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SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A month ago, Syracuse was unbeaten, ranked No. 1 and riding high. Now, the Orange are struggling toward the postseason having lost four of five. Trae Golden...
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Smith & Wesson is once again becoming an American success story. America’s most recognizable handgun maker said Tuesday that profits for the three months ended Jan. 31 soared 43 percent...
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Another Starr Report exclusive: Former WWE superstar Chuck Palumbo will star in “Lords of the Car Hoards,” a new reality show premiering March 17 (10 p.m.) on Discovery Channel. Palumbo...
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TAMPA — With pitchers Hisashi Iwakuma and Taijuan Walker sidelined by injuries, the Mariners are actively looking for help. Their search led them to George M. Steinbrenner Field Tuesday night...
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Facebook is in talks to buy Titan Aerospace, a maker of solar-powered drones, to step up its efforts to provide Internet access to remote parts of the world, according to...
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DORAL, Fla.— The magnate who owns the Blue Monster was wearing red Tuesday morning while he provided The Post a tour around his pride and passion, Trump National Doral, where...
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Some years ago, brilliant author Midge Decter warned against sitting on the sidelines during important political and cultural battles. “You must join the side you are on,” she declared. Gov....
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Late last Thursday night, shortly after her rumored split with One Direction’s Harry Styles, Kendall Jenner posted a pic on Instagram that featured the phrase: “don’t let boys be mean...
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Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Mary Jo White told Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) that she can’t say anything about any investigation the regulator may — or may not — have...
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If this does happen to be the way Martin Brodeur’s career as a Devil ends, then at least he leaves on a high note. On the eve of the trade...
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Print, long bashed as a relic of a bygone era, seems to be making a comeback with an unlikely bunch of backers — digital-content companies. Unencumbered by the old legacy...
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WASHINGTON — President Obama’s new budget plan calls for more spending, more taxes and a downgrade for your pocket change. The nearly $4 trillion budget released Tuesday sought to improve...
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Alain Vigneault will decide on the Rangers’ starting goaltender for Wednesday night’s match at the Garden against the Maple Leafs after checking on Henrik Lundqvist in the morning. The Blueshirts...
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A Long Island man who admitted helping his father fake his own drowning in a life-insurance scam has been sentenced to a year in jail. Jonathan Roth, 23, of Massapequa...
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Cosmetics giant Revlon is joining the corporate march from Midtown to downtown, having signed a deal for 91,194 square feet for the top two floors of One New York Plaza,...
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The Post today reports that Brooklyn’s borough president, barely two months in office, is the first new, high-level city official to find himself under investigation. And it’s a doozy: soliciting funds...
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With Ukraine in turmoil, the United States’ on-again, off-again friendly soccer match is on again Wednesday (2 p.m., ESPN2). The exhibition match was canceled, then moved from Kharkiv in Ukraine...
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Apple’s incoming Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri will assume the position with at least one positive trait for investors: He’s “shareholder-friendly.” That’s the word from Wall Street insiders, who predicted...
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In a speech following his meeting with President Obama, Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu described an Israeli Army hospital set up to treat Syrian refugees, who arrive bleeding and often...
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The first time I tasted All’onda’s parmesan dashi broth, in which cute, sailors’ hat-tortellini took sail, essences of bonito, seaweed and soy sauce mingled intriguingly with the cheese tucked inside...
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MINNEAPOLIS — Carmelo Anthony wasn’t tampering late Monday night in the visitor’s dressing room at The Palace of Auburn Hills when asked about 2015 free agent Kevin Love, but he...
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Mayor de Blasio is now getting friendly fire from his lefty supporters regarding the charter school space controversy. Upset that the mayor didn’t go far enough, Public Advocate Letitia James...
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The state’s most powerful man has now come to the rescue of New York City students who are about to have their good public schools taken away from them. The...
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So the hours leading up to the 3 p.m. trade deadline Wednesday are largely an exercise in blinking — or not — for the Rangers and Ryan Callahan, who may...
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“Lies,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid calls the TV ads that feature people complaining about ObamaCare. Sorry: The people in those ads are sick, but their new health policies don’t...
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LAKELAND, Fla. — Ian Kinsler was expecting this kind of reaction — even if he didn’t agree with the way his comments were portrayed. Kinsler, who was traded from Texas...
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Queens prosecutors have confused jurors at the trial of an Ivy League-educated lawyer to the point that he could beat a murder rap in the brutal torture-killing of his Weight...
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Welcome back to the most exciting/maddeningly frustrating time of the year. Everything a college basketball team has worked for over the past four months can finally come to fruition or...
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If you do the crime, you must do the time — even if you are a reality TV star. The spotlight will not save you, as Joe and Teresa Giudice,...
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The good news: Some of President Obama’s threats still strike fear in their targets’ hearts. The bad: It’s not the hearts of America’s enemies, but those of our reliable allies,...
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PORT ST. LUCIE — The first reaction to Derek Jeter’s Facebook retirement was surprise. The second was to mentally fit a luminary for pinstripes to be his replacement. Such is...
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Bernie Madoff would be very impressed with his former underlings’ ability to lie, a Manhattan federal prosecutor told jurors Tuesday. Kicking off closing arguments in what’s been a five-month fraud...
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Bill de Blasio is Andrew Cuomo’s dream come true. The further to the left the mayor goes, the more reasonable the governor looks. And Cuomo knows it, which is why...
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With 27 players about to hit free agency and most not expected to return, the Giants are guaranteed to have a very different look in 2014. It could be that...
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MOSCOW — Stepping back from the brink of war, Vladimir Putin talked tough but cooled tensions in the Ukraine crisis Tuesday, saying Russia has no intention “to fight the Ukrainian...
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DORAL, Fla. — There was no definitive word out of Tiger Woods’ camp on Tuesday whether he will play the WGC-Cadillac Championship this week at Doral, just days after he...
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TAMPA — The easy way would be to use Alfonso Soriano as the full-time designated hitter and occasionally sprinkle Ichiro Suzuki into the outfield. Yet, manager Joe Girardi noted Soriano,...
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BERLIN — A German court has ruled that a prospective Berlin police recruit’s breast implants cannot legally be used as grounds to keep her off the force. The woman applied...
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — It’s soon expected to be OK to be willfully annoying in Grand Rapids. The Grand Rapids Press reports that the City Commission is nixing a 38-year-old section...
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JUPITER, Fla. — Don’t dare use the “D’’ word around Phil Hughes. He is not disappointed with his career and even though Hughes, Joba Chamberlain and Ian Kennedy were once...
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The city’s Department of Investigation is probing Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams following complaints that he and his staff hit up local business and community leaders for cash to fund...
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A Brooklyn pedestrian was seriously injured after being struck by an MTA bus during rush-hour Tuesday. The woman hurt her leg as she tried to board one city bus and...
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DORAL, Fla. — Jason Day lives for the big moments in golf and has proven he plays his best on the biggest stage. So as he watched the climax of...
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PORT ST. LUCIE — Zack Wheeler’s new goal is efficiency. On that count, the Mets right-hander was a success in his first start of the Grapefruit League season on Tuesday,...
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PORT ST. LUCIE — The Mets didn’t commit $60 million to Curtis Granderson because they want him to hit singles. So if there was a promising sign for the team...
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TAMPA – This is a room, more than any other, where time is measured beyond the clocks on the walls, beyond the meticulously crafted schedules attached to the solid side...
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Bronx Assemblyman Jose Rivera has landed in hot water for posting a sexist video of his interactions with women during a trip to the Dominican Republic in 2005. “Where do...
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A former bartender at Fort Greene tavern Mo’s is suing the hotspot, claiming a manager choked him during a vicious fight over wages, according to a lawsuit filed in Brooklyn...
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A New Jersey judge on Tuesday blasted the teenager who showed “gross disrespect” for her parents, left home and now wants mom and dad to pay almost all her expenses....
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The teen Houdini who slipped out of her handcuffs and escaped police custody in Midtown on Monday was found hiding at her boyfriend’s home in Bedford-Stuyvesant a couple hours later,...
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The Duke porn star has come out from under the covers. The university freshman — who bared her skin in blue movies to pay for college — bared her soul...
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Eight days after a masked gunman shot him in the head, the owner of Long Island’s Oheka Castle was released from the hospital and vowed to help cops hunt down...
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He was sexually abused, too. Mike McQueary, the former Penn State quarterback and assistant coach who is set to be a key witness in the conspiracy trial of three fired...
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A speed demon busted for setting an unofficial record for the fastest driving lap around Manhattan bragged to cops about the feat. “I’ve done it several times,” Adam Tang told...
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Better late than never. On Tuesday, the New York Times corrected a 161-year-old story after a reader noticed that the newspaper had misspelled the name of the man whose life...
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Someone way back — well, at least farther back than the weekend — once said, “Rebounds equal rings.” The Heat have disputed the point. Now the Nets hope to do...
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Revelers from Cologne, Germany to Vortova, Czech Republic join their counterparts in Rio de Janiero, Brazil for carnival celebrations entailing free-spirited merrymaking before the start of Lent.
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The Islanders executed the first major step of their trade-deadline plan Tuesday afternoon when they sent defenseman Andrew MacDonald to the Flyers in exchange for a 2015 second-round pick, a...
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A brazen gang of thieves swiped three pricey portraits during a Williamsburg art-gallery exhibit over the weekend — prompting the gallery owner to chase down and help nab one of...
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Even the homeless are getting priced out of Manhattan. The Salvation Army Chinatown Shelter has sold out for $30 million and is moving to Brooklyn. In its place will be...
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GILMAN, Minn. — A farmer in central Minnesota has created a towering tribute to winter’s excess. Greg Novak says he’s invested hundreds of hours to build a 50-foot snowman named...
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Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis are taking their relationship on-screen — again. Days after news of the real-life couple’s engagement broke, CBS announced Kunis will guest-star on an upcoming episode of...
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PORTLAND, Ore. — A man accused of using a cutting torch on a Portland ATM was wearing armored underwear when he was arrested. KPTV reports an officer responded to the...
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EWING, N.J. — A gas line damaged by a contractor exploded “like a bomb” while crews worked to repair it Tuesday at a town house development in New Jersey, and...
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“Gotham” has found its Bruce Wayne. Thirteen-year-old David Mazouz has been cast as the preteen Wayne in Fox’s upcoming Batman prequel drama, it was announced Tuesday. Since “Gotham” focuses on...
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NYU should plan on raising a lot more than the $136 million projected from donors for part of its massive expansion project, according to a new report from its own...
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United Airlines is getting tough on passengers with oversized carry-on bags. The Chicago-based airline has installed new bag-sizers at most airports. It also emailed its frequent fliers, reminding them of...
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Alain Vigneault will decide on the Rangers’ starting goaltender for Wednesday night’s match at the Garden against the Maple Leafs after checking on Henrik Lundqvist in the morning. The Blueshirts...
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MINNEAPOLIS — Happy 40th, Knicks. Team Titanic’s Monday meltdown in Motown gave the Knicks their 40th defeat of the season. With a 21-40 record, they will need to go 20-1...
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Russia said it had successfully test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on Tuesday, with tensions high over its seizure of control in the Crimea and its threat to send more...
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Here are my three thoughts on the Nets’ 96-80 win over the Bulls Monday night: 1. This win was a lot bigger for the Nets than just getting back to...
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Rob Ryan found a way to forget about the disappointment of being passed over for NFL coaching jobs – by taking part in Mardi Gras in New Orleans. The Saints...
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A Port Authority cop saved a distraught woman who had climbed over the outer railing of the George Washington Bridge on Monday and was preparing to leap, PA police said....
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By the onslaught of attention he’s gotten recently, you’d think Pharrell Williams was a fresh new face on the music scene. He’s made headlines left and right in 2014 for...
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Straphangers may be surprised to see who’s riding the rails next week. Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said Tuesday that he plans to tool around the subway to check up on...
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The most Wes Anderson-y moment of the almost excruciatingly Wes Anderson-y new Wes Anderson movie “The Grand Budapest Hotel” is the arrival, at a prison security desk, of foodstuffs meant...
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Forget stroking the guitar or hitting the drums. If you want to pick up chicks — or guys — start blowing on the French Horn. Brooklyn-based brothers Robert and David...
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A former FEMA worker who beat his elderly mother with her own cane, also smothered her with a pillow – and now the 94-year-old is expected to die, Brooklyn prosecutors...
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The NYPD will be arming cops with a new kind of weapon — a mobile app to provide instant crime-fighting data to them on handheld tablets. The software, “Domain Awareness”...
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Oscar Pistorius covered his ears and cried like a baby during the second day of his murder trial Tuesday when his lawyer said his girlfriend had too much brain damage...
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Calling all cool kids — Tuesday, the Museum at FIT debuts “Beyond Rebellion: Fashioning the Biker Jacket,” an exhibition tracing the history of the biker jacket and its evolution from...
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Voilà, c’est Rih! Rihanna may have celebrated her 26th birthday in Aspen last week, offering spectators and fans a high-fashion snow bunny photoshoot — an Instagram exclusive — but this...
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So much for trying to develop young point guard Chris Smith. The Erie Bayhawks, the Knicks’ D-League affiliate, have put J.R. Smith’s brother on waivers. Smith last played just five minutes...
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A Manhattan judge Tuesday blasted a once-renowned New York music teacher for describing the 9-year-old girl he molested as flirtatious — and then sentenced him to two years in state prison....
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It was a strange morning for Martin Brodeur on Tuesday, as he came off the ice at the Prudential Center and joked a team employee had to act as his...
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WASHINGTON — President Obama said today that Vladimir Putin is not “fooling anybody” after the Russian president blasted the West for supporting what he called an “unconstitutional coup” in Ukraine. “President...
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WASHINGTON — President Obama unveiled a nearly $4 trillion budget proposal for 2015 Tuesday that includes more spending on infrastructure projects, job training and preschool, while cutting taxes for “working Americans”...
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KIEV, Ukraine — In a somber show of US support for Ukraine’s new leadership, Secretary of State John Kerry walked the streets Tuesday where nearly 100 anti-government protesters were gunned down...
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PORT ST. LUCIE – The Orioles continued their late free-agent signing frenzy to try to keep up in the AL East by reaching agreement Tuesday with Johan Santana on a...
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A new headband may be able to tell you when your brain is on mental overload and offload some of your work to another person. The Boston Globe reports that...
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Maybe we’ll get to see Veronica play pingpong topless. “Girls” creator Lena Dunham will be writing a four-issue series of Archie comics next year, an executive from the books’ parent...
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Noah Syndergaard’s eye-popping spring training has enhanced the mythology around the Mets’ right-handed pitching prospect known as “Thor.” But the nickname wasn’t bestowed this spring, and it didn’t come solely...
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Fresh off the song’s big win at the Oscars on Sunday night, “Let It Go” got a whole new interpretation Monday on “The Tonight Show.” Idina Menzel, who performed the...
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The siblings of the late New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat slapped Christie’s auction house with a $1 million lawsuit Tuesday, claiming an upcoming sale of his works may be full...
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2B or not 2B — what’s the difference? An Upper East Side resident came home to find his apartment cleaned out of everything but a TV and a PS3 video game...
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The Metro-North Railroad has released a “100-day plan” to boost safety, service and communications with customers after a litany of deadly crises last year. The initiatives include working with labor...
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“Dancing With the Stars” on Tuesday unveiled the newest cast that will be vying for the mirror ball trophy on the ABC reality show’s upcoming 18th season in an announcement...
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Jim Harbaugh says he isn’t going anywhere. In a lengthy interview with Sports Illustrated, the 49ers coach touched on his rumored unhappiness, desire for a contract extension and strife within...
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Cops are looking for this bone-headed biker who allegedly mowed down a cop in East New York. The suspect was traveling on Pitkin Avenue near Lincoln Avenue around 3:30 p.m.,...
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Ian Kinsler plans to keep an eye on his old teammates in Texas – and hopes to see them lose as much as possible. The former Rangers second baseman, dealt...
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JOHANNESBURG — Former US Rep. Mel Reynolds says he is in hiding in South Africa following his deportation from Zimbabwe because he believes his life is in danger. He told...
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SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea said North Korea fired seven suspected artillery shells into the ocean on Tuesday, in what Seoul called a provocation apparently directed against its ongoing...
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An Austrian auction house claims it has the only handheld camera that returned to Earth from NASA’s manned lunar landings — and it’s putting it up for auction next month....
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Ukraine’s telecommunications system has come under attack, with equipment installed in Russian-controlled Crimea used to interfere with the mobile phones of members of parliament, the head of Ukraine’s SBU security...
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With the country in turmoil, Ukraine remains on schedule to face the United States in a soccer friendly on Wednesday in Nicosia, Cyprus, a match moved from Kharkiv to Larnaca for...
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This is the fifth in a nine-part series examining the Jets’ needs position by position with free agency starting on March 11. OFFENSIVE LINE Currently on roster: Nick Mangold Age:...
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“Real Housewives of New Jersey” star Teresa Giudice and her husband pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges on Tuesday, in crimes that could send them behind bars. The reality TV...
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They’re starting to switch off the lights at RadioShack. The cash-strapped electronics chain said it’s looking to shutter as many as 1,100 stores, more than a fifth of its locations...
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Flexcoin — another bitcoin exchange and storage site — has gone bust, leaving customers with no bits to be had. The site announced its closing after a hacker stole all 896 bitcoins...
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Thousands of charter school supporters — parents, students and educators — were headed to Albany Tuesday morning to demand that state pols protect their schools from Mayor de Blasio’s planned cuts. The...
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Union muscle helped persuade nearly the entire New York City Assembly delegation to sign on to a letter backing Mayor de Blasio’s tax-the-rich pre-K plan, sources said. The letter, distributed...
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Dish boss Charlie Ergen and Disney’s Bob Iger agreed on Monday to call off the lawyers and signed a new and forward-thinking programming deal that sets the table for a...
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The most intriguing college basketball regular season in years has lived up to the hype — if you were expecting the unexpected. Highly rated powers Kentucky and Michigan State have...
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Two classic Corvettes re-emerged Monday from a giant sinkhole that gobbled up those and six other prized vehicles still trapped beneath the National Corvette Museum in Kentucky. Workers in a...
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Clownish Toronto Mayor Rob Ford made a cringe-worthy appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” Monday – and laughed off the funnyman’s suggestion that he check into alcohol rehab for his problem...
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ALBANY, NY — More than 160 women in elected positions or holding other leadership posts have written to New York’s top elected officials, all men, urging them to enact public...
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PRETORIA, South Africa — The first witness in the Oscar Pistorius murder trial broke down in tears Tuesday, saying she still remembers the terrified screams of a woman on the...
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WASHINGTON — Michelle Obama plans a weeklong solo visit to China this month that includes meetings with China’s first lady and high school and university students. It will be her...
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The mother of the blonde beauty shot dead by Oscar Pistorius said Tuesday she doesn’t care what happens to the once-beloved “Blade Runner” because it won’t bring her daughter back....
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MIAMI — An hour after what he called the best regular-season game he’s ever played, LeBron James simply explained why this performance was like none other. The basketball, he said,...
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Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law was introduced to prospective jurors on Monday at the start of his trial on charges that he conspired to kill Americans and support terrorists in his...
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GABRIELS, NY — The prospective owner of a former medium-security prison in the Adirondacks plans to transform the property into a private group camp and retreat center. The Adirondack Daily...
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Hold the phone — snooping shouldn’t cost that much! The federal government is suing Sprint for allegedly charging the feds too much to eavesdrop on suspects. The telecommunications company was...
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A disturbed man snuck into a popular Times Square restaurant and barricaded himself into the freezer early Tuesday morning, cops said. The unidentified man ran into Carmine’s on 44th Street...
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She’s the high-school Houdini. A teenage girl who was under arrest for theft managed to slip out of her handcuffs and escape from the Midtown South Precinct station house Monday...
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Gov. Christie’s two-time campaign manager says he’s a target of a federal “Bridgegate” investigation and is using that to fight subpoenas by state lawmakers also looking into the infamous George...
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Cablevision sued the MTA Monday over an agency worker’s joyride in a cherry picker last year that tore power lines and damaged Cablevision property on Long Island. The suit, filed...
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A man brutally beat his 94-year-old mother with a cane in their Brooklyn apartment Monday, leaving her in critical condition, law-enforcement sources said. Mark Farrell, 64, allegedly attacked his mother,...
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The problem with stock market bubbles is that you always have to watch out for sharp objects — like Russian sabers. As you’ve probably been reading — since you can’t...
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What’s next — oohing and aahing over the pizza in Phoenix? WalletHub, which touts itself as a social media site centering on personal financial topics, ranked New York City —...
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So far, 2014 has been very, very good to Bill Ackman. The hedge-fund mogul’s Pershing Square International is up 11.7 percent this year, according to an investor, powered by a...
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There is a truce in the year-long battle between young real-estate scion Jason Taubman Kalisman and activist Ron Burkle. That likely means instead of fighting each other for control of...
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Here’s a look at how Ronan Farrow fared in his first week hosting “Ronan Farrow Daily” on MSNBC (1-2 p.m.). The show, which premiered Monday, Feb. 24, averaged 292,000 viewers...
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One-hit wonder Rico Suave is set to star in a new VH1 reality show, Variety reports. The latin singer/rapper (real name: Gerardo Mejía) spent a brief time on the charts...
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The second day of Oscar Pistorius’ murder trial was thrown into turmoil Tuesday as the judge ordered a probe into a South African TV channel that showed a photo of...
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WASHINGTON – Russian President Vladimir Putin blasted the West Tuesday for backing what he termed an “unconstitutional coup” in Ukraine and said Russia reserves the right to use force in...
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“The Happiest Song Plays Last” is the kind of show in which people who look otherwise reasonable make big head-scratching decisions. And they don’t even seem to have consequences. “Happiest...
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Jason Collins isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. The Nets are expected to sign Collins to a second 10-day contract Wednesday, a formality after the initial pact he signed Feb. 23,...
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AUBURN HILLS, Mich. — Knicks center Tyson Chandler is so disillusioned, he isn’t sure he wants to be part of the team’s long-term future. With the Knicks in chaos, owner...
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It was looking like an embarrassment — the ultimate case of “Let your play do the talking.” In the first match at Monday night’s BNP Paribas Showdown at the Garden,...
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When the Nets moved to Brooklyn, the natural assumption was their relocation within a subway ride of Madison Square Garden would create a meaningful rivalry with the Knicks. But truth...
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Asked what he would miss in the absence of Kevin Garnett, who sat a second straight game with back spasms Monday, Nets coach Jason Kidd didn’t even blink before responding....
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Fancying himself a political “don,” Assemblyman William Boyland Jr. shamelessly sought payoffs from undercover agents posing as businessmen while his constituents got the shaft, prosecutors argued Monday in closing statements...
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Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams shocked some local business and community leaders at a Borough Hall meet-and-greet recently, hitting them up for cash to fund pet projects — with the...
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A judge went toe-to-toe Monday with a lawyer for the accused stalker of Yankees GM Brian Cashman over claims the jurist has undisclosed ties to the Bronx Bombers. “It has...
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A Manhattan federal jury on Monday got an up-close and personal look at just how good a liar Bernie Madoff really is. Eric Breslin, a lawyer for Joann Crupi —...
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A Manhattan court battle over the $10 million estate of Marilyn Monroe photographer Bert Stern just got a lot uglier, with his young widow fighting his kids to keep his...
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One of the Big Apple’s most lauded restaurants is eating crow at the city’s Health Department. Per Se, the three-Michelin-starred eatery in the Time Warner Center, lost its “A” rating...
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Manhattan A man dressed in a teddy-bear hat and armed with a large knife tried to rob a woman in the lobby of her Lower East Side building, authorities said....
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During closing arguments in Queens for an Ivy League-educated lawyer on trial for killing his Weight Watchers exec-girlfriend, both sides hit hard at each other’s expert witnesses. “If you pay...
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The Academy Award for Best Delivery goes to . . . Edgar, the pizza guy. Pizza-shop owner Edgar Martirosyan became the award-show ceremony’s most talked-about participant not named John Travolta...