New York Post

CENSORED by the FBI

Two ex-FBI officials “helped shape the public narrative” about Hunter Biden’s laptop by suggesting it was a fabrication — then lied to Congress about what they knew of the case, according to federal authorities. The FBI’s undermining of the laptop and...

THEY’LL MAKE THINGS RIGHT

As early voting begins tomorrow, The Post endorses Bruce Blakeman for governor, Saritha Komatireddy for attorney general and Mike Lawler for Congress — three candidates who can deliver common sense to Albany and Washington.

CA$H AND BURN!

Rapper Shawty Dred allegedly embezzled $4.6 million in foodstamp money and spent it on vacations, jewelry, cars — and even set some of it on fire. He was busted in a multimillion-dollar welfare fraud crackdown announced yesterday by federal authorities.

SNITCHES GET RICHES

President Trump offered bounties of up to $30,000 for tips that lead to fraud charges — then sweetened the pot by saying whistleblowers could get 1% of money recovered, which could be millions based on previous convictions of Medicaid con jobs.

CRIME OFF THE RAILS

Darrel Rodriguez, 26, was shot in the chest Saturday afternoon at the 53rd Street/7th Avenue subway station by a masked assailant who is still at large. GOP gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman (above) yesterday blamed Gov. Hochul, saying she and...

FRANCE BURNS

French protests over education and the cost of living have turned into widespread riots, with vandals looting major luxury stores — including Louis Vuitton, Hermès, and Apple — as others have even set fire to government buildings. A synagogue was also...

FROM VLAD TO WORSE

Lawmakers from both parties blasted President Trump’s stunning decision to hit the brakes on new Russia sanctions Friday night, as Moscow just hours later pounded Ukraine with missiles and drones. The sanctions that Trump waived were set to take effect...

KAT SCAT FEVER

Two upstate Democratic candidates for Congress have badmouthed Gov. Hochul recently, and a third, Tom Suozzi, isn’t joining her on the campaign trail — a reflection of how underwater Hochul is with voters.

PARK RAVING MAD

Money can’t buy you class. “Real Housewives of New York City” star Carole Radziwill has a dark side to her glamorous public image — as she admits she is proudly one of the Big Apple’s biggest parking scammers. The Kennedy cousin openly bragged on her...

ET TU, COMRADE?

Congressional candidate and fellow socialist Darializa Avila Chevalier continues to pressure Mayor Mamdani to fire NYPD boss Jessica Tisch, and sources say Mamdani is angry she and other DSA members are creating political headaches.

HE RUCE IS LOOSE!

A fired-up Bruce Blakeman went after Kathy Hochul in last night’s sole gubernatorial debate, saying she hasn’t kept New Yorkers safe from criminal illegal migrants. Hochul mostly attacked President Trump.

WILD CHEW YONDER

“Legally Blonde” actress Selma Blair, 54, is facing criminal charges after punching one flight attendant and biting another on a Delta Airlines flight to JFK on Sunday. Blair, who also allegedly attacked police who arrested her at the gate, was...

SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL

Socialist congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier claimed it “doesn’t even matter” that the illegal migrant wounded by ICE agents in The Bronx has a violent criminal history — and accused the NYPD of villainizing the accused gangbanger, Oscar...

MENACE TO SOCIETY

The illegal immigrant shot by ICE agents in a chaotic Bronx showdown terrorized his former neighbors with a machete, The Post has learned. Oscar Belgal, the “criminal illegal alien” from the Dominican Republic with alleged ties to the bloodthirsty...

NOT A NEW YORKER

Mayor Mamdani called Oscar Belgal “a New Yorker” after the illegal immigrant was shot by ICE officers in The Bronx. The mother of a boy killed on the city’s mean streets reacted angrily. “I don’t consider him a New Yorker,” fumed Bronx mom Migdalia...

TISHFUL THINKING

Daniel Wiesenfeld, who worked for the New York attorney general’s office, said he was part of a year-long probe into Donald Trump Jr., but could find no evidence to support a prosecution. Yet AG Letitia James was insistent that the Trump family be...

SORROW AND SHAME

Israelis gathered to mourn the 1,195 people who were killed three years ago in the Hamas terror attacks, the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust. But Mayor Mamdani used the anniversary to accuse Israel of “genocide” and war crimes for trying to...

SOULLESS

Three years ago today, Hamas terrorists invaded Israel, killing 1,195 people, including Shani Louk, whose body was taken into Gaza along with 251 hostages. Yet protests planned today in New York City shamefully will not denounce Hamas, but Israel.

THE MASK SLIPS

Despite praising Oct. 7 terror leader Yahya Al-Sinwar, teacher Damien Neva returned to work at PS 77 in Park Slope yesterday, covering his face from photographers. Furious parents say radical teachers like Neva are why students are fleeing to private,...

TEACH YOUR CHILDREN HELL

A city public-school teacher brazenly praised the heinous Hamas architect of the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre — and now he’s under investigation by city education officials. Damien Neva, 48, of PS 77 in Brooklyn posted, “Long live Yahya al-Sinwar’’ in a...

ANIMAL HOUSE

Cornell’s Chi Phi frat house was a drug den, and the university knew it. Campus cops made a bust there just hours before a student was allegedly drugged and gang-raped — and someone overdosed on ketamine a day before that. The revelations raise fresh...

SAME OLD BAG

Bag them — for good! Illegal vendors on Canal Street are back in full force, taking over a four-block stretch with displays of knockoff designer purses and watches — as cops scramble to bust up the never-ending counterfeit chaos. Dozens of bootleg bag...

DIE ANOTHER DAY

Christa Pike, 50, was supposed to be put to death Wednesday night in Tennessee for the murder of her classmate Colleen Slemmer in 1995. But despite seven chances to find a vein, and two doses of barbiturates, Pike survived and is in critical condition...

HEROES IN THE SKY

When his Omani co-pilot stabbed him and tried to hijack their flight to Tel Aviv, pilot Smit Machchhar (pictured) desperately managed to get the cockpit door open, and four passengers rushed in, saving everyone on the plane.

GIVE ’EM A BLAKE!

Republican candidate for governor Bruce Blakeman stressed how different he’d be from tax-and-spend Gov. Hochul, announcing yesterday he’d cut state income taxes to zero for individuals earning less than $50,000, and couples less than $100,000.

SLAUGHTER IN-LAW

Jonathan McKinsey (above), a tech executive with The New York Times, was allegedly shot dead by his in-laws (top left) Shili Chen and Shouyong Zhang, both 77. The couple had objected to McKinsey, a transgender man, calling him a “pervert” and...

VMAs TAYLOR MADE

SWEETHEART DEALS WOOD

Scoring illicit sex along Queens’ notorious open-air sex bazaar on Roosevelt Avenue nicknamed “The Market of Sweethearts” has never been easier — as the number of hookers has grown and prostitutionrelated arrests have plunged by 60% since softon-crime...

MYSTERY of the MOLE MEN!

Videos of men emerging from the city’s manholes have gone viral for weeks. New Yorkers have been puzzled by the spelunkers, some of whom are outfitted with helmet lights and other equipment. Now police have arrested two of the subterranean...

‘We will win because we have no other choice’

In a fiery speech to the United Nations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called out Arab states and Mayor Mamdani for demonizing Israel, saying Jews are fighting for their survival and claims of “genocide” in Gaza is “the lie of the century.”

UNMOSQUED!

A woman dubbed “Philadelphia’s leading antisemite” for her fiery pro-Hamas rhetoric lied about being a Palestinian when she’s really Jewish. Hannah Gann admitted she’s a “white woman of significant privilege and wealth” in a self-aggrandizing confession.

I DID WHAT YOU WOULDN’T!

President Trump defended the Iran war in an address to the UN Tuesday, saying that the country was “the bully of the Middle East” and he had “no interest in leaving dangers to grow for another day.” He said he still preferred to negotiate with Iran,...

I HAVE A SCHEME

The hubby of controversial New York Times writer Nikole Hannah-Jones on Monday compared her to civil-rights icon Martin Luther King while defending enrolling their daughter in flailing public schools as a racism-fighting “sacrifice” — even after his...

YANK$ A BILLION!

The Yankees are nearing a deal to sell a 16% stake in the storied franchise to private-equity giant Apollo Global Management for a $2.6 billion cash infusion. The deal would make the Yankees the most valuable franchise in Major League Baseball — and...

BOT TO THE FUTURE

President Trump announced Saturday he’s creating a new “AI Force” and designating a new AI “czar to regulate and grow artificial intelligence” — while insisting fears of apocalyptic AI are just another “hoax.” He said he would not “stand by” and let...

WITH FIENDS LIKE THESE...

Radical anti-Israel podcaster Hasan Piker (left), who campaigned for Democrat Abdul El-Sayed (right) in his Michigan Senate race, said yesterday that the United States had caused more terror than al Qaeda.

AMERICON GIGOLO

Marianne Flippo, 49, widow of a programmer of the immensely popular Roblox video game, says icy-eyed, silver-haired gigolo Gregg Starr — whom she met on a site called Cowboys 4 Angels — manipulated her as a “Svengali” and then stole $6 million from...

THE WOKE WIZARDS OF A.I.

Worried what AI will do to the world? Don’t fret — we’ve got a group of woke elitists who will protect us. That’s the pitch from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who said he has found an outside team that can regulate AI and make sure it doesn’t destroy...

MYSTERY ON THE TRACKS

Malaika Chitre (below) and Navam Kaul, both 24, had graduated Rutgers and started their careers — when their lives were mysteriously cut short at 3:15 a.m. Sunday. Video captures them sitting on Spring Street tracks just before being hit by a train.

IT’S GONNA BE ‘AI’-GHT

President Trump brushed aside the concerns of artificial intelligence doomsayers yesterday — saying their predictions “won’t happen” and that beating China was the most important goal in the AI race.

CODE RED

Pioneers of artificial intelligence said Saturday that companies, including their own, should immediately “slow the pace” of development or face an imminent web takeover by rogue bots. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei (right), OpenAI’s Sam Altman (left), and...

Passing the torch

Heidi Peters yesterday embraces her daughter Hazel Reeves, 7, as they pay respects to Heidi’s grandfather Louis Neil Mariani, who died on 9/11. Many of the speakers at yesterday’s memorial were just children, or not even alive, when the terrorists...

IN OUR HEARTS

Twenty-five years ago today, in a cowardly act of terror, 2,977 people were killed when hijacked planes struck and destroyed the Twin Towers and hit the Pentagon, and Flight 93 crashed in a Pennsylvania field. Today, the names of the fallen will ring...

NEVER FORGET

NYPD boss Jessica Tisch gave an emotional speech before a stonefaced Mayor Mamdani yesterday at police headquarters, criticizing those who say the US “deserved” 9/11 or presented the hijackers as anything but amoral terrorists.

CRUELEST CUT

The brother of Pamela Cisneros, 49, says she struggled with bioplar disorder, but he was shocked when the Queens mother of three went on a rampage in Times Square on Monday. She stabbed two people, killing one, Erin Piacenti (inset), 32, a vice...

TIMES SQ. STAB SPREE

An unhinged woman stabbed two people, one fatally, around Times Square yesterday afternoon, before charging at cops waving two knives. Police tried to tase her, but when she didn’t go down and instead charged at them, they shot her dead.

TISH WITCH HUNT

A veteran prosecutor in state Attorney General Letitia James’ office claims he was ordered to dig up dirt on people and groups “affiliated with Donald Trump,” according to a bombshell report.

DERIDE AND CONQUER

Tenant complaints have surged 25% in NYC, with a staggering 573,656 calls logged with HPD so far this year, as the socialist Mamdani administration urges renters to file grievances over even the tiniest issues. Landlords tell The Post tenants now call...

LOW MARX

Mayor Mamdani unveiled his universal childcare expansion with great fanfare, but daycare centers say the city has been derelict in getting them the money and resources they need. “Mamdani promised positive change in early childhood education, and many...

SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL

Career criminal Clarence Woodward randomly and viciously stabbed to death Jose Miranda (top) in a shocking 2024 murder. But when Woodward died recently from an unknown medical condition in jail at Rikers, Mayor Mamdani said he was “deeply saddened” by...

$LAP

Meta yesterday settled a lawsuit brought by 48 state attorneys general that claimed Facebook and Instagram harmed children. Besides an enormous payout, the company will limit the amount of time 13- to 17-year-olds can use apps each day, and limit...

We will always love you

One of the all-time biggest hits by Dolly Parton, the country music icon who died Tuesday at 80, is not widely known as one of the biggest hits by Dolly Parton. That song is 1974’s “I Will Always Love You,” which, nearly two decades later, would...

OUT OF MULLAH

The US is pressuring all countries still doing business with Iran to cut ties with the mullahs completely, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced yesterday. Operation Economic Outcast will aim to cripple a regime already struggling with sky-high...

SCARED STRAIT

Iran’s supreme leader is under mounting pressure over the war — as the regime’s grip on the Strait of Hormuz weakens, cash finally starts to get tight and top political leaders publicly urge the nation to find a way out of the conflict.

FIELD OF SCREAMS

An unhinged gang of vagrants is relentlessly harassing young girls at the soccer field in the $73 million Gansevoort Peninsula in the trendy Meatpacking District. The roughly dirty dozen includes a man in a grotesque penis mask, who was screaming at...

OUT OF LEFT FIELD

◼️ NYPD must delete gang database ◼️ City can only buy free-range eggs ◼️ Public benches can’t be ‘hostile’ to homeless AND: ◼️ Paid leave if your pet is sick

‘HOME’ GROWN TERROR

Albany woman Jessica Bowie, 35, “went from a little girl waving an American flag after 9/11 to now having stickers of the falling towers,” she told an FBI informant, as she pledged allegiance to ISIS and plotted to blow up the state Capitol in Albany —...

THRONE BACK!

The Americans have beaten the British again! Six years after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex gave up their royal life and moved to the United States, they’ve decided on a reverse Megxit — moving back and enrolling their children in British schools....

GLASS HOUSES

The millionaire parents of a top DSA leader have set up their socialist son in a $1.5 million Brooklyn home — where he lives while railing against the rich and property ownership, The Post has learned. Gustavo Gordillo, 38, is peddling his...

FANG FANG BANG BANG

Former Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell admitted to sleeping with Christine Fang, also known as Fang Fang, once in an Ambieninduced haze, newly released FBI records show. The FBI suspected Fang was a Chinese agent and considered recruiting her as a...

Toast of the Towns!

Karl-Anthony Towns and Jordyn Woods are officially husband and wife! The Knicks star and the model tied the knot during a star-studded black-tie ceremony in Malibu, Calif., on Saturday, per photos obtained by Page Six. The picture-perfect outdoor...

FREE FOR ALL

Brooklyn’s socialist state Assemblywoman Emily Gallagher declared this week that shoplifters have a right to swipe items like soap and toothpaste from local drugstores without getting arrested because they have a “biological need” to steal those items....

MURDERER

Luigi Mangione, who became a twisted idol to a cult of young people who celebrated his assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, pleaded guilty yesterday to federal charges. He faces life in prison when he is sentenced Dec. 18, though the...

RUNAWAY TRANS

A new HHS report, “Wolves in White Coats,” says hospitals nationwide, including Mount Sinai in New York, pushed $120 million in transgender drugs and surgeries on minors, sometimes billing Medicaid under fraudulent labels. Clementine Breen (right) says...

NAZI SEX MONEY SCANDAL

Heidi Beirich, former finance officer of the Southern Poverty Law Center, was charged yesterday with having the left-wing anti-hate group secretly pay money to neo-Nazis — including $1.2 million to an informant in a white supremacist group who was also...

YOU CAN’T BE SYRIA!

What a cop out. A seemingly red-faced Mayor Mamdani blamed a “miscommunication” Tuesday after an awkward public clash between City Hall and NYPD officials over whether the department would provide security for wife Rama Duwaji’s upcoming Middle East...

HOLD IT RIGHT TERRE!

A judge ordered the Mamdani administration to take down a public list of people who could qualify for a “pied-aterre” tax as he put the measure on temporary hold until an Aug. 31 hearing. Mamdani, who loves to shame the wealthy with videos, said he’d...

HARBOR HORROR

A 27-year-old mother from College Point and her 5-monthold daughter were killed when a dangerously overcrowded motorboat flipped in New York Harbor on Saturday night, cops and sources said yesterday. The baby’s father (above), was also among the 14...

PUNK’S RENT REVOLT

A radical activist driving Mayor Mamdani’s socialist housing agenda is the daughter of a famed music studio owner who recorded legends like David Bowie, the Ramones and Foo Fighters. Yet Tracy Rosenthal, 39, has been on a four-year “rent strike” after...

Y KANT OUR KIDS REED?

Just 48% of New York schoolchildren in 3rd through 8th read at grade level, a stunning indictment for a state that spends the most on education per pupil than any in the country. Fifth grade scores dropped 14 percentage points from last year.

MAYOR ZOFLAKE

On TikTok, he’s the perpetually smiling mayor who will give you everything for free, but behind the scenes, Mayor Mamdani fumes over public criticism, lashes out at politicians who disagree with him and nurses petty grievances, City Hall sources say....