Significant portion of Chinese balloon payload recovered, US official says  —  A crane lifted the portion from waters off South Carolina.  —  In this photo a large balloon drifts above the Atlantic Ocean, Feb. 4, 2023, just off the coast of South Carolina.  —  A crane ship on the scene where a

Biden escalates fight over Social Security and Medicare, frustrating Republicans  —  WASHINGTON — After President Joe Biden pummeled Republicans on Social Security and Medicare during his State of the Union address, drawing shouts of outrage from the party, Republican leaders urged …

Trump Grand Jury Says Witnesses May Have Lied Under Oath  —  A special purpose grand jury in Georgia that probed the former president's attempts to reverse his election defeat heard from 75 witnesses.  And it's got concerns.  —  The special purpose grand jury that investigated former …

Teen girls ‘engulfed’ in violence and trauma, CDC finds  —  Teen girls across the United States are “engulfed in a growing wave of violence and trauma,” according to federal researchers who released data Monday showing increases in rape and sexual violence, as well as record levels of feeling sad or hopeless.

United States tells citizens: Leave Russia immediately  —  The United States has told its citizens to leave Russia immediately due to the war in Ukraine and the risk of arbitrary arrest or harassment by Russian law enforcement agencies.  —  “U.S. citizens residing or travelling in Russia …

Kevin McCarthy leans on ‘five families’ as House GOP plots debt-limit tactics  —  The White House and Senate Democrats have calculated that Speaker Kevin McCarthy won't have enough votes to raise the national borrowing limit and will end up caving to their demands to avoid a first-ever debt default …

Russians abandon wartime Russia in historic exodus  —  YEREVAN, Armenia — As Russian troops stormed into Ukraine last February, sending millions of Ukrainians fleeing for their lives, thousands of other Russians raced to pack their bags and leave home, fearing the Kremlin would shut the borders and impose martial law.

Steve Bannon Ran Up Huge Legal Bills and Stiffed His Lawyers  —  It's not that Steve Bannon doesn't have the money.  But for some reason, he hasn't been willing to pay his lawyers. … Steve Bannon—the nativist American media personality who's backed by a Chinese billionaire …

McCarthy calls for resignation of Architect of Capitol  —  House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) called for the Architect of the Capitol Brett Blanton to step down or be removed by President Biden, adding to bipartisan outrage over an inspector general report that found he misused …

George Santos and the Case of the Missing $365,000  —  Representative George Santos's failure to account for hundreds of thousands of dollars in spending is part of a pattern of irregularities in the way his campaign handled its finances.  —  Representative George Santos has spent …

How Spotify's podcast bet went wrong  —  By 2021, Spotify had paid to sign some of the biggest names in podcasting, and it was ready to start squeezing its competitors.  —  The Swedish audio streaming giant had spent hundreds of millions of dollars to purchase podcast production companies …

How My Work For Trump and Giuliani Sought to Make Ukraine Defenseless  —  The other day I watched some street interviews in Moscow.  The first person said that the Russian invasion of Ukraine was justified because Ukrainian government officials were Nazis.  The second said that the invasion …

Russian Prisoners of War in Ukraine Recount ‘Gigantic’ Losses  —  Poorly trained Russian soldiers captured by Ukraine describe being used as cannon fodder by commanders throwing waves of bodies into an assault.  —  LVIV, Ukraine — Creeping forward along a tree line late at night toward …

Quebec tells Eric Adams to stop buying NY migrants bus tickets  —  MORE ON:  —  The government of Canada's largest province is demanding that Mayor Eric Adams “immediately” stop helping migrants illegally enter the Great White North, as recently revealed by The Post.

Black candidates keep losing winnable races — and say the Democratic Party may be why  —  Few Democratic candidates suffered more heartbreak on election night than Mandela Barnes.  The Wisconsin Democrat, having been largely left for dead politically, came within 1 percentage point of ousting Sen. Ron Johnson.

Remote Work Is Costing Manhattan More Than $12 Billion a Year … New York City is bustling with office workers again, at least on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.  It's a different mood on Fridays and Mondays, when subway cars empty out, Sweetgreen salad lines thin and, come happy hour, there are plenty of seats at the bar.

They clicked once.  Then came the dark prisons.  —  On Feb. 27, 2022, Danuta Perednya, a 21-year old university student, reposted a message on the social media app Telegram criticizing Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko for the war in Ukraine.

Moldovan leader outlines Russian ‘plan’ to topple government  —  1 of 2  —  Moldova's president outlined Monday what she described as a plot by Moscow to overthrow her country's government using external saboteurs, put the nation “at the disposal of Russia” and derail its aspirations to one day join the European Union.

Twitter exec says ‘hundreds of thousands’ of Russian disinformation accounts still active on Twitter  —  Twitter's former head of Trust and Safety told Congress that “counterfeit” Russian accounts targeting the US are still active as part of an “ongoing campaign.”

DeSantis Has Built Early Polling Support  —  His support among Republicans at this early stage of the primary cycle puts him in rare company.  —  Is Ron DeSantis the next Scott Walker?  It's a question I've been hearing a lot lately.  —  The premise is that there's an important similarity between …

The ‘CEO of Anti-Woke Inc.’ Has His Eye on the Presidency  —  DES MOINES, Iowa — At 37 years old, Vivek Ramaswamy has made hundreds of millions of dollars, written a New York Times bestseller and become a fixture on Tucker Carlson's show.  Recently, he was dubbed by the New Yorker as the “CEO of Anti-Woke Inc.”

Biden's Cabinet Members Seem To Really Like Their Jobs  —  Biden's Cabinet Members Seem To Really Like Their Jobs  —  Turnover in the Cabinet has been historically low.  —  By Nathaniel Rakich and Alex Newman and Nathaniel Rakich and Alex Newman  —  Feb. 13, 2023, at 6:00 AM