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Planned works will shut down part of the Elizabeth line between Paddington and Heathrow (Picture: Mark Kerrison/Getty) Passengers have been warned over Christmas travel disruption affecting London Euston, Paddington, Elizabeth line and the West Coast main line. Many of us will hop on a train next month to visit family and friends across the UK. … Read more

Gov. Kathy Hochul announced a new congestion pricing plan for Manhattan to start in January. James Keivom If congestion pricing, now less than two months away from its new January start date, ever dies for good, it will have been tortured to death — by Gov. Kathy Hochul. Hochul’s botch of the toll to drive … Read more

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 President-elect Donald Trump is looking at blowing through a host of “norms” in his second term, per the talk out of MAGA-world, to which we say “yay — but.” … Read more

Over the next two years, the permanent residency stream is being reduced by about 20 per cent to 365,000 in 2027 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government could have acted faster on reining in immigration programs, after blaming “bad actors” for gaming the system.Photo by Sean Kilpatrick /The Canadian Press Prime Minister Justin … Read more

Entire federal agencies will be “deleted” under President-elect Donald Trump’s so-called Department of Government efficiency, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy pledged. Ramaswamy, the co-leader of DOGE along with Tesla CEO Elon Musk, teased plans for “mass reductions” in the federal workforce and said the group will make recommendations on “a real-time basis.” “We expect mass reductions,” the … Read more

Metro-area residents woke up to more smoke again Sunday as a wildfire jumped a containment line overnight along the New York-New Jersey border, sparking additional evacuations. The smoke was wafting down from the stubborn Jennings Creek blaze, which so far has consumed more than 5,000 acres of forest straddling the two states. The wildfire gained … Read more

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth says he was blackmailed during the #MeToo movement, and paid off an accuser to keep her silent, his attorney Timothy Parlatore tells The Post. Hegseth, who worked as a Fox News host until Trump picked him for his Cabinet, paid an undisclosed amount to a … Read more

Whole and baby carrots sold at some of the nation’s biggest supermarkets have been recalled over a deadly E. coli outbreak that has killed one and left nearly 40 others sick. Grimmway Farms recalled its organic whole and organic baby peeled carrots on Saturday because the vegetable may have been contaminated with Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia … Read more

This New York Times “gotcha” is about as sharp as a soggy bowl of breakfast cereal. The Times was relentlessly mocked over the weekend for appearing to unintentionally make Robert F. Kennedy Jr.‘s case in a recent article that tried to poke holes in his anti-processed-food crusade. Kennedy, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the … Read more

Three people were injured after a small plane crashed in front of horrified fans at a major NHRA drag racing event in Pomona, California on Sunday. The crash occurred when the plane attempted to land at an airfield near the In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip, ABC 7 reported. Survivors were rushed to the hospital, and the … Read more