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Former White House chief of staff Ron Klain revealed Thursday that former President Joe Biden wasn’t seen as “politically viable” by either his national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, or by ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during his final year in office, a source told The Post. Klain — a member of a purported “Politburo” that…

Trump administration regulators have approved Skydance Media’s $8 billion bid to acquire CBS News parent company Paramount, paving the way for a tectonic shift in ownership of one of America’s three major networks. The Federal Communications Commission said Thursday that it had approved the acquisition, with FCC Chairman Brendan Carr adding in a press release…

President Trump and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell made an awkward pair Thursday as they toured a grossly over-budget renovation of the central bank’s headquarters near the White House — with Trump initally hinting he might fire Powell before saying later he would not. “Mr. President, as a real estate developer, how would you deal…

The New Jersey Little League player suspended for triumphantly flipping a bat into the air to celebrate hitting a home run will get to play in his state championship game after all, a judge ruled Thursday. “If you’re gonna have rules and enforce them they can’t be enforced arbitrarily and capriciously,” Gloucester County Chancery Judge…

Kristin Cabot has resigned from her head of HR position at Astronomer in the wake of the Coldplay cheating scandal, TMZ has learned. A rep for Astronomer tells TMZ, “Kristin Cabot is no longer with Astronomer — she’s resigned.” Kristin’s resignation comes right after her lover Andy Byron quit as Astronomer’s CEO on Saturday —…

Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto. (Photo: Jeniffer Solis/Nevada Current) A Democratic primary for governor barely emerged three days ago, and candidate filing for the office isn’t until March, but Democratic U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto wasted no time in making an endorsement. The Nevada senator announced Thursday she’s backing Attorney General Aaron Ford in Nevada’s Democratic…

Rite Aid, which filed for bankruptcy protection twice in less than two years, is shuttering dozens of additional stores from its existing portfolio. A bankruptcy court in New Jersey approved an order earlier this month allowing Rite Aid to move forward with plans to close 114 additional stores and sell its assets as part of…

The belief is spreading like wildfire: enter a few specific prompts into ChatGPT and you can ‘unlock’ the ‘sentience’ that is waiting to reveal the secrets of the Ancients, or the Aliens, or of God Himself. Not only is this a gross (and dangerous) over-estimation of what a Large Language Model is, it also misses…

The U.S. fertility rate dropped to a new all-time low of 1.6 children per woman in 2024, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released Thursday. Though the fertility rate has declined, the CDC found that the total number of births in the U.S. increased 1% from 2023 to 2024…

The U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against New York City and Mayor Eric Adams Thursday, claiming the city’s sanctuary policies are impeding federal immigration enforcement. The suit, lodged in Brooklyn federal court, maintains provisions of city law “reflect the city’s intentional effort to obstruct the United States’ enforcement of federal immigration law, by…

The city of Detroit is reviewing a proposal to spend $3.2 million originally given for emergency pandemic relief in 2021 to fix the roofs of low-income residents. The Detroit City Council reviewed an extension of two contracts with private contractors to provide the roofing labor at its July 22 meeting. Each contract was worth $1.63…

The city of Flint is planning on using $510,000 of its federal COVID relief on a plumbing program to replace pipes in residents homes. The city’s Finance committee was reviewing the proposal at the July 23 meeting. The city of Flint has an “In-Home Plumbing Program” with a goal of eliminating lead hazards and improving…

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has been a consistent critic of President Donald Trump and his tariffs on foreign countries. In a recent video posted on Whitmer’s official governor’s X account, Whitmer has her head turned away from the camera while she says, “Republicans in Washington want to put blanket tariffs on our closest allies, skyrocketing costs…

Michigan must turn over information related to its voter rolls to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). In a letter dated July 21, 2025, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Michael E. Gates asks Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson for the “state’s procedures for complying with the statewide voter registration list maintenance provisions of the National Voter…

France will recognize a Palestinian state, French President Emmanuel Macron wrote in an X/Twitter post on Thursday. “True to its historic commitment to a just and lasting peace in the Middle East, I have decided that France will recognize the State of Palestine,” wrote Macron. He continued, stating he would make the solemn announcement at…

Columbia University has agreed to a massive settlement with the Trump administration after failing to protect Jewish students from harassment and violent pro-Hamas demonstrations, according to a report from the New York Post. The settlement, finalized with the Department of Justice, requires Columbia to pay more than $220 million and submit to independent monitoring to…

Former Biden White House Chief of Staff Ronald Klain appeared on Capitol Hill Thursday for a closed-door interview with the House Oversight Committee as part of an expanding probe into whether senior aides concealed signs of President Joe Biden’s mental decline during his final months in office. Klain, who served as Biden’s chief of staff…