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 …

Judge orders partial release of Georgia grand jury report on possible 2020 election crimes  —  A judge in Georgia has ordered public release on Thursday of a special grand jury's report that focuses on whether former President Donald Trump broke state law by pressuring local officials to change the 2020 presidential election results.

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.

Biden fires Architect of the Capitol after calls for his resignation  —  President Joe Biden fired the Architect of the Capitol J. Brett Blanton's on Monday following allegations that he misused government resources and was not physically present on the Capitol grounds during the January 6 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

The Hunter Biden laptop and claims of ‘Russian disinfo’  —  DONALD TRUMP: “It's the laptop from hell ...” … — exchange during the final presidential debate, Oct. 22, 2020 … — exchange on 60 Minutes, Oct. 25, 2020  —  About a month before the 2020 presidential election …

Arkansas Cop Caught in Viral Arrest Video Now Accused of Deleting Evidence  —  Deputy Levi White “performed a factory reset” on his department-issued iPhone 11, according to a search warrant affidavit obtained by The Daily Beast. … An Arkansas cop accused last summer of viciously beating a handcuffed man …

United dive after Maui departure adds to list of industry close calls  —  Sign up to receive updates on our latest scoops, insight and analysis on the business of flying.  —  Purchase a PDF copy of this article … A United Airlines Boeing 777-20 came within around 800 feet of impacting …

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.

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

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.

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 …

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.

France criticizes “false and misleading” portrayal of French troops in “Wakanda Forever”  —  France's defense minister has denounced the way he says French soldiers deployed in Africa appear to be depicted in the Marvel Studios superhero film “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” as “false and misleading.”

Reporter's dismissal exposes political pressures on West Virginia Public Broadcasting  —  Late last fall, West Virginia Public Broadcasting's Amelia Ferrell Knisely reported one story after another about allegations that people with disabilities were abused in facilities run by the state.