Gavin Newsom targets ICE agents with shock-glove ban, job blacklist — but feds tell them to ignore him

Gov. Gavin Newsom has been slammed for signing a raft of laws targeting Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents – including a ban on the federal agency’s use of shock gloves. The California governor portrayed the new laws as necessary oversight of an immigration enforcement operation he says has gone too far. In addition to the ban on “wearable electroshock devices,” Newsom backed state Democrats’ controversial move to prohibit ICE agents accused of serious misconduct from later being employed as California peace officers or state employees. A broader bill to ban all immigration enforcement agents from getting state jobs for being…

Americans blame their debt on inflation more than their own spending

New York Post may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. Americans carrying more debt have plenty of possible culprits to blame, from impulse purchases to emergencies to years of high credit card interest rates. Increasingly, though, consumers are pointing…

Cristiano Ronaldo gives cryptic response about leaving Portugal’s camp

Soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo made a cryptic statement about his departure from Portugal’s national team camp prior to the club’s UEFA Nations League match against Denmark on Thursday, adding more drama to a situation involving one of the sport’s biggest names.  Ronaldo left the national team camp on Wednesday following…

Sydney Sweeney’s racy ads help sports betting platform quadruple valuation to B

Novig, a sports-focused prediction market, has reportedly quadrupled its valuation to $2 billion after it targeted young men with racy ads featuring actress Sydney Sweeney posing fully nude with strategically placed sports gear. The prediction market – a smaller competitor to platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket, which rival traditional sportsbooks…

Moody? Tired? Aggressive? You could have ‘irritable male syndrome’

Don’t get teste. Women — and the people who love them — are mostly familiar with the mood swings associated with PMS. But it turns out, men have their own mood issues tied to changing hormones, which one expert has dubbed “irritable male syndrome,” or IMS. Even if it’s not…

Chuck Schumer, Senate Dems block bill to address AI data center costs

The US Senate on Wednesday blocked legislation requiring state utility regulators to consider whether large electricity users, including data centers, should bear the incremental costs of power infrastructure built to serve them and thus ease the burden on households. Senators voted 57-43 to advance the Ratepayer Protection Act, with only…

The nervous Nets fan’s guide to the Tsai ownership divorce

With the shocking news first reported by Page Six that Joe and Clara Wu Tsai — owners of the Nets, Liberty and Barclays Center — are getting divorced, fans instantly wondered how this will impact their teams. At least for the present, the answer is not much. “Nothing will change,”…

‘Even when knowledge improves, emotional anxiety does not easily disappear’: Pediatrician Dr. Masahiko Sakamoto on educating parents about childhood illnesses

One winter night in 2011, pediatrician Dr. Masahiko Sakamoto met two parents and a feverish infant who would shape the course of his career.Sakamoto was working at a rural hospital in Japan’s Fukushima prefecture, roughly 160 miles (260 kilometers) northeast of Tokyo. Around midnight, as a heavy snowfall coated the…

GOP Sens. Cornyn, Tillis confirm they’ll back Todd Blanche for AG after he scraps Trump ‘anti-weaponization’ fund

WASHINGTON — Sens. John Cornyn and Thom Tillis confirmed Monday they will vote to advance Todd Blanche’s nomination for Attorney General out of the Senate Judiciary Committee after the acting DOJ chief formally terminated a $1.776 billion fund established earlier this year for victims of purported government weaponization. “From the outset, we…

GOP Rep. Chuck Edwards’ ‘inappropriate conduct’ left female staffer feeling ‘scared lowkey,’ House Ethics report finds

WASHINGTON — Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-NC) had a young female staffer “scared lowkey” after making seemingly romantic advances toward her and another woman who worked in his Capitol Hill office as part of a pattern of “persistent unprofessional and inappropriate conduct,” according to a House Ethics Committee report released Monday. Edwards, a…

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