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Iran challenges Trump sanctions with launch of 'roaring missiles'
Iran’s leaders shot off their mouths — and their missiles — on Saturday in a direct challenge to President Trump, who had imposed new sanctions on Tehran a day earlier...
National Grid bumps up gas bills for city residents
More than a million National Grid gas customers in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island face three years of wallet-busting rate hikes starting Sunday. A National Grid home-heating customer in New...
Mom 'kicks out' son for voting Trump in school's mock election
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtlzPUtyBnI&t=1s A mom tossed her son from the house because he voted for Donald Trump in an elementary school mock election. "Get your suitcase," the unidentified Fresno, Texas mom says...
I think the Met's $95M van Gogh masterpiece is a fake
Vincent van Gogh purportedly regarded the pastoral scene of wheat, cypress trees and mountains as one of his “best” landscapes — but a journalist insists the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s...
How this forgotten journalist scored the 20th century's biggest scoop
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas 53 years ago this month. “Bulletins from Dallas,” a new book by longtime Post journalist Bill Sanderson, cracks open the legend of...
How a bathroom break could have doomed Flight MH370
If the captain hadn’t needed a bathroom break, there might be no mystery about Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. That’s the theory of aviation journalist Christine Negroni in “The Crash Detectives,”...
June Lockhart was America's greatest presidential groupie
Show-business legend June Lockhart, famed for playing Timmy’s mother on “Lassie” and Mrs. Robinson on the kitschy sci-fi show “Lost in Space,” has a lesser-known life as the all-time greatest...
How Nazi spies landed in the Hamptons for secret mission
Shortly after midnight on June 13, 1942, German navy Capt. Hans-Heinz Linder steered submarine U-202 into a sandbar 100 yards off Long Island. On deck, his crew lowered a big...
Con Ed's new meters tell how much gas, electric you use
Your Con Edison bill will get smarter and more detailed in the coming years as the utility invests $1.4 billion in new gas and electric meters that generate real-time data...
Mobster in witness protection details world's greatest heist
It was the score of several lifetimes — the Jan. 2, 1972, holdup of The Pierre. Eight men, armed and fearless, invaded the posh city hotel on a frigid morning...
Verizon is supposedly screwing its landline customers
Luddites who’ve stayed with Verizon’s old-fashioned phone service unwittingly help pay for everyone else’s Internet and mobile-phone hookups, a consumer advocacy group claims. The 2 million or so New York...
The odd parallels between Scalia and another Texas death conspiracy, JFK
Antonin Scalia’s death isn’t much of a puzzle. He was 79 years old and had heart disease. It’s no stretch to conclude he died in his sleep. But some people...
Scalia's death could void Supreme Court decisions
The loss of Justice Antonin Scalia will have an immediate impact on the Supreme Court. Votes that Scalia has cast but which have not yet been made public will be...
Con Edison wants you to pay more for electricity and gas
New Yorkers could face big hikes in their gas and electric bills. Con Edison filed a proposal with state regulators calling for residential electric bills to increase by 5.2 percent,...
Bills spike for NY residents who sign up for 'low-cost' electric plans
Companies that promise to lower New Yorkers’ electric bills are a rip-off, new government data shows. Electric bills spiked an average 14.7 percent for more than 1 million New York...
Cops investigate alleged sexual assault at Newark firehouse
New Jersey authorities are investigating an alleged sexual assault by a firefighter at a Newark fire station, it was reported Saturday. The alleged assault occurred Wednesday evening at a firehouse...
Did 'Saturday Night Live' purposely sabotage Trump?
This is what the protesters were worried about? Donald Trump’s much-hyped appearance on “Saturday Night Live” was light on Trump — and also light on laughs.
John Gotti killed mobster played by Joe Pesci in 'Goodfellas'
It was time for Tommy DeSimone to die. The mobster — famously portrayed by Joe Pesci in “Goodfellas” — killed two made men, tried to rape the wife of his...
Hillary has Roosevelt Island officials in the palm of her hand
Whatever Hillary wants, Hillary gets from the poobahs who oversee Roosevelt Island’s memorial to Franklin Roosevelt. Hillary Clinton will officially launch her campaign next Saturday with a big event at...
Saudi Arabia to buy nuclear bombs from Pakistan: report
Saudi Arabia will join the nuclear club by buying “off the shelf” atomic weapons from Pakistan, US officials told a London newspaper. The Saudis — who financed much of Pakistan’s...