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Painting that was passed off as Mark Rothko artwork. SOMETIMES you don’t get what you paid for. A Malibu, Calif., art collecting-couple slapped a shuttered Manhattan gallery and its former president with a multimillion-dollar racketeering lawsuit Wednesday, claiming they were duped in a massive art fraud. Martin and Sharleen Cohen said they were swindled into buying a pair of fake ...

The Thanksgiving menu for the Foley family features turkey and tears — of joy. Jack Foley, a redheaded tyke born with just half a heart, will celebrate with the clan mere weeks after his third reconstructive heart surgery at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York-Presbyterian. “When our family sits down to Thanksgiving dinner and says grace and what we ...

kimkardashian via Instagram Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s daughter North West has been compared to Prince George. Kanye West may be off his wanna-be-royal rocker, comparing his 4-month-old daughter with Kim Kardashian to baby Prince George, son of Prince William and Kate Middleton. During a sweeping promotion blitz for his “Yeezus” tour, the rapper told radio station Power 105 that ...

The Thanksgiving menu for the Foley family features turkey and tears — of joy. Jack Foley, a redheaded tyke born with just half a heart, will celebrate with the clan mere weeks after his third reconstructive heart surgery at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York-Presbyterian. “When our family sits down to Thanksgiving dinner and says grace and what we ...

Ben Miller/Getty/Getty Images Francesco Raccosta, who disappeared in March 2012, was severely beaten before being thrown to a drove of pigs and eaten alive. A high-ranking Italian mafia boss was brutally murdered by a rival clan who fed him alive to pigs, police said. Francesco Raccosta, who vanished without a trace from his home in Calabria in March 2012, is ...

Joel Auerbach/Getty Images Rick Nash (r.) scores the third goal of the game that helps the Rangers build what ends up as an insurmountable 3-0 lead in a 5-2 win in Florida Wednesday. RANGERS 5, PANTHERS 2 SUNRISE, Fla. – Michael Del Zotto was forced to watch the Rangers’ ugly 5-2 win over the Panthers Wednesday night from the BB&T ...

You are looking at a stunning photo of the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of the closest dwarf galaxies to the Milky Way. Captured by the ESO’s Very Large Telescope (points for creativity), the photo shows an active region of stellar birth on the right, and the remnants of explosive stellar death — supernova — on the left. The VLT is the ...

For months, Sony and Microsoft fanboys have lined up to hurl insults at each other over which console would pack more hardware, hit higher performance targets, or prove a better design for the next generation. With the two consoles launched, the game-to-game comparisons have mostly come out a wash, with a slight edge for the PS4. But there’ve still been ...

Uncredited/ASSOCIATED PRESS Sotheby’s shows a page from a handwritten manuscript of Bruce Springsteen’s 1975 hit ‘Born to Run’ that is expected to go for between $ 70,000 to $ 100,000. A handwritten working manuscript of Bruce Springsteen’s 1975 hit “Born to Run” will be offered at auction on Dec. 5 in New York. Sotheby’s said Wednesday the presale estimate is ...

Philippe Bigard/Getty Images/OJO Images RF A complex regulatory circuit created from different genes and implanted in fat mice caused them to lose weight, and researchers say something similar could help severely overweight people slim down without surgery. Could a new implant turn the tide of global obesity? Scientists at ETH-Zurich have created a complex circuit of human genes that can ...