RALEIGH, N.C. — The Islanders’ season-long kryptonite of holding a lead had gone away for a while. But it reared its ugly head at the worst possible moment on Monday night, as the Islanders took a 3-0 lead and turned it into a 5-3 loss to the Hurricanes to go down 2-0 in the first round of the playoffs after Carolina scored three in the last 2:30 to complete the comeback, with Jordan Martinook netting the winner. It’s the second time the Islanders have blown a 3-0 lead against Carolina this season, but this one hurts a whole lot more…

NEW YORK – Anti-Israel protesters on the campus of New York University formed a human chain Monday evening as police moved in to break up the demonstration. Video shot by Fox News Digital shows the NYPD telling students: “You have been warned by New York University to leave the area.”  NYPD arrests student protesters on the campus of NYU.  (Julia Bonavita/Fox News Digital)Those who did not leave soon, would be arrested for trespassing, NYPD said. NYU’s Global Campus Safety posted on Instagram that protesters had breached the barriers set up at Gould Plaza, Fountain Walker.  Protesters could be heard chanting incendiary slogans. …

All thanks to Uncle Joey! Candace Cameron Bure and husband Valeri Bure have been married for more than 20 years — and still like packing on the PDA. The Full House star was introduced to the hockey player through her costar Dave Coulier while filming the ’90s sitcom. After less than a year of dating, Bure proposed. The twosome wed in 1996. “He makes me laugh a lot, which is a very good quality,” she gushed to Us Weekly exclusively in 2019. “He’s just such a bold person. We always have interesting conversations. I love his passion and his strength…

The Rangers, en route to their franchise-record 55 wins and 114 points in the regular season, didn’t bring a lot of weaknesses to their game entering the playoffs. If there has been an Achilles’ heel, though, it’s been their offensive production at full-strength five-on-five. For the regular season, they were ranked 21st in the NHL in expected goals percentage in five-on-five at 49.27 percent. Their 166 goals in five-on-five ranked as the 13th-most in the league. They, too, had just a one-goal differential in five-on-five and were ranked 25th in the league in high-danger shots with 153. This is part…

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) “most often asked about” Donald Trump’s doctored map of Hurricane Dorian while seeking presidential records from the ex-commander in chief after he left office, according to unclassified FBI files and emails revealed in Monday court filings. NARA General Counsel Gary Stern vented in a July 2021 phone call that he and other records agency personnel were “pissed off” about the former president’s hoarding of the records, including the 2019 “hurricane map” and letters from North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un and former President Barack Obama, the federal filings from Trump’s classified documents case in…

Rep. John Carter, R-Texas said “unhinged anti-Israel activists” vandalized his Georgetown office, posting pictures of the display on social media just days after he voted in favor of providing $26 billion in aid to Israel.On Monday morning, Carter posted an image of the door to his Georgetown, Texas office, splattered with red liquid that spelled out, “Free Gaza.””Unhinged anti-Israel activists vandalized my Georgetown office,” he posted. “Let me make 2 things clear, my support of Israel is unwavering & your intimidation won’t work. Secondly, the parties responsible will be found & will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the…

William Strickland, a longtime civil rights activist and supporter of the Black Power movement who worked with Malcom X and other prominent leaders in the 1960s, has died. He was 87.Strickland, whose death April 10 was confirmed by a relative, first became active in civil rights as a high schooler in Massachusetts. He later became inspired by the writings of Richard Wright and James Baldwin while an undergraduate at Harvard University, according to Peter Blackmer, a former student who is now an assistant professor of Africology and African American Studies at Eastern Michigan University.WITNESS TO MALCOLM X’S ASSASSINATION SAYS HE…

Sponsored content. Us Weekly receives compensation for this article as well as for purchases made when you click on a link and buy something below. Emily Blunt just did what we all wish we could do when it comes to picking out a pair of shoes for fancier occasions. We all normally go for the safest option when the dress code calls for something a little more formal — AKA a pair of heels (even when our feet are screaming that we don’t). But Blunt decided to save her feet for a night and switch out the heels for a…

JJ Redick will get the chance to interview for the vacant Hornets head coaching job, The Athletic’s Shams Charania reported Monday night.  The former Duke star and NBA veteran has hosted the highly popular basketball podcast “The Old Man and the Three” and in March he launched a second podcast with LeBron James called “Mind the Game.” Redick has reportedly shown interest in going into coaching and has not formally held a coaching job at any level.  He retired from the NBA after a 15-year career in 2021 that took him to Orlando for seven years as well as Los…

Top-rated cops who stick around despite being eligible to retire are now getting a sizable bump in pension — as lawmakers try to retain qualified officers after a massive exodus at the NYPD, The Post has learned. The incentive, which was buried in one of Albany’s recently signed budget bills, will increase elite NYPD cops’ retirement salaries if they delay putting in their papers past 20 years, leading to an added pension payout of up to $12,000 annually. Under the bill, first-grade cops who retire with 25 years on will get a bump from $105,000 to $112,000 as part of…