A former comrade-in-arms of US Army Capt. Humayun Khan, whose Muslim parents have been engaged in a bitter feud with Donald Trump, has joined a growing chorus of people calling the GOP nominee unfit for the Oval Office.

Miles Smith, 37, a Texas-born Australian who served in the same unit as Khan in Iraq – and heard the suicide blast that killed him – called Trump a threat to national security. “He (Trump) wants this to go away,” Smith told The West Australian. “I’m going to do what I can here to kick the ball forward, continue their (the Khans’) message and stand up for them. They are better citizens than he is.”

Trump has come under fire for his reaction to a powerful speech made by Khan’s father, Khizr, during last month’s Democratic National Convention, when he denounced the nominee’s calls to ban Muslims from entering the US.(nypost.com)…[+]

It may have been priceless to Jackie Robinson, but a New York auctioneer hopes to get $400,000 for a Brooklyn Dodgers cap that was specially padded to protect the man who broke baseball’s color barrier from beanball throwing racist pitchers.

The royal-blue “B” cap looks like any other Bums lid of the time, but for the inner lining that’s fortified with a fiberglass-and-cloth composite that gave Robinson some extra protection from pitches aimed at his skull. “It was a special hat for him. It has a helmet liner to protect him from beanings from racist players who would throw the ball at his head,” said Lelands chairman Josh Evans. “This is ancient, early baseball technology.”

The hat is on display at the National Sports Collectors Convention in Atlantic City this weekend, with hopes to sell it by Sunday. The price tag is a firm but not deal-breaking figure, sellers said. The cap belongs to a private collector who purchased it in the 1990s from widow Rachel Robinson, Evans said.(nypost.com)…[+]

One of the American hostages who was released the day the United States sent $400 million to Iran said his plane to freedom was not allowed to take off until “another plane” arrived in Tehran, according to a report.

Pastor Saeed Abedini, who was among four Americans released this past Jan. 17, told Fox Business he wound up waiting for an extended time for the second plane to reach the Iranian capital and was never told why the arriving aircraft was so important.

“I just remember the night at the airport sitting for hours and hours there, and I asked police, ‘Why are you not letting us go?’ ” Abedini said. “He said, ‘We are waiting for another plane so if that plane doesn’t come, we never let [you] go.’ ”It was not clear if the second plane was the unmarked aircraft holding palettes of euros, Swiss francs and other currencies.(nypost.com)…[+]