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Teachings of rabbi killed in Bondi Beach terrorist attack live on with new book

May 17, 2026 | 9:17am

Rabbi Eli Schlanger saved Nikki Goldstein's life. Now, she's keeping his memory alive with a book they wrote together

Former Navy SEAL has some surprising advice for parents

May 16, 2026 | 2:00pm

Elite sniper instructor Brandon Webb says many moms and dads are 'just f--king up' their kids.

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Psychotherapist reveals why therapy might be doing you more harm than good

May 16, 2026 | 8:00am

"Therapy has never been more ubiquitous, yet we're anxious, fragile, lost, and more divided than ever," Jonathan Alpert writes.

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JK Rowling's father 'ran illegal cannabis operation' from secret cellar in house: book

May 15, 2026 | 3:03pm

“When he visited me at one point in 1997, he told me that over the previous few years, he had been one of the largest growers of marijuana in South...

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How our schools' foolishness is courting 'civilizational failure'

May 15, 2026 | 9:47am

Our children aren’t learning to read — first because we’ve forgotten how to teach them, then because we're outsourcing their education to screens.

Left erupts as county bans library staff from joining Pride march — and limit what books they can display

May 13, 2026 | 2:19pm

The Fresno County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 Tuesday to block library staffers from participating in next month’s Fresno Rainbow Pride event.

Researchers unearth invisible 'ghost text' from New Testament 6th century manuscript

May 12, 2026 | 6:38pm

The ancient text was invisible to the naked eye but recoverable with modern technology.

We must stop suicidal empathy from destroying the US

May 10, 2026 | 11:00am

There is such a thing as too much empathy. In his new book, Dr. Gad Saad writes just how dangerous that can be to our institutions and culture.

How folk hero Johnny Appleseed ended up at an H&M in Indiana

May 9, 2026 | 2:00pm

Journalist Isaac Fitzgerald’s new book, “American Rambler,” details his quest to walk Johnny Appleseed’s trail. The book reveals Johnny Appleseed’s trees were for hard cider, not the wholesome eating apples...

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Mayor Karen Bass ‘pulled a Ferris Bueller’ — sneaking out ahead of 2025 LA fires: book

May 9, 2026 | 8:00am

In his new book "Torched," CBS News correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti delivers a damning account of how LA and California officials made a bad situation catastrophic.

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Pizza Hut resurrects beloved ’90s pizza promo — and nostalgic millennials are psyched: 'Can we do an adult version?'

May 6, 2026 | 11:32am

Pizza Hut is taking a page out of its old playbook.

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A creepy babydoll, coffin door and drawers that open on their own: Inside the real-life Westchester haunted house that inspired a new horror novel

May 5, 2026 | 2:42pm

After Aimee Pokwatka moved into her Lewisboro, NY, home, strange things started happening.

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I had a hot summer fling in the Hamptons, but ended up visiting him in prison

May 4, 2026 | 4:41pm

Jeanette Settembre shares the true story behind her new novel, 'Little Red Flags.'

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How 'Scarpetta,' 'Body Farm' author cultivated her life of crime — with help from Billy Graham and his wife

May 3, 2026 | 12:00pm

“You almost can’t make this stuff up,” author Patricia Cornwell told The Post. “So many bizarre things have happened to me.”

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'Everest season has gotten off to a terrible start' worries 'Into Thin Air' scribe Jon Krakauer

May 3, 2026 | 11:00am

It's been 30 years since Krakauer survived one of the mountain's worst disasters.

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'The Help' author Kathryn Stockett's new novel is inspired by this moving photograph

May 2, 2026 | 2:00pm

"It was in Rosie's photograph that I found my narrator," Stockett said in an exclusive interview with The Post.

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Fox News’ Dana Perino reveals the 'tough quarter life crisis' that inspired her to write a romance novel

April 29, 2026 | 5:41pm

Dana Perino knows something about having a quarter life crisis.

How you can use the 'flicker stage' to feel younger — and age healthier

April 27, 2026 | 4:22pm

Aging isn't a linear process — our physical, cognitive and social functioning can jump back and forth between feeling younger or older.

How a divorced mom-of-three became the first woman on the NY Stock Exchange

April 25, 2026 | 2:00pm

With Dolly Parton’s hyper-feminine pluck and the glitzy showmanship of Liberace — a friend of hers — Mary Kay created one of the biggest direct-selling companies in the world.

Enterprising Bronx teachers launch free libraries in bodegas to boost NYC literacy rates

April 23, 2026 | 5:42pm

Who ordered a Great Gats-B.E.C.! A pair of Bronx schoolteachers are opening bite-sized libraries inside bodegas in an attempt to foster a love of reading beyond the classroom. Boogie Down...