The audio from President-elect Donald Trump's sentencing hearing was released on Friday and showed a defiant Trump making the case that the November election vindicated his position.

Special guests, including Simone Biles and Oprah Winfrey, offered tributes to the longtime host, capping off a week that “Today” had called a “Hoda-bration!”

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The measures largely echo agreements the family made for his first term, including appointing an outside ethics lawyer and limiting Mr. Trump’s access to detailed financial information.

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Sizzling returns well may continue, but our columnist suggests that it would be wise to prepare for the next storm.

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Stronger-than-expected data on the labor market has added to clues that the economy continues to run at a solid pace, amplifying fears about stubborn inflation.

The move is a retaliatory measure meant to punish the Venezuelan autocrat for refusing to give up power

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A show by the artist Isabelle Brourman, who sketched the trials of Donald J. Trump, attracted figures from the art world, the media and some lawyers from his civil fraud trial.

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A.J. Weberman sifted through the prophetic singer’s trash in search of meaning. He turned on him as a sellout and has spent decades trying to reclaim him for the counterculture.

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President-elect Donald Trump issued a warning to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who entered his third term Friday, that he better keep democracy activists 'safe and alive' after detaining Maria Machado.

As brave firefighters battle the California blazes, it's important to know how you can help. You can get involved helping your local community get ready for the next disaster.

Some Democrats are warning their party's leadership that Republicans won the election by using new media to reach independent voters more effectively, according to a new report.

This Oscar front-runner links Holocaust trauma to the brutalism architecture movement.

His status for the 2025 season is “in jeopardy."

"I love you so much that I was thinking to myself, 'I sure hope Kath comes,'" the journalist admitted.

Gotham FC has landed a potential backup for goalkeeper Ann-Katrin Berger for next season. 

HuffPost's top editor resigned as fury grows that the parent company was "bowing to MAGA" ahead of Donald Trump taking office this month.

Users noticed the Grok app in Apple’s App Store on Thursday morning, according to a report.

The internet is full of grandparents -- especially mother-in-laws -- taking liberties with their grandkids.

Jon Heyman, The Post’s MLB insider, joins Brandon London to discuss the ongoing negotiations between the Mets and Pete Alonso. Watch the full video on YouTube: https://trib.al/UhJufLc

Miles Teller and his wife, actress-model Keleigh Teller, are safe as the LA fires continue to rage across 30,000 acres in Southern California.

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President, who has led country in an increasingly repressive direction since 2013, has failed to provide proof he won vote

Venezuela’s authoritarian president, Nicolás Maduro, has been sworn in for a third term despite domestic outrage and a chorus of international condemnation at his alleged theft of last year’s election.

“This is a great victory for Venezuelan democracy,” the 62-year-old autocrat boasted during a sparsely attended oath-taking ceremony in Caracas that the leaders of most democratic nations boycotted.

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The new owner of Matthew Perry’s Pacific Palisades home, the residence where he died, is breathing a sigh of relief.

Markets appear to be fretting over sustainability of tax and spending plans and whether UK is heading for ‘stagflation’

Rachel Reeves intended to spend January burnishing her reputation on the global stage with trips to Beijing and Davos, and flipping the focus from her £40bn tax-raising budget to Labour’s plans to rekindle economic growth.

Instead, the chancellor was reduced to watching anxiously, as a sell-off swept through government bond markets, and sterling came under intense pressure as a result.

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Dexter Henry and Bryan Fonseca discuss the likelihood of the Knicks’ rookies gaining Tom Thibodeau’s trust down the stretch of the regular season and giving New York’s starters more rest opportunities. Check out New York Got Game on:YouTube: https://trib.al/FhIZhbuSpotify: https://trib.al/nkVctRD

Ruby's exes deaths are her fault... but why?

More than half of JPMorgan's employees already come into the office full time, according to a memo.

Gifford said she was hesitant to return to daytime television after hosting Live With Regis & Kathie Lee for 15 years – until she met Kotb.

"I don't know if it was a 'That was dumb' smile, or if it was something that he was truly engaged by."

Authorities have deployed arson investigators to the Pacific Palisades to determine the origin of the blaze that consumed thousands of structures in the neighborhood.

"It is incredible that a tiny cluster of frozen cells, already a life, can survive, suspended in time for years," the model wrote in an essay.

“I definitely think that there has been a small movement to get married, have babies and move to a farm," Kiersten Moser, a Zoomer who married in her early 20s, told The Post.

Investigators are considering an array of possible ignition sources for the huge fires that have killed at least 10 people and destroyed thousands of homes and businesses in the Los Angeles area.

Measures targeting Russian energy sector attempt to leverage peace deal for Ukraine in Trump administration

The Biden administration on Friday imposed its broadest package of sanctions yet targeting Russia’s oil and gas revenues in an attempt to give Kyiv and the incoming administration of Donald Trump leverage to reach a deal for peace in Ukraine. The move is meant to cut Russia‘s oil revenues for the war that started in February 2022, and has killed or wounded tens of thousands and reduced cities to rubble.

National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said the timing of the was chosen because “oil markets are in a fundamentally better place” and the US economy is better positioned to absorb any market disruption.

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So-called department of government efficiency charged by Trump to help effect radical government shake-up

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have already dispatched emissaries across the US government ahead of their mission to slash public spending as joint heads of Doge (the department of government efficiency), a non-governmental body body ordered by Donald Trump to help realize his goal of a radical government shake-up.

The two tech billionaires have already sent aides to more than a dozen federal agencies as they look to identify possible cuts, according to the Washington Post.

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‘Now we have to make sure there’s not a second, financial tragedy that follows the physical catastrophe,’ says consumer advocate

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California homeowners who lost everything in this week’s devastating Los Angeles-area fires now have to battle their insurance companies to recover the value of their homeowners’ policies – if they are lucky enough to have insurance at all.

With estimates of the economic damage from the fires now reaching $52bn-$57bn, consumer advocates and veterans of past disasters say homeowners can expect weeks or months of paperwork to prove that they have lost what they say they have lost, if not also pressure from claims adjusters and a whole class of disaster professionals to make a quick settlement for less than they are entitled to under their policies.

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A negroni-style premix that you can prep ahead so it’s ready to rustle up on a Friday night

This premix is brilliant for a crowd, and it’s also a celebration of every right-thinking bartender’s favourite garnish: the glorious maraschino cherry. Fabbri makes the best, but if you can’t find those, Luxardo is a good alternative.

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World’s largest aircraft lessors and insurance firms battle over compensation for jets stranded after Ukraine invasion

Sitting in a nondescript building near the high court in Dublin, about 40 cloaked barristers have gathered almost daily since June last year. At stake is €2.5bn (£2.1bn) worth of aircraft stranded in Russia after the invasion of Ukraine.

Behind multiple screens and a mountain of warehouse boxes they are fighting to determine who should pay for the losses – the aircraft lessors or the several insurance companies, including Lloyd’s, AIG and Chubb.

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The director said the long-planned follow-up to the 2004 hit, which is due to start filming next year, will contain ‘some crazy stuff’

Mel Gibson says that he is going to cast a de-aged Jim Caviezel in his long-planned sequel to The Passion of the Christ, and that the film will be an “acid trip”.

Gibson was speaking on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, and when asked who “the next Jesus” was going be, Gibson replied that he was aiming to use Caviezel, who had played the lead role in the first film in 2004, in a story about Jesus’ resurrection. Asked how he would handle the 20-year time gap for a story that is supposed to take place three days after the events depicted in Passion of the Christ, Gibson said he would use de-ageing techniques that are “so good now”.

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With brutishly fast zombies, raw action and most importantly an over-the-shoulder viewpoint, the influence of Capcom’s horror game can still be felt

It is an interesting quirk of video game history that one of the greatest ever horror titles debuted on the Nintendo GameCube, a toylike console better known for the cutest titles in the Zelda series and Animal Crossing. But in 2002, Capcom revealed five exclusives to boost the beleaguered platform – and among them was Resident Evil 4, technically the 13th title in the franchise, which on its release three years later would be considered its zenith. It was an exciting new lease of life for the survival horror genre.

Not that you’d guess all this from the game’s extraordinarily pedestrian setup. Six years after the fall of the Umbrella Corporation smouldering cop Leon Kennedy has been dispatched on a mission to retrieve the US president’s kidnapped daughter, who has been spotted in a tiny village in rural Spain. For some reason best known to the Secret Service, he’s going in alone.

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