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SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket is set for its latest test flight at 5 p.m. ET, where the company hopes to once again catch its Super Heavy booster after takeoff. Today’s mission marks SpaceX’s fastest turnaround yet, with new upgrades to the booster’s propulsion systems aiming for a smoother and faster catch using the launchpad’s “Mechazilla” … Read more

He claims it’s a hard knock life for him. Tax deadbeat Damon Dash broke his silence over New York state’s decision to buy his share of Jay-Z’s Roc-A-Fella Records at an auction, saying he was shocked the rap mogul himself didn’t put in a bid. Harlem native Dash, who owes the Empire State $8.7 million … Read more

President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday he was picking Dr. Mehmet Oz to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Trump said in a statement that Oz, who unsuccessfully ran for the Senate two years ago, would work closely with Health and Human Services Secretary-designate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “to take on the illness industrial … Read more

Vice President-elect JD Vance let slip that Trump is interviewing candidates to take over the FBI before the current director’s term is up during a heated X exchange over Biden judicial nominee confirmations. The revelation was buried in a response to a now-deleted post by Steve Bannon’s War Room CFO Grace Chong, who had blasted … Read more

New Jersey Rep. Josh Gottheimer ridiculed New York Gov. Kathy Hochul Tuesday for moving ahead with a $9 congestion toll to enter Midtown Manhattan, noting the fee will eventually rise to the originally planned $15. With the George Washington Bridge as a backdrop, Gottheimer — a fellow Democrat running to become Garden State governor next … Read more

The feds have raided a Queens hotel contracted by the city to house homeless people — and owned by a donor to Mayor Eric Adams, The Post has learned. Federal agents searched the Wyndham Garden Hotel in Fresh Meadows last Thursday on a warrant from the US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, sources said. It’s not clear … Read more

An unauthorized user accessed a case file containing confidential material related to lurid testimony women have given about Attorney General-designate Matt Gaetz, according to one of the lawyers involved in the matter. The documents — part of a defamation lawsuit filed by a former Florida lawmaker against both a friend of Gaetz who pleaded guilty … Read more

WASHINGTON — US intel suggesting President Biden only authorized the use of American-made long-range missiles for Ukraine to strike Russia’s Kursk region may have been a red herring — in an effort by Washington and Kyiv to catch Moscow by surprise, experts said. On Tuesday, Ukraine launched six ATACMS ballistic missiles into Russia’s Bryansk region, … Read more

The Iran reports come ahead of this week’s regular International Atomic Energy Agency Board of Governors meeting in Vienna. (Heinz-Peter Bader / Associated Press) Iran has defied international demands to rein in its nuclear program and has increased its stockpile of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade levels, according to a confidential report by the United … Read more