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State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie has reportedly been canoodling with a lovely lobbyist, and it’s all the talk in Albany — but he is refusing to comment on her and scoffs at the notion of a conflict of interest. The 56-year-old powerful Dem has been in a romantic relationship with 32-year-old Rebecca Lamorte, a lobbyist and communications coordinator for the union Greater New York Laborers-Employers Cooperation & Education Trust, or LECET, since at least November, according to the outlet NY Focus. Heastie got feisty with reporters when asked about the couple Monday morning, bristling at the suggestion he should discuss...

WASHINGTON -- President Obama is barnstorming the heartland to boost US jobs in a taxpayer-financed luxury bus the government had custom built -- in Canada, The Post has learned. The $1.1 million vehicle, one of two that Quebec-based Prevost sold the government, has been tricked out by the Secret Service with state-of-the-art security features and creature comforts. It's a VIP H3-45 model, the company's top of the line, and is used by major traveling rock bands. "That's the more luxurious model," Christine Garant of Prevost told The Post.

It seems former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is more skilled at international relations than we thought. She was spotted at one of Buenos Aires’ most exclusive tango spots canoodling with a handsome, and age-appropriate, Argentine, reports Politico’s Aoife McCarthy. Sources confirm this is not the first time the 70-year-old former secretary — who has been divorced since 1982 — has been spotted with this handsome man of mystery. And, apparently, the rendezvousing — with the man who has been described as her very own “Mr. Big” — has been going on for quite some time. Flashback: Bill Clinton did...