Yankees start homestand with ugly loss to Twins

The Yankees returned to The Bronx on Friday night facing a punchless Twins team that had dropped six of seven. But after closing out a long road trip with wins in four of their last five games, the Yankees found a way to make Minnesota look like a powerhouse...

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Blaming the culture is no answer to mass shootings

Can we please stop holding the country hostage to crazy people? Every year a tiny number of mentally ill people go on horrific killing sprees. It just happened in California. (I won't name the person because I think the media attention lavished on these...

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C-O-M-P-E-T-I-O-N

Modal Trigger Ansun Sujoe, 13, of Fort Worth, TX (left) and Sriram Hathwar, 14, of Painted Post, NY, raise the championship trophy after being named co-champions of the National Spelling Bee on May 29. Photo: AP Photo A  draining, exhausting contest...

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Ballot sale at the Working Families Party

Will the Working Families Party prove itself to be just like the rest of New York's minor parties — a patronage mill masquerading as a principled alternative? We may find out today when party leaders gather in Albany to decide whether they will put...

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Election lawyer attempting to block Cuomo challenger

The gloves are off! An election lawyer supporting Gov. Cuomo's re-election will file a legal challenge to block little-known law professor Zephyr Teachout from challenging the Democratic incumbent on the Working Families Party ballot. Attorney Marty...

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Bike and switch

When then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg introduced his new initiative to promote bike-riding in the city, he was emphatic about what it meant for taxpayers. "Citi Bike won't require any city or federal tax subsidy to operate the system," he said. "I think...

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Killing the campuses: The intolerance menace

In a wide-ranging address at Harvard, former Mayor Bloomberg ranged from defending the right to build a mosque near Ground Zero to attacking efforts to ban federal public-health research on guns. But the core of his remarks, excerpted below, took on...

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The body-fat snake-oil racketeers

Like millions of other American parents, my husband and I received a warning letter from the Body Mass Index police last week. Our active, healthy 8th grade daughter is "very lean," according to her school-administered "Fitnessgram." The national student-body...

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Over the rainbow

It was a friend to an entire generation of kids, and if you're under 40, you can sing its theme song by heart. We're talking about "Reading Rainbow," a PBS show that debuted in 1983 and ran for 26 years. Narrated by Star Trek actor LeVar Burton, it...

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Honey, we shrunk the economy

When Brooklyn had its beloved Dodgers, residents coped with disappointment with this oft-repeated declaration: "Wait 'til next year!" Today's economists have their own version. Amid a five-year economic recovery that's never quite taken off, they say,...

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Red Bulls’ CONCACAF Champions League draw set

The Red Bulls may be struggling in MLS, but they're still headed to the 2014-15 CONCACAF Champions League. Wednesday night they found out the teams they will be facing in Group 3, drawn against Honduras' CD FAS and the winner of the Canadian Championship...

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Mom reunites with 4-year-old left who was stuck in Ukraine

A Queens mom was reunited on Wednesday with her 4-year-old son, who had been stuck in Ukraine for several months because of visa issues. Natalia Kuzmina, a 28-year-old computer programmer, got a green card to live in the United States after tying the...

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Daily Blotter

Manhattan A bank bandit made off with nearly $1,300 during a robbery Tuesday in Greenwich Village, cops said. The suspect passed a teller at the HSBC on West 14th Street, near Sixth Avenue, a note stating, "This is a robbery," sources said. The suspect,...

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An expert’s summer travel tips

'Tis the season. So, Travel + Leisure Editor-in-Chief Nancy Novogrod's tips: Hotels. Forget arguing with the desk clerk. Hotels respond to social media. Go on Twitter or whatever you go on and complain about your room. It works. Airlines. To arrive...

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Brad Pitt punched in the face on red carpet

LAPD takes the attacker into custodyPhoto: Splash News Brad Pitt was attacked while walking the red carpet by a man who looks like serial prankster Vitalii Sediuk. TMZ reports that a man jumped the crowd barriers set up outside of the...

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Mets offense does just enough to beat Pirates

Lamar Johnson can retire now as Mets hitting coach: The team is undefeated in his tenure. But that is more a function of the Mets bullpen than any nuggets Johnson might have imparted on the lineup in his debut Tuesday. Vic Black and Jenrry Mejia bailed...

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Lundqvist pulled as Rangers drop seesaw Game 5 to Canadiens

MONTREAL — With a berth in the Stanley Cup final on the line, the Rangers played like it was a beer-league game. And after a thrilling and heart-pounding 7-4 loss to the Canadiens in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference final on Tuesday night at the Bell...

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TSA check misses empty AK-47 clips in Yemeni man’s luggage

The TSA failed to spot two AK-47 assault rifle magazines stowed in the luggage of a suspicious Yemeni national who was preparing to fly back to his homeland from JFK Airport on a one-way ticket, sources said. Bassam Alkhanshli, 32, was busted as he...

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Dead-bat Yankees no match for Cardinals’ Lance Lynn

ST. LOUIS – Deadbeat dads provide more support than the Yankees gave David Phelps Tuesday night at Busch Stadium. Pitching in his hometown for the first time as a big leaguer, Phelps watched Kelly Johnson and Brian Roberts commit colossal errors...

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Sterling: NBA has no basis to take Clippers away

NEW YORK — Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling responded to the NBA's attempt to oust him on Tuesday, arguing that there is no basis for stripping him of his team because his racist statements were illegally recorded "during an inflamed lovers'...

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Sex lists aren’t just for LiLo — New Yorkers are keeping them too

It's the summer before Megan's senior year of college, and she and her three friends are hanging out around the picnic table on her back porch, having the "I can't believe we're about to graduate" talk. The conversation soon turns to sex, and the four...

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Forget pizza and subs — Midtown suits are lining up for veggies

Last year, Gary Roberts, 34, spent his lunch hours wolfing down slices of greasy pizza and beefy sub sandwiches. The only thing green about his typical meal was the cash that he used to pay for it, and he ran the risk of falling into a food coma after...

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AU-M-G! How to do Paris with kids

Paris has always been good to me — as a 15-year-old studying abroad, a college student, an expat journalist, while pregnant — but this was my very first trip with children. Mon dieu! The concept was daunting — Kaitlin is 9 and Braden is 10. The kids...

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Daily Blotter

The Bronx A man was shot with a BB gun in Fordham. The 42-year-old man was inside his car on East 182th Street, near Washington Avenue, Sunday at about 3:30 p.m., when an unknown assailant opened fire, breaking his car window and striking him once...

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Alter cockers hit the City of Lights

We first came to Paris in the '70s, when we were young and unblinking about the cost of things. What did it matter? It was all counted out in unfathomable francs and we were youthfully uninterested in mitigating the price of our enchantment. But then...

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Rubenstein’s Carlyle Group buys Texas Competitive debt

The collapse of a giant Texas utility is bringing out the inner vulture of private-equity mogul David Rubenstein. Rubenstein's Carlyle Group, through its Claren Road hedge fund, snapped up debt in Energy Future Holdings' Texas Competitive power plants...

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Underground booze slushies not as innocent as they look

Now that the weather has warmed up, Phrosties — a boozy slushie sold and delivered over social media — have become an under-the-radar hit in the city. But the frozen, sweet, technicolor hooch — which costs $10 a bottle — is "unregulated," according...

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Rangel has spent more than 200K fighting congressional censure

Rep. Charles Rangel is still fighting his long court battle to have his congressional censure overturned. He's spent more than $200,000 to date — and has been filing legal papers through a lawyer who was disqualified from the case, The Post has learned....

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Rachesky’s game puts satellite company sale in jeopardy

Hedge-fund manager Mark Rachesky is playing another game of "The Price is Right," the Loral edition. Rachesky's MHR Fund Management, which owns a controlling stake in Loral Space & Communications, put the New York satellite company on the block...

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St. Louis the hero as Rangers win OT thriller, take 3-1 lead

With all the noise, all the verbal jousting, all the distractions, there happened to be a very important game on the ice at the Garden on Sunday night. And yet the Canadiens and Rangers played for the majority of the evening as if their minds were elsewhere,...

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