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President-elect Donald Trump on Friday announced his choices to lead the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as his pick for the surgeon general post.  Trump, 78, nominated Dr. Marty Makary – a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine – to serve as FDA commissioner; former Congressman Dr. Dave Weldon …

Ex-NBC anchor Brian Williams waited until after the 11th hour to dress down Democrats’ 2024 campaign strategy, panning the party as dismally detached from reality. “It is tough love time for the Democratic Party. I think it needs to be stripped down and rebuilt,” the former “11th Hour” host told Seth Meyers on his late night show on Wednesday, adding …

More than half of Americans support President-elect Donald Trump’s general agenda as he prepares for his second term in the White House, according to a poll released Friday.  The Pew Research Center survey found 53% of Americans “somewhat” or “strongly” approve of the president-elect’s agenda, while 46% disapprove.  Support for Trump’s second-term plans broke along party lines, with 88% of …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …