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WASHINGTON — Who’s in charge here, again? First lady Jill Biden did most of the talking Friday at the public portion of what may be President Biden’s last Cabinet meeting — before showing the cast of “The West Wing” around the Oval Office and hosting a Rose Garden event without her husband. “The work is hard and the days are long. And yes, there are times when the weight of all we have before us can just feel too heavy to carry,” Jill, 73, said in the Rose Garden from a podium presidents usually occupy. “But that’s where the heart...

Tech union workers at the New York Times have threatened to strike on Election Day over a bizarre list of demands that include pet bereavement leave, a four-day work week — and even a ban on scented products in break rooms, according to a report. The Times Tech Guild’s laundry list of demands during its protracted two-year battle for a contract has also included a call for unlimited sick time, job security for non-citizens who are in the United States on work visas in the event of layoffs and mandatory trigger warnings when discussing news events, Semafor reported. The union...

Climate activist Greta Thunberg was named “Antisemite of the Week” by a Jewish group following her arrest at a recent anti-Israel rally. Thunberg “has joined the ranks of keffiyeh-clad protesters, brazenly voicing her disdain for the Jewish state,” the watchdog group StopAntisemitism said Friday, days after Thunberg was among those hauled off by Danish police during a demonstration at Copenhagen University. “She has sadly transformed her activism into a platform for vile Jew-hatred,” the organization added. The 21-year-old was arrested on Sept. 4 while protesting with the group Students Against the Occupation, which called on the university to cease all...

The way the American legal system is weighted against the little guy is exemplified by the $20 million defamation action brought Friday night by IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joe Ziegler against Hunter Biden’s attorney Abbe Lowell. For one thing, a lawsuit like this typically will cost upwards of $1 million. For another, Lowell is one of the most feared lawyers in the country and few of his fellow legal eagles are keen to take him on. The good news is that, after several false starts, whistleblower advocacy group Empower Oversight managed to secure the services of Las Vegas defamation...

The Alaska Supreme Court has ruled that a congressional candidate currently serving a 20-year prison sentence can remain on the ballot in the election, running for the state's U.S. Representative seat, according to Anchorage Daily News. Eric Hafner, a registered Democrat who has reportedly never resided in Alaska, is in prison in New York after he pleaded guilty to harassing election officials in New Jersey in 2022. In the primary elections in August, Hafner received 467 votes out of approximately 109,000 and had his name placed on the ballot soon after as the third and fourth-place candidates, Republicans, dropped out...

Outraged family members of US troops hurt in the line of duty slammed Kamala Harris’ brazen claim that no Americans are serving in war zones — a statement which flies in the face of her own administration’s official list of active combat zones. As many as 50,000 US service members currently patrolling countries and oceans across the Middle East and Africa are receiving either “hostile fire” or “imminent danger pay,” monthly payments of up to $225 for troops deployed in areas where they could easily be subjected to — or do come under — enemy attack, retired Army Col. and...

There she goes again. Kamala Harris gave another interview that reveals why she hides from questions. She has nothing to say! In an 11-minute sit-down with a Pennsylvania ABC affiliate that has drawn over 5 million views on X, the vice president lapsed into recycled sound bites and snippets from past speeches. Reporter Brian Taff asked direct questions about policies, but never got direct answers. She filibustered with tales about her childhood, with the inane kicker being that “folks were very proud of their lawn.” Wow, so deep — if she’s mind-melding with Chauncey Gardiner from “Being There.” As for...

JOHNSTOWN, Pennsylvania – Kamala Harris had a chance to rally the working class in deep red Pennsylvania. She did an invite-only pit stop instead. Hundreds of supporters chanted “Ka-ma-la” when the vice president arrived Friday at the Johnstown airport. Driving a road lined with Trump signs on her way into town, Harris spoke for 30 minutes at local bookstore, Classic Elements, intending to show her support for small businesses. Later in the day, she rallied in Wilkes-Barre, about 200 miles to the northeast. But in Johnstown, both the airport and bookstore were by invitation only – to the chagrin of...

The viral picture of a man holding two geese on an Ohio street being used to fuel claims that migrants have been gobbling up pets was nothing more than a wild goose chase, according to a report. The anonymous man who was snapped carrying the bodies of two birds earlier this week was removing them from the street after they were hit by a car, the Ohio Division of Wildlife confirmed to TMZ. There is no evidence he was taking them home to eat or that he is a migrant, the agency said. The incident happened in Columbus — more...

The controversial migrant encampment at Brooklyn’s Floyd Bennett Field will remain for another year, The Post has learned. The National Parks Service, which oversees the historic former airfield off Flatbush Avenue, notified city officials Friday it has agreed to the Adams administration’s request for a lease extension to continue operating the 2,000-bed tent city. The original lease was set to expire Saturday. “This extension request was thoroughly reviewed and responds to the State of New York’s continued emergency declaration,” wrote Jennifer T. Nersesian, superintendent of Gateway National Recreation Area, a part of the National Park Service. “As stewards of this...

The FDA has just written a letter to pharma-giant AbbVie, asking the company to cease running an advertisement for a migraine drug that features tennis legend Serena Williams. The letter details that the advertisement for Ubrelvy 'makes false or misleading representations' about the drug, and might lead migraine patients to believe that, 'all patients who take Ubrelvy can expect their migraine pain to be eliminated after a single dose of Ubrelvy, when this has not been demonstrated'. It asks the company to come up with a plan to cease running the advertisement or discontinue distribution of the drug. AbbVie reported...

It’s Ms. Sun goes to Washington. The alleged Chinese spy who infiltrated the New York governor’s office was able to get into the White House — while under federal investigation, The Post has learned. Linda Sun’s tour of the Executive Mansion came just two months before the FBI raided her gaudy $3.5 million Long Island home as they wrapped up their case into her alleged work for Beijing. The May visit was facilitated by Sun’s former boss Queens Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY), the congresswoman’s office confirmed Friday. Sun — a former high-ranking aide for Gov. Kathy Hochul and former Gov....

LAS VEGAS – Former President Donald Trump announced Friday that if elected he will “liberate Aurora” by establishing a federal task force aimed at “crushing” foreign gangs. Tren de Aragua, a ruthless Venezuelan prison gang, has reportedly overrun several apartment buildings in the Colorado city since expanding its reach in the US amid the historic surge in illegal immigration under the Harris-Biden administration. “They’ve become real estate developers, like I used to be,” Trump said of the organized crime syndicate during a Las Vegas rally. “They’re dismembering rivals from Chile and from Colombia … How the hell did we allow...

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — Vice President Kamala Harris played up a Goldman Sachs review of her economic plan on Friday after the firm’s CEO noted that the report actually showed her policies would have minimal impact on the economy. “Independent economists like Goldman Sachs have said my plan would grow our economy and [former President Donald Trump’s] plan would shrink the economy, reignite inflation and send us into a recession by the middle of next year,” Harris claimed at a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. The vice president leaned on the investment bank’s report during her Tuesday debate against Trump as well,...

The State Department sought to denigrate two reporters and a member of Congress as part of damage control attempts over having helped fund an advertisers’ “blacklist” of The Post and other outlets allegedly spreading “misinformation,” according to internal documents. In March 2023, the department distributed press guidance about how to counter bombshell reports by “Twitter Files” scribe Matt Taibbi and Washington Examiner investigative journalist Gabe Kaminsky concerning the State’s Global Engagement Center (GEC). Taibbi’s first report about the GEC, in a lengthy Twitter thread published Jan. 3, 2023, revealed efforts to pressure US social media platforms early in the COVID-19...

Vice President Kamala Harris sat down with an ABC affiliate for her first solo interview Friday, choosing the same network that got her through this week’s slanted presidential debate — but still managed to stumble through softball questions. She answered five questions from Action News 6 ABC, a local affiliate of ABC News, in the interview that came just days after the moderators in the ABC debate with Donald Trump assisted her by providing fact checks on the former president but not her. One of the ABC moderators for the debate, Linsey Davis, is a member of Harris’ sorority and...

Embattled Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on Friday refused to comply with a subpoena for testimony and documents related to allegations of misconduct in her handling of the 2020 election interference case against former President Donald Trump. The Georgia state Senate Special Committee issued the subpoena last month as part of an investigation into the 52-year-old district attorney’s alleged misuse of taxpayer money and potential conflicts of interest during her romance with former Trump special prosecutor Nathan Wade. Willis contends that the panel’s subpoena power is “unlawful,” and has indicated that she will refuse to cooperate in the probe....

A small Pennsylvania town is up in arms over a proposal to turn an abandoned Civil War-era school into a shelter for hundreds of migrant families — with residents and lawmakers vowing to put a stop to the “foreign invasion.” News of the plan to turn the former Scotland School for Veterans Children building in Franklin County into a migrant shelter surfaced publicly this week after the owners of the sprawling property recently started making inquiries about its potential usage, local officials said. The Greene Township Board of Supervisors said a representative from USA Up Star, an Indiana-based disaster response...

Vice President Kamala Harris surprised many Americans when she announced during the Tuesday's debate that she owned a firearm because of her history of pressing for more gun control. 'Tim Walz and I are both gun owners. We're not taking anybody's guns away. So stop with the continuous lying about this stuff,' she said during the debate with Donald Trump. But Harris actually revealed her gun ownership on the campaign trail in Iowa, during her failed 2020 presidential campaign. 'I am a gun owner, and I own a gun for probably the reason a lot of people do – for...

Chief prosecutor Jack Smith will soon be forced to reveal his election fraud case against Donald Trump, a criminal defense attorney has told Newsweek. Keith B. Johnson, an attorney in Augusta, Georgia, said that Smith will have to lay out his case against Trump at a hearing on September 26. That will allow judge Tanya Chutkan to check if the evidence stands, following the Supreme Court's July 1 ruling on presidential immunity. "The Court gave prosecutors until September 26th to argue that the remaining counts of the superseding indictment do not run afoul of the Supreme Court's July ruling on...