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Austria will be quite a fascinating watch.
Ralf Rangnick is considered one of the sport’s most progressive managers and helped to bring “heavy-metal soccer” to the mainstream, but that kind of aggression is pretty rare in international tournaments.
It may work against Jordan, which is making its debut at the World Cup in this match, but against more formidable opponents it could backfire.
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When the Canyon of Heroes ticker-tape parade begins Thursday morning, the football team that calls Florham Park, N.J., home will be inside the Atlantic Health Jets Training Center, and then later on the practice field for the final day of minicamp.
One of these years, if the Knicks can end a 53-year championship drought, why can’t there be Jets on floats traveling up Broadway, bathing in a wildly passionate embrace from a city that adores and treasures its champions forever?
A six-figure salary used to be a sign that you’d made it.
But anymore in Orange County, California.
A single person living in Orange County earning $104,200 a year is now classified as “low income,” according to official state documents released by California’s Department of Housing and Community Development.
The staggering new poverty line is codified in the state’s newly released 2026 income limits, which dictates applicant eligibility for income-restricted apartments, rent caps, and taxpayer-funded housing assistance.
Just last year, the low-income cutoff for a single person in the wealthy Southern California enclave was $94,750.
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But the new Orange County figures are another stark reminder of California’s affordability crisis, where earning more than $100,000 a year can still qualify you for housing reserved for low-income residents. Getty ImagesOrange County’s figures now dwarf neighboring Los Angeles County. Getty Images
The economic insanity isn’t just limited to single professionals.
For a family of four in OC, the low-income threshold has ballooned to a whopping $148,850. The designation doesn’t necessarily mean that someone making below that is living in poverty, but the shocking figures underscore just how expensive life and housing has become in the SoCal county.
Orange County’s figures now dwarf neighboring Los Angeles County, where an individual is defined as low-income if they make $93,300, and $133,250 for a family of four.
The report updates limits for all 58 counties in the Golden State — and Orange County isn’t alone.
Orange County’s figures now dwarf neighboring Los Angeles County, where an individual is defined as low-income if they make $93,300, and $133,250 for a family of four. rouda100 – stock.adobe.com
Several Bay Area counties, including Marin County, San Mateo County, Santa Clara County, Santa Cruz County and San Francisco County, also have six-figure low-income thresholds due to soaring housing costs.
But the new Orange County figures are another stark reminder of California’s affordability crisis, where earning more than $100,000 a year can still qualify you for housing reserved for low-income residents.
Even then, actually getting a taxpayer subsidized apartment is difficult, with the OC California Housing Partnership reporting that 119,785 low-income renter households there do not have access to an affordable home.
To highlight the enormous disconnect between wages, a full-time worker earning minimum wage would make just around $35,000 a year, less than one-third of the income now considered low income for a single person in Orange County.
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Betnijah Laney-Hamilton is on the road to reestablishing her rhythm.
It might just be the most challenging task of her career.
Coming back from an injury isn’t just the physical hurdles of pushing your body to the limit, testing the repaired joint and building strength back up.
The mental battles of learning to trust your body again and giving yourself grace when the game doesn’t feel as smooth as it once did are a far greater undertaking.
Amid all the talk this offseason that the Chargers needed to upgrade their wide receiver room, the Bolts made a calculated decision.
It essentially involved betting on themselves.
Speaking during mandatory minicamp on Tuesday, Los Angeles Chargers head coach Jim Harbaugh has a lot of faith in wide receivers Quentin Johnston, Ladd McConkey and Tre Harris. Getty Images
By wagering on the people already in the building — specifically Quentin Johnston, for whom they picked up his fifth-year option — and their scouting department, which plucked Brenen Thompson out of Mississippi State in the fourth round of the NFL draft, they sent a decisive message that everything they needed was within their walls.
In particular, Johnston, Ladd McConkey, and Tre’ Harris.
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Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh doubled down on that bet Wednesday on the first day of his club’s three-day mandatory minicamp.
“We have three elite receivers,” Harbaugh said boldly.
In fact, Harbaugh predicted Johnston would break out this season.
“I think he can have a career year,” Harbaugh said. “He’s been aces all offseason.”
Johnston has yet to exceed 55 catches or 735 yards in a single season over his first three years, but between the club’s decision to pick up his fifth-year option and Harbaugh’s lofty praise, he feels he’s set up for a major step forward.
“It adds a lot of confidence,” said Johnston, who feels the validation the club gave him has created a sense of freedom to take his game to a new level.
Quentin Johnston finished last season with 51 catches for 735 yards and a team-high 8 touchdowns. Getty Images
At the risk of saying it, Harbaugh better hope that is truly the case.
Aside from the Chargers’ offensive line, no positional group is under more of a microscope than the wide receivers, who now need to reward their coach’s conviction with the type of difference-making production that can lift a good Chargers offense into an elite one.
From Week 1 right on into the playoffs and beyond.
And in that regard, the wide receivers are on the same page as their coach. Because their expectations for themselves and the Chargers are every bit as lofty as his.
“I think the end goal is we want to win the Super Bowl,” said McConkey, who is dealing with a hamstring injury and will be limited during minicamp.
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Two straight appearances in the postseason and two consecutive one-and-dones are simply not acceptable.
The Chargers aren’t just striving for more; they are nearly mandating it from themselves.
It’s a notion that McConkey wholeheartedly signed off on Wednesday.
“We got to the playoffs, whatever. We’ve got those little patches on jerseys. Nobody’s content with that now. Let’s go win games. Let’s go set ourselves up in the playoffs and make the run and win the Super Bowl. I think it’s as simple as that.”
Ladd McConkey finished last season with 66 catches for a team-high 789 yards and six touchdowns. Getty Images
To do so, the wide receivers need to play their part.
They could get a gigantic push forward from new offensive coordinator Mike McDaniel, whose track record of offensive success, and specifically in cooking up ways to get wide receivers the ball on time, in a hurry, and in position to rip apart opposing defenses with yards after the catch, seems like a perfect fit for the speed and playmaking ability of McConkey, Johnston, and Harris.
McConkey and Johnston both mentioned how their imagination is running wild watching tape of past McDaniel-coached teams, envisioning themselves as the recipients of well-timed throws from Justin Herbert designed to get them at full throttle as soon as possible.
It doesn’t take a mathematician to figure out how many more yards athletic weapons like McConkey and Johnston can produce simply by getting the ball in stride and in space in a McDaniel offense.
Hence, no one is about to cap their production this year.
Least of all McConkey, whose numbers fell from the 1,149 yards he produced his rookie season to 789 last year. Injuries were a factor, as was the Chargers’ inability to protect Herbert.
As a rookie last season, Tre Harris finished with 30 catches for 324 yards and one touchdown. Getty Images
However, the scheme the Chargers played, and frankly, the wide receivers themselves, also contributed to the club’s offense falling from 11th in the NFL in scoring in 2024 (23.6 points per game) to 21.6 ppg last year, which ranked 20th in the league.
Unless the Chargers reverse that course, they will be stuck in the mud again.
“I think everyone wants to elevate their game,” McConkey said. “I thought we did some good things last year. But I think everybody wants to blow all that out of the water this year. Like, screw the numbers we had in the past. Screw the touchdowns. Let’s take those expectations and blow the roof of it.”
So, on June 11, when the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced that it was immediately suspending more than $200 million in federal funding to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) while it investigates fraud, mismanagement, and waste, it sent a shock wave across the nation’s homelessness service providers.
For years, LAHSA, the regional entity entrusted with federal homeless assistance funding, has been the subject of warnings, complaints, audits, and a lawsuit against the City and County of LA.
For years LAHSA has been the subject of warnings, complaints, audits, and a lawsuit against the City and County of LA. AFP via Getty Images
LAHSA’s performance has been characterized as “a bowl of spaghetti,” “cutting blank checks,” “broken,” and “smoke and mirrors.”
Since 2001, HUD audits of LAHSA‘s “Continuum of Care” program have highlighted a history of persistent problems, including failures to monitor grantees, paying ineligible expenses, and poor financial management.
The “Continuum of Care” program, according to HUD, “is designed to promote communitywide commitment to the goal of ending homelessness by providing funding for efforts by nonprofit providers and State and local governments.” It also is supposed to help homeless people access government services.
Under Secretary Scott Turner and President Donald Trump, HUD is demonstrating that it’s serious about reform. Bloomberg via Getty Images
But in LA, thanks to LAHSA, Continuum of Care is a mess.
The LA County auditor-controller and LA city controller each expressed concerns over LAHSA’s poor payment and reimbursement systems; inflated number of people housed and double counting; data quality issues; and internal accountability issues.
LAHSA stonewalled a professional management firm that evaluated it in the course of the lawsuits mentioned above. The final report showed that LAHSA doesn’t know how much it’s paying, to whom, for what, and whether money was well spent (or spent at all).
LAHSA doesn’t even know how to help an unsheltered person find a home for the night, and no one is verifying whether providers are delivering beds, housing or services.
LAHSA has become the target of national attention, thanks to the suspension of funding, and to the high-profile involvement of the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud.
Last year, Louisiana’s legislative auditor’s office attempted to gain access to data and records from Unity, the New Orleans organization that runs its Continuum of Care. The auditor was told to pound sand.
Unity has been accused of a lack of spending transparency, unclear policies and strategies, and delayed reimbursements. The New Orleans/Jefferson Parish regional homelessness agency received $38 million in federal funds in 2024. But in response to the state legislative auditor, Unity joined with the six other Continuum of Care programs in Louisiana to file a motion in court to keep the state and taxpayers in the dark.
Under Trump, LAHSA has been the subject of warnings, complaints, audits, and a lawsuit against Los Angeles. Getty Images
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Resisting accountability and transparency from federal homeless assistance recipients appears to be a pattern. Utah, Idaho, Arizona and Oklahoma all introduced legislation to improve transparency in homeless spending, and to understand better what the Continuum of Care programs do, what they accomplish, and what outcomes public money has achieved.
Instead of agreeing with the need for better performance and accountability, homeless services providers have actually testified against reforms.
HUD’s action to demand accountability at LASHSA — the nation’s largest and most lavishly funded regional homeless agency — is a welcome signal.
It comes as HUD has also announced tougher new standards for programs that receive billions in federal homelessness dollars.
Under Secretary Scott Turner and President Donald Trump, HUD is demonstrating that it’s serious about reform and accountability.
That means getting serious about ending homelessness — finally.
Paul Webster is a senior fellow at the Cicero Institute, an Austin based research and public policy organization. He is also the executive director of the LA Alliance for Human Rights.
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All state criminal- and family-court sentencing judges will soon have to visit a jail or prison at least once a year to see where they’re sending people — a convict-friendly move that’s the first of its kind in the US.
The touchy-feely new rule, unveiled by state court officials this week, was hailed by some judicial advocates as compassionate — but critics slammed it as further proof that New York cares more about criminals than their victims.
“What about the victims?” fumed Ramon Acavedo, who was nearly bashed to death with a hammer by a thug at a Gristedes supermarket in Chelsea, Manhattan, in July 2020 during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A New York state rule would require criminal and family court judges to visit a prison or jail — like Rikers Island in New York City — once a year. Christopher Sadowski
“Should the judges be required to see the harm done to victims and families? What about the way the victims were treated? I’m grateful I’m still alive,” said Acevedo, 70.
“It’s someone else’s job to look after the prisoners,” said the assault victim, whose attacker did two years behind bars. “That’s not the judge’s job.”
The stunning requirement, which takes effect Jan. 1, 2028, would affect hundreds of judges.
“This rule keeps judges better connected to what transpires after sentencing,” Chief Judge Rowan Wilson said.
“It deepens a judge’s firsthand understanding of prison conditions and the broad impact of incarceration on individuals, families, and communities, as well as the opportunities available during incarceration.
“The revised rule embodies the principle that judges are not distant arbiters but engaged stewards of justice, whose thoughtful determinations are grounded in reality,” he said.
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The edict replaces a 1970s rule that required judges to visit a correctional facility once every four years.
“The new [rule] will give judges greater insight into the conditions they sentence people to — insight that supports better decision-making, greater transparency, and a justice system that acknowledges the humanity of all those who interact with it.” and Michael Mushlin, professor Emeritus at Pace University: School of Law and a key proponent of it.
“The impact of these visits is unmistakable for both judges and the incarcerated individuals they meet.”
But the head of the group representing 3,000 bodegas and small businesses and restaurants in New York City and Westchester County — whose workers are often the victims of crimes — joined Acevedo in slamming the judiciary for allegedly focusing more on violent lawbreakers that law-abiding citizens.
“They hate the working people. They just have compassion for victims,” seethed Francisco Marte, founder and president of the Bodega and Small Business Association.
He recalled the case of bodega worker Jose Alba, who stabbed a customer to death in self-defense after being attacked him behind the counter of a Hamilton Heights store in 2022.
Forcing judges to visit prisons and jails such as Rikers Island in New York City is another example of criminal friendly culture, Marte said.
Under the new rules, judicial visits to facilities will include opportunities to monitor areas including intake, housing, work education, recreation, visitation, dining, and medical and mental-health facilities.
Judges will also visit inmates, workers, administrators and service providers.
The amendments follow the recommendations by the Office of Court Administration’s Advisory Committee on Criminal Law and Procedure led by Judge Daniel Conviser and Mushlin.
The Administrative Board of the Courts, comprised of Chief Judge Wilson and the four presiding justices of the New York State Supreme Court’s Appellate Division, approved the amendments in May 2026.
They were then approved by the state Court of Appeals, New York’s highest tribunal, where Wilson serves as chief judge.
The rules also cover family court judges visiting detention facilities that house convicted juvenile offenders as well as jurists handling criminal cases.
The Florida couple at the center of an IVF mix-up have vowed to remain the baby girl’s “permanent” parents after hammering out an agreement with her biological parents.
Tiffany Score and Steven Mills have confirmed the identities of the genetic parents of their 6-month-old daughter, Shea, and have “come to a mutually devised custody agreement,” with them, according to court papers filed in Orange County court Friday.
Score and Mills sued the Fertility Center of Orlando and its head reproductive endocrinologist, Dr. Milton McNichol, in January for allegedly implanting the wrong embryo in April 2025 — a fact the hopeful mom-to-be only discovered after giving birth to a “non-Caucasian” Shea on Dec. 11, 2025.
Tiffany Score and Steven Mills reached an agreement with their daughter Shea’s genetic parents after embryo mix-up. Mara Hatfield
DNA testing confirmed Shea was not genetically related to them and she was 100% South Asian but the couple loved her nonetheless.
Score and Mills are keeping the details of the custody deal with Shea’s genetic parents private, Friday’s filing said.
As part of the agreement, Score and Mills are going to “continue as the permanent custodial parents of their daughter,” the court documents say.
Score and Mills’ lawyer, Jack Scarola, said his clients “are committed” to respecting the privacy of Shea’s genetic parents. “They have begun and intend to continue to foster a relationship of friendship and trust,” with the other couple, the lawyer said.
Score and Mills also informed the judge they’d chosen a new medical center to handle any future IVF where their embryo had been moved to, according to the papers.
That embryo will be tested for parentage and then they will “determine next steps,” the document said.
The couple sued the Fertility Center of Orlando after the IVF debacle. WESH2
They also updated the judge that information they’d received from the Fertility Center of Orlando “revealed laboratory-clinic errors” which they say could help speed their case along.
“I’m glad the parties have reached an agreement while this child is relatively young,” Orlando Judge Margaret Schreiber said during a court hearing Monday, according to a report by the Orlando Sentinel.
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The couple had three embryos frozen with the Longwood-based clinic in 2020. The first was implanted and ended with Score miscarrying. The clinic had another embryo and it was unclear what happened to the third one.
The Fertility Clinic of Orlando previously said after “thoughtful consideration,” it would shutter by May 20.
Lawyers on both sides didn’t immediately return a request for comment Tuesday afternoon.
The parents have previously said that “only one thing is as absolutely certain today as it was on the day our daughter was born —we will love and will be this child’s parents forever.”
Knicks players Deuce McBride, Mikal Bridges and OG Anunoby were at MetLife Stadium for the France-Senegal World Cup 2026 match just days after the Knicks won their first NBA championship in 53 years.
The three saw one of the best games of the first round of the group stage, with both France and Senegal in the top-20 of the FIFA World Rankings.
Knicks players Deuce McBride, Mikal Bridges, and OG Anunoby were at MetLife Stadium for the France vs. Senegal World Cup 2026 match. @FOXSoccer/X
After a rocky first half, Kylian Mbappe and Bradley Barcola led the Les Bleus to a 3-1 victory.
The Knicks started watching soccer thanks to Josh Hart, a noted Chelsea fan, and others putting on the games in the locker room.
“Even the guys that like don’t like soccer, like they’re watching too, and they’re like enjoying it because like I think as competitors and athletes, you see how hard they’re playing, and then you start seeing the atmosphere, and it’s a beautiful game too, and I think we just appreciate that,” McBride said on “The Late Run” podcast in May.
Anunoby, who was born in the Harlesden district of north-west London, is a noted Arsenal fan in the Premier League. France featured one of the Gunners’ stars in starting central defender William Saliba.
Kylian Mbappe #10 of France celebrates scoring his team’s second goal during the FIFA World Cup 2026 Group I match between France and Senegal at New York New Jersey Stadium on June 16, 2026. FIFA via Getty Images
World Cup fans faced transit hell no matter what for Tuesday’s match at MetLife Stadium.
Spectators who drove to see the 3 p.m. game between France and Senegal in New Jersey were exasperated after paying around $225 to park — then having to walk nearly 30 minutes to the venue — while others crammed into yellow taxis, sometimes with strangers, in Manhattan to get there.
Attendees who took NJ Transit trains also were still calling a penalty on the expensive ticket price — a $98 mandatory round-trip ride.
Fans arrive Tuesday at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ. Luiz C. Ribeiro for NY Post
“It’s like an exorbitant amount above what you would usually pay to get over,” said France fan Sayo Ajagbe, 23, at Penn Station before boarding.
“There’s no way to get over — I might as well have taken an Uber, if it wasn’t for traffic or that it will probably take even more time,” he said.
Akshay Anil, 31, called the transit price “absolutely outrageous” even as he spent $800 on a ticket for the match.
“You can charge a little high, that’s fine,” said Anil, a University of Mississippi student.
“But $98, that’s too much. That like eight times the increase from the regular price.”
The high price was implemented by New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill for the eight games scheduled to take place at the East Rutherford stadium between June and July, leading to outcry leading up to the global tournament.
While scores of fans were also bused over on vehicles provided by New York state out of the Port Authority in Manhattan — a much cheaper alternative to the train at $10 each way — the number of riders was capped at 12,000.
Fans who drove on their own to the American Dream Mall near the stadium weren’t any happier that train riders, walking nearly a half-hour to reach their destination after forking over $225 for a parking spot.
“I paid almost three hundred bucks for parking and still wound up hiking what felt like a mile and a half. I get it, there are security concerns and all that, and overall everyone’s doing a good job keeping order,” said White Plains, NY,resident Anthony DeLuca, 58.
Spectators board Coach buses at the Port Authority. Gregory P. Mango for NY Post
“I’ve just got a bad back, so all the walking takes a toll on me, and that’s before you even get to the stadium side.”
French tourist Elodie Martin said she and her family were confounded by the maze of detours and barriers to get to the stadium, even though she didn’t mind the walk.
“Every time we thought we were there, there was another turn. Once you see the crowd and all the different jerseys, you forget about it,” the married mother of two said.
“But if you’re asking whether the process was smooth, no, not really. For something as big as the World Cup, I expected it to be more straightforward.”
Other fans in the Big Apple let cabbies handle the task of getting them to the game, leading to bargaining among the drivers and fans looking to share rides with strangers to minimize the cost.
A cab driver was asking $120 – toll included — for four people to get to the stadium, or $70, plus toll, for one person going to the Garden State.
A hack even told a Post reporter he would charge the same price for one person or four people at a $100 flat fee.
“You gotta go now because traffic is heavy,” the cabbie said.
While getting to the game was a pain, getting home was likely even tougher.
After thousands of fans dismissed taking the train for Saturday’s first World Cup game at MetLife, many were stuck at the venue for hours waiting to get secure an Uber or Lyft.
Gov. Kathy Hochul said before Tuesday’s match that the city and state on the New York side were working to make the trip over to Jersey as seamless as possible, highlighting the buses set up as an alternative to the pricy trains.
“We hope that it’s gonna be easier to get there,” she said. “Again, return is different. We’re more concerned about getting people in. And also, just making a more positive experience for everybody.“
