A bunch of white people with party favors, beach balls, and face paint decided it would be fun to swarm a subway car and dance around like giddy fools. Also, they taped the whole thing, seemingly just to make the entire Internet embarrassed on their behalf. And not just for the basic rudeness! There's also a saxophone, the LMFAO soundtrack, and what appears to be a bag of wine at the one-minute ma... more.

Photo: Carl Court/AFP/Getty Images Ahead of New Corporation's quarterly earnings announcement this afternoon, Rupert Murdoch hosted a board meeting yesterday on the studio lot of his company, 20th Century Fox. It was the first board meeting since the phone-hacking scandal engulfed his company, and included high-profile "independent" News Corp. directors, like a former president of Goldman Sachs, ... more.

Ben Bernanke.Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images It's unfortunate how it now counts as good news whenever the markets aren't nosediving for any significant period of time. But that's what it's come to, so ... hooray! The Dow spent most of Tuesday in positive territory, a vast improvement over yesterday, when it was down one million points, give or take. Investors were hoping that the worst was over a... more.

Photo: Cain:Steve Pope/Getty; Santorum: Jeff Fusco/Getty Images; Bachmann: Darren McCollester/Getty Images; sky: iStockphoto After a thorough investigation, Daily Intel has discovered that God is separately backing at least three different contenders for the Republican presidential nomination. Over the course of the past few months and even years, God has sent signs and direct messages to each of... more.

Harry Reid.Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images The bicameral, bi-partisan, twelve-person "Super Committee" tasked with finding $1.2 trillion in debt-reduction through reforms to entitlements and taxes has its first members, as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has reportedly selected ... At guard, in her fourth season out of Washington State, the team captain, Senator Patty Muuuuuurraaaaaay. At fo... more.

Paul McCartney and fiance Nancy Shevell.Photo: Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images From the Observer today: “Barbara was emotional confidante and played matchmaker,” a friend of the couple told the Observer. “She gave numerous dinner parties for them and always made sure to invite people she knew that Paul would want to meet.” The friend added that the broadcast vet also co... more.

Bosworth in 2004.Photo: Ruby Washington/The New York Times/REdux "Harboring Max cries out to the heavens as a justice warranted," wrote Stanley Bosworth, the founder and, until 2004, the headmaster of Saint Ann's, in a letter to my parents. That's not a typical line from a private school administrator. But Stanley, who died Tuesday, was not a typical educator. Stanley — as all of us Saint A... more.

Rob Portman and George W. Bush.Photo: MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images One day after Harry Reid's selections for the debt-reduction super-committee were reported, Mitch McConnell and John Boehner have revealed their picks: From the House, Jeb Hensarling (who will serve as co-chairman), Dave Camp, and Fred Upton. From the Senate, Jon Kyl, Rob Portman, and Pat Toomey. So what do these appointments tell... more.

Angela Gilliam (left), Lashanda's aunt, places balloons and stuffed animals near the boat ramp.Photo: AP Photo/Seth Wenig Shortly after a domestic dispute Tuesday night, 25-year-old Lashanda Armstrong drove a minivan with her four children in the back off a dock and into the Hudson River. The only survivor was her 10-year-old son, Lashaun, who climbed out the window and swam through 45-degree wat... more.

Photo: J.B Nicholas/Splash News As promised, the housekeeper who has accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual abuse filed a civil lawsuit against the ex-IMF chief in the Bronx Supreme Court today. The suit seeks "damages in an amount to be determined at trial" for emotional, physical, and psychological harm, in addition to damage done to her reputation. "Defendant Strauss-Kahn intentionally, brut... more.

Definite 2012 Democratic presidential nominee, Barack Obama.Photo: Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images Sorry, Bernie Sanders, Ralph Nader, and any other perpetually pissed-off progressive who longs for a take-no-prisoners liberal to challenge President Obama for the party's presidential nomination next year. It's not going to happen. It's not just that attempts to oust the party's incumbent are nearl... more.

Jean Pierre at the funeral for his children, from which he banned his late girlfriend's family.Photo: AP Remember the insanely tragic story of LaShanda Armstrong, the mom who felt so trapped by her life she drove her minivan into the Hudson River and killed herself and three of her children? The only survivor was her 10-year-old son, Lashaun, who managed to swim to safety. In the wake of the trag... more.

Weprin and Turner: Close in the polls, far apart on the mustache issue.Photo: Wikipedia/Bob Turner for Congress A new poll out today shows that Republican Bob Turner is running just six points behind Democrat David Weprin in the special election that will be held for the open congressional seat in New York's District 9. Turner is actually running ahead of Weprin with Brooklyn voters, but most of ... more.

Anders BreivikPhoto: Splash News One of the riskiest parts of being a writer is that once you launch your words into the memetic breeze, you have absolutely no idea where they will land, who will read them, or what good or evil purposes they might be turned toward. This is not idle philosophizing. Late last Thursday night, I learned that 2,039 words that I wrote back in 2008 had entered history... more.

Angela Gilliam (left), Lashaun's aunt, adds to a makeshift memorial at the crash site.Photo: AP Photo/Seth Wenig Twenty-five-year-old Lashanda Armstrong, mother of four, was doing her best to get by before personal troubles led her to drive her minivan into the Hudson River, killing her three youngest children and leaving only her 10-year-old son, Lashaun, alive. She had a job at a garment factor... more.

Helen and Tim Schifter.Photo: Patrick McMullan This is what "Page Six" is really good for: Yesterday, they published an item about artist Helen Marden confronting socialite Helen Lee Schifter at tony West Village restaurant Bar Pitti. According to the gossip column, Marden "lurched" at Schifter, because of rumors of an affair between Schifter and Marden's husband, the 72-year-old abstract artist ... more.

Photo: iStockphoto.com In a move that is sure to be controversial just by nature of the subject matter — despite the fact that more than 80 percent of New York City voters support it — sex education will be mandated in all New York City public middle and high schools this fall. The curriculum, according to the Times, will include condom usage and advice on age-appropriate sexual exper... more.

Huntsman insisting that this counts as "major."Photo: Richard Ellis/Getty Images *The Bush in question is not former president George W. Bush. It is also not former president George H. W. Bush. It is also not the popular former Florida governor Jeb Bush. The Bush who will announce his endorsement of Jon Huntsman this morning is Jeb Bush, Jr. This is the "major announcement" that Huntsman promised... more.

Photo: Patrick McMullan Is Alec Baldwin really contemplating a run for mayor, as The Daily reported today? Who knows. What we do know is that last month, at the Carnegie Hall 120th Anniversary Gala, Baldwin told our reporter Adrienne Gaffney that he was "very interested" in getting into politics, but he didn't see any opportunities. "Probably now that’s something I can’t really think... more.

A shouting match erupted at the funeral yesterday for the three children drowned by their mother in the Hudson River, showcasing the emotional toll on the family after the tragedy that keeps bottoming out, in this case into pettiness. The feud started because the children's father, Jean Pierre, barred some relatives from the mother's side of the family from attending. Pierre gave the police a lis... more.