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President-elect Donald Trump tapped longtime fracking advocate Chris Wright to lead his administration’s Secretary of Energy, he announced Saturday. Wright, the chief executive of oilfield services group Liberty Energy, helped launch the American Shale Revolution of the mid-2000s that significantly increased US production of oil and natural gas. “As Secretary of Energy, Chris will be a key leader, driving innovation, …

Details have begun to emerge about the parents of Amanda Overstreet, the murdered Colorado teen whose severed head and hands were found in a freezer in January — more than 15 years after she was last seen alive. Overstreet’s late stepfather, Bradley Imer, had a history of runs-in with police, online court records confirm. Arizona authorities busted him back in …

This family is snake-charmed. A Florida man has transformed his garage into a haven for hundreds of exotic reptiles — and even lets his young kids cuddle with the slithery serpents in bed. “It’s normal for our family,” Socratis Christoforu, of Fort Lauderdale, told SWNS. Socratis Christoforu and his family have about 200 exotic snakes living in their home. Socratis …

President-elect Donald Trump is expected to return to the Big Apple’s Madison Square Garden Saturday night to attend an Ultimate Fighting Championship event. The trip to MSG, where Trump held a massive rally in his former hometown just two weeks before the Nov. 5 election, comes at the end of a week in which he revealed his Cabinet picks at …

LIMA — Lame-duck President Biden was relegated to the back corner of the APEC conference’s annual family photo — as Chinese President Xi Jinping was honored with a front-and-center position next to the host country’s President Dina Boluarte. The petty humiliation of America’s leader comes ahead of his Saturday afternoon meeting with Xi — who has been feted with relative …

Hizzoner is seeking a Hail Mary in the unlikeliest of places. Mayor Eric Adams has visited the Queens burial site of the late Chabad Lubavitch leader Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson at least twice since being indicted on public corruption charges in September, insiders said. Most recently, the devout Pentecostal Christian schlepped to Montefiore Cemetery in Springfield Gardens, shortly past midnight …

Comedian Bill Maher said the Democratic Party had to look in the mirror and that focusing on woke issues most voters don’t care about had cost them the 2024 presidential election. “Democrats have become like a royal family that, because of so much incest, has unfortunately had children who are r——d,” Maher said to audience applause. Bill Maher blasted woke …

A Staten Island man claims he deserves $600,000 because there were delays during his Air France trip to France to attend his brother’s funeral. Nicholas Owoyemi took an Air France flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens to Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris Sept. 20, with a planned connection to Murtala Muhammed International Airport in his homeland of …

A New Jersey man was spotted doing his neigh-borhood shopping with the help of a real life little pony pal this week. The unidentified shopper – filmed with his own little Mr. Ed in Woodbridge’s Wegmans supermarket – isn’t looking to stirrup trouble. He said he has a mobility issue and needs to lean against the miniature horse — a …

Soft-on-crime Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is quietly rolling out a publicly-funded program to help his own staffers traumatized by the cases they handle, The Post has learned. The woke prosecutor, slammed by critics for villainizing victims while going easy on suspects, is shelling out $40,000 in taxpayer cash to develop a so-called “Vicarious Trauma and Well-Being Plan” for his …