September 4, 2013

7 reasons you need to watch ‘👍Luther’

 If you’re not acquainted with cool crime-fighting DCI John Luther (Idris Elba), you need to get on the BBC America train, pronto. Even if you missed Tues🅷day night’s third-season premiere... 🎃

Fan backlash over 'Fifty Shades' duo

“Fifty Shades of Grey” fans are whipping up a storm of outrage 🔯over the yet-to-be-shot movie’s choice of leading actors. An online petition demanding that producers dump Dakota Johnson and...

Lopez and Spitzer: Partners i꧋n slime

Can it really come as a surprise that a governor who secretly purchased the services of hookers at $450 an hour is willing tꦅo sing the praises of a serial sexual...

Letters: Drumbeat to war w🐓ith Syria 

In order not to make Amer🔯ica and its leader impotent in foreign affairs, many Republicans appear to reluctantly support President Obama’s attack on Syria (“The War Congress,” Editorial, Sept. 4).... 🧸

Driver crashes car t🌸hrough Staten Island home 🍨

It’s a miracle no one was hurt! A tipsy driver crashed his🅺 car through a Staten Island home yesterday, coming to a stop against a couple’s bed — just below...

 Assad orde❀red gas attack in panic over losing Damascus 💦

A panicky Bashar al-Assad ordered the horrific poison-gas attack last month because he feareꦛd Damascus was about to fall to Syrian rebels, an intercepted phone call revealed. A senior official...

JCPenney shelves✤ Martha deal 

Martha Stewart’s stormy affair with JCPenney is ending — and she’s the one getting dumped. Stewart’s line of home goods at Penney, which sparked an epic courtroom battle with Macy⛄’s,...

Atheist family wants Pledge ban ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ

‘God referen🦩ces’ question patriotism

The 'evil' of wanting better schools

Well, it’s official: 🌳I’m a bad person. So says Slate columnist Allison Benedikt, who last week declared that anyone who sends his or her children to a private school is...

Video game boosts𓆉 mental abilities in older folks 

🀅 It probably won't become as popular as "Grand Theft Auto," but a specialized video game may help older people boost mental skills like handling multiple tasks at once. In a..ꦇ.

McDonell may join CUNY

The race to succeed Steve Shepard as the dean of the graduate school of journalism at the City University of New York has reache♋d the finals — and former Sports...

DWTS stars' rise to fame

Season 17 has 🔴the most fun names ♓yet!

Jack Nicholson's career, as retirement rumors swirl

Teen dead after 🙈high school stabbing spree

SPRING, Texas — A fight inside a Houston-area high school escalated into a series of stabbings Wednesday that left a 17ဣ-year-old student dead and three others wounded, sheriff's officials said....

Robbins' college football picks

Irish Chicken is on the menu Saturday night in Ann Arbor. Herꦇe’s the recipe: Add five ACC games. Throw in a dash of USC, add a spice of Purdue, found...

Pope's pull needed to end NY's beef with Jews

Pope Francis this week ordered an investig🥃ation into a Polish ban on the ritual kosher slaughter of animals, a move that could ally the Cat🌳holic Church and religious Jews in...

SAC pays bonu🥂ses to keep staff 

Insider-traဣding target dished out hefty checks

NYU prof settles suit vs. Franco ▨

The former New York University professor who slapped James Franco with a defamation suit last year has settled the case against the “127 Hours” actor, sources told T🌟he Post yesterday. In...

Sotheby's shows off 118-carat diamond

✃ A New York auction house is showing off what it calls the world's greatest white diamond on the block —🐲 a 118-carat stone from Africa the size of a small... 

  Another teℱch snafu snarls Nasda𒐪q

It’s like déjà vu all over again for Nasdaq. Just two weeks aft🥂er a technical glitch froze trading for nearly three hours, the exchange was hit again yesterday with problems... 

Ch🌳elsea Manning seeks presidential pa𝓡rdon 

HAGERSTOWN, Md. — Army Pvt. Chelsea Manning is seeking a pr🍬esidential pardon for sending reams of c✤lassified information to WikiLeaks, a leak she says was done "out of a love...

Jobs repor🏅t curveball for bond markets

Tomorrow is going to be a tricky day for the financial mark🌌ets, especially for bonds. The Labor Department will be announcing its jobs figures for August♊. Wall Street is guessing...

Chang: US men's tennis had tough act to follow

Michael C♍hang, 41 and a father of two daughters, says it’s a little unfair to make comparisons when reviewing the depleted state of American men’s tennis. Perhaps it is indeed...

🌱  Tornado, Hurricane could be next Serena, Venus

Are these teen phenoms set ꦬto be the next Williams gals? 

Your tax dollars at r🦄es♓t, in unclaimed funds lists 

൲You’ll probably get a kick out of this — right in the ass. New York state is making a big to-do about reuniting people with th🌊eir long-lost riches that sit...

It's an intervention: Success in Syria without 'war'

🐠 President Obama’s on-and-off-again planned American attack on Syria is nothing new. Besides its five declared wars, America has a habit of intervening all over the world. The roll call of... ღ

Surging Stringer rips Spitzer in ne👍w poll

🧸 ⛎ City comptroller candidate Scott Stringer went for the jugular yesterday against rival Eliot Spitzer as a new poll showed the Democratic primary race in a statistical tie with just five...

Frenchman Gasq🔥uet advances to US Open semifinals

♔ Richard Gasquet had seen this movie before. All too recently, as a matter of fact. At this year’s French Open, the Frenchman had taken a two-set lead over Stanislas Wawrinka,...

Ex-Jets star now in Bucs' corner

TAMPA, Fla. — It didn’t look right yesterday. The number remains the same, but the color is off. 🌄Darrelle Revis’ uniform still has No. 24 printed on the front and...

 Cop blockers! NYPD bans uniformed self♔ies on dat🌠ing sites

Th🥃e NYPD is cop-blocking the boys in bl🐻ue!The department has launched an internal investigation into cops who post photos of themselves in uniform on dating sites — and violators could...

 ꦏ 💖Dog days of August drag on Ackman

 Hedge-fund mogul Bill Ackman has to be glad August is over. Ackman’s Pershing Square hedge funds lost around 3.5 percent las🐎t ✅month — one of his worst monthly performances in...

𝕴  Top SEC lawyer hangs up briefs 𝕴

The Securitie༒🎶s and Exchange Commission’s top trial lawyer is planning to leave the agency by the end of the year, The Post has learned. Matthew Martens — who scored a... 

Cowboy has Giant grudge

IRVING, Texas — Players spilling what they know about their old team is nothing new in the NFL, but they don💯’t usually do it as gleefully as Kyle Bosworth this...

Putin taunts O🅺bama ahead of G-20 summit  🌄

Says Kerry ‘🦄lying’ about Syrian rebels 

Kiffin, 73, out to fix Dallas 'D'

IRVING, Texas — To give Monte Kiffin’s unusual hiring as Cowboys defensive coordinator some perspective, consider Tom Coughlin — the NFL’s ol🔴dest head﷽ coach at age 67 — was still...

Charter school probed over special-ed kids wh💦o might not 💖exist

𒆙 Schoo﷽ls investigators are probing a Bronx charter school for allegedly billing the city hundreds of thousands of dollars for nonexistent special-education kids, The Post has learned. The allegations against the...

Israel troubled by ༺American uncertainty in Syria ꦯ 

 TEL AVIV — As Israelis go through wild mood swings while President Obama zigzags on Syria, top leaders here are quietly seethi🦩ng. And “quietly” is the key word. By keep🧸ing...

Anothe🍨r Cushman & Waܫkefield walkout 

The talent drain from Cushman & Wakefield’s Manhattan office continues, as ace com♏mercial broker Jared Horowitz is heading out the door to Newmark Grubb Knight Frank. Horowitz joined Cushman’s Midtown...

Giants' Nicks "full speed ahead" for opener

Hakeem Nicks took it easy this offseason with✤ the inꦫtention of making it hard on the Cowboys in the season-opener. He paced himself. Now that the regular season is almost...

LIRR 'scammer threatened to kill witness'

‘Unhinged’ man in repeat gun rants 🌺

꧒ Irving Azoff teams🐈 with Dolan

Irving Azoff is ready to unveil his next big act: a $30♔0 million entertainment business backed by long-time pal and Madison Square Garden boss James Dolan. Azoff, who exited as...

Vigilante gal 'killed' Mexican bus drivers to avenge rapes

A gun-toting female vigilante who calls herself “Diana the Hunter” has claimed respons💧ibility for the point-blank slayings of two Mexican bus drivers. The woman, described as 5-foot-4 and in her...

Obama backs away from 'red line' on Syria

WASHINGTON — President Obama took an e🀅raser 🗹to his famous invocation of a “red line” on Syria. Seeking to depersonalize his plan for an airstrike against the Syrian regime for...

Red Bulls' Lloyd Sam: From persona non grata to potential starter

Between the way the Red Bulls’ roster was built to Lloyd Sam’s own lapses in defense and conditioning, coach Mike Petke had steadfastly insisted the English attacker was best suited... 𝓀

'Hunger' sequel clothing tie-in

Lionsgate steered clear of product tie-ins with its blockbuster release of the “The Hunger Gam🥃es,” but the sequel is a different story. In the latest partnershi꧋p for “The Hunger Games:...

 Rev. Al Sharpton snubs o�🎐�ld pal Bill Thompson

♔ The Rev. Al Sharpton raised the🔯 astonishing possibility yesterday of not endorsing a candidate in the Democratic primary for mayor — an embarrassing diss to old pal Bill Thompson, the...

There goes Johnny! Jack retiring 'as he battles memory problems'

Ther⛎e goes “J��ohnny!” Acting legend Jack Nicholson is retiring from the movie biz after more than 50 years, according to Radar Online. The Oscar-winning star of “The Shining” — who...

Liberty Media boss ▨plans for exit ౠ 

Cable cowboy John Malone is just starting to think about hanging up his spurs.🅺 While the Liberty Media chairman has no plans to retire any tim💛e soon, he has told...

Ohio kidnapper's suicide stuns victims

The three women who were held in captivity for nearly a decade by Ariel Castro, the sex slave monster, have mixed feelings💙 about his suicide. Relatives of two of the...

2nd porn star in 2 weeks: 'I have HIV'

LOS ANGELES -- A trade group rep𒅌resenting producers of pornographic movies in Los Angeles on Tuesday called on the sexual partners of a porn actor to be tested for the...

$5 million for man who wrongly served 16 years in jail♈

The city of Peekskill has approved a $5.4 million settlement with a man who spent 16 years in prison for a killing he d🍸idn't commit. The Journal News says the...

 Arsenio dodges Eddie Murphy 🍌pal question

How not to answer a questi🗹on, Part 1: Arsenio Hall, whose new syndicated talk show premieres this Monday, Sept. 9, is featured in the new issue of People magazine, where he’s asked if...

Feds allow benefits for veterans' same-sex partners

🦄 WA♒SHINGTON — The Obama administration said Wednesday it will stop enforcing a law that blocks benefits to partners of military veterans in same-sex marriages. In a letter to congressional leaders,...

 🐷Cycle not in ꦐcards for slow-footed Duda

ATLANTA — After delivering a double, hom🎃er and single in successive at-bats yesterday, Lucas Duda had no illusions of becoming the latest Mets player🀅 to hit for the cycle. “I...

Gee whiz: Dillon gꦍre🔜at again for Mets

ATLANTA — No do-overs allowed, but Dillon Gee likely would embrace the opportunity to extꦍend this season for several weeks if it meant a chance to expunge April and May...

🍰 Still a quarterback controversy in Jets land

Geno Smith is the new Jets starting quarterback … for now. The Jets named Smith the starter for Sunday’s game against the B𝄹uccaneers, a move that became obvious in recent...

☂ Jets leave Geno looking over shoulder 💎

There are 31 NFL teams and 31 NFL fan bases that know who thei🐼r quarterback and leader is on the eve of the 2013 season. There is one, and only...

🤪 1,200 chickens flying to retirement in💧 NY

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Their egg-laying days behi🐷nd them, some 1,200 Northern California chickens are heading for a cozy retiremenꦺt on the East Coast, where they will live outside of cages...

🍷 JPP questionable for Giants

Jason Pierre-Paul plans to play all ဣof Sunday night’s opener or none of it. The Giants defensive standout is in a curious situation heading into the season-opener against the Cꦰowboys...

With Diehl out, rookie Pugh gets call in Gian🌌ts opener

David Diehl was back on the practice field yesterday, feeling more🉐 like a coach than a player. His surgically repaired thumb will sideline him for another month, so his focus...

Medieval peasants got a lot more vacation time than yo💦u: economist

Life for the medieval peasant was certainly𒁏 no picnic. His life was shadowed by fear of famine, disease and bursts of warfare. His diet and personal hygiene left much to...

🐈 Giants have won in Dallas despite giving up big numbers

They arrive, they give up a ton of points, they conquer, they l🐽eave, they exhale. They win, but often only half of them know how they heck they did it....

Putin admits: Tchaikovsky was probably gay but 'so what?'

 𝔉 In an 💝interview with The Associated Press and Russia's state Channel 1 television, President Vladimir Putin discussed a wide range of issues, including disputes over the Syrian civil war, his...

Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen's $20 million mansion

This is livin' large. Glamorous power couple Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen ha꧒ve finally made the finishing touches to their $20 million dream home - complete with its own moat,... 

 Candy c𒊎ane-loving bees making red honey

SALT LAKE CITY — What appears to be red honey is showing up in some Utah beehives and state o♊fficials say it may be coming from bugs feasting o🍃n candy...

 Commo🌄n Core critics warn of fuzzy math

If the new national Common Core educational standards influence curriculum the way some fear they will, students can say goodbye to literary classics and hello to fuzzy math, say critics.... 💙

'Armadillo' car folds in half to park

'Armadillo' car folds up for easy parking

Daejeon, South Korea - With a click ജon a smartphone, the experimental "Armadillo-T" electric car made in South Korea will park its﷽elf and fold nearly in half, freeing up space...

Weiner explodes at heckler's rant

Pol e💃rupts after voter calls wife Huma 'an Arab'꧟

Tour Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen's $20 mil. mansion

Glamorous power couple Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen have finally made the finishing touches to their $20 million dream home - complete with its own moat, vast walk♚ in wardrobes,... 💜

McDonald's super-sizing its 'dollar menu'

McDonald's Corp. says a revamped version of its Dollar Menu that includes items priced at $5 could be launched nationally this🍨 year. The world's biggest hamburger chain says it has...

Teacher's 30-day rape rap appealed

BILLINGS, Mont. — State prosecutors on Wednesday appealed as "illegal" a 30-day sentence handed down by a Montana judge to a former teach🐲er for raping a student who later killed...

 New addition to KFC menus? Fried so♔up

Why slurp your soup when you can eat it fried. With an apparent nod to the growing fried food state❀ fair obsession in the U.S., KFC Japan announced it will...

Week 1 NFL Power Ran🅘ﷺkings

RIP, defense. Its NFL tombstone w꧒ill read “1920-2012.” Blame it on spread offenses, concerns about player safety, the salary cap or the undeniable fact that fans just dig the long...

Cameron Diaz's West Village apartment

Hollywood starlet Cameron Diaz has opened the doors of her recently renovated West Village apart♕ment to Elle Decor - and her chic  style shines through in every room. The blonde beauty...

Da🐽ughter video-bombs Girardi

She’s the most adorable Bronx — video — Bomber! As the Yankees fight for their playoff lives, manager Joe Girardi’s daughter gave everyone a welcomed 😼biꦗt of comic relief during...

Boston mayor sorry after joking he would 'blow up Detroit and start all over'

DETROIT — A spokeswoman for Boston's mayor says Thomas Menino is🐷 sorry that his published remarks that Detroit should be blown up and started over caused offense in the Motor... 

Inside Cameron Diaz's West Village apartment

Hollywood starlet Cameron Diaz has opened the doors of her recently ren𓃲ovated West Village apartment to Elle Decor - and her chic st♐yle shines through in every room.

Rolle: Cowboys TE won't repeat big game vs. Giants

ℱ As guarantees go, this one was a bit like, “I promise you Wilt Chamberlain doesn’t score 100 against us the next time,’’ or “No way Reggie Jackson hits three homer🐬s...

Rex raves about ex-Jets star Revis 𝓰

TAMPA, Fla. -- The q💝uestion was posed by Tampa-area writers on a conference call Wednesday at the Buccaneers headquarters, and Jets coach Rex Ryan sounded a bit forlorn on the other e꧑nd...

Senate panel OKs Syria strike  🍨

President Barack Obama's request for speedy congressional backing of a military strike in Syria advanced in the Senate on W💟edne♑sday, hours after the commander in chief left open the possibility...

Samsung unveils smartwatc🔯h 🎃

Dick Tracy wannabes rejoice — Samsung has come up with the watch for you! The Korean electronics giant yesterday introduced a gadget-packed timep🥃iece that is almost a match for the...

Aunt who 'gouged out kid's eyes' kills self in well jump

S💯tate media say police in northern China suspect that the woman who gouged out a 6-year-old boy's eyes was his aunt who later killed herself by jumping into a well....

Coughlin laid back as Rex languishes 🌜

Giants coac💯h cuts loose while much-maligned Jets coach's mood darkens

Jets WR Hill: 'Nothing is scaring me about Revis'

Jets wide receiver Stephen H✱ill is ready for Revis Island. The second-year Jet says he is not worried if the Buccaneers star cornerback lines up against him. Hil💜l and Revis... 

Giants place Brown🏅 on short-term IR

The Giants officially pu𒈔t running back Andre Brown on the injured reserve/designated to return list on Wednesday, meaning Brown will not be eligible to🏅 play until Week 10, when the...

JPP and Cruz 'full speed ahead’ for Giants

 Tom Coughlin ut🃏tered a phrase Wednesday morning about Jason Pieౠrre-Paul and Victor Cruz that is sure to make Giants fans smile as they consider Sunday night’s season opener against the...

Woody backs Rex

When Jets coach Rex Ryan attended his son൩’s first football🍎 game at Clemson on Saturday, the day of final roster cut-downs, he took criticism in some corners for having misplaced...  

Noki🌱a CEO a favorite to take over at M💞icrosoft

Stephen Elop, Microso✃ft’s prodigal son returns, and now he is the clear favorite to take over for the departing Steve Ballmer. Microsoft is paying $7.2 billion for Finnish phone-maker Nokia,...

Manuel ready for Bills

ORCHARD PARK — It turns out Buffalo Bills rookie quarterback EJ Manuel will be ready to open the season against the New England Patriots, after all. Following weeks of attempting...🐽

♑  Jets confir♋m Geno to start Week 1 vs. Bucs

 The Jets confirmed on Wednesday what has been obviou✨s for dayꦇs, naming rookie Geno Smith their starting quarterback for the season opener against the Buccaneers on Sunday. Smith has been...

Yanks' beleaguered farm system

Your🙈 updated playoff seeds: AL: Boston (1) vs. winner of Oakland (WC1) and Tampa Bay (WC2), Detroit (2) vs. Texas (3) N𝓀L: Atlanta (1) vs. winner of St. Louis (WC1)...

GM: Surgery Harvey's call

Cutting elbows and pulling teeth. Paging Dr. Alderson. In an interview on WFAN꧑ on Tuesday, Mets general manager Sandy Alderson says the final call on whether phenom Matt Harvey willꦓ... 

The left strikes back

New Yorkers haven’t voted for a liberal Democratic mayor in nearly a quarter century. But if yesterday’s Quinnipiac poll is any clue, that may change this❀ year. A large swath...

The War Congress

ꦰ John Kerry and Chuck Hagel had it right on Syria yesterday. During televised testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Secretary of State Kerry asserted that Congress’ decision on a...

♈ Damascus and the dictators 

President Obama was supposed to be the smart one. Yet only now — after losing the support of our old friend, Britain — does it sꦯeem to be dawning on...

O-pen invite for genocidal tyrants ꦗ

The spectacle in Congress yesterday was both edifying and terri🍸fying. Convincing explanations for why America must take the lead in a military strike against Syria provided clear reminders that ours...

A-Team can carry Lhota

From the start, a running theme of the mayoral campaign was whether Mayor Bloomberg would endorse🔯 Christine Quinn or just quietly support her. The issue might soon be moot. Quinn...

Gals gone wild ജafter bust 🐽

A simple arrest yesterday turned into a sloppy smackdown after the arrested manꦇ’s teen girlfriend and her mom allegedly went blow-to-blow with cops collaring him. Police cuffed gr💮and-larceny suspect Nicholas...

 💎 Gals 🅺gone wild after bust

Rodman returns ﷺto North Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea — Former NBA star Dennis Rodman is in North Korea with plans 👍to hang out with authoritarian leader Kim Jong Un, have a good time and maybe...

Rand Paul concedes Obama is 'probably going to win' on Syria vote

WASHINGTON — One of President Obama’s fiercest adversaries conceded yesterday that Congr🐓ess will likely green-light his request to hit Syria with punitive airstrikes, in what would be a major victory...

𓆏  Vladimir Putin warns West on S🎃yria action 

NOV🦋O-OGARYOVO, Russia — President Vladimir Putin warned the West against taking๊ one-sided action in Syria but also said Russia "doesn't exclude" supporting a U.N. resolution on punitive military strikes if...

🌌 Assad mocks ‘weak’ Obama

 Bashar al-Assad taunted President Obama as a “weak” leader who is being dragged into the Syrian showdown by American hawks. Assad dissed Obama in an interview with⛦ the French newspaper...

McCain caught playinꦜg video poker during Senate hearing

𒐪 While the Senate talked about taking a big gamble in🐼 Syria, Sen. John McCain took time to place his bets on a video poker game. The hawkish Republican — who...

Weepy cop-kill apology

A thug who took part in the botched 2011 Brooklyn robbery that led to the dea🍬th of NYPD cop Peter Figoski — but avoided a life sentence by s🎀nitching —...

Death-plagued 'Zoo' kept drug toll from cops

A total of 19 hard-partying Electric Zoo at😼tendees were stricken at the Randall’s Island rave — a💃 fact organizers hid from the NYPD by concealing them in private ambulances and...

O✃hio kidnapper🀅 kills self in prison

He just couldn't face a millennium behind bars. Ariel Castro — the monster who held three women as his personal sex slaves 🔥for a decade in a Cleveland house —...

Dems blast mayoral front-runner Bill de Blasio's flip-flopping

ಞ Fellow Democrats pounded mayor෴al front-runner Bill de Blasio in a debate last night — just hours after a new poll showed his support among city voters soaring above the pivotal...

Gina Gershon's magical morph into fashion icon Versace

Here’s your first look at veteran actress Gina Gershon’s eye-popping transformation into Donatella Versace. Gershon, who normally sports dark hair, plays the world-renowned fashion queen in Lifetime’s upcoming 🀅movie, “House... 

Patrick Kennedy and wife expecting second child on Thanks🅠giving

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Former Rhode Island Congressman Patrick Kennedy and his wife, Amy, are expecting theirꦐ second child together, he said on Tuesday. Her due date is on Thanksgiving, and... 

🧸 London skyscraper accused of melting Jaguar

LONDON — Motorists may want to think twice about parkꦫing in front of the half-built London skyscraper known as the Walkie-Talkie. That's because the glare off the skin of the...

Connick 🍌in as ‘Idol’ judge; J.Lo returns 🐟

It’s finally official: Harry Connick Jr. and Jennifer Lopez are joining ♑“American Idol” as judges for the Fox show’s upcoming 13th season. While Connick’s name has been floated throughout the years...

Behind the scenes with new 'Downton' book

You’ve watched “Downton Abbey” on PBS — now read t♉he book. “Behind the Scenes at Dowton Abbey,” which chronicles the ITV/PBS series, will hit bookstores Oct. 29 (St. Martin’s Press). Written...

'True Blood' to bite the dust next summer

♕ "True Blood,” will end its run after the 2014 season next sum💛mer. Steadily declining ratings — Season 6 premiered to 4.5 million viewers, down 700,000 from last season — proved...

SF’s new🌸 old bridge opens

SAN FRANCISC🉐O — There was little fanfare, but the new, gleaming white, $6.4 billion eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opened to the public a🅷s vehicles began crossing...

'Forbes' branches into real estate

Forbes Media is using ties developed through journalism to enter the real-estate develop👍ment business. The company said it has a licensing agreement with Gꦏ2 Investment Group through its newly formed...

Exonerated but still not free to die ෴

A Long Is𒐪land man whose controversial child-molestation conviction was tossed two weeks ago has been diagnosed with terminal cancer and has less than a month to live, his lawyer said...

 Bloomberg biz empire lays down 🌟the ‘Law’

Bloomberg LP is folding Bloomberg Law into itsꦰ Bloomberg Bureau of National Affairs unit and is expected to lay off an undisclosed number of journalists as part of “rebranding.” BBNA was...

♐  Kin feud over $1M taxi♉ tag

A Brooklyn family is ­going to war over a dead hack’s $1.1 milli🍬on medallion. Abner Etienne, 78, died cash poor but with the pricy piece of metal last September —...

Lopez allies back Spitzer for comptrolle🍰r

Shunned by the💙 Democratic establishment, Eliot Spitzer has reached out to officials with checkered backgrounds to support his run for city comptroller — including two longtime allies of disgraced ex-Assemblym𓆉an...

Clark's leasing SoHo space

Clark’s🥃 is putting its best foot forward for its first Soho store. The 185-year-old shoe brand, which is also sold in many department stores, is leasing 7,600 square feet for...

🥂 Haim are one (Webster) Hall of 🐠a sister act 

 Experiencing a rapid rise to fame has plenty of benefits, and last night at Web𓆉ster Hall, the members of Haim were only too happy to admit that they have been..🔴.

Scott Stringer once voted AGAINST Megan's Law

Democratic comptroller candidate Scott Stringer voted against Megan’s Law — which created a state registry tꦓo track convicted sex fiends after their release from prison — when he was in...

♚ Adults in US, Japan get less shut-eye on work nights

𝓡 Adults in the United States and Japan get much less shut-eye on work nights than their counterparts in other industrialized nations, according to a study of sleep habits. Americans between... ღ

Hedgie out to counter Chinese Smithfi♛eld bid

Hedge-fuꦇnd activist Jeff Smith, looking to stop the largest Chinese takeover of a US company, said he’s making progress toward a meatier bid for pork producer Smithfieldಞ Foods than the...

 New NYPD 🐻💃Traffic pattern in Manhattan

♋ 𓄧 The NYPD’s Manhattan South Traffic Enforcement Division is being towed to a new spot at 469 Seventh Ave. at the southeast corner of West 36th Street. The 66,800 square-foot “parking”...

West😼wood air rights agreement

Public records reveal new details about Vivienne Westwood’s purchase of 14 E. 55th St. from Starwood for its new US headqua🎐rters and flagship store. The deal was first reporte🍸d in...

Murray survives 🎐Istomin to reꦍach US Open quarters

On a day when U.S. Open top seeds Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams weren’t challenged in the slightest, defending champion Andy Murray was tested by Uzbekistan’s Denis Ist𓂃o🎉min and his...

♛ ‘Comet’ on tail of Ross deal

Rival developers Gary Barnett of Extell Development and Related Cos.’s Steven Rosꦕs have com꧋pleted their swap of development sites, clearing the way for a great comet to descend on Times Square. In May, we...

 Bagels♔ and a roll: Serena chews up quarters opponent

From the booming ace that started last night’s U.S. O🎃pen quarterfinal to the victory pirouette that ended it, Serena Williams’ 6-0, 6-0 flattening of Carla Suarez Navarro✃ left no drama,...

Wacky win one of Yanks' best

This would’ve been one of the most unacceptable🧸 acceptable losses in recent Yankees memory. The sort of game you shrug off in June, or with a comfortable lead in September,...

 Hedge funds run by Icahn, Ac🥀kman proteges soar 🅺

Call it the battle of the mini-titans. Two new activist hedge funds — one run by a former Carl Icahn lieutenant and the other by one of B🍃ill Ackman’s former...

ꦆ Yankees erupt in eighth to rally past Chisox 𓄧

♕ Do the ups and downs of a fight for a postseason spot even out? In the end, the result will be the answer to that question, but in a three-day...

𒅌 Derek Jeter gets start at DH and gets two hits for Yankees

M♌anager Joe Girardi’s decision to use Derek Jeter as the DH for the second time in three games last night against the White Sox had nothing to do with Jeter’s... 

Mets likely to bring back Young in ಌoutfield next💜 year

 ATLANTA — Eric Young Jr. isn’t content,ౠ but for the first time in his career he can say he’s unburdened reporting to the ballpark each day. “It’s the first opportunity...

♚ ꦓ Stroller-slay ma details last day with tot

The heartbroken mom of the Brooklyn baby shot dead in his 🔯stroller opened up yesterday about her last day with him. Hours before 16-month-old Antiq Hennis was struck by a...

Torr🔴es, Mets lose pitchers’ duel to Braves

ATLANTA — Give this💝 man the Nobel Peace Prize. A day after Daisuke Matsuzaka put the Mets through three innings of torturous hell — and decimated his team’s bullpen in...

Fall's beautiful new dishes and buzziest restaurant openings

Forging ahead in Tribeca! Iron Chef Marc Forgione i🀅s a busy man this season. He recently opened Khe-Yo, a buzzy new Laotian restaurant, with chef Soulayphet Schwader (157 Duane St.;...

Yankees' Hughes demoted to bullpen; Huff takes spot

Phil Hughes has gone 10 starts✨ without a win. Now, he’s heading to the bullpen. Yankees manager Joe Girardi said Hughes’ spot in the rotation will be filled by left-hander...

꧅ SEC chief calls for ‘ex🤡change’

Wall Street watchdog Mary Jo White wants the major market exchanges to play nice. The Securities and Exchange Commission chief is holding a meeting next week with exchange bosses after... ♚

UFC's Rousey: 'Ultimate Fighter' reality show stint will be 'blow to me and my image'

The UFC is championing this season of its “Ultimate Fighter” reality show a♋s historic. It’ll be the first time females will compete for a six-figure contract with the mixed martial...