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…

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…

Most voters prefer former President Donald Trump to handle their top issues over President Joe Biden ahead of the 2024 election, recent polling shows.A new NBC News poll found that inflation is the number one issue for voters going into November — an issue that most respondents believe would be better handled by Trump than the current president.When asked who they preferred to handle the issue of rising costs, the majority of respondents, 52%, said they prefer Trump to Biden. Only 30% of likely voters said that they believe Biden is better at leading on the issue.BIDEN TOUTS US ECONOMY IN…

A Mesa, Arizona mother was charged with aggravated assault after video showed her hit a school bus driver multiple times while accusing her of speaking badly about her daughter.The Mesa Police Department said 27-year-old Hermenegilda Marquez was arrested on April 17 and faces a single count of felony aggravated assault on a school employee. According to police, officers responded to W. McKellips Road at about 2 p.m. on April 11 after receiving reports that a Mesa Public Schools bus driver had been assaulted.When officers arrived, they spoke with the victim, who appeared to be suffering from minor injuries.ARIZONA GOVERNOR RIPS GOP…

Tori Spelling and Shannen Doherty’s recent reunion was full of revelations. “Do you remember the Betsy Johnson dress that you wore in our biggest cast photo?” Spelling, 50, asked Doherty, 53, on the Monday, April 22, episode of her “Misspelling” podcast while in the middle of a conversation about past relationships and cheating. “It was black, floral … We used to share clothes, everything.” Doherty was concerned by the question as Spelling asked it in the middle of talking about losing her virginity. “Are you telling me you lost your virginity in my dress?” Doherty questioned Spelling. Spelling recounted, “No,…

A putrid A’s lineup helped Carlos Rodon have his best start of the young season. Whether his seven scoreless innings in a 2-0 loss to the A’s in The Bronx marks a turning point for the left-hander remains to be seen, but he showed some promising signs Monday. He threw five pitches effectively and pitched well despite not having dominating stuff. “He pitched,’’ Aaron Boone said of Rodon, who allowed just one hit, a fifth-inning single by Nick Allen. “I didn’t think, early on, he had good life like his last start. He made a lot of really good pitches…