Fungus making it harder for farmers to grow coffee beans

FRAIJANES, Guatemala — For years, Hernan Argueta's small plot of coffee plants seemed immune to the fungus spreading elsewhere in Central America. The airborne disease that strikes coffee plants, flecking their leaves with spots and causing them to wither...

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Angry dad throws rocks at street-racing Lamborghini

Warning: Strong Language OK, throwing rocks at cars is bad … but so is street-racing. An outraged dad used his stone fist to hit back at a leadfoot Lamborghini driver who was apparently speeding his $400,000 Aventador supercar up and down a suburban...

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Decades-old Apollo training photos surface

Modal Trigger This 1970 image provided by NASA shows Apollo 14 astronauts Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell and Stuart Roost and an unidentified man training with a Modularized Equipment Transporter on the Big Island of Hawaii. AP ...

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Flights grounded as Indonesian volcano erupts

Some flights between Australia and southeast Asia and all domestic flights operating out of Darwin airport in the country's north were canceled on Saturday after the eruption of Sangeang Api in Indonesia's south produced a large cloud of ash. International...

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Man shot dead after argument on Brooklyn street

Cops are looking for a suspect wanted for killing a man after an argument in Brooklyn Thursday night. Police say Todd Wilks, 37, was shot to death in front of 268 Albany Ave. about 7:30 p.m. after getting into an argument with his shooter. Wilks was...

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Angry dad throws rocks at street-racing Lamborghini

Warning: Strong Language OK, throwing rocks at cars is bad … but so is street-racing. An outraged dad used his stone fist to hit back at a leadfoot Lamborghini driver who was apparently speeding his $400,000 Aventador supercar up and down a suburban...

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Decades-old Apollo training photos surface

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Fungus making it harder for farmers to grow coffee beans

FRAIJANES, Guatemala — For years, Hernan Argueta's small plot of coffee plants seemed immune to the fungus spreading elsewhere in Central America. The airborne disease that strikes coffee plants, flecking their leaves with spots and causing them to wither...

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Flights grounded as Indonesian volcano erupts

Some flights between Australia and southeast Asia and all domestic flights operating out of Darwin airport in the country's north were canceled on Saturday after the eruption of Sangeang Api in Indonesia's south produced a large cloud of ash. International...

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Man shot dead after argument on Brooklyn street

Cops are looking for a suspect wanted for killing a man after an argument in Brooklyn Thursday night. Police say Todd Wilks, 37, was shot to death in front of 268 Albany Ave. about 7:30 p.m. after getting into an argument with his shooter. Wilks was...

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Drugs, prostitution will add $16.7B to Britain’s GDP

LONDON — Sex please — we're British. Britain's Office of National Statistics said prostitution and the import, manufacture and consumption of illegal drugs will be counted when making the government's quarterly calculations of gross domestic product....

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Hillary Clinton accuses Benghazi critics of ‘flat-out deceit’

WASHINGTON – Hillary Clinton is firing a preemptive blast at her fiercest critics on the Benghazi issue, accusing them of "flat-out deceit" in her forthcoming book. Moving to confront a lingering issue that is certain to draw attacks in any 2016 presidential...

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Legendary DJ dies awaiting trial on child sex charges

NEWARK, NJ — Dave Herman, a pioneering New York City radio personality who was in a New Jersey jail awaiting trial on charges in a child sex sting, died Thursday. He was 78. Herman died at University Hospital in Newark, attorney Marc Agnifilo said....

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Law professor running against Cuomo

A liberal activist critical of Democratic Gov. Cuomo has launched a campaign website in a bid to run against him on the Working Families Party line. Fordham law professor Zephyr Teachout said she is "running for governor because New Yorkers need an...

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Google takes requests to scrub search results

Google is starting to accept requests from Europeans who want to erase unflattering information from the results produced by the world's dominant search engine. The demands can be submitted on a Web page that Google opened late Thursday in response...

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Rand musical more pain than ‘Anthem’

Once in a blue moon comes a show so laughably bad, it's almost enjoyable — almost. Enter "The Anthem." Loosely based on Ayn Rand's 1938 sci-fi novella "Anthem," this inept musical stars Randy Jones (the original cowboy from Village People) and has been...

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Plug pulled on ‘Broadway 4D’

You know what the D in "Broadway 4D" stands for? Dead. The plug's been pulled on this ambitious project, conceived by such prominent showbiz figures as "X-Men" director Bryan Singer, former CBS executive Jeff Sagansky and Robert Kory, a Beverly Hills...

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Falcone to FCC: ‘Take action’ to reverse hedge fund losses

Billionaire investor Phil Falcone is turning up the heat on Uncle Sam. Falcone, whose Harbinger Capital hedge fund owns the bankrupt LightSquared, a high-speed wireless start-up, is asking the Federal Communications Commission to take "immediate" action...

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Demise of magazine wholesaler claims 6,000 jobs

About 6,000 people are about to be tossed out of work now that the nation's No. 2 magazine wholesaler — Source Interlink Distribution — will be closing its doors. "While we have made significant progress in finding mutually agreeable solutions with...

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Rockers aid cancer colleague

Downtown artists and musicians are heading to the Bowery Ballroom for a Sunday benefit for Simon Scott, a popular local artist and rocker who is trying to beat cancer. Hosted by comedian Dave Hill, the benefit will feature more than a dozen New York...

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Google’s diversity data reveals mostly white male workforce

SAN JOSE, Calif. — In a groundbreaking disclosure, Google revealed how very white and male its workforce is — just 2 percent of its Googlers are black, 3 percent are Hispanic, and 30 percent are women. The search giant said Wednesday that the transparency...

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Thugs slug elderly woman, steal purse in broad daylight

Two heartless thieves assaulted an elderly woman in a purse-snatch attack in Queens—and it was all caught on video surveillance, cops said. The suspects briskly walked up behind the 73-year-old victim Tuesday at 3:20 p.m. on 153rd Street and 88th Avenue...

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9/11 Museum gift shop yanks USA-shaped cheese platter

The 9/11 Museum yanked a USA-shaped cheese platter — which reminds snackers where planes struck nearly 13 years ago — from shelves of its tact-challenged gift store. The National September 11 Memorial Museum's gift shop has heavily criticized since...

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GDP contracts after US economy is battered by harsh winter

The US economy was battered even more than first suspected by the harsh winter, actually shrinking from January through March. But economists are confident the contraction was temporary. The economy contracted at an annual rate of 1 percent in the first...

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Dish Network to accept bitcoin payments

Dish Network Corp. says it will become the largest company yet to accept payment in bitcoin. The satellite-TV company says it will begin accepting the digital coins through payment processor Coinbase by September. Coinbase will instantly convert the...

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Father who drowned toddler sentenced to life in prison

A callous New Jersey father was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for killing his 2-year-old daughter by throwing her into a creek while she was strapped in a car seat. Arthur Morgan III was slammed by the judge, who said the killer dad would be...

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Troubled Iraq vet found on city bus loaded with guns

A troubled Iraq war veteran who believed he was trying to protect Americans from a bloody civil war was busted after riding a Brooklyn bus while carrying a 12-gauge shotgun, machete and an array of ammo, law-enforcement sources said. Christopher Palumbo,...

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Commercial pilot had 62 bags of cocaine in his stomach

A commercial airline pilot is recovering in hospital after swallowing 62 bags of cocaine on a flight only to have one break inside his stomach forcing him to turn himself in. Court documents obtained by Click2 Houston state that Stanley Rafael Hill,...

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Google’s diversity data reveals mostly white male workforce

SAN JOSE, Calif. — In a groundbreaking disclosure, Google revealed how very white and male its workforce is — just 2 percent of its Googlers are black, 3 percent are Hispanic, and 30 percent are women. The search giant said Wednesday that the transparency...

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Boston Police hunting for the ‘Boston Tickler’

Police are hunting a man who breaks into the homes of students and watches them sleep or tickles their feet. There have been at least 10 confirmed sightings of a creepy intruder dubbed the Boston Tickler, whom many in the neighborhood had long believed...

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Batmobile discovered in alley

Modal Trigger Li Weilei's 2 ton, $11,000 Batmobile model was found by a police officer in a Shanghaie alley. Europics Get happy with Banana Republic's new Marimekko collection 29 Photos Get an inside look...

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Serena, Venus beaten within hours of each other at French Open

PARIS  — Serena Williams lost in the second round of the French Open on Wednesday, her earliest exit at a major tournament since falling in the first round at Roland Garros two years ago. Williams, the defending French Open champion and a 17-time...

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Politicians propose gun violence restraining order

GOLETA, Calif. — Two California Assembly members proposed legislation that would create a gun violence restraining order that could be sought from a judge by law enforcement at the request of family members and friends. "When someone is in crisis, the...

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Maya Angelou dead at 86

Maya Angelou dead at 86 | New York Post Sign in / Register See something newsworthy?Tell us about it!or email tips@nypost.com(all tips will be submitted anonymously) May 28, 2014 | 9:37amWINSTON-SALEM, NC — Author...

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Amazon breaks silence in contract dispute with Hachette

Amazon is digging in for a long battle with Hachette over a contract dispute that led the online retailer to curtail sales of some of the publisher's books. In a statement on Tuesday, Amazon said Hachette, a unit of French media company Lagardere SCA,...

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Cooper Union administrators hit with suit for instituting tuition

Cooper Union alumni slapped the school with a lawsuit Tuesday over the East Village institution's controversial decision to charge tuition — while calling out school officials for approving extravagant expenses like personal bodyguards and $10,000 blinds...

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