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An Argentinian waiter linked to the investigation into One Direction star Liam Payne’s death has admitted using cocaine with the singer — but insists he was not his drug dealer. Braian Paiz, 24, told TMZ that he did cocaine and drank whiskey with the troubled star just two days before the singer took a fatal plunge from the third-floor balcony …

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz marveled in a post-election interview that middle-class Americans struggling with economic issues chose billionaire Donald Trump over him and Vice President Kamala Harris, a team he billed as a more middle-class ticket by comparison. Walz, Harris’ running mate, sat down for an interview with Minnesota Public Radio on Thursday where he weighed in on what he thought went …

LAS VEGAS — A judge in Las Vegas sentenced a Texas man to 100 years in prison for his role in a two-state shooting rampage on Thanksgiving 2020 that included the killing of a man in Nevada and a shootout with authorities in Arizona. Christopher McDonnell, 32, pleaded guilty in October to more than 20 felonies including murder, attempted murder, murder conspiracy, …

The truth is out there — they’re just too scared to tell us. A New Jersey state senator has bluntly accused the government of hiding the truth about the mysterious drones flying over the Garden State, saying the feds are too “fearful” of how people will react. “Whatever these drones are doing, the government really doesn’t want us to know,” Sen. …

Just call it Operation Drone Home. New Jersey officials are searching for clues to the mysterious drones spotted in the skies above the Garden State for nearly a month now — and The Post got an inside look at their new beachfront headquarters. The police surveillance trailer, parked right on Vision Beach in Seaside Heights, has three massive TV screens, …

President-elect Trump picked Devin Nunes, the chief executive of his social media platform Truth Social, to head the president’s Intelligence Advisory Board, he announced Saturday. Nunes, a former California Republican congressman, will chair the body that offers the president advice on the effectiveness of the nation’s intelligence community and is made up of “distinguished citizens from outside of the Federal …

Inclement weather plagued areas of the US in the first half of the weekend, with dangerous conditions including heavy snow in upstate New York, a major ice storm in Midwest states, severe weather warnings around Lake Tahoe and unusual tornado activity in Central California. The ice storm beginning Friday evening created treacherous driving conditions across Iowa and eastern Nebraska Friday …

Attorneys for lawyer-turned-convict Alex Murdaugh filed to appeal his sentence on Tuesday, saying improper testimony and court clerk Becky Hill’s alleged jury tampering “infected the trial with unfairness.” Murdaugh, 56, is serving a life sentence for fatally shooting his wife, Maggie, and youngest son, Paul, in June 2021 on their family’s hunting estate in Colleton County, South Carolina. Prosecutors argued …

Nevin Shapiro, the former Miami booster whose rogue involvement with the school led to a massive NCAA investigation and significant sanctions against the Hurricanes, had his sentence for masterminding a $930 million Ponzi scheme commuted by President Joe Biden. Shapiro was among the 1,499 recipients of commutations announced by the White House on Friday. Federal records show that Shapiro, who …

A Washington, D.C.-area restaurant server has been fired after she spoke out about possibly refusing service to incoming Trump administration officials. “I personally would refuse to serve any person in office who I know of as being a sex trafficker or trying to deport millions of people,” Suzannah Van Rooy, a server at Beuchert’s Saloon on Capitol Hill, told the …