A migrant farm worker died after sustaining “catastrophic” injuries from a 30-foot fall during Thursday’s chaotic immigration raid at a southern California marijuana farm, according to family and officials. The worker, identified by family as Jaime Alanís, suffered a broken neck and skull, along with a severed artery, after immigration agents descended on Glass House Read More…
Former Big Apple Mayor and groundhog killer Bill de Blasio and his aides are clamoring to become relevant again — by sucking up to socialist and Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani in the hopes of scoring a position in his potential administration, The Post has learned. The three-term ex-mayor — a vocal supporter of the Queens Read More…
Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani suggested in a resurfaced podcast appearance that the NYPD shouldn’t be responsible for responding to domestic violence calls. The 33-year-old democratic socialist said that the NYPD shouldn’t respond to domestic violence calls due to fears of “escalation” by New York’s Finest in a 2020 interview on the Immigrantly podcast, as Read More…
A federal judge has tossed Mayor Eric Adams’ lawsuit seeking to overrule the Campaign Finance Board’s decision to withhold millions of dollars in matching funds for his re-election bid. Although a defeat legally, the ruling could prove to be a boon for Hizzoner’s independent bid for mayor — with the Brooklyn judge slapping down the board’s ability Read More…
President Trump’s would-be assassin, Ryan Routh, begged a federal judge to allow him to “freeze to death In Siberia” as part of a prisoner exchange with Russia in a bizarre letter last month where he also offered himself up to Hamas and other US adversaries. Routh, who is currently locked up in a Miami federal prison Read More…
President Trump has been attuned to the distressing images of barbarism and bloodshed coming out of Ukraine, and the daughter of his top envoy to the country says he wants to “stop the killing” — which may be motivating his “major statement” about the war with Russia expected next week. Meaghan Mobbs, the daughter of retired Gen. Read More…
David Gergen, who worked for four presidents, including Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, before becoming an academic and political TV pundit, has died. He was 83. Gergen died in a retirement home in Massachusetts on July 10, his son said, according to several outlets. The Washington, D.C., veteran had been suffering from Lewy Read More…
The State Department on Friday began terminating more than 1,300 positions as part of the Trump administration’s effort to trim the size of the federal workforce. The layoffs will affect 1,107 civil servants and 246 foreign service officers with assignments in the US, according to a senior department official. Employees began receiving termination notices in Read More…
WASHINGTON — Stocks plunged Friday after President Trump floated a 35% tariff on Canadian goods not governed by the USMCA trade pact — while threatening a new dictated levy on the European Union. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 279 points, or about .63% — with narrower losses by the S&P 500, which had notched Read More…
Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani voted to drastically raise his state Assembly salary on the taxpayers’ dime days before Christmas 2022 — a move critics are citing as clashing with his campaign image as a political outsider fighting for the working class. The pay hike brought state lawmaker pay from $110,000 to $142,000 a year, Read More…
The Issue: Support for antisemitic New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. Zohran Mamdani has managed to insult multiple groups with long ties to New York City (“ ‘Zoh way he’s not a problem,’ ” July 10). Most recently, Italians were insulted by the “candidate of all the people.” This followed numerous insults against Israel and the Read More…
A senior Trump administration official said Friday that Fed Chair Jerome Powell is “considering resigning” as pressure grows for an investigation into whether he lied to Congress about the central bank’s “Palace of Versailles” renovations to its headquarters in Washington, DC. Bill Pulte, the chair of US government-backed mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Read More…
WASHINGTON — Former President Joe Biden’s deputy director of Oval Office operations became the third former staffer to testify Friday in front of the House Oversight Committee as they investigate the 46th commander-in-chief’s cognitive decline and possible abuses of the presidential autopen. Special assistant Ashley Williams — who declined to answer reporter questions — was Read More…
Democratic bigs hoping to blue-wash Zohran Mamdani’s anti-cop record are hinting that he might retain tough-on-crime NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch if he takes City Hall in November. File that under “Blowing Smoke Up Our Collective Rear Ends.” Tisch has made it clear that the drop in shootings and murders on her watch relies on tight Read More…
Whole Foods is starting a disco inferno. The supermarket claims the line to get into the bar at a hotel next door run by legendary club impresario Ian Schrager is blocking their food delivery trucks from getting into their loading bay, according to a new lawsuit. Their legal papers include photos of dressed-up club-hoppers hoping Read More…
The Trump administration is launching a new visa program for migrant workers as farmers and hotel owners express concerns that their labor force is being threatened by the president’s mass deportation raids. The Department of Labor’s newly-created Office of Immigration Policy will help fast track visas for foreign laborers — but the administration has made Read More…
An off-duty NYPD detective was punched in the head as she tried to stop an unhinged man from throwing food around a Midtown Starbucks Friday morning, cops and sources said. The 39-year-old female detective attempted to step in when she spotted the man hurling food items around the coffee chain’s Sixth Avenue and West 57th Street Read More…
ALBANY — Gov. Kathy Hochul is defending her office’s handling of toxic workplace and sexual harassment complaints against her former press secretary, framing the turmoil as the “system working.” Avi Small had been serving as Hochul’s press secretary since 2022 before he resigned last week after being suspended during an investigation into a complaint that he Read More…
A signed passport photo of Marilyn Monroe taken the day she and her new husband, Yankees great Joe DiMaggio, were prepping for their 1954 Japanese honeymoon sold for more than $21,000 at an auction this week. The tiny photo — 2.25 x 2.75 inches — which is inscribed in red ink, “To Mr. Bolds, Thanks Read More…
Skydance CEO David Ellison has reportedly held talks with Bari Weiss to buy her online news site The Free Press — fueling growing speculation that he is wooing the right-of-center voice to join CBS News once his company’s long-stalled merger with Paramount is approved. The discussions are in the early stages, a source close to Read More…
Socialist mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani was accused of “laundering” his vocal defund-the-police stances by cynically toying with keeping tough-on-crime Jessica Tisch as NYPD commissioner if elected. The simultaneous behind-the-scenes and public pushes to keep Tisch comes as many Big Apple elites hope Mamdani — who trounced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary and Read More…
An unhinged mom and her foulmouthed daughter savagely attacked a female driver for trying to park in a spot they were “saving” in a caught-on-video brawl in Queens. Andreea Dumitru, 45, and her daughter Sabrina Starman, 21, are seen in a viral video posted to Reddit unloading on victim Jada McPherson on a Ridgewood street Monday Read More…
Chemical maker DuPont has agreed to a $27 million settlement to resolve a nearly decade-long lawsuit over the contamination of an upstate New York village’s water supply. The deal was announced Wednesday by lawyers representing residents of Hoosick Falls, located northwest of Albany, just as the case was headed to trial in federal court this Read More…
In 1944, Jean-Paul Sartre acidly penned the line “Hell is other people” without the benefit of ever having visited a water park. Nonetheless, “other people” are taking a beating these days. In an interview with the New York Times’ Ross Douthat last week, billionaire techno-futurist Peter Thiel struggled to answer whether he thinks humanity should continue to exist, as artificial Read More…
A son of notorious Mexican drug kingpin “El Chapo” pleaded guilty Friday to U.S. drug trafficking charges, becoming the first of the drug lord’s sons to enter a plea deal. Prosecutors allege Ovidio Guzman Lopez and his brother, Joaquin Guzman Lopez, ran a faction of the Sinaloa cartel. They became known locally as the “Chapitos,” or “little Chapos,” Read More…
Even before a Russian attack drone murdered an innocent 1-year-old Wednesday and highlighted Vladimir Putin’s savagery, President Donald Trump seemed headed in the right direction on Ukraine. Moscow’s stubborn refusal to end its unprovoked war has increasingly frustrated the president, prompting him to send Kyiv much-needed arms and threatening tougher sanctions on Russia. Trump should Read More…
About 850,000 water bottles sold at Walmart are being recalled after customers reported being struck in the face with the lid, causing some to permanently lose their vision. The lid of the Ozark Trail 64 oz. Stainless Steel Insulated Water Bottles can forcefully eject, causing “serious impact and laceration hazards,” according to the Consumer Product Safety Read More…
Kraft Heinz is reportedly considering a spinoff of a large chunk of its grocery business as health-conscious American consumers increasingly shy away from processed foods. The $31 billion food and beverage conglomerate, born out of the 2015 merger of Kraft and Heinz, is said to be mulling the creation of a new entity that would Read More…
Reddit is rife with antisemitic conspiracy theories about recent attacks on Jewish people in the US – despite the site’s pledge to crack down on hate speech, the Anti-Defamation League said Friday. Many conversations on the popular platform about antisemitic attacks have been dominated by the term “false flag,” a phrase used to imply that Read More…
Eye on AI: Behind Grok’s Racist Debacle Racists and trolls smirked when Elon Musk’s Grok AI was caught “propagating antisemitic talking points, fantasizing about rape, and blaming Mossad for the death of Jeffrey Epstein,” notes Mary Harrington at UnHerd, but the tech-besotted fallacy here is the faith that “a big enough pattern-recognition engine will converge Read More…
Shoppers are souring on Lululemon — and the once-thriving yoga chain is meanwhile getting squeezed by new rivals. The pricey retailer known for its $100 leggings has been discounting at “alarming rates” — even as it has been losing customers to competitors, according to new research from investment bank Jefferies. At one location ahead of Read More…
Unilever has appointed a new CEO to lead Ben & Jerry’s as its battle over the ice cream brand’s lefty politics heats up, according to a report Friday. Jochanan Senf, a Dutch Unilever executive who previously managed Ben & Jerry’s Europe business, will start in the new role this month after the British parent company Read More…
NBC’s switch from Lester Holt to Tom Llamas as anchor of “NBC Nightly News” appears to be paying dividends in the ratings, particularly among younger viewers. For the first time since the 46-year-old Llamas took over on June 2, the “NBC Nightly News” episode on Tuesday outperformed ABC’s “World News Tonight with David Muir” in Read More…
President Trump and left-wing billionaire financier George Soros have more in common than previous thought, according to someone who has worked for both men. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told an exclusive audience of billionaires at the annual Allen & Co. conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, this week that both men share a common personality trait: Read More…
US stocks fell Friday and the S&P 500 slipped from a record high after President Trump slapped Canada with a 35% tariff and threatened higher levies on most other nations. The S&P 500 plunged 0.4% to 6,253.10 after reaching a new record Thursday of 6,280.46. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 262 points, or 0.6%, Read More…
With the Trump-CBS lawsuit out of the way, the $8 billion merger between the network’s parent, Paramount, and independent studio Skydance Media would seem to be a fait accompli. As if anything involving Donald Trump is that easy, On The Money has learned. True, the lawsuit filed by then-president-elect in December alleging that CBS deceptively Read More…
Shares of Tesla are up around 190% during the past five years, almost double that of the S&P 500, which has given its CEO, the voluble and volatile, Elon Musk a lot of room to flout convention. The board of the publicly-traded EV company technically works for its shareholders and because of that share price, it Read More…
Inspired by the success of businesses like MicroStrategy, which has seen its stock surge more than 3,000% since it pivoted to buying Bitcoin instead of developing software, other publicly traded companies are now betting on an even more volatile cryptocurrency: Ethereum. And some taking the risky move are saying it’s a “Chat GPT moment for Read More…
Should a mayor have a foreign policy? It’s a curious thing to have. After all, a mayor might have some control over the police force. But they don’t have F-15s or B-2 bombers at their command. So why do certain candidates talk as though they do? This week the Democratic front-runner for mayor of this Read More…
The Issue: The National Education Association cuts ties with the Anti-Defamation League. The National Education Association’s outrageous decision to cut ties with the Anti-Defamation League — the nation’s oldest civil-rights organization — is a triumph for anti-Jewish bigotry and hate (“NEA ax on ADL,” July 9). In the aftermath of the worst mass slaughter of Read More…