Some brokers and developers in the region are waiting eagerly to see if the election of a democratic socialist will drive more wealthy New Yorkers south.

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Zohran Mamdani has been planning his mayoral transition for months and appears poised to hire veterans of city government to key posts in his administration.

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Cleveland radio host Tony Rizzo raised more questions about rookie quarterback Shedeur Sander's lack of playing time amid the team's slow start and continued offensive struggles.

Three Chinese scholars charged with smuggling biological materials into the U.S. while at University of Michigan, threatening national security according to DOJ.

Alex Ovechkin scored his 900th NHL goal after breaking Wayne Gretzky's record in April, becoming the league's first player to reach this historic milestone.

The Key West police added that a local businessman had alerted the department of a fake bill "in his till" and requested that they issue a warning to the masses.

Jaxson Dart wants to fight to the finish and if that means staying on the field down the stretch of games long since decided, so be it. 

The Nets juggled their lineup to shore up their league-worst defense, and the result was a come-from-behind 112-103 victory against decimated Indiana in front of 16,103 at Gainbridge Fieldhouse on Wednesday.

"You’re the perfect human," sister Khloé Kardashian gushed.

New Jersey residents lie me are being strangled by Democrats' policies: we feel the bruises around our necks with every electric bill we open and every property-tax check we write.

Phone records also allegedly uncovered a trove of "sexually explicit images and videos" of Polston and the teen.

This time last year, no one had really heard of him. Now, Zohran Mamdani is the first Muslim, millennial and person of south Asian heritage to run America’s largest city.

Jonathan Freedland speaks to Ed Pilkington about Mamdani’s historic win, his challenge to the president, and what the Democrats should take away from a successful night at the ballot box

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The Space Weather Prediction Center said to keep an eye out Thursday evening into Friday morning for the possibility of seeing auroras.

Having fallen in love with the sound of his own voice and apparently convinced he is heaven-sent, a besotted Zohran Mamdani missed the warning that you never get a second chance to make a first impression.

It’s something that hasn’t been done in the majors since Joe Torre and the Yankees won three in a row from 1998-2000.

The youngster told The Post’s Jon Heyman that he had been motivated when he pitched Game 3 of the American Wild Card Series by “unhinged” Sox fans who had taken to taunting his family, including his mom, on social media. 

"The first time he did it was with me when I was younger than 7," the girl, now 17, revealed.

If you don't want to read subtitles, there's a version with AI-enhanced tech that matches lip flapping with the dialogue.

Millions of Thai take part in ancient annual festivities on 5 November that are held on the full moon of the 12th month in the Thai lunar calendar. Many head to waterways to release ‘krathong’ loaded with candles, flowers and incense, letting their misfortune float away along rivers and canals. Lanterns are also released into the night sky with the belief that bad luck will fly away

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Antoan Richardson departed to the rival Braves as a free agent after he and the Mets failed to reach an agreement on a new contract.

“I'll never forget,” Kirk told Fox News host Jesse Watters. “I'm just being like, ‘Charlie's been shot. He's been shot. Get the kids. Get security. Get the kids. Get the kids. He's been shot.’

The smoke-eaters were responding to a fire in front of a building between Intervale Avenue and Kelly Street in Longwood when the blast occurred around 7:06 p.m., according to the FDNY.

Lukoil’s Burgas plant is Bulgaria’s only refinery; Slovakia running out of reasons to buy Russian gas as US import deal takes shape. What we know on day 1,352

Bulgaria is preparing to seize control of Lukoil’s Burgas oil refinery and sell it to a new owner after the Russian oil company came under US sanctions, according to Bulgarian media reports. Burgas is Bulgaria’s only oil refinery and as part of Lukoil is at risk of having to shut down because of the sanctions. The US joined Britain last month in imposing sanctions on Russia’s two largest oil companies, Lukoil and Rosneft, over Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine. Legislation was being drafted to allow the seizure, Bulgarian outlet Mediapool reported on Wednesday. Lukoil said last week that it was moving to sell foreign assets because of the sanctions.

With international action progressively choking off Russia’s petroleum exports, Poland said on Wednesday that it was working on a deal to import liquefied natural gas from the US to supply Ukraine and Slovakia. Officials expect to announce a joint declaration to boost imports after a meeting of the parties at a transatlantic energy conference in Athens later this week, Reuters cited a source as saying. The Polish energy ministry told Reuters late on Wednesday: “We are working with our partners – Americans, Slovaks, Ukrainians – on the possibilities of importing American gas to boost the energy security of our region.”

Slovakia’s Putin-friendly prime minister, Robert Fico, has objected to EU restrictions on Russian gas imports. Reuters said that according to its sources, as much as 4bn-5bn cubic metres of US gas per year could be shipped by southern Poland to Slovakia – about the same as Slovakia’s annual consumption. The EU in October put forward new plans to end its purchases of Russian oil and gas with a fresh package of sanctions that bans Russian LNG imports by 2027.

Moscow’s forces appear to be tightening their grip on Pokrovsk, Pjotr Sauer reports, with street fighting raging across the ruined city in eastern Ukraine. Ukraine’s general staff on Wednesday denied Russian claims that its troops had been encircled, saying efforts were under way to reinforce the flanks around Pokrovsk and the nearby town of Myrnohrad.

Artem Karyakin, a well-known soldier in the Ukrainian armed forces, posted that Russian troops were “present in every district of the city”. “There is no good news from there; the situation remains tense. While Russian forces have not yet fully taken control of the city, fighting is ongoing.” Emil Kastehelmi, an analyst with the Finland-based Black Bird Group, which monitors the war, posted: “Ukraine may be repeating a costly mistake in Pokrovsk … seen for example in Vuhledar and Kursk – a reluctance to conduct a controlled, militarily justified withdrawal from a threatened salient when the situation no longer favours the defender.”

Angelina Jolie has made a surprise visit to Kherson, according to media reports. The frontline city lies on the other side of the Dnieper river from the Russian army. It would be the US actor’s second visit to Ukraine since the Russian full-scale invasion of February 2022. According to local reporting, Jolie visited a maternity ward and a children’s hospital in Kherson, which was briefly occupied by Russian forces in 2022 and still comes under daily Russian bombardment. A photo published by local official Vitaly Bogdanov showed Jolie wearing a bulletproof vest with Ukrainian insignia. Photographs circulating online were also said to show Jolie making a visit to Mykolaiv, to the north-west of Kherson. Neither Jolie nor the Ukrainian government confirmed the visit.

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