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President-elect Donald Trump speaks at a House Republicans Conference meeting at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill on November 13, 2024 in Washington, DC. Getty Images Celeb-spotters at the nation’s airports have been disappointed this past week. A whole cast of celebrities swore that they would leave the country if Trump won this month’s election. … Read more

Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump gestures at the Bitcoin 2024 event in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S., July 27, 2024. REUTERS With President-elect Donald Trump’s victory, radical and discriminatory Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs could be — finally — on the way out. DEI has captured almost every level of education and government. Our … Read more

It’s going to take a toll. Many working-class New Yorkers aren’t buying Gov. Kathy Hochul’s pitch for her revamped congestion pricing plan. The governor’s office cast the $9 daytime base toll — down from $15 as originally — as “putting commuters first,” but Midtown workers who spoke to The Post Thursday said it would still … Read more

President-elect Donald Trump revealed plans Thursday to replace the prosecutor whose office is targeting NYC Mayor Eric Adams, announcing he will tap his former Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton as the US attorney for the Southern District of New York. That post is currently held by Damian Williams, a Democrat, who has gone after Adams and a number of other high-profile targets such as former Sen. … Read more

The co-founder of the conservative The Federalist news site, Benjamin Domenech, lit into Rep. Matt Gaetz Thursday, calling him a “sex trafficking, drug addicted piece of s—t” — and warning senators that they’ll have to live with themselves if they confirm him as attorney general. In his newsletter The Transom, Domenech slammed the embattled Florida … Read more

A four-month old baby boy who died in the Bronx over the summer had cocaine in his system, the city medical examiner has said — and now, his death has been ruled a homicide. Cops found little Ariel Gonzalez unconscious and unresponsive at an Eagle Avenue residence at about 9:15 p.m. on Aug. 10, after … Read more

The key figure in a Justice Department investigation into sex trafficking allegations involving Matt Gaetz told the House Ethics Committee that the former congressman had sex with her when she was 17 years old, according to a report. The woman, who is now in her 20s, was subpoenaed by the ethics panel over the summer … Read more

President-elect Donald Trump tapped a longtime ally for his cabinet Thursday, nominating former congressman Doug Collins to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs. A Navy veteran and Air Force Reserve chaplain, Collins, 58, represented rural northern Georgia for eight years before retiring from Congress following an unsuccessful 2020 campaign for the US Senate. He also aided in Trump’s efforts to … Read more

Citigroup is being probed by US government agencies over its ties to sanctioned Russian billionaire Suleiman Abusaidovich Kerimov, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing a person familiar with the matter. The Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Internal Revenue Service are probing the bank’s work with Delaware-based Heritage Trust, which holds assets owned by … Read more

Montreal transit agency calls on province to drastically increase money it has pledged for maintenance and to help restart stalled projects. STM transit users make their way into the Snowdon metro station in May 2023.Photo by Pierre Obendrauf /Montreal Gazette file It was supposed to be a good news budget, but the STM’s directors warned … Read more