Mayor Mamdani’s budget mess is creating chaos in the NYC bond market

New York City’s bonds have suddenly become a hot topic on Wall Street — and you can thank socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani for this certifiably ­bizarre development. This past week, the Big Apple went to investors to sell billions of dollars in municipal debt. With Mamdani doing his best imitation of Fidel Castro, the city sold $2.3 billion — $300 million less than it had targeted. Mind you, I’ve been covering NYC bond deals for decades. For the most part, they’ve been what you might call boring — in a good way. Even back under Mayor David Dinkins, when the…

Rookies giving Rangers new life as disappointing season winds down

It could have been September. The practice ice was filled with smiles, with the aggressive pursuit of pucks, with crisp passes, competition and celebration of untelevised goals. It could have been confused with a team riding a six-game winning streak, rather than one that just ended a six-game skid. It…

Exclusive | AOC broke law by spending k in campaign cash on ketamine-therapy shrink for ‘personal use’: complaint

Far-left “Squad” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) violated federal election and House ethics rules by misusing nearly $19,000 in campaign cash last year on a shrink who specializes in controversial ketamine therapy, a bombshell new complaint claims. DC-based National Legal and Policy Center filed a joint complaint Friday with the Federal Elections Commission…

Yaks may hold the key to treating MS sufferers: study

Scientists hunting for treatments and cures for multiple sclerosis may have found an unlikely ally — the yak. The high-altitude, cold-hardy relative of the cow could be the key to a medical breakthrough, according to a March13 study published in the journal Neuron. At the center of it all is…

Action News’ Chopper 6 crashes in NJ; pilot and photographer killed

A Philadelphia news pilot and photographer were killed when a helicopter crashed in New Jersey on Tuesday night. Action News helicopter Chopper 6 went down in a wooded area in Wharton State Forest near Hammonton, New Jersey, just after 8 p.m., WPVI reported. They were the only people aboard the seven-seat aircraft and…

Obama blasts LA homeless ‘atrocity’ in jab at Gavin Newsom

Barack Obama took a thinly-veiled jab at California Gov. Gavin Newsom over the homeless “atrocity” in Los Angeles Saturday. During a conversation with YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen, Obama explained: “We should recognize that the average person doesn’t want to have to navigate around a tent city in the middle of…

Dodgers’ Yoshinobu Yamamoto has solid chance at Cy Young Award

PHOENIX — Baby got back. Pocket-sized World Series hero Yoshinobu Yamamoto has returned to the Dodgers with a substantial posterior that was sculpted over the winter to withstand what promises to be a demanding year that includes the World Baseball Classic. Everything about the 5-foot-10 right-hander looks stronger, from his chest to…

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