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Hochul won’t call on Mayor Adams to resign — yet — but wants to increase oversight, source says

Gov. Kathy Hochul will not call on Mayor Eric Adams to resign, but wants to increase state oversight powers over the embattled mayor, a source familiar told The Post. Hochul plans to pen ethics legislation meant to give the state more guardrails for the mayor and senior city hall officials, NY1 first reported.

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Acting Social Security commissioner clarifies claims about people older than 100 getting benefits

The Social Security Administration’s acting commissioner clarified claims promoted by Elon Musk and President Trump about centenarians receiving monthly payouts.  “I also want to acknowledge recent reporting about the number of people older than age 100 who may be receiving benefits from Social Security,” Lee Dudek said in a statement Wednesday.

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Trump’s flood of false claims about Ukraine

“Today I heard, ‘Oh, well, we weren’t invited.’ Well, you’ve been there for three years. You should have ended it — three years. You should have never started it. You could have made a deal.” — President Donald Trump, in remarks to reporters, Feb. 18 Almost three years to the day since Russia invaded Ukraine, President Donald Trump accused Ukraine of starting the war. He made his comment after being asked about Ukraine’s irritation at not being invited to peace talks held in Saudi...

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Share of LGBTQ adults hits new high of 9.3% in Gallup polling

The latest Gallup poll released Thursday finds a new high of 9.3% of adults identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or something other than heterosexual in 2024. The polling company said the share of LGBTQ adults is up from 7.6% in 2023, has nearly doubled since 2020, and has almost tripled from 3.5% in 2012 when it first posed the question in surveys. Gallup chalked up the trend to an uptick in younger, liberal women identifying as bisexual during the years of the...

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How MBS won the peace talks Trump is Saudi Arabia's lucky charm

The picture says it all: Marco Rubio and Sergey Lavrov, America and Russia, sat about a hardwood table beneath the dripping chandeliers of Saudi Arabia’s Diriyah Palace, ready to remake Eurasia for the rest of the century. Between them sits Prince Farhan bin Abdallah, the Saudi foreign minister, and cousin to Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman (MBS). Delegates from Europe and Ukraine are nowhere to be seen. The message from Donald Trump’s peace talks on Tuesday is clear: Saudi Arabia is now the...