Exclusive | GOP gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman meets with Trump at White House

GOP gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman met face-to-face with his longtime friend President Trump at the White House on Tuesday. During an interview with The Post after the powwow, Blakeman declined to delve deeply into what he called a “confidential” conversation with the president, but said they talked about energy and economic policy, crime and Gov. Kathy Hochul’s anti-ICE policies. “If Gov. Hochul and the legislature pass a law restricting local government from cooperating with ICE, I will sue them in federal court,” Blakeman said.  “I don’t think they have the constitutional right to tell my police department not to work…

Why Casey Schmitt is breakout star despite disappointing Giants season

SAN FRANCISCO — Just about nothing is going right for the Giants’ offense, but Casey Schmitt has been the lone exception. On Monday, he hammered his fifth home run of the season and is responsible for their past three trips around the bases dating back to last Saturday. Consider the…

Ken Griffin says Mamdani’s attacks against him are ‘creepy weird’

Ken Griffin called Zohran Mamdani’s controversial social media post outside the Citadel founder’s swanky midtown penthouse “creepy weird” and ultimately “frightening” after watching the socialist NYC mayor invoke Griffin’s name to tout a new tax plan on second homes of non-residents. Griffin, who runs the Citadel Investment empire headquartered in…

Coinbase to cut  14% of its workforce as part of restructuring plan

May 5 (Reuters) – Coinbase said on Tuesday it will cut about 700 jobs, or about 14% of its global ​workforce, as part of a restructuring plan aimed at ‌reducing costs and repositioning the business for the artificial intelligence era. The move comes as the crypto exchange navigates volatility in crypto…

Grading the Yankees-to-Mets pipeline that’s about to get its latest test

Devin Williams and Luke Weaver arrived to the Mets this offseason as the team’s latest significant additions who once played for the Yankees. A pipeline has existed between The Bronx and Queens, particularly over the past few years. More often than not throughout their history, the Mets have received positive…

Exclusive | Pentagon AI chief Emil Michael says it’s ‘totally bananas’ that Anthropic won’t support America — and slams Microsoft for appeasing progressive employees

Pentagon AI chief Emil Michael isn’t sweating Microsoft’s legal support for Anthropic. In fact, he told me the whole situation is “totally bananas.” Michael dismissed Microsoft’s amicus brief, which the company filed earlier this week in support of Anthropic and against the Department of War, as little more than a…

1,900-year-old double Scythian burial in Ukraine contains toxic red mineral

Archaeologists in Ukraine have discovered red lumps of cinnabar — a mineral form of the highly toxic chemical mercury sulfide — in a 1,900-year-old double burial of two Scythian women, according to a recent study.The deep-red pigment, also called vermilion, has also been found in other prehistoric graves in Europe…

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