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Smashed Snooki booked

Smashed Snooki booked

Snooki won't disappoint this season. America's beloved pint-sized troublemaker Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi, the breakout star of MTV's hit reality show "Jersey Shore," was arrested for disorderly conduct in her Seaside Heights roaming...  Read Full Story

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    LONDON — One of Britain’s most notorious murderers is suing prison authorities for failing to protect him after his throat was slashed by another...   7:59 AM

  • More than 800 dead in Pakistan floods, government official says

    NOWSHERA, Pakistan — Flooding in Pakistan has killed more than 800 people in a week, a government official said Saturday as rescuers struggled to reach...   7:59 AM

  • 274 people injured in Iran earthquake

    TEHRAN, July 31 - An earthquake in northeastern Iran injured 274 people on Friday, the semi-official ILNA news agency reported, and a slightly stronger...   6:45 AM

  • Bill Clinton ignites hubbub in Rhinebeck on eve of Chelsea's wedding

    Bill Clinton ignites hubbub in Rhinebeck on eve of Chelsea's wedding

    Bill's ready to party! On the eve of Chelsea Clinton's lavish wedding, father of the bride Bill Clinton got the celebration started, showing up unexpectedly in the center of Rhinebeck and basking in rock-star treatment from starry-eyed residents...   10:58 AM

  • Mets owner Wilpon sued by wife of ex-employee over Madoff investments

    Mets owner Wilpon sued by wife of ex-employee over Madoff investments

    It's another beanball from Bernie. Mets owner Fred Wilpon has been sued by the wife of a former employee who claims that his firm's reckless investments with Bernie Madoff wiped out their 401(k) retirement account. Elyse Goldweber, the wife...   6:14 AM

  • Rick man: I was in love

    Rick man: I was in love

    That's romance for ya! Rick Pitino's equipment manager fell head over heels for an accused extortionist while ferrying her to Cincinnati to abort his boss' love child, the assistant fondly recalled yesterday before a jury in a Louisville...   6:45 AM

  • Park rapist a West Side terror: DA

    The man arrested for raping a Russian tourist in Riverside Park is a French-born TV reporter charged wit terrorizing women on the Upper West Side for...   7:44 AM

  • Bridge tragedy

    Bridge tragedy

    A pregnant mom watched in horror yesterday as her 6-year-old son was mowed down and killed by an MTA tow truck in East Harlem as they headed to swim lessons. "I will never recover from the death of my son, but I do want justice," a devastated...   6:40 AM

  • Obama: It's the end for Rangel

    Obama: It's the end for Rangel

    If Rep. Charles Rangel was looking for support from President Obama, he'd better not get his hopes up. Obama last night called the ethics charges against Rangel "very troubling" and sharply noted that the embattled Harlem Democrat is "at the end...   8:34 AM

  • Shel: We'll hack $50M 'hedge' tax

    ALBANY -- Insiders said a $50 million "hedge fund" tax was all but dead yesterday after Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver told The Post there was "a...   2:03 AM

  • New York pols' loud 9/11 war

    The House's rejection of a bill that would have provided up to $7.4 billion in aid to people sickened by World Trade Center dust triggered a furious...   8:58 AM

  • BP spill-binder

    The worst of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill may have passed and it's time for a "scale-back" of cleanup efforts, BP's incoming boss said yesterday while...   6:45 AM

  • Afghan mayhem

    Afghan mayhem

    KABUL, Afghanistan -- NATO announced yesterday that six more US troops have died in Afghanistan, bringing the death toll for July to at least 66 and surpassing the previous month's record as the deadliest for American forces in the nearly 9-year-old...   8:37 AM

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Bill Clinton ignites hubbub in Rhinebeck on eve of Chelsea's wedding

Bill Clinton ignites hubbub in Rhinebeck on eve of Chelsea's wedding

Bill's ready to party! On the eve of Chelsea Clinton's lavish...  

Granddad slay baffles cops

Granddad slay baffles cops

Police yesterday offered a $12,000 reward for information on the...  

Obama: It's the end for Rangel

Obama: It's the end for Rangel

If Rep. Charles Rangel was looking for support from President...  

Mets owner Wilpon sued by wife of ex-employee over Madoff investments

Mets owner Wilpon sued by wife of ex-employee over Madoff investments

It's another beanball from Bernie. Mets owner Fred Wilpon has...  

Saggy pants are butt-ugly but legal: judge

Saggy pants are butt-ugly but legal: judge

You have the right to look ridiculous. A Bronx judge has...  

SI massacre clues up in smoke

SI massacre clues up in smoke

Cops had hoped that the diary of the monster mom who killed her...  

Weird But True

A 33-year-old Modesto, Calif., meth-possession suspect somehow set off the sprinkler system throughout police headquarters...  

NYPD Blotter

Bronx A man was sprayed in the face with bleach and stabbed by several thugs during a botched robbery in Baychester,...  

Business

Waiting for 2012

Waiting for 2012

Facebook isn't yet ready to deactivate its own privacy controls....   4:24 AM

Crime

Nightmare of a fiery doom (video)

Nightmare of a fiery doom (video)

Two human fireballs burst out a door and one collapses to the...  

US News

Rick man: I was in love

Rick man: I was in love

That's romance for ya! Rick Pitino's equipment manager fell...   6:45 AM

World News

Afghan mayhem

Afghan mayhem

KABUL, Afghanistan -- NATO announced yesterday that six more US...   8:37 AM

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Prez wields sludge hammer

Prez wields sludge hammer

WASHINGTON -- In a prime-time speech last night from the Oval...  

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