Hundreds of Culinary Union workers go on strike at hotel near Las Vegas Strip
Notre Dame Cathedral prepares to reopen
Precious ornaments, including a 14th-century statue of the Virgin Mary, are being returned to Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral as the church prepares to reopen after it was devastated by a fire in 2019. Here’s how the iconic cathedral has been restored since the blaze.
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Emilia Pérez Is Designed to Make You Love or Hate It
The film is messy, excessive, and manipulative—and spectacular because of it.
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University of Idaho victims’ families seeking donations to attend Bryan Kohberger’s murder trial
The parents of Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves are now requesting donations from the public in order to be present in the courtroom.
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bet365 Bonus Code POSTNEWS unlocks a choice of $150 in bonus bets or a $1,000 first bet safety net for any game, including Georgia-Tennessee
New users at bet365 can access a special offer with the bet365 bonus code POSTNEWS, unlocking either $150 in bonus bets or a $1,000 First Bet Safety Net for this Saturday’s college football showdown between Georgia and Tennessee.
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UFC 309: Young wrestling star Bo Nickal set to make long-awaited MSG debut
UFC 309 marks the Madison Square Garden debut for the biggest blue chipper in the sport, Bo Nickal.
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Jake Paul beats 58-year-old Mike Tyson in a much-hyped Netflix boxing match
Jake Paul won a unanimous decision over Mike Tyson as the hits didn't match the hype in a fight between a young YouTuber-turned-boxer and the 58-year-old former heavyweight champion.
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Four arrested in insurance fraud plot with bizarre twist
Nationwide cases of insurance fraud cost the United States about $40 billion a year, according to the FBI. This week in California, four people were arrested in an alleged insurance fraud plot with a bizarre twist.
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Israeli troops reach deepest point in Lebanon since Oct. 1 invasion: report
Israeli ground forces reached their deepest point in Lebanon since they invaded six weeks ago, before pulling back early Saturday after fierce battles with Hezbollah militants, the media reported.
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Stingless bees' lead conservation efforts in the Amazon rainforest
As President Joe Biden makes history by becoming the first U.S. president to visit the Amazon rainforest, efforts are being made to preserve the planet’s critical ecosystems. One project is being led by a surprising species.
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10 newborns killed after fire engulfs neonatal intensive care unit in India
The fire in the neonatal intensive care unit occurred late Friday at a hospital in Jhansi city in India's Uttar Pradesh state.
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Creepy NYC construction workers film, use binoculars to spy on female students in college dorm
Creepy construction workers are spying on female fashion students through their dorm windows, even using binoculars, filming them and setting up chairs to watch them, disturbed co-eds and nearby residents tell The Post.
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Are the Nets too good to tank?
They have to understand that their overachieving while others in the East are underachieving doesn’t change the plan.
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Deli owner bans MTA drivers from store over bathroom use
The long-simmering pissing match between the Dumbo deli and the bus drivers came to a crescendo last month, after the store owner had a bus-sized beef with a driver who no longer works for the MTA, sources said.
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Ukraine president says he wants to end Russia war with diplomacy next year
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he is certain that the war will end "sooner" than it otherwise would have once Donald Trump becomes president.
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Hair-freezing competition canceled due to unusually uncooperative weather
A hair-freezing contest held at a hot springs in Canada was cancelled due to the weather not being up to par. The acceptable temperature should be -4°F or lower to hold the event.
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Jake Paul's cornerman goes viral for 'Make America Healthy Again' hat
One of Jake Paul's coaches went viral during the fighter's win over Mike Tyson in their boxing spectacle on Friday night at AT&T Stadium in Texas.
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They married at 98 and 96: ‘Who doesn’t love a great love story?’
“We really did fall in love. I didn’t know it could happen again,” said Jo Cartwright, 96.
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Pennsylvania Democrats openly admit to counting illegal ballots in McCormick-Casey race
Republicans have accused Pennsylvania Democrats of attempting to "steal" the Senate election after officials in blue counties admitted to defying court precedent and election law.
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Bronx drivers bypass rules of the road to avoid $250 fines, save parking spots
Bronx drivers are getting creative to evade bus lane cameras and save parking spots on their block.
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Eye Opener: Dangerous smog chokes India, Pakistan
Record-breaking levels of smog in India and Pakistan are visible from space and posing a health risk to millions. Meanwhile, in Australia, an emperor penguin found on a tourist beach miles from home is getting the royal treatment. All that and all that matters in today's Eye Opener.
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Biden attends final international summits of his presidency
President Joe Biden is taking part in the final major international summits of his presidency. On a six-day trip to Latin America, he will be attending meetings of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation in Peru and the G20 summit in Brazil.
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China braces for second Trump term
While on the campaign trail, President-elect Donald Trump vowed to put large tariffs on Chinese goods to protect American manufacturing, which might threaten the Asian nation's already-slowing economy. But Chinese President Xi Jinping warned the aggressive tariff plan would be like "going back in history."
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Trump moves quickly to announce picks for Cabinet, administration positions
President-elect Donald Trump is moving quickly to fill key spots in his incoming administration. On Friday night, he tapped campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt as White House press secretary, a position that is not subject to Congressional approval. But some of his other choices for Cabinet positions are — and they may face an uphill battle for confirmation.
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Jake Paul-Mike Tyson snoozer draws harsh criticism: 'Not great for boxing'
Jake Paul's win over Mike Tyson was convincing in the ring but fans who tuned in to watch the bout were left unimpressed with how it went down as criticism flew on social media.
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This mom moved 9,000 miles seeking medical treatment for her son
A mother and son flew 9,000 miles to seek care for his spinal condition after they'd exhausted options in their home country.
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Texas vs. Arkansas pick: College football odds, predictions, best bets Saturday
Texas will easily be the best team that Arkansas will face this season.
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Clemson vs. Pitt, UAB vs. Memphis predictions: College football odds, picks
A quarterback change can shake things. In the case of Pitt, it’s spelling the end of its dream season.
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Utah vs. Colorado picks, predictions: Week 12 CFB odds, best bets
Utah’s defense is arguably the best the Buffaloes have seen all season and I expect it to travel well.
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‘Santa Clause’ star ‘knew’ the 1994 classic was going to be ‘huge’
David Krumholtz was only 16 when he starred in the Christmas movie, but he knew on set that it was destined to be a hit.
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Meet the ‘Serial Killers Next Door”
A new book explores the unexpected number of next-door serial killers.
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WINSTON MARSHALL: A British rock star's view of Trump's win - and the UK's plight
Former Mumford & Sons guitarist Winston Marshall is thrilled Donald Trump is returning to the White House, but not so sanguine about the future of his United Kingdom.
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Mexico soccer coach Javier Aguirre injured after being hit in head by apparent beer can that was thrown from the stands
Mexican national team coach Javier Aguirre sustained a head injury after being hit by an object at the end of a Nations League quarterfinal match against Honduras on Friday.
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Israel Strikes Near Beirut as Two Medics Killed in South Lebanon
Israel’s bombing campaign has complicated U.S. diplomacy to stop the Israel-Hezbollah war.
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Use the Underdog Fantasy promo code NYPNEWS to claim up to $1,000 in bonus cash with a 50% deposit match offer ahead of Saturday's slate, featuring UFC 309 and exciting college football matchups.
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Star snaps of the week: Life’s a Wonderland with Selena Gomez & Paris Hilton
Selena Gomez is all ears for outfit ideas with a top hat and bunny ears.
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Liberal ladies withhold sex over Trump victory and more: Letters to the Editor — Nov. 17, 2024
NY Post readers discuss women withholding sex over Trump's victory and more.
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California deserves all the scorn it gets for holding up House election results
Yet again, California has America rolling its eyebrows: By as late as midday Wednesday — more than a week after Election Day — it had still failed to count enough votes in six House races to determine winners.
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Kamala Harris hammered cracks into key Jewish blocs, all part of elite Dem contempt for the voters
In New York and Pennsylvania, the veep's terrible policies on Israel and embrace of Jew-hate did her real damage and send a signal Dems need to rehtink.
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Making Government Efficient Again
An incoming Trump administration has signaled its intention to ransack the civil service. But the government needs reform, not demolition.
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Democrats got wiped out in 2004. This is what they did next.
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) looks down before delivering a concession speech during the election at Faneuil Hall November 3, 2004, in Boston. | Spencer Platt/Getty Images In 2004, life as a Democrat was pretty bleak. The party lost a presidential election to George W. Bush for a second time. Adding insult to injury, Democratic nominee John Kerry lost the popular vote. The party was seemingly losing ground, after having won the popular vote in 2000 and losing the Electoral College thanks only to an exceedingly close (and contested) loss in Florida. It was a different world back then, but Democrats sensed that voters resoundingly had rejected what they had to offer — even while running against a Republican candidate broadly considered vulnerable. In 2024, life as a Democrat is pretty bleak in many of the same ways it was two decades ago. Ballots are still being counted after the presidential election, but the Democratic presidential nominee is on track to lose the popular vote for the first time in 20 years. That popular vote loss has forced a broader reckoning: Winning the popular vote “acted as a kind of salve: Yes, the Electoral College may have delivered Bush and Trump the presidency, but on some level, their administrations were illegitimate, unsanctioned by the popular will,” said Nicole Hemmer, a political historian at Vanderbilt University focused on media, conservatism, and the presidency. Without a “but the popular vote” fallback, Democrats are confronting a harsh reality. “For the first time since 2004, this election felt like an embrace of conservatism, albeit a much different kind of conservatism than the one associated with the 2004 winner,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. Now, as in 2004, Democrats are engaging in what can be generously viewed as introspection (or, less generously, a “circular firing squad”) to chart a new course back to power and assess what went so very wrong this time around. The blame for that is up for debate: It may have been the economy, Democrats’ embrace of “wokeness,” President Joe Biden’s decision to run for a second term, the fact that many Americans actually liked what Trump was selling, or any number of other factors. Though it may take months for what specifically went wrong to become clearer, the 2004 election and its aftermath might provide some insight into how Democrats can move forward. After all, four years after the Bush-Kerry debacle, Democrats won the 2008 election in a landslide, with Barack Obama beating John McCain by nearly 10 million votes and entering the White House with massive congressional majorities at his back. What Democrats today can learn from the party’s loss in 2004 There are obvious differences between 2004 and 2024. The aughts election was dominated by 9/11 and the Global War on Terror that followed. This year, those topics barely registered, while Trump and Biden’s respective records, the economy, and the culture wars took center stage. Further, Kerry’s campaign started with winning a very competitive primary, whereas Vice President Kamala Harris took over after Biden stepped aside and gave her his endorsement. But the vibes among Democrats are similar, and what they do next may determine whether they see a revival in the 2026 midterms and the elections that follow. Overall, Democrats took three lessons from 2004. Whether one believes those lessons apply to 2024 depends, in large part, on what one believes went wrong for Harris in her loss to Trump. But, given Democrats’ successful recovery from 2004, it’s a history lesson worth taking. 1) They pursued a 50-state strategy Following the 2004 loss, a popular meme rocketed around the (still somewhat nascent) internet: a map that depicted the Democratic “United States of Canada” as existing along the coasts and a Republican “Jesusland” encompassing the vast majority of land in the US. If that seems reductive and problematic on multiple fronts, you’re not wrong, but the map, aforementioned problems aside, served in part as shorthand for pointing out Democrats’ turnout problem. Yes, Kerry had turned out 9 million more votes than Al Gore had four years before, but he still fell almost 3 million short of Bush. That gap revealed a vulnerability for Democrats: their inability to mobilize a broad coalition in swing states and beyond that would translate into an Electoral College victory. Kerry couldn’t summon the kind of voter enthusiasm necessary to match Bush’s strong performance in rural areas and outer suburbs. To goose turnout, Democrats looked to Howard Dean, who ran a populist primary campaign but lost to Kerry. Elected as chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2005, Dean became a proponent of a “50-state strategy.” The idea behind this strategy was that Democrats need to try to compete in every state, maximizing turnout in Democratic areas while cutting into Republican margins where possible. This year, former DNC chair Donna Brazile, like Dean, believes part of the solution could be the return of the 50-state strategy. They’re not alone: “We cannot run in just the few states that we need,” said Claire Potter, a professor emerita of history at the New School. “The Democrats have, in some ways, really backed off that strategy, and I think they’re wrong to have done so.” The Harris campaign — for very understandable reasons — did not utilize Dean’s method. With only a few months to campaign, Harris focused on swing states and select demographic groups. She largely did not visit historically “safe” Democratic states. While it’s not clear that she could have stanched the bleeding in those places, there were significant rightward shifts from New York City to Southern California. And it’s not clear how well the 50-states theory has aged. After all, Hillary Clinton ran up the popular vote total after winning big in solidly blue states, but she got to serve as president for exactly zero days. That strategy was later credited with helping Democrats make gains in the 2006 midterms and with helping to put Obama in the White House in 2008. And after 2024, where Democrats lost ground in just about every county in the US, a plan to boost the party’s popularity nationally is not one it can afford to ignore. 2) Democrats reevaluated their messaging In 2004, Democrats didn’t have a response to the rise of the right-wing blog Drudge Report and Fox News’s consolidation around Republicans. Kerry was often cast as an elitist with an expensive haircut, and right-wing commentators successfully turned one of his strengths as a candidate — his military service in Vietnam — into a liability through viral attack ads. “There is this kind of disingenuous attack on Kerry as the Harvard boy, as somebody who’s faking having really fought in Vietnam,” Potter said. “Bush is able to play the card of being an outsider, even though he is an incumbent, even though he went to Yale, even though his father was president.” In response, Democrats sought to reevaluate their overall messaging strategy. The influential book Don’t Think of an Elephant! by the cognitive linguist George Lakoff served as a guidebook for reframing debates in their own terms and for explaining their policy positions by evoking values of empathy, fairness, and community without adopting the language of conservatives. They also embraced Dean — dubbed by the Washington Post in 2005 as an “outsider insurgent” who wore beat-up shoes and flew coach, spending most of his time outside of DC. In 2024, Democrats were again outflanked by a new Republican media machine — this time, including the likes of Joe Rogan and Theo Von — to deliver their message. Harris, for her part, declined to appear on Rogan’s podcast, reportedly for fear of how it would be perceived within the party. 3) Democrats sought to become a party of ideas Kerry campaign adviser Kenneth Baer said that, in 2024, Democrats repeated their mistake in 2004 of defining themselves as being the opposite of Republicans. “Smart people seem to have come around to the idea that you can’t just say Trump’s terrible,” Baer said, arguing that Democrats had the same issue in 2004, when Kerry spent much of his time on the campaign trail criticizing Bush instead of defining affirmative reasons to vote for Democrats. That called for Democrats to “rethink all our policies and our approaches,” Baer said. Baer went on to found the magazine Democracy: A Journal of Ideas as a platform for those ideas. That’s where Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), then a Harvard Law School professor, published a 2007 manifesto about how financial products like mortgages and credit cards should be regulated by the government. That idea would later give rise to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Today, some Democrats say the party still needs to better connect with the working class, but Baer noted that there is disagreement about what that means and whether that should involve an economic or cultural approach. The limits of political strategy Democrats would very much like a silver-bullet strategy that guarantees them a post-2004-esque recovery. But the truth is, political strategy and planning can only go so far. And that may be one of the biggest lessons from two decades ago. The party’s return to power in 2008 was principally driven by two factors: Obama was a generationally politically gifted politician. George W. Bush was a generationally terrible president whose second term featured a bungled and deadly response to Hurricane Katrina; an even more disastrous and deadly handling of the Iraq War (the false pretenses of which came fully to light during Bush’s second term); and the 2008 financial crisis and ensuing economic meltdown. “The conditions that would collapse Bush’s support in his second term were already in place when he won reelection,” Hemmer, the political historian, said. So how Democrats do in 2026, 2028, and beyond will likely have a lot to do with Trump’s performance during his second term. Today, preliminary exit polls suggest Trump is unpopular, his proposed tariffs could be disastrous for the economy, Democrats may mobilize against his policies as they did in his first term, and he may only have a very narrow House majority to work with, potentially hampering his agenda. If such a collapse happens, however, Democrats also have to be prepared to seize on it.
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St. John’s getting ‘big jump’ in competition during stretch that will ‘set the tone’
The start has been fun. The national ranking is good for optics. But now we begin to find out about Rick Pitino’s Johnnies.
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‘Lanterns’ HBO Series Casts Poorna Jagannathan
She will join Kyle Chandler, Aaron Pierre, and Kelly Macdonald in the eight-episode series.
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Soft-on-crime Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg drops $40K on trauma-relief program for ‘snowflake’ staff
Woke Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg – who critics say notoriously treats criminals like they’re the victims – plans to quietly roll out a taxpayer-funded program to help pacify stressed staffers, The Post has learned.
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A musical installation for your living room – that takes an entire week to hear
Michael Schumacher’s computer-based “Living Room Pieces” generates a seven-day algorithmic score for your home
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Harris’ campaign blew $2.6M on private jets in final weeks of campaign
Vice President Kamala Harris shelled out plenty on private jet travel in the final dying gasps of her presidential run.
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How Democrat gerrymandering has made it nearly impossible for Republicans to make even bigger gains in the House
“What you’ve seen is that you have many fewer competitive seats in the country because the way in which redistricting is conducted," said former New York GOP Rep. John Faso,
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The Uplift: Photos from Helene
A woman from the Ashville area aims to reconnect victims of Hurricane Helene with the family photos they lost in the storm. David Begnaud surprises a selfless woman, known for giving rides to those in need, with a brand new car. Plus, more heartwarming stories.
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