(PART 1) Current Trends/Topics/HEADLINES in the News per (NYPost.com) Usually run 1 day late as they report what happened THAT DAY.. Its easier to recap the next day
5/01/2024 (Wednesday) (NYPOST)
- Massive fire engulfs NYC supermarket, spreads to 4 buildings, injuring 7 and displacing 30 residents
- Bear cub snatched from family by selfie-snapping fools is 'thriving' in refuge center
- Chili's and Applebee's woo inflation-weary diners as fast food prices continue to climb
- Unruly United passenger must pay $20K for diverting Newark-bound flight, threatening to 'mess up plane'
- Trump to address ‘Libertarian Party concerns’ at group’s national convention
- Anti-Israel UCLA protesters request shields, helmets, vegan and gluten-free donations after violent campus clash
- NYC's 'worst landlord' indicted for tenant harassment weeks after being jailed over building violations
- NYPD raids short-lived anti-Israel encampment at Fordham University's Lincoln Center campus
- Police fatally shoot armed student outside Wisconsin middle school as students fled, some on in-line skates
- Access to remote learning, telemedicine during extreme weather events ending for millions
- Arab peace activist blasts 'privileged' anti-Israel US college students for blindly supporting Hamas: 'Betraying all of us — Gazans included'
- 400,000 migrants flown to US under Biden parole program 'likely staying here forever': experts
- Shopper shocked to discover someone seemingly took bite out of new Aldi bacon package
- Florida's six-week abortion ban takes effect ahead of November ballot measure
- Delta Boeing 767 jet that dropped emergency slide is 33 years old – well past normal age for active airliner: experts
5/02/2024 (Thursday) (NYPOST)
- New Jersey home explodes into pieces, killing 1 and injuring another
- Embattled upstate DA says she will not resign after bodycam showed her berating cop over speeding ticket
- Trump, bearing pizzas, met with cheers at Manhattan FDNY firehouse
- Pint-sized hero sprints mile to save parents injured in tornado: 'Please don't die'
- This is how much you need to earn to buy a home in America's top 50 metros – see where NY ranks
- Peer of fired ABC News weatherman Rob Marciano calls fall-out over alleged anger issues a 'hit job': report
- Alabama pushes back certification deadline to allow Biden on November ballot
- Anti-Israel mob charges cops in Portland with garbage can shields – only to be quickly thwarted
- Photos Kate Middleton has taken of Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis through the years
- Barnard student twice arrested at Columbia protests refuses to say whether Israel has right to exist
- Stormy Daniels’ lawyer claims $130K payment 'wasn’t hush money' at Trump trial
- Audiologist who fatally stabbed boyfriend 108 times to appeal conviction, says he 'tricked' her into cannabis-induced psychosis: report
- Brooklyn's PS 331 renamed after slain NYPD Detective Wenjian Liu, becoming first NYC school honoring Asian American
- US issues travel warning for Germany: 'Terrorist groups keep planning attacks'
- Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs signs 1864 abortion ban repeal
5/03/2024 (Friday) (NYPOST)
- Wisconsin elementary school teacher, 24, busted for ‘making out’ with 5th-grader — three months before wedding
- Lotto player wins second $1 million prize in just 10 weeks
- Dog and deer take stroll through town before police intervene: 'All good walks must come to an end'
- Sen. Tom Cotton introduces bill to block anti-Israel protesters from getting Biden student loan bailouts
- Hims and Hers loses $210 million in stock value after CEO says he is 'eager' to hire anti-Israel protesters
- Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘black book’ with 221 additional high-profile names is being sold to a secret bidder
- Biden's pathetic nods to Pelosi, Gore and Kerry
- 3 bodies found in search of US, Aussie surfers who vanished in Mexico: report
- Iowa 'will not back down' after Biden administration threatens to sue if state arrests, deports migrants
- US Army sergeant, his jailed brother charged in failed murder-for-hire plot arranged from behind bars
- New details emerge about NYPD cop's gun discharge during Columbia raid on anti-Israel protesters inside Hamilton Hall
- Fani Willis grilled during hearing over amount of money spent on prosecuting Trump case – instead of county's backlog of criminal cases
- Several Jewish orgs skip scheduled meeting with top Biden admin officials over ‘last minute’ inclusion of far-left groups
- Google blasted as 'negligent' over evidence destruction as landmark DOJ antitrust case wraps up
- Philadelphia cop shoots, kills dog as pack of four canines mauls man in street: video
- Face of 75,000-year-old Neanderthal woman revealed by scientists who glued together 200 parts of her skull
- Swimming icon Katie Ledecky receives Presidential Medal of Freedom
- Columbia prez Minouche Shafik says pro-terror protesters ousted from Hamilton Hall in NYPD raid 'crossed a new line'
- US taxpayers shouldn't be subsidizing idiotic college extremism
- Hope Hicks breaks down on witness stand, defends Trump and Melania’s relationship
- Gen Zers are 'addicted' to fast fashion shopping — despite claiming to care about the environment
- Banning Trump from talking about his trial is blatant election interference
- Girl, 15, charged with murder in fatal NYC stabbing of teen over social media feud: sources
5/04/2024 (Saturday) (NYPOST)
- Aspiring doctor brain dead after friends pushed him into lake knowing he can't swim, left him underwater for nearly 10 minutes: report
- Former Miss Nevada, who was abandoned at an airport as a baby 44 years ago, to meet biological mother in 2 weeks
- Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway sees profits drop but thousands still want to hear from investing guru
- Biden teams up with 'Star Wars' actor Mark Hamill for cringey 'May the 4th be with you' video, gets ripped online
- The anti-Israel agitators were actually outsiders – and the schools could not have handled it worse
- Would-be Wisconsin school shooter aimed pellet gun at police before he was shot dead: prosecutors
- JFK's grandson Jack Schlossberg uses different accents to mock RFK Jr.'s presidential run
- 'Fyre Festival of books' conference devolves into chaos, leaves multiple bibliophiles injured: 'It was total BS'
- Stephen A. Smith claps back at ex-MLB closer after 'racist' claim: 'Could sue your ass'
- Mystik Dan wins 150th Kentucky Derby in insane photo finish
- NYC funeral home chain preyed on customers, provided shoddy service – including presenting dead man's body inside plastic bag: watchdog
- Superintendent fired after allegedly threatening to punish students who didn't clap loudly enough for her daughter at a sports banquet
- NYC Department of Corrections yanks all 3,000 body cameras after one ignites injuring officer
- Blood-soaked spear found at scene of California murder-suicide
- North Korea propaganda song praising Kim Jong Un going viral on TikTok: 'Warm-hearted like your mother'
- Fiancé of teacher busted for ‘making out’ with 5th-grader says wedding is off: 'She cheated with a little kid'
- Demolition continues on I-95 in Connecticut, scene of explosive crash
- Off-duty firefighter saves man trapped in flame-engulfed car after Brooklyn crash: 'It's what we do'
- TSA shockingly finds bag of snakes hidden inside passenger’s pants at Miami International Airport
- California mocked over $11 billion high-speed rail bridge to nowhere that took 9 years to build
- Texas rivers rise to levels not seen since Hurricane Harvey with dozens still waiting to be rescued and more heavy rains expected
- Higher education’s descent into chaos with anti-Israel protests leads to the question — who is behind this mass indoctrination?
- Hamas leader says proposed cease-fire deal closest to meeting terror group's demands: report
- Fourth body discovered in well where US, Australian surfers were reportedly found dead in Mexico
- 'View' co-hosts fear that campus anti-Israel protests will distract public from January 6, help Trump
4/05/2024 (Sunday) (NYPOST)
- 23-year-old woman critically injured after she's struck by MTA bus in Brooklyn
- Frat Boy Summer is this year’s backlash against an epidemic of arrogant, entitled women
- Soldier in Brazil hammers through roof to save baby from flood: Video
- Embattled ABC News President steps down: sources
- Thieves accused of killing 3 surfers in Mexico carjacking wanted the truck's tires: prosecutor
- Ex-Trump prosecutor Nathan Wade doesn't regret Fani Willis affair, but the firestorm it started: 'American as apple pie'
- Proposed law would limit massive rent hike at Billionaire's Row Co-Op, other buildings
- Jake Paul says he has 'to end' Mike Tyson now that fight is sanctioned
- Europe nixes net zero, US ramps up, kill the prez-debate commission and other commentary
- Left-leaning outlet mocked for being surprised on who is funding anti-Israel protests: 'Surprising to who?'
- US Air Force secretary flies in cockpit of plane controlled by AI: 'Security risk not to have it'
- Gunman leads cops on wild high-speed chase then survives suicide attempt on California highway
- Latest Israel-Hamas peace talks 'near collapse' as Netanyahu threatens attack on Rafah: Report
- Chicago abruptly cancels Cinco de Mayo parade over fears of 'safety of all in attendance'
- Video shows Houston police officer rescuing Texas man, 3 dogs from flooding along San Jacinto River
- Top House Intel Dem defends 'very strong vetting process' as Biden admin considers admitting Gazan refugees to US
- Chic hotel in heart of Broadway converted to migrant shelter in latest sign of growing NYC crisis
- Columbia law students want school to cancel finals, pass all students because they're 'irrevocably shaken' after protest breakup
- Fetterman says anti-Israel campus protests ‘working against peace' in Middle East, not putting hostages first
- Kentucky Derby winner might not run in Preakness Stakes in potential Triple Crown blow
- How surfing 'trip of a lifetime' to Mexico turned deadly for lacrosse star, his brother and a pal
- Kristi Noem doubles down on claim she visited North Korea — cites trip to South Korea as proof
- Radical anti-Israel nonprofit urged rampaging Columbia occupiers to recreate BLM 'summer of 2020' riots
- Teen charged as adult after he ambushes male teacher in hall, slaps female teacher in class: officials
- Mayor Adams defiantly tells NYC colleges to hold graduation ceremonies, don't cave to provocateurs
- More than 380,000 additional NYC students had personal info hacked, bringing total to over 1M
- Lord of the Rings and Titanic star dead at 79
- Chicago Teachers Union's $50B demands include pay hikes, abortions, and migrant accommodations – at $2K per migrant
- I-95 in Norwalk reopens just in time for Monday commute after massive blaze torched overpass