Stephen Hawking’s universe

Stephen Hawking is famous for insisting that the strongest arguments are based on reason while the weakest are based on authority. So it's curious to see the eminent physicist using his authority as a physicist to elevate politics over free inquiry by...

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Hefner struggles as Mets fall to White Sox

It took just one batter for Jeremy Hefner to dim the afterglow of Matt Harvey's masterpiece start, just one hitter for him to allow a home run and remind everyone just how big the gap is between Harvey and the rest of the Mets' rotation. The winless...

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Can dirty Harry clean up his image?

It's been eight months since the infamous strip billiards incident when the world (almost) got to see Prince Harry's crown jewels as he partied in the nude with a bevy of Las Vegas beauties in his VIP suite at the Wynn. Today marks the playboy prince's...

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The Benghazi beat

In the run-up to yesterday's House hearings on Benghazi, we were struck by a column by The New York Times' public editor. It was written in response to readers angry that the paper was not giving the Benghazi hearings the coverage they merited. After...

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Supply-side Schumer

Don't look now, but New York's senior senator has just endorsed a key proposition of supply-side economics: That high tax rates influence behavior, and that in turn has consequences for tax revenues. As The Post recently reported, Schumer has been talking...

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Marriott East readers’ favorite for landmark

The Marriott East Hotel at 525 Lexington Ave. is the East Midtown building our readers would most like to see named a landmark. We invited readers a few weeks ago to weigh in with their views of the eight properties the Landmarks Preservation Commission...

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Chuck eyes re-zone bonds

Steve Cuozzo REALTY CHECK Joining the melee over East Midtown rezoning, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) will propose today that City Hall issue bonds to pay for future transit and infrastructure improvements in the Grand Central district. Schumer...

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Courtroom drama for Aereo and CBS

Barry Diller's Aereo is playing offense in its battle with CBS boss Les Moonves. Just days after Moonves threatened to sue the TV startup every time it expands into a new market, Aereo slapped CBS with a lawsuit in a pre-emptive strike. Yesterday,...

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The e-hail it ain’t

A judge yesterday refused to lift an order that slammed the brakes on the Big Apple's controversial pilot program for hailing yellow cabs using smartphone apps. Appellate judge Helen Freedman issued the temporary restraining order blocking apps such...

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Home wreckers

Yennifer Olortiga's American dream of homeownership turned into a foreclosure nightmare when she tried to modify her mortgage two years ago. The Staten Island mom told The Post that she had been paying her Bank of America mortgage for six years but...

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Mother of Goddess

Linda Stasi Dear Mom, Love CherMonday night at 10 on Lifetime There are three striking things in "Dear Mom, Love Cher," the singer's Lifetime documentary tribute to her mom, Georgia Holt. The first is how incredibly gorgeous Holt is. The...

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NY’s Post-Mike crime rate: Will it start shooting up?

The Issue: How the mayoral election will affect crime, since many candidates want to curb stop-and-frisk. *** Mayor Bloomberg's strong resolve to keep stop-and-frisk and block the inclusion of an IG to look over the NYPD's intelligence-gathering is...

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DA is no Tebow

The Post's editorial "Tebow Time for The Bronx" repeats the rumor of a plan by unnamed "political leaders" to "nudge" me from office, and compares me to the Jet's Tim Tebow, who made very few offensive plays last year. Since January we announced a political...

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Sightings . . .

Anne Hathaway shopping for mod clothes with husband Adam Shulman at Blue & Creme on the Bowery . . . JOHN Legend opening the Yahoo on the Road tour, which also featured DJ Jonny Famous . . . BRITISH DJ Fatboy Slim at the private opening of "Lost...

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Rockers dress for jazz

It was a toss-up which was the more incongruous sight at Jazz at Lincoln Center's benefit gala the other night: Crosby, Stills and Nash wearing suits and ties as they played with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, or Glenn Close parading with Wynton...

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Fury for early headline

DC-based Bloomberg News executive editor Dan Moss flew to Prague to rage against two editors who mistakenly posted a headline before a story's embargo time. We're told Prague-based Jeffery Donovan and Alan Crosby posted a headline Thursday about the...

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The Oprah network

Mayor Bloomberg fought for a few months to keep his ill-fated schools chancellor Cathie Black in office. But he fought for two years to keep internal e-mails about her hidden. And boy is it clear why. Black was a publishing exec with no experience...

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Obama’s thin red line

Bashar al-Assad has more lives than a cat. Maybe that's because the Syrian dictator isn't as impressed as our press corps by a Harvard Law degree. Assad has long been warned by the Obama administration that the full wrath of the United States would...

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From Fidel, with love

In the category of dubious distinctions, a Queens-born citizen has just achieved another first: Joanne Chesimard has just become the first woman to make the FBI's list of Most Wanted Terrorists. The FBI made the announcement during a press conference...

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Mets top Braves in 10th inning

By MIKE PUMA ATLANTA - Who knew the Mets had a little Houdini in them? Almost certain to lose on several occasions in Friday's late innings, manager Terry Collins' crew somehow kept escaping until finally delivering the Braves a knockout blow. Ruben...

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Officials: Israel launches airstrike into Syria

Israel launched an airstrike into Syria, apparently targeting a suspected weapons site, US officials said Friday night. The strike occurred overnight Thursday into Friday, the officials told The Associated Press. It did not appear that a chemical weapons...

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Change in store at Sears

The best thing about Sears' loyalty card and Internet business: It makes it easier to get rid of stores. Hedge-fund billionaire Eddie Lampert, who took over Sears as CEO in February, hinted that he's not finished unloading Sears and Kmart stores, even...

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Buffett’s pay plan

Warren Buffett, chairman and chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway, said his eventual successor would probably be paid more than the $100,000 he is to run the company. "I've written a memo to the board in terms of how they should design a pay...

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‘Trading’ places

Todd Newman, the stock trader who helped take down hedge-fund firm Diamondback Capital Management with a multimillion dollar insider-trading scheme, was sentenced yesterday to 4 1/2 years in prison. The feds had requested up to 6 1/2 years. Newman,...

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Cohen vows to clean up SAC

Sac Capital's Steve Cohen told investors yesterday he is determined to clean up the $14 billion hedge fund that has seen five former employees either plead guilty or confess to insider trading. Cohen, in a May 2 letter to investors — a copy of which...

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Just sold!

Manhattan MIDTOWN WEST $3,550,000 146 W. 57th St. Two-bedroom, 2 1/2-bath condo, 1,489 square feet, with floor-to-ceiling windows, Central Park views and master suite with marble bath and six-closet dressing area; building features a doorman and pool....

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Chris Kelly of rap duo Kris Kross dead: authorities

WireImage Chris Kelly (left) and Chris Smith found success in the early 1990s with the kid rap duo Kris Kross. ATLANTA — Chris Kelly, half of the 1990s kid rap duo Kris Kross who made one of the decade's most memorable songs with the frenetic "Jump,"...

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One of a Kind

Back in 1997, Richard Kind, now co-starring in Clifford Odets' "The Big Knife" at the American Airlines Theatre, had a plan. He was going to propose to his then-girlfriend Dana Stanley, and he was going to bank on the number eight. It's his good-luck...

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Ichiro in there

Jennifer Gould Keil GIMME SHELTER Yankees outfielder Ichiro Suzuki has found a new home base. Suzuki is renting the 111 Central Park North apartment that both Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez also took a look at when it was recently on the market....

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Burger Wars!

It's on. The ultimate battle royale with cheese. More than 50 new burger joints are set to open in the city this year, with new chains, like California's Fatburger and Umami Burger, storming the city and old favorites, like Burger Joint and Shake Shack,...

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Judge tells rape, stabbing victim to seek counseling as her attacker and husband of her child is sentenced

A Queens judge today scolded an unrepentant brute who on two occasions raped and stabbed the mother of his child — and he offered some sobering advice for the victim, who pleaded for leniency toward her cruel attacker. "You don't have anything to say?"...

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Boston bombing suspect's widow wants body released

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The widow of one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects will ask the Massachusetts medical examiner to release his body to his family, her attorney said Tuesday. Attorney Amato DeLuca said in a statement that Katherine Russell wants...

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Alleged puppy 'killer' denies throwing pooch six floors to its death

A brutal coward threw his girlfriend's six-month-old dachshund's out of their sixth story window -- to its death -- after an argument in their West 129th Street apartment, officials said today. "I don't care about the dog," Keith Rogers, a 27-year-old...

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$75,000 bail for ex-con who allegedly smashed Four Seasons lobby showcase & nabbed jewelry

A violent ex-con with a thing for bling is being held on $75,000 bail for allegedly smashing a glass showcase in the lobby of the Four Seasons hotel in February and running off with $170,000 in jewelry. In addition to the alleged smash-and-grab at the...

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