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Eight days later, DeAndre Baker was back on the practice field. The rookie cornerback, who survived an ACL scare, returned to take part in individual drills, though he was held out of team drills. “I feel good,” he said Monday. “It was very important to get out there, move around again, do some individual work.” There are high hopes for the first-round pick (30th overall) out of Georgia who had been working with the first team opposite Janoris Jenkins before hurting his knee. The Giants traded up to get the 5-foot-11 Baker, sending the Seahawks their second-round pick at No. 37, along with fourth- and fifth-round selections. Baker didn’t allow a touchdown last year and won the Jim Thorpe Award, given to the top defensive back in college football. “We’re going to move him back in there,” coach Pat Shurmur said. “So yeah, it’s good to have him back out there.” Baker was unsure if he would get in another preseason game, but fully expects to be ready once the real games begin. “I th...

Apollo Global Management has told time-share operator Hilton Grand Vacations it wants to buy the $2.4 billion outfit, and the company is considering its next steps, The Post has learned. Apollo, co-run by Leon Black, gave the Orlando time-share company three options: It could buy Hilton Grand at a premium to its share price, merge the company with smaller Apollo-owned rival Diamond Resorts and keep the combined business public, or tender for Hilton Grand shares at a premium to the current Hilton Grand share price, sources said. Apollo has not indicated what it would pay, but sources said the private equity firm could bid as much as $36 a share — a 28 percent premium over the company’s closing price Monday of $28.21 a share. Hilton on Aug. 1 reported disappointing earnings, and its shares are down more than 10 percent this month, giving suitors a chance to potentially buy it on a dip. Apollo’s Black wants to combine Diamond Resorts, which it bought in September 2016, with Hilton Gr...

Here we go again. Antonio Brown filed a second grievance against the NFL in an attempt to wear a helmet deemed unsafe by a league-commissioned equipment committee, according to several reports Monday. The 31-year-old and seven-time Pro Bowler at first sought permission to wear the Schutt Air Advantage helmet he’s worn his entire career; however, the National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment (NOCSAE) was unable to certify it due to it being 10 years old. Brown has said different helmet models intrude his vision. An independent arbitrator last week ruled in favor of the NFL, so the Raiders wide receiver found newer helmets of the same model, but those models also failed NOCSAE tests. Shortly thereafter, the league placed the Schutt Air Advantage on its list of unapproved helmets, according to NBC Sports. Brown reportedly is set to argue the NFL isn’t allowing him the one-year grace period afforded to other players, like Tom Brady, who had their helmets banned...

Hillary Clinton threw some major shade at President Trump on Monday night after he tried bashing her on Twitter earlier in the day. “Wow, Report Just Out! Google manipulated from 2.6 million to 16 million votes for Hillary Clinton in 2016 Election!” Trump tweeted . “This was put out by a Clinton supporter, not a Trump Supporter! Google should be sued. My victory was even bigger than thought!” Replying a few hours later, Clinton said : “The debunked study you’re referring to was based on 21 undecided voters. For context that’s about half the number of people associated with your campaign who have been indicted.” The former first lady and secretary of state appeared to be delivering a veiled shot at Trump and his campaign supporters who got busted as a result of the Mueller probe. The president’s tweet was referring to a study by psychologist Robert Epstein, which was reported Monday by Fox Business. Epstein, himself, criticized Trump’s claim in an interview with CNN. “I don’t have...

Brazil’s high-end Fasano Hotel company is hot to take over the vacant, former Four Seasons restaurant at 280 Park Ave., Realty Check has learned. Nothing’s signed and talks haven’t reached a term-sheet stage, but a source said Fasano would love to turn the lights back on. The glamorous, 19,000- square-foot venue — a revival of the original Four Seasons at the Seagram Building, which closed in 2015 — went dark when the “power lunch” mecca ignominiously closed after just 10 months. Interest is running high in the space being offered by the tower’s owners, SL Green and Vornado. Just about every local big-name restaurateur has checked it out or will soon. But Fasano’s interest comes as a surprise. Fasano owns flagship luxury hotels and restaurants in São Paolo and Rio de Janeiro among other Brazilian cities. The family-owned company is taking over the NoMo SoHo hotel in Manhattan after a deal to partially convert the Shore Club in South Beach to condos fell through. Why would Fasano ...

A new cooking show promises to bring the heat. The upcoming streaming series “Dishmantled” will start each episode with a high-powered cannon blasting a mystery dish onto the faces of two blindfolded chefs, Deadline reported. The cooks will then take to the battlefield and attempt to guess what food items exploded on them. They’ll have to work against the clock to recreate the dish for a cash prize. “Dishmantled” will make its debut in April 2020 on the yet-to-be-launched streaming service Quibi, according to the outlet. The show was created by Linda Lea, the executive producer of the Food Network’s “Chopped.” It’ll be hosted by “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” star Tituss Burgess. Credit: Source link The post New cooking show will blast mystery meals into chef’s faces appeared first on Fox USA Live . from Fox USA Live https://ift.tt/2Nik7K4

Prince Andrew is trapped in a royal mess over his ties to pedophile Jeffrey Epstein — with old allegations surfacing again Monday that the British blue blood once cavorted with “a harem of adolescent girls’’ at the sex molester’s Florida mansion. In sworn testimony from a former Epstein staffer at the late financier’s Palm Beach, Fla., estate in 2011, Andrew was accused of getting massages from the young girls. The prince has denied the allegations. But he has also been hounded over statements from Epstein accuser and alleged sex slave Virginia Giuffre, who has said she met Andrew when she was 17 and had sex with him three times. She gave testimony in 2015 as part of a lawsuit involving Epstein’s accused madam and onetime girlfriend, heiress Ghislaine Maxwell. Giuffre said she met the prince in 2001 at Maxwell’s London home — and took a bath with him. “He started licking my toes, between my toes, the arches of my feet. And then we went into the bedroom and he proceeded to make lo...

There is the canyon-sized hole in the Giants’ aerial attack, created by the trade of Odell Beckham Jr. There is the natural growth and maturity that comes as a player ages. And there is a familiarity with an offense in the second year in a system. For all those reasons, Evan Engram looks at himself differently as he prepares for his third season with the Giants. “I feel myself kind of growing into a bigger leadership role, bigger role in the offense,” the former Ole Miss star said. “I’m just excited.” Engram — the third-year pro in Year 2 of Pat Shurmur’s system — treated this offseason as much. He ate healthier and improved his sleeping habits, knowing how important he would be. After missing six games in his first two seasons, five of them last year, Engram wanted to make sure he’s able to stay on the field. When he’s active, he’s been productive, catching 109 passes for 1,299 yards and nine touchdowns in 26 games. “I haven’t felt this good in a while,” the 6-foot-3, 240-pound p...

The merger of Viacom and CBS is shaping up to be lucrative for its top two execs. Acting CBS Chief Executive Joe Ianniello, who will be chairman and CEO of CBS at the combined firm, will bank a hefty payout of $70 million when the deal closes. That payout is tied to a provision in his old CBS contract that entitled him to a lump sum if he wasn’t named CEO of ViacomCBS. Viacom CEO Bob Bakish, who will grab the reins as president and CEO of the combined ViacomCBS, will see his total compensation jump 55 percent to about $31 million a year, according to an SEC filing. Last week, Viacom and CBS, struck a long-awaited deal to reunite under National Amusements, the holding company of the incapacitated media mogul Sumner Redstone. The $27 billion deal brings together Viacom’s cable channels Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central and movie studio Paramount Pictures, with CBS’s broadcast network and cable channel Showtime. The deal is expected to close by year’s end. As reported by The Post, it ...

Is there life on Mars, and will it like being photographed? A British-built rover is set look for signs of life on the Red Planet, with the help of an alien-hunting camera, the UK Telegraph reported Monday. The European Space Agency’s ExoMars vehicle is set to land on March 19, 2021, and will begin scouring the Martian surface for signs of extraterrestrials about 10 days later — with a “Pan-Cam,” designed by researchers at University College London. Strapped to the top of the rover, the “Pan-Cam” system will use special filters to scan the planet’s surface for minerals that would prove there was once liquid capable of sustaining organisms on Mars. If a watery location is discovered, the machine will travel to the spot and drill six-and-a-half feet down to take samples. Bits of the Martian rocks will then be fed through a gap in the rover to a mobile lab, where they’ll be crushed up and tested for organic matter. Any proof of life or past life could come within months of the rove...

The El Paso mass shooting suspect was reportedly placed on suicide watch Monday. Patrick Crusius, 21, was put under close guard following a recommendation from medical staff, according to the El Paso Times. He’s being held at the city’s Downtown Detention Facility. Crusius — who is accused of killing 22 people and wounding 25 others at a local Walmart — had been separated from other inmates and placed in a single cell earlier this month.  The young man allegedly targeted “Mexicans” during his Aug. 3 rampage and a number of the inmates at the jail are Hispanic. The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office did not immediately respond to requests for comment Monday night. A department official confirmed the Crusius suicide watch to the Times. Mexico’s president has said that he wants Crusius — who is charged with capital murder and facing the death penalty — to be extradited and tried there, since eight of his victims were Mexican nationals. The alleged mass shooter is being held withou...

What happens in Vegas — won’t make it to Greenland. President Trump has vowed to not develop a Las Vegas-style hotel in the quaint island nation if he makes good on his bid to buy the country. On Monday evening, Trump tweeted a photo of the Greenlandic coastline with a picture of his gold-plated Trump International Hotel cropped into the landscape. “I promise not to do this to Greenland!” Trump wrote in a tweet that accompanied the photo. On Sunday, Trump confirmed that he was interested in the US potentially buying the country — which is autonomous, but controlled by Denmark — calling it a “large real estate deal.” “Well Greenland, I don’t know, it got released somehow, it’s just something we talked about,” Trump told reporters outside of his New Jersey golf club Sunday. “Denmark, essentially, owns it. We’re very good allies with Denmark, we protect Denmark like we protect large portions of the world. And so the concept came up and I said certainly, strategically it’s interesti...

At some point this season, Wilbert Gibson, former Brooklyn carpenter and furniture mover, will make his way to the Garden and watch his son Taj play for the Knicks. It may not be for the Garden’s opener Oct. 26 versus the Celtics. It may not be in November. But it will be sometime this season. “That’s what he said,’’ new Knicks power forward Taj Gibson told The Post in his first remarks since signing with the Knicks in July. “He says he’s going to try to be front row and center. It’s a long way from the upper deck when we used to go back in the day.’’ It will be a big night for the 34-year-old Gibson whenever his father is healthy enough to get to the Garden. Just two weeks before agreeing to terms with the Knicks on July 1, Gibson’s father needed a heart transplant. “In June. I was out there all the time with my dad,’’ said Gibson, the former Bulls defensive stalwart who had been with Minnesota the past two seasons. “We were trying for him to get healthy and recover, waiting for...

A 9-year-old girl was bitten in the leg by a shark in knee-deep water while on vacation with her family in Florida, a report said. The girl, Maggie Crum, was in the water off the coast of New Smyrna Beach on Friday morning when she felt a sharp pain in her leg, the Today Show reported. “It felt like a grab at first and then it just ripped into the skin, and that’s when it hurt and felt like a bite,” she told the show. The fourth grader received 12 stitches in her leg after the bite, but has not hesitation on going back into the ocean, she said. “What are the odds that you’re going to be bit twice?” she said. Crum was the 10th person this year and fifth person in the past month to be bitten near New Smyrna Beach, according to the morning show. Because of the string of incidents, the area has the reputation as the “shark capitol of the world.” Credit: Source link The post 9-year-old girl bitten by shark in knee-deep water at Florida beach appeared first on Fox USA Live . fr...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California is changing the standards for when police can use lethal force under a law signed Monday that seeks to reduce officer-involved shootings. “We are doing something today that stretches the boundary of possibility and sends a message to people all across this country that they can do more and they can do better to meet this moment,” said Gov. Gavin Newsom as he stood alongside family members of people killed by police. California’s old standard has made it rare for police officers to be charged following a shooting and rarer still for them to be convicted. Frequently it’s because of the doctrine of reasonable fear: If prosecutors or jurors believe that officers have a reason to fear for their safety, they can use force up to and including lethal force. The law by Democratic Assemblywoman Shirley Weber of San Diego will allow police to use lethal force only when necessary to defend against an imminent threat of death or serious injury to officers or byst...

Oscar-winning actress and activist Susan Sarandon appeared to take a shot at Elizabeth Warren on Monday during a Bernie Sanders presidential campaign event in Iowa. “He is not someone who used to be a Republican,” Sarandon told the crowd during her introduction of Sanders, where she also listed progressive issues long-supported by the Vermont Senator, according to Politico reporter Holly Otterbein. Sarandon, a Bernie-supporter, didn’t mention Warren by name, but the Massachusetts Senator was a registered Republican in the mid 1990s. “I was a Republican because I thought that those were the people who best supported markets,” Warren told Politico in 2011. “I think that is not true anymore.” “I was a Republican at a time when I felt like there was a problem that the markets were under a lot more strain. It worried me whether or not the government played too activist a role.” Sens. Warren and Sanders — two liberal favorites — have been polling toward the top of the crowded Democrati...

Democratic presidential hopeful Marianne Williamson said Monday that she will create a “Department of Peace” if she’s elected to the highest office in the country. Williamson, a self-help guru turned 2020 presidential contender, said in press release that the peace department will focus on issues such as combating white supremacy and creating “restorative justice programs.” The agency will also work to find non-violent solutions to global conflicts, she said. “I believe our country’s way of dealing with security issues is increasingly obsolete,” Williamson said in a statement . “We have the finest military force in the world, however, we can no longer rely on force to rid ourselves of international enemies,” she added. “The planet has become too small for that, and in so doing, we overburden our military by asking them to compensate for the other work that we choose not to do, and we are less effective, and less secure, because of our choices.” The leader of the agency will be d...

If the long-shot Red Sox are to make the playoffs, they’ll have to do so without their ace. Chris Sale will sit the rest of the season due to left elbow inflammation, according to ESPN, though the left-hander for now managed to dodge Tommy John surgery. The 30-year-old is 6-11 with a 4.40 ERA through 25 games, but the seven-time All-Star at times has shown flashes of dominance. Sale was coming off two solid starts in which he combined for 25 strikeouts — including the 2,000th of his career — and allowed only three runs in 14 2/3 innings. Boston is in third-place and 16 games back of the Yankees in the American League East and 6.5 games behind in the wild card. Before the season started, Sale signed a $160 million, six-year contract that includes $50 million in deferred money that is not due to be paid until 15 years after it is earned. “I’m concerned about it, contract or no contract, whenever a pitcher has an elbow,” team president Dave Dombrowski said over the weekend. Last s...