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‘We got him!’ Trump reveals missing US pilots rescued in ‘daring’ rescue operation
Two American pilots who were stranded in Iran after their F-15 fighter jet was shot down Friday were recovered in a search and rescue operation, President Donald Trump revealed late Saturday night. “WE GOT HIM! My fellow Americans, over the past several hours, the United States Military pulled off one of the most daring Search
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Trump loses across courts in bruising week of immigration and legal setbacks
WASHINGTON — President Trump spent much of last week railing against the courts. The courts, in turn, spent it ruling against him. While Trump made history as the first sitting president to attend oral arguments at the Supreme Court, where he stared down justices as they questioned his bid to end birthright citizenship, quieter courtrooms across the
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The War in Iran Is a Failure of Intelligence
In 2005, a bipartisan commission of lawmakers and security experts concluded that “the Intelligence Community was dead wrong in almost all of its pre-war judgments about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction.” America’s spies had told President George W. Bush that Saddam Hussein had reconstituted a nuclear-weapons program and that Iraq possessed biological weapons and mobile
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How Sports Illustrated is getting back in the game after scandal, layoffs
One of the hottest tickets for the events surrounding Super Bowl LX in February was a party thrown at the Cow Palace in San Francisco by Sports Illustrated, where attendees could hang with Justin Bieber, Kevin Hart and Travis Kelce. The magazine’s logo and a team of models from its latest annual swimsuit issue were
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The high price of everything, explained
When I was growing up, my dad and I would play a game at the grocery store: As the cashier was ringing up the items on the list my mom had given us, we each would guess what we thought the total would amount to. Whoever was closest won bragging rights, and maybe if we
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Hochul running mate Adrienne Adams funneled $435K to migrant shelter tied to federal probe
Gov. Kathy Hochul’s running mate – former NYC Council Speaker Adrienne Adams – dished out $435,000 in taxpayer-funded political pork to a shady migrant-shelter provider at the center of a federal corruption probe, The Post has learned. The Democratic lieutenant governor candidate gave Brooklyn-based nonprofit BHRAGS Home Care Inc. $375,000 in discretionary funds through her
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How can retirees lower capital gains exposure when they sell their homes, which have appreciated for decades?
Dear Liz: We are in our 70s and have owned a home in the San Francisco Bay Area for 30 years, so as you might imagine we have a sizable capital gains issue. We are starting to think about a “next step.” While I understand we would have a $500,000 exclusion and can “back out”
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Inside the Pentagon, fears of a disrupted war effort after Army chief’s ouster
WASHINGTON — Merely two weeks had passed since the Iran war began when Gen. Randy George, the Army’s highest-ranking officer, began sounding an alarm. Touring a weapons depot in North Carolina, George warned lawmakers present that the conflict’s vast and ever-growing list of targets was straining U.S. capacity — “depleting our stockpiles faster than we can replace
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Unspoken cost of U.S. military is a stunning volume of pollution
What are we not talking about after a month of war in Iran? The news will continue to question the strategy or lack thereof. It will count casualties, rising prices, the remaining days until November — but what it will not tally is the egregious cost to the planet. The numbers are dumbfounding. An F-16
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Pope Leo marks first Easter as pontiff with call for hope amid global conflicts
Pope Leo celebrated his first Easter Mass as pontiff with a call Sunday to exercise hope against “the violence of war that kills and destroys,’’ saying “we need this song of hope today” as conflicts spread around the world. With the US-Israeli war on Iran in its second month and Russia’s ongoing campaign in Ukraine, Leo has repeatedly called