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Chinese leader Xi Jinping would likely see President-elect Donald Trump’s invitation to attend his inauguration as too risky to accept, and the gesture from Trump may have little bearing on the increasingly competitive ties between the two nations as the White House changes hands, experts say. Trump’s incoming press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, confirmed on Thursday that Trump extended an invitation to the …

Bronx Rep. Ritchie Torres urged Gov. Kathy Hochul to get rid of ghost gun loopholes in New York state law in the wake of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s cold-blooded killing. In a letter fired off to Hochul Wednesday and obtained by The Post, the Democrat called for a “complete and comprehensive prohibition of ghost guns” across New York after Luigi …

Dan Slavin, a construction subcontractor in California, has parented his daughter Kaitlyn through an experience no one in their family expected this school year.  Over the summer, they got word Martin Luther King High School, where Kaitlyn competes in cross country, would be getting a new transfer student who would be competing on Kaitlyn’s team. That student was a transgender athlete.  Slavin says he …

Hawaii photographer Hannah Kobayashi who was missing for a month before she reconnected with her family this week won’t be returning home, her sister revealed Thursday — calling the whole ordeal “absolute hell.” Sydni Kobayashi said in a long statement Thursday that she and her mother spoke with their 30-year-old relative over the phone, but still don’t know exactly where …

A US Senator from Connecticut said the mysterious drones spotted recently flying over states in the mid-Atlantic region should be “shot down, if necessary.” In an interview on Capitol Hill Thursday, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said intelligence analysis is needed on the drones and the US must act “more aggressively” against the sightings that have been reported. “We should be doing some …

The ex-wife of a prominent Los Angeles doctor – gunned down in an ambush-style attack outside his clinic in August – was arrested and charged with his murder as police raided her home. Ahang Mirshojae, née Kelk, was among five people arrested earlier this week for conspiracy to commit the murder of Dr. Hamid Mirshojae, the Los Angeles Police Department …

Whoopi Goldberg and several of her co-hosts on “The View” Thursday found themselves agreeing with Elon Musk’s opinion on weight loss drug Ozempic – a position that clashes with Health and Human Services Secretary-designate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s stance on the medication.  Musk, one of President-elect Donald Trump’s closest confidants, has expressed his support for more widespread use of Ozempic …

A big shot developer whose twin sons Oren and Alon Alexander allegedly drugged and raped dozens of women offered a puzzling grin after he left their court appearance Thursday. Shlomy Alexander flashed the odd smile and said “great” when asked by a reporter how he was doing following his 37-year-old sons’ arrests, according to NBC 6 footage. The twin brothers, …

Police in San Francisco identified UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s alleged killer, Luigi Mangione, and alerted the FBI four days before his high-profile arrest, a new report says. An officer tipped off the feds after recognizing the 26-year-old’s face in surveillance images put out by the NYPD after Thompson was gunned down last week, sources told the San Francisco Chronicle. Police in …

Food workers in Washington, D.C., pledged to refuse service and cause other inconveniences for members of the incoming Trump administration. Industry veterans, bartenders and servers in the nation’s capital told the Washingtonian that resistance to the Republican figures in the progressive city was inevitable and a matter of conscience.  “You expect the masses to just ignore RFK eating at Le Diplomate on …