Christie reveals secret stomach surgery to lose weight  —  New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie secretly underwent lap-band stomach surgery to aggressively slim down for the sake of his wife and kids, he revealed to The Post last night.  —  The Garden State governor agreed to the operation …

Berry, DeJesus, Knight found alive, police source confirms  —  Cheers as Amanda Berry, Gina Dejesus, MIchelle Knight found alive  —  CLEVELAND, Ohio — Long-missing Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight have been found alive.  —  Berry called police Monday afternoon and frantically told …

Crime Report: May 6, 2013  —  SEXUAL BATTERY, 05/05/13, 500 block of S. 23rd Street.  On May 5 at 12:35 am, a drunken male subject approached a female victim in a parking lot and grabbed her breasts and buttocks.  The victim fought the suspect off as he attempted to touch her again and alerted police.

Reid calls Sen. Cruz a ‘schoolyard bully’  —  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) called freshman GOP Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) a “schoolyard bully” during a contentious exchange Monday on the Senate floor.  —  The two senators bickered as Cruz rose to object to Reid's motion …

Huckabee: Benghazi will drive Obama from office  —  Mike Huckabee on Monday predicted that President Barack Obama won't finish out his second term in light of the “cover-up” of the deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi and the former Arkansas governor called the affair “more serious than Watergate.”

Linguists identify 15,000-year-old ‘ultraconserved words’  —  You, hear me!  Give this fire to that old man.  Pull the black worm off the bark and give it to the mother.  And no spitting in the ashes!  —  It's an odd little speech.  But if you went back 15,000 years and spoke these words …

G.O.P. Is Readying a New Offensive Over Health Care Law  —  WASHINGTON — As the administration struggles to put in place the final, complex piece of President Obama's signature health care law, an endeavor on a scale not seen since Medicare's creation nearly a half-century ago …

Where are the start-ups?  Column  —  A country that celebrates achievement and risk-taking is likely to see more economic success than one that does not.  —  When the economy was last this bad for this long — back in the dreaded Jimmy Carter era — there was one upside …

Sanford reaches for comeback  —  The House race in South Carolina has turned back into a toss-up, giving Republican Mark Sanford a shot at an incredible political comeback in Tuesday's special election.  —  Polls put the race against Elizabeth Colbert Busch (D) in a dead heat despite …

Hillary Clinton — culpable for Benghazi from beginning to end  —  When it first became clear that the CIA's Benghazi talking points had been altered, many of us viewed the White House as the prime suspect.  After all, it served President Obama's political purposes to claim …

U.S. Directly Blames China's Military for Cyberattacks  —  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Monday explicitly accused China's military of mounting attacks on American government computer systems and defense contractors, saying one motive could be to map “military capabilities that could be exploited during a crisis.”

David Cameron's attempts at renegotiation will be inconsequential - we must leave  —  David Cameron has promised that in four years time the British people will be given the opportunity to decide in a referendum whether this country should leave the European Union.

Suspect Buford Rogers Arrested in Montevideo … special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in conjunction with the Montevideo Police Department; the Chippewa County Sheriff's Office; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives; the Minnesota State Highway Patrol …

Menendez Asked Justice to Delay Merger Opposed by Donor  —  Photograph by Douglas Graham/CQ Roll Call/Getty Images  —  Sen. Robert Menendez, D-NJ., walks to a classified briefing.  —  Sen. Robert Menendez contacted the U.S. Justice Department in an effort to delay a proposed merger opposed …

Mediaite Learns: 'Vast Majority Of National Advertisers Now Refuse To Air Ads During Limbaugh's Show'  —  As we reported earlier this morning, Rush Limbaugh is allegedly in the midst of a battle with Cumulus Media, the distributor of his radio show.  The company's CEO has blamed ad revenue losses …

Former U.S. Attorney Matt Whitaker pursues open Senate seat  —  Two other GOP hopefuls express interest in the 2014 race for Tom Harkin's position.  —  Former U.S. Attorney Matt Whitaker is taking steps to run for the U.S. Senate, saying he would vote only for legislation that's constitutional …

Statement by Glenn Stevens, Governor: Monetary Policy Decision  —  At its meeting today, the Board decided to lower the cash rate by 25 basis points to 2.75 per cent, effective 8 May 2013.  —  The global economy is likely to record growth a little below trend this year, before picking up next year.

Former deputy chief of mission in Libya: U.S. military assets told to stand down  —  In an interview with congressional investigators, the former top diplomat in Libya expressed concern that more could have been done by the military on the night of September 11, 2012 and morning of September 12 …

Sarah Palin's appearance at the National Rifle Association convention is perfect for phony ‘patriots’  —  Palin, who showed up with a T-shirt that read ‘Women Hunt,’ certainly appealed to the mean, dumb, angry crowd she found in Houston.  —  Sarah Palin showed up at the NRA convention — hunting for attention or relevance.