A dream that seemed unfeasible a few months ago — to close the troublesome Rikers Island jail — apparently will be realized because of the unrelenting advocates who turned a remote possibility into a priority in the space of a year. A new report about the jail’s ills released Sunday coincides with Mayor Bill de Blasio’s commitment on Friday to initiate a 10-year plan to shut the place down, reduce the jail population by half, and house inmates at jails in each borough.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Barack Obama re-learned a lesson about foreign diplomacy: speak softly and make sure your microphone is turned off before you bad-mouth Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and call him "a liar." After holding a presser at the G20 conference in Cannes Thursday, Obama and Sarkozy retreated to another room for a private conversation that turned out to be a very public faux pas.

Longtime Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin announced Monday plans to separate from husband Anthony Weiner amid new allegations of his old habit. Hours after the Post published its report online, Weiner deleted his Twitter account. Conversations between Weiner and the woman, who spoke to the Post on the condition of anonymity, began in January 2015 and continued through earlier this month.

"Free your breasts, free your mind!" The rallying cry of the gotopless.org activists rang out on Broadway as they marched bare-chested from Columbus Circle to East 47th Street on Sunday. New York City was one of nearly 60 cities across the globe to march

Republicans have seemingly grown tired of Sarah Palin's teasing about running for President, and have decided she should just stay out of it. A shocking 71% say the former reality TV star should not run for the White House in 2012, according to a Fox News poll. Only 25% of those asked the question, "Do you think Sarah Palin should run for president in 2012 or not?"

Levi Johnston's first foray into publishing had him baring some skin for Playgirl. Now, he's revealing everything about why ex-flame Bristol Palin got pregnant with their son Tripp in a new tell-all book out Sept. 20. In "Deer in the Headlights," Johnston says Palin, daughter of ex-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, convinced him to get her pregnant so she could have a baby in revenge for her mother's surprise pregnancy with son Trig.

Hardball host Chris Matthews is very, very sorry about his network's wild pitch that Mitt Romney was aping the Ku Klux Klan's talking points. Matthews issued an apology on behalf of MSNBC for reporting on a blog item that compared Romney's use of the slogan "Keep America American" to the 1920s message of the white supremacist group.

Timothy Cardinal Dolan offered no easy answers Saturday about the stunning mass murder in Connecticut. “It’s an inexplicable tragedy,” Dolan said one day after the shootings that left 28 people dead. “At times like these, it may seem like evil has the last word and darkness has taken over.”. But Dolan, about to mark his first Christmas as cardinal, said something positive would somehow emerge from the darkness of the deaths — including 20 elementary school kids.