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• Police question scientist in Miami airport scare

  MIAMI — A scientist has been detained at the Miami International Airport after screeners spotted a metal canister in his luggage that looked like a...   8:52 AM

• 'Crocodile Dundee' cleared to return to US despite Australian tax woes

  SYDNEY — Actor Paul Hogan, star of the “Crocodile Dundee” movie trilogy, has been cleared to return home to the United States after he was barred last...   9:49 AM
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  Hurricane Earl barrels toward Long Island

  Hamptonites thought they'd be preparing for the end of summer -- instead, they're preparing for the end of the world. Hurricane hysteria gripped the East End yesterday as Hurricane Earl barreled up the coast and threatened to crash the Labor Day...   9:03 AM
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  Outrage over Charger chick's whining over crushed vehicle

  Give us a brake! A whining New Jersey woman's gripe that her precious sports car was destroyed by a suicidal man's 40-story fall triggered a venomous outpouring from his friends, neighbors and fellow New Yorkers yesterday. "The damage to the...   5:31 AM
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  State Senate candidate arrested for stalking ex on road: cops

  A Long Island state Senate candidate was nabbed in a terrifying road-rage incident targeting his ex-girlfriend -- repeatedly trying to run her off the road as she traveled with a new beau, authorities said. Yet despite spending a night in jail,...   11:07 AM
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  'Hamas' mosque funder

  An Egyptian-born businessman who lives on Long Island — and who once gave thousands of dollars to a Hamas front group — is a major investor in the proposed mosque near Ground Zero, it was reported last night, in the first disclosure of the money...   10:10 AM

• Gang war behind 'toon-kid shooting

  An escalating turf war between bloodthirsty street gangs nearly claimed the life of a 10-year-old Brooklyn boy who was hit by a bullet that flew...   9:57 AM
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  Brooklyn patrol shot

  Four members of a Jewish volunteer patrol were shot during a tussle with a suspected pervert in Brooklyn last night, police said. "I tackled him and as we were falling to the ground, he started shooting all over the place," said Motty Perl, a...   9:57 AM
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  'I don't care about these people'

  SILVER SPRING, Md. -- As the three hostages at Discovery Channel's headquarters appeared ready to make a run for it, a SWAT team officer quickly shot and killed the increasingly agitated gunman who had explosives strapped to himself, ending the four...   8:41 AM
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  It's déjà 'boom' in the Gulf

  Not again! Another Gulf oil rig exploded into an inferno yesterday, sparking fears of a massive BP-like spill in the waters near the Louisiana coast. Planes, helicopters and boats were sent racing to the burning platform, where 13 workers...   6:23 AM
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  4-year-old, 15-lb. girl found dead

  A shockingly malnourished 4-year-old Brooklyn girl weighed just 15 pounds when she was found dead yesterday by her mother in their filthy home -- and there was evidence she'd previously been tied to a bed with twine, cops said. Marchella...   4:12 PM
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  Summit of smiles

  WASHINGTON -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas held "long and productive" meetings at the State Department yesterday and agreed to sit down together again later this month and then every two weeks...   10:02 AM
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  Shattered crystal

  WASHINGTON -- The interior designer accused of fraud, who got a $5.4 million contract to design crystal glassware for Hillary Rodham Clinton's State Department, has left her DC office -- which is now a walk-in Botox clinic, The Post has learned....   10:02 AM

• DiNapoli issues 'red' alert on pension fund

  ALBANY -- Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli warned yesterday that the state's massive pension fund could soon slip into the red for the first time in seven...   6:31 AM