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The daughter of a 60-year-old woman who was beaten with her own cane in a disturbing caught-on-camera assault in Harlem said she’s angry nobody came to help her defenseless mom — as cops identified her alleged attacker as a 43-year-old man with at least nine prior arrests. Laurell Reynolds, 60, of the Bronx was walking through the West 116 Street and Lenox Avenue station at about 3:30 a.m. Friday when Norton Blake allegedly stripped her cane from her and beat her with it, according to NYPD officials and a disturbing two-minute-long recording of the crime. Nobody stepped in to help...

Former fitness model Loni Willison continues to live a less-than-glamorous life on the streets of West Hollywood. The unhoused 40-year-old was spotted digging through dumpsters on June 14 in new photos obtained by The Post. The pictures seem to confirm the dire straits of the blond, who was spotted smoking from a crack pipe in an alleyway a week prior. In early May, Willison told X17 Online that her life went wrong when she divorced “Baywatch” actor Jeremy Jackson in 2014.

In 1938, Harvard researchers embarked on a decades-long study to find out: What makes us happy in life?The researchers gathered health records from 724 participants from all over the world and asked detailed questions about their lives at two-year intervals.Contrary to what you might think, it's not career achievement, money, exercise, or a healthy diet. The most consistent finding we've learned through 85 years of study is: Positive relationships keep us happier, healthier, and help us live longer. Period.The No. 1 key to a happy life: 'Social fitness'Relationships affect us physically. Ever notice the invigoration you feel when you believe...

President Joe Biden claimed Monday that the United States has “never” lived up to its founding principles. “We’ve never fully lived up to the founding principles of this nation, but our Administration is committed to finishing the work left undone. It’s long past time to confront deep racial inequities and systemic racism and fulfill the promise of America for all,” Biden tweeted.

I don't believe Joe Biden gave an acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention. I believe he gave his farewell speech. It's beyond rational for Democrats and their media lapdogs to pretend Biden's fit to be president, even if he actually had all of his marbles. But he doesn't, and therefore he isn't; and it's darned well time this charade ends. Biden is an Erebusic bifurcation staged as a prolusion for the person who will eventually replace him. For those who struggle with simple English, I'm saying that Democrats, for reasons known only to them, never intended for Biden to be...

Nowhere is the situation worse than in Detroit, which ranks as the most stressful metropolitan area in America, according to a new Bizjournals study. Detroit is saddled with the highest unemployment rate, 7.2 percent, in any of the nation's 50 largest markets. It also has the group's worst murder rate. And it's among the 10 places with the most robberies, the slowest rates of income growth, the most heart attacks and the fewest sunny days.