The cost of commuting is too much for many New Yorkers who need to get past the turnstile. But somehow, they do. “There are herds of people every night at the A and C Ralph Ave. station asking for swipes,” home health aide Danna Dennis, 33, said of her stop. “Sometimes, I’m one of these people.” Dennis, who lives with her retired 61-year-old father in Crown Heights, budgets her life to the dime.Working for $10 an hour without benefits and living with Type 2 diabetes, she needs to make sure she has $45 a month for her medication, $75 every two months for doctor visits, $300 a month for food and money for her prepaid cell phone.(nydailynews.com)…[+]

A state Corrections Department officer is fighting to survive after he and his wife were shot in what’s believed to be a home invasion robbery gone wrong in Queens Sunday night, police sources said. Two men pushed into the Mathias Ave. home of Henry Wright, 58, and his wife, Sharon Floyd-Wright, 52, near 166th St. in Jamaica at about 7 p.m. Sunday, police sources said. One or both of the men shot Wright five times in the torso, and his wife once in the left shoulder, sources said. His wife fought back, hitting one of the men in the head with a hammer, sources said.(nydailynews.com)…[+]

Elian Gonzalez — the Cuban boy who was found floating off the coast of Florida in 1999, sparking an international custody dispute — recalled his friendship with former president Fidel Castro, who died Friday at age 90.

Gonzalez, 22, spoke to Cuban state media in Spanish on Saturday, reflecting on his experiences with Castro. He recalled the leader attending his sixth-grade graduation — when Castro told an audience about their friendship.(nydailynews.com)...[+]

DALLAS — The exclusive Dallas boys’ prep school that Richard B. Spencer attended is denouncing the activities and ideas of its white nationalist alumnus.

St. Mark’s School of Texas headmaster David Dini issued the statement of criticism after a Nov. 19 rally in Washington where Spencer, a member of St. Marks Class of 1997, shouted “Hail Trump! Hail our people! Hail victory!” as supporters raised their arms in Nazi salutes.

Without referring to Spencer by name, Dini said his activities have “been deeply troubling and terribly upsetting to our whole school community. We reject racism and bigotry in all its forms and expressions.” In his statement, Dini hailed other St. Mark’s alumni for “expressing their outrage and disgust” toward the National Policy Institute, which Spencer heads, and the ideas that group promotes.(nydailynews.com)…[+]

Donald Trump spent his Sunday slamming Hillary Clinton over her campaign’s decision to assist with a recount request in three swing states and insisting that if it weren’t for “millions of people who voted illegally,” he would have won the U.S. popular vote.

“In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally,” Trump posted to his Twitter account toward the end of an hours-long tirade.(nydailynews.com)…[+]

You apparently don’t need intelligence to make America great again.

President-elect Donald Trump has reportedly been dodging classified intelligence briefings and only received two since his election win over two weeks ago — a notably lower frequency as compared to his predecessors. Mike Pence, meanwhile, has received briefings almost every single day since the election, according to both current and former U.S. officials who spoke to the Washington Post on Wednesday.

“Trump has a lot of catching up to do,” a senior official who receives daily briefings told the newspaper.

As mandated, a team of military officials and intelligence analysts has been prepped to deliver daily briefings on global conflicts and security threats to the President-elect. But even though he has no actual national security experience, Trump has only showed up for two briefings — one a couple of days after his election win, and another on Tuesday before he departed to Florida for Thanksgiving.(nydailynews.com)…[+]

Politicians across the country are calling for ballot recounts in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin in light of reports of potential voting machine manipulation.

And the seemingly overzealous prospect became tangible early Thursday as Green Party candidate Jill Stein announced that her campaign had raised the $2.5 million necessary to file for audits in the three Rust Belt states.

Stein’s camp launched the “#RECOUNT2016” fundraiser Wednesday, as Hillary Clinton’s popular vote lead against Donald Trump surpassed 2 million. Less than 24 hours later, the Green Party nominee’s fundraiser had smashed the monetary glass ceiling…[+]

Kingston – US$75,000 in cash and prizes will be up for grabs when teams from Jamaica and Trinidad, who account for 14 of the 25 finalists, vie for honours with other regional hopefuls in the PitchIT Caribbean Challenge tech entrepreneur competition, scheduled for December 2-3, 2016 at the Hilton Trinidad and Conference Centre in Port of Spain.

The finalists, who were selected from over 70 entries from across CARICOM, include 8 teams from Trinidad & Tobago, 6 from Jamaica, 3 from Barbados, 2 from St. Lucia, and one each from Antigua & Barbuda, Dominica, Guyana, Montserrat, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, and Suriname. Seeking partnerships, funding and even buyers for their enterprises, all competitors will pitch to a panel of judges and an audience of regional and global investors. Following the intense two-day competition, five winners will each be awarded a coveted spot in PitchIT Caribbean business accelerators located in Barbados, Dominica, St. Kitts & Nevis and Trinidad & Tobago, as well as US$5,000 in seed funding to help develop their businesses. The acceleration services will include mentoring by business and technology experts, networking opportunities, working space and facilities, expense-paid trips to international conferences and competitions, as well as intense product development and investor readiness training.

Commenting on the process and the finalist selection, project manager Bianca Welds explained that “tech entrepreneurs, both those in our training programme and the wider CARICOM, responded very well to our invitation to the challenge. The quality of ideas presented made our job of selecting 25 very challenging, but we are excited by the diversity shown and believe that we have a strong set of finalists and the showcase in December is highly anticipated.”

The finalists by country are: TickeTing from Antigua & Barbuda; Rivver, Fix Device, and Data-Bus from Barbados; Buzzshop from Dominica; Click-n-Learn from Guyana; Tikkiz, QuickPlate, Driving Change, Shopmobi, Atendify and The Interview JM from Jamaica; IndeTours from Montserrat; Teacher’s Pet and Dev758 Restaurant from St. Lucia; Oversea from St. Vincent & the Grenadines; A Creative Person from Suriname; and Optimo Cloud, SKED, AmAthletes, Communicare, Tech4Agri, D Carnival scene, EveDrop and The Billionaires League from Trinidad & Tobago. On November 30 and December 1, the 25 finalists will participate in a pitching bootcamp that will prepare them for the key competition days of December 2 and 3.(Worldbank)…[+]

A Maryville College football player was charged with first-degree murder for the shooting death of a 16-year-old cheerleader. William Riley Gaul, 18, was booked Wednesday in connection with the murder of Emma Jane Walker, WBIR reported. The Tennessee cheerleader was found dead in her North Knox County home from a gunshot wound Monday morning.

Gaul, who previously attended Central High School like the victim, allegedly fired a gun into the teenage girl’s home “with exact proximity to where the victim, Emma Walker was sleeping,” according to the arrest warrants.(nydailynews.com)…[+]

A prominent group of election lawyers and computer scientists said presidential election results in three swing states that Donald Trump won may have been manipulated or hacked, and are pressing Hillary Clinton to seek a recount, according to a report.

The group held a conference call last week with Clinton’s top campaign lieutenants and lobbied for a challenge after finding something fishy in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, according to New York Magazine.

Members of the group told the Clinton camp that in Wisconsin, Clinton’s vote count was down 7% in counties that relied on electronic voting machines when compared with counties that used optical scanners and paper ballots, the magazine said…[+]