9+ min ago   (293+ words) What’s in a name? These days quite a lot, it seems. Since President Trump issued his Executive Order declaring that the body of water conventionally known as Lake Ontario would henceforth be named “Lake America,” we’ve seen surprisingly impassioned demonstrations…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (611+ words) Back-to-back hotter-than-expected inflation readings may disappoint the majority of US central bankers who had been counting on price pressures easing on their own, setting the table for an interest-rate hike at the Federal Reserve’s meeting next week and potentially more…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (798+ words) A key inflation gauge in August came in slightly hotter than expected – sending the odds the Federal Reserve will hike interest rates next week toward near certainty. The core figure in the Consumer Price Index – which excludes volatile food and…...

13+ hour, 9+ min ago   (450+ words) A Mexican influencer was gunned down at a taco shop this week, the latest in an alarming trend that has seen at least 20 south-of-the-border social media stars executed over the last two years. Jose Luis Esparza, 37, was shot dead on…...

14+ hour, 12+ min ago   (642+ words) Running time: 146 minutes. Not yet rated. In theaters Oct. 9. Truth be told, I was a little bjored at “Fjord.” Movies about Scandinavia can have that anesthetizing effect, with their monotonous, stone-faced conversations and cultural aversion to openly expressed emotion. Those…...

15+ hour, 7+ min ago   (710+ words) Gavin Newsom’s international globetrotting on the dime of wealthy benefactors has come under the microscope of federal investigators looking into California’s governor. The US Attorney’s Office issued subpoenas in September requesting about six years of communications around the California State…...

16+ hour, 28+ min ago   (413+ words) President Trump said he would “love” to see a unified Ireland – and predicted during his trip to the Emerald Isle Saturday that a merger between Republican of Ireland and Northern Ireland is “going to happen eventually.” The president’s comments come…...

20+ hour, 46+ min ago   (363+ words) President Trump said his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., has become a “different human being” since marrying Bettina Anderson in May — joking that the 48-year-old political heir has finally “calmed down.” “Don’s here with a whole group — whole group of…...

21+ hour, 44+ min ago   (735+ words) The trade war with Canada is hurting Republicans in critical battleground states and risks throwing the Senate to Democrats, trade and political experts told The Post. But the White House says the president has a “mandate” to keep the pressure…...

22+ hour, 10+ min ago   (344+ words) This past Thursday marked one year since my friend Charlie Kirk was killed. I have spent most of that year reading him. The Charlie I knew then was not the one the internet thinks it knows. The clips of him…...