What to do when your career has been blown up by sexual-misconduct scandal? Strategies differ. You could deny and claim the real enemy is the NRA (Harvey Weinstein). Or vaguely admit wrongdoing, apologize, hope everything blows over but then moan about being railroaded when it doesn’t (Al Franken). You could disappear (Matt Lauer). Or disappearRead moreRead more

Elected and public officials angrily took to Twitter Saturday demanding answers in the apparent suicide of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. “I’m dumbfounded,” wrote Preet Bharara, former United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York in a series of tweets. “Public deserves answers.” Epstein was discovered unresponsive Saturday morning, after sources said he appearedRead moreRead more

Jeffrey Epstein’s shocking death occurred at an ultra-secure federal lock-up where suicide is supposedly next to impossible. Yet Epstein, 66, apparently managed to hang himself in his cell in the Special Housing Unit on the 9th floor of the federal Metropolitan Correctional Center at about 6:30 a.m. Saturday. see also Former MCC inmate: Theres noRead moreRead more

A controversial soon-to-be released movie trashed by President Trump on Twitter Friday has been canceled entirely, Universal Studios announced Saturday. “The Hunt,” starring Hilary Swank — and billed as a “satirical horror film” — told the story of liberal elitists who gleefully track and kill Trump-supporting “deplorables” kidnapped from red states and dumped in aRead moreRead more

Everyone knows that Twitter is a sewer. It’s also a terrible newspaper editor and a lousy campaign manager. Paul Begala knows something about the last of those. Begala has had his highs and lows as a campaign strategist — he once lost a student-government election at the University of Texas to an imaginary cartoon figureRead moreRead more

Not so long ago, The New York Times was the most trusted newspaper in America, maybe even the world. People bought it and read it because they believed it was a straight shooter. The quaint Page 1 motto, “All the News That’s Fit to Print,” promised superior judgment and taste. The paper was often boringRead moreRead more

It’s putting the “bone” in — well, you know. After falling on his rear end on the street, a 63-year-old man went to the emergency room for knee pain. Doctors, worried that he might have some additional broken bones, conducted a pelvic x-ray. Instead, they discovered that his penis was turning to bone. “An extensive,Read moreRead more

The following account is from a former inmate of the Metropolitan Correction Center in lower Manhattan, where Jeffrey Epstein was found unresponsive Saturday, and declared dead at a hospital of an apparent suicide. The ex-convict, who spoke to The Post’s Brad Hamilton and Bruce Golding on the condition of anonymity, spent several months in theRead moreRead more

Your weekend highlights may include stumbling out of a bar early Sunday morning, but — depending on your location — if you time your exit right, you can see a real thrill in the sky. The annual Perseid meteor shower is anticipated to peak early next week, from Aug. 11 to Aug. 13, according toRead moreRead more

In 2010, when scientists at Knome Inc. were looking to study a remarkable human’s DNA, they didn’t ring up Steve Jobs or Beyoncé. Instead, the Cambridge, Mass.-based human genome company reached out to Ozzy Osbourne. They wanted to know what genes had kept the rocker alive through decades of heavy drug and alcohol abuse. TheirRead moreRead more