Andy Soltis
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Amanda Knox: I'll be a fugitive
January 31, 2014 | 10:07pmAmanda Knox risks extradition to Italy if she leaves the United States following her new murder conviction by an appeals court in Florence. In the US, many who followed the...
Amanda Knox defiant after she's found guilty of murder again
January 30, 2014 | 4:25pmAmerican Amanda Knox was convicted again Thursday of murdering her roommate in Italy seven years ago, but said authorities will have to pull her “kicking and screaming” back into that...
ScarJo quits Oxfam over Israel critics
January 30, 2014 | 9:39amScarlett Johansson quit as celebrity ambassador of an international charity in a political dispute over her work for an Israeli company. Oxfam accepted her resignation Thursday, saying her role in...
Milder weather in the forecast for Super Bowl Sunday
January 30, 2014 | 12:29amThe dreaded Ice Bowl of 2014 is not going to happen. “When you look at all the disaster scenarios that were thrown out there in the weeks before the Super...
Even the seals want out of third polar vortex snap
January 29, 2014 | 3:18amGet me back to warmer waters — like in the Arctic Circle! This 3-foot seal seemed to be pleading for an end to the polar vortex on Tuesday morning as...
Fleeing Concordia captain refused to return to doomed ship
January 28, 2014 | 5:45pm“Captain Coward” twice refused to be taken back to the shipwrecked Costa Concordia after escaping to dry land, an Italian court was told Tuesday. Francesco Schettino claims he accidentally fell...
Woman gets pregnant thanks to a chicken egg yolk
January 28, 2014 | 2:45pmFour-year-old Libby and her month-old sister Connie were born thanks to an egg yolk. Their parents, Mark and Suzanne Harper, first tried to start a family right after they got...
Third polar vortex hits with wind chills as low as -15 degrees
January 28, 2014 | 1:30amFor the third time this month, a blast of frigid air will hit the city, giving us temperatures as low as 9 degrees Tuesday — which, thanks to strong winds,...
Civil war takes a toll on Syria's ancient sites
January 28, 2014 | 12:53amBefore-and-after photos reveal the horrific toll that three years of civil war have taken on Syria. The Umayyad Mosque in Aleppo was regarded as a feat of Syrian architecture when...
Pope John Paul II relics stolen from Italian church
January 28, 2014 | 12:41amAbout 50 Italian policemen with sniffer dogs searched the area around a tiny mountain church for a religious relic stained with the late Pope John Paul II’s blood — amid...
Spurned French first lady's '$3M rampage'
January 24, 2014 | 2:33amFrance’s first lady went on a “rampage,” smashing more than $3 million worth of national treasures at the Élysée Palace, when she learned President François Hollande was sneaking out for...
Notorious hacker picked up in Romania
January 23, 2014 | 4:17amThe world’s most notorious hacker was a hack. A former cabdriver, Marcel Lazarus Lehel — known as Guccifer — was busted in his Romanian village Wednesday with the help of...
Ranks of de Blasio ‘do nothing’ paid staffers grow
January 22, 2014 | 3:54amMayor de Blasio’s nonworking staffers are still enjoying themselves at city taxpayers’ expense — and their ranks seem to be growing. A day after The Post revealed on Tuesday that...
Teacher charged with 'inappropriate behavior' causes havoc at school
January 21, 2014 | 3:02pmA Staten Island teacher accused of improperly touching a student waged a war against whistle-blowing colleagues by filing more than a dozen fabricated complaints of sexual and other misconduct, the...
Ray Kelly on hand as Christie gets warm welcome at Fla. fundraiser
January 21, 2014 | 4:22amFormer Police Commissioner Ray Kelly was among prominent figures attending Gov. Chris Christie’s first out-of-state political foray since Bridgegate erupted. Kelly joined along with former General Electric CEO Jack Welch...
French first lady negotiating separation after president picks actress
January 20, 2014 | 1:02pmFrance’s first lady has lost the love triangle battle with President Francois Hollande’s new girlfriend and Hollande is “in negotiations, including legal ones” to end their nine-year relationship, it was...
Bridgegate makes me 'readier' to be president: Christie
January 20, 2014 | 10:37amNew Jersey Gov. Chris Christie shrugged off Bridgegate and claimed he is “readier” to become president than ever before. In his first interview since the lane-closing scandal broke in full...
Hollande's past, present & future gals snapped in pic
January 17, 2014 | 12:25pmA photo surfaced Friday showing French President François Hollande with the three women in his life — his girlfriend, his future lover and his old flame. It was taken during...
Hollande wanted girlfriend to sign split announcement in hospital
January 17, 2014 | 5:47amFrench President François Hollande was so eager to be with his scrumptious side dish, actress Julie Gayet, that he plotted to get his live-in girlfriend to sign an announcement of...
‘Duck Dynasty’ returns to lower ratings after anti-gay remarks
January 17, 2014 | 4:21am“Duck Dynasty” laid an egg. Viewership of the hit A&E reality show’s fifth-season premiere was down 28 percent from the previous season’s. It was the first new “Dynasty” since comments...