.com

The dog shielded the baby almost entirely from the fire, with her only suffering burns on her arm and side.

This is why dogs are man’s best friends: A 5-year-old dog died in a fire in Baltimore last week while shielding his family’s 8-month-old daughter from the deadly flames.
nypost.com

After killing the five people the man kidnapped his ex and a 3-month-old baby and drove them across the border into Mississippi to his father’s house, the Mobile County Sheriff’s office said.

A woman who fled to her sister’s home to escape an abusive boyfriend awoke to find him slaughtering her sibling and four other people, Alabama authorities said Sunday.
nypost.com

"One would think given the [Brian] Williams fiasco NBC would be extra protective of its new top journalist’s credibility and integrity."

ICYMI:

Kudos to Donald Trump for dragging the media spotlight to the flood-ravaged areas around Baton Rouge — and shaming President Obama into belatedly scheduling a visit.
nypost.com

He was found unconscious in a hotel hallway.

The police statement says there were no signs of trauma and the cause of death was not immediately known.
pagesix.com

“Until they really fix [the sinkhole] the right way, it’s going to happen again.”

A Brooklyn firefighter broke his back when his firetruck plunged into a sinkhole that area residents say has been a recurring problem for years that the city has failed to properly fix.
nypost.com

Beneath the well-dressed facade was a painfully introverted man with a history of psychiatric problems and drug use, including LSD and steroids, according to court documents.

How Tommy went from a life of privilege to being locked up on murder charges is a question still perplexing some of his closest friends. After all, he seemed to have it all.
nypost.com

The shameful display of naked partisanship by the elite media is unlike anything seen in modern America.

The largest broadcast networks and major newspapers like The New York Times and Washington Post have jettisoned all pretense of fair play.
nypost.com

“I’m suffering and my son is suffering because he does not want to be in the system. He wants to be home.”

A Manhattan mom says the city has wrongly kept her son for three years and since her child joined a lawsuit against the foster-care system the city is trying to cut her off from him forever.
nypost.com
The anchor insisted “this be done quietly and with no public or private acknowledgment or announcement about her gesture,” according to agent Alan Berger.
pagesix.com

“We felt like him coming to school was his safe zone," a teacher said.

The circumstances surrounding Danny's life at home and school are more complex than what first emerged in media reports and sparked widespread outrage over bullying.
nypost.com

The bombing was the deadliest attack in Turkey this year.

An Islamic State group suicide bomber as young as 12 years old attacked an outdoor Kurdish wedding party in southeastern Turkey, killing at least 51 people and wounding dozens of others, the Turkish president said.
nypost.com