President-elect Donald Trump will name hedge fund mogul Scott Bessent as the next Treasury secretary, four sources tell The Post, ending a rough-and-tumble race that saw fierce jockeying among power players across Wall Street. Bessent “got the thumbs up” late Thursday during a meeting with Trump, 78, at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla., one source close to the …
Read More »Feds blew $267M fighting ‘misinformation’ under Biden — as Trump vows to ban ‘censorship cartel’
WASHINGTON — The federal government spent up to $267 million of your money to study and counteract so-called “misinformation” since President Biden took office in January 2021 — as President-elect Donald Trump vows to bar official use of the term. The funds doled out to universities, nonprofits and private companies spiked from $2.2 million in 2020, the final full year …
Read More »TikTokker’s Ancestry DNA test may have solved notorious Baby Garnet case
A TikTokker has revealed how a simple Ancestry DNA test may have solved a notorious 27-year murder mystery known as the Baby Garnet case — and landed her grandmother in jail. Jenna Rose Gerwatowski, 23, revealed in a clip viewed more than 1.3 million times since Wednesday that she decided to take a DNA test a few years ago merely …
Read More »‘We need to put Americans first’
Former Silicon Valley Democratic donor Allison Huynh declared that “the voters made their decision” to vote out progressive politics in California. Huynh, who had previously raised millions of dollars for the Democratic Party, has come out against her former party for failing big cities, particularly San Francisco. “Well, I think liberals have just been too leftist, and they’re just out of …
Read More »Texas offers Trump 1,400-acre border ranch for mass deportations
The state of Texas has offered up a 1,400-acre ranch along its border with Mexico to assist the incoming Trump administration with a mass deportation effort. Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham told The Post that the Lone Star State is offering up the site — which is reportedly for related new detention centers — because it is “looking to be …
Read More »Controversial hi-rise near Brooklyn Botanic Garden OK’d by NYC Council — with plans for more sunlight after outcry
Let the sun shine in. A controversial high-rise development that neighbors feared would cast a harmful shadow over the Brooklyn Botanic Garden has gotten the OK from the City Council — with changes that would bring more necessary sunlight to the beloved greenspace. The Crown Heights hi-rise development once poised to cast harmful shade on sensitive plants at Brooklyn Botanic …
Read More »Event for slain NYPD hero Jonathan Diller raises staggering $70K
A scholarship honoring slain NYPD Detective Jonathan Diller raised a staggering $70,000 at its first official fundraiser Wednesday — and the steady stream of donations is far from slowing down. As many as 500 loved ones, former law-enforcement veterans and generous partiers packed into the fallen cop’s favorite Wantaugh, LI, watering hole to empty their pockets for the new fund …
Read More »Floyd Mayweather bodyguards accused of smashing $3K camera at NYC studio
Boxing legend Floyd Mayweather’s security team allegedly smashed a $3,000 camera when a fight broke out at a New York City studio, police sources told The Post on Friday. The incident took place during Mayweather’s interview at the offices of streaming platform ZEAM Studio at 1021 Sixth Ave. in Manhattan, sources said. Officials said at the time of the interview, …
Read More »Donald Trump Jr. mocks ‘Morning Joe’ co-hosts visiting his dad at Mar-a-Lago to make amends
Donald Trump Jr. has mocked MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski for meeting his dad, President-elect Donald Trump, so soon after suggesting he was the new Adolf Hitler. Don Jr. joined those accusing the “Morning Joe” duo of hypocrisy when Newsmax’s Rob Finnerty pointed out on Thursday that “two weeks ago, they were calling him Hitler, and now they’re traveling …
Read More »Sarah Palin teases DC return as supporters call for ‘Mother of Maga’ to get Cabinet post
A smiling Sarah Palin posted a cryptic photo at the Capitol — teasing a possible announcement as her followers call for the “Mother of MAGA” to have a place in President-elect Donald Trump’s administration. The former governor of Alaska grinned in the photo posted Thursday showing her in dark-colored workout gear and pink sneakers and pointing a finger while with …
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