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The illegal immigrant shot by ICE agents in a chaotic Bronx showdown terrorized his former neighbors with a machete, The Post has learned. Oscar Belgal, the “criminal illegal alien” from the Dominican Republic with alleged ties to the bloodthirsty Trinitarios street gang, wreaked havoc at his old Washington Heights apartment building, a neighbor said. "He's a menace to society," the shaken resident said of Belgal, 28, whom Mayor Zohran Mamdani outrageously defended as a "New Yorker."

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They're cosplaying it for keeps at NY Comic Con running through Sunday at the Javits Center. The lass at left is "Starfire" from the "Teen Titans," while the sharp dudes are of course "Wolverines."

Furor over 'Nazi' Barbie

How did they "nazi" it?

A shopper was shocked and appalled after allegedly spotting “Nazi symbolism” in a Barbie doll package at CVS.

The TikTok clip, posted by mom Ana Elizabeth, shows the content creator at the pharmacy clutching the so-called problematic figurine — a gymnast-inspired Barbie that's gussied up in a leotard and toting a baton and ribbons.

The toy, from Mattel's You Can Do Anything line, seems innocuous enough until the camera zooms in on the sea of blue-hued figures in the stands behind her.

Upon close inspection, it becomes apparent some of the faux spectators seem to be raising their arms in what looks like a Nazi salute (right). Ben Cost

RICH KID A-B 'SEAS'

Lux yacht class

By JEANNE ERICKSON

Kids of billionaires are trading desks for decks.

Switzerland's ultra-exclusive Institut Le Rosey, known as the "School of Kings," has added a 94-foot solar-electric catamaran dubbed Ipharra to its extracurricular offerings for teaching marine science.

The school's former director Phillipe Gudin purchased the superyacht last month at the 2026 Monaco Yacht Show for \$17 million, and insists the high-end vessel — delivered to the school this month — is worth every penny.

"For us, the boat (pictured) is a real platform for giving those young people an opportunity to discover something new, and perhaps to find a passion," Gudin said.

The custom-built Ipharra has six guest cabins for the 10 teens who get to call it their floating classroom. Parents, who pay nearly \$200,000 a year in tuition, have to fork out another \$20,000 for the two-week voyage, hosted by a full-time staff of five.

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Coffee bar, too

The students are surrounded by luxury — including plush, natural linen sofas, authentic oak floors, an elegant oak dining table big enough to seat the whole class and a coffee bar wrapped in panoramic glass windows for natural light.

The bedrooms are custom-built with exotic Wenge wood, a dense hardwood from the endangered Millettia laurentii tree in West Africa.

There's even a retractable, state-of-the-art movie screen that transforms the yacht's swanky salon into a floating classroom with a screen big enough for movies at night.

Sunreef Yachts

After class, students can head to the yacht's sprawling Ocean Lounge, where fold-down balconies create an expansive waterside beach club, making it effortless for students to dive, swim, sun-bathe and socialize.

There's also a treasure trove of water toys like water skis, snorkeling kits, scuba diving gear and deep-sea fishing equipment.

“Because we use the boat with students, we also wanted a large outdoor area close to the sea that would be easy to use for diving and for the sailing dinghies,” said Gudin.

The two-week voyage, part of Le Rosey's Excellence Camp for teens 13 to 16, has the pint-size billionaires-to-be studying ocean conservation, marine biology, renewable energy and responsible resource management as they cruise Mediterranean and Caribbean waters.

Lefties smash fed car

Unhinged anti-ICE rioters threatened federal agents and attacked their vehicle while attempting to trap them inside an Oregon parking lot, video shows.

Jaw-dropping footage shared by The Post Millennial journalist Katie Davis-court shows a chaotic clash erupting in Salem on Saturday between lefty lunatics and the feds.

One member of the mob swings a baseball bat and knocks off the side-view mirror of a black federal vehicle slowly driving through the lot, the video shows.

Masked thugs seemingly trail the vehicle they are trying to block in.

"Get the f--k out of Salem!" one woman as others continue to belligerently shout profanities.

Footage also captured horns blaring as anti-ICE "rapid responders" tried boxing the agents in.

Agents tried to stop the madness with tear gas and "crowd control measures," reported Daviscourt.

ICE did not immediately return a request for comment. Sonya Gugliara

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Stabbed cop recovering

An NYPD officer who was knifed seven times by a pair of Bronx thugs last week told The Post he's on the mend after being released from the hospital Monday evening.

Det. Jose Mercedes said "I'm feeling much better, thank you," when reached by phone Saturday.

The 10-year NYPD veteran, 33, was off duty when D'Angelo Caraballo, 25, and Sneider Mejia, 24 allegedly ambushed him in Norwood, officials and sources said.

The men — undocumented migrants from the Dominican Republic — were arrested by US Marshals in Lynn, Mass., the NYPD said.

Tina Moore, Khristina Narizhnaya, Ella Morrison

BORDER CRISIS

'Terrorized' neighbor's kin

By TINA MOORE, ADRY TORRES and SONYA GUGLIARA

The illegal migrant shot by federal ICE agents in a chaotic Bronx showdown terrorized his former neighbors with a machete — and a terrified resident said Saturday he's relieved the accused gangbanger has finally been taken off the streets.

Dominican Republic-native Oscar Belgal, 28, who authorities said has ties to the bloodthirsty Trinitarios street gang, wreaked havoc at the Washington Heights apartment building where he lived until about a year ago, according to a one-time neighbor.

"He's a menace to society," the shaken resident said of Belgal — whom Mayor Mamdani outrageously called a "New Yorker" whose release Mamdani tried to negotiate as he railed against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

CRIMINAL MIGRANT A DANGER

The resident told The Post, “I spoke to him once and told him, ‘Look, you need to be more submissive because I see you acting too reckless’ . . . He thought he was a tough guy.”

The former neighbor, a man from the Dominican Republic who declined to give his name out of safety concerns, recalled one of Belgal's most unhinged outbursts while living there — in which he pulled a machete on the nephew of another resident.

He claimed Belgal — who the feds believe slipped into the US with a migrant caravan in 2022 without encountering Border Patrol — whipped out the massive blade during a fight with the man outside the building last year. No one was seriously injured in the squabble, he added.

Belgal's rap sheet includes a 2023 armed-robbery conviction and an August 2025 arrest for allegedly selling lethal drugs like fentanyl, cocaine and heroin. Those cases were not bail-eligible — so Belgal was sprung after his arrest, though prosecutors were granted the highest level of “supervised release,” sources have said. He reportedly told officials he was not in a gang, and has pleaded not guilty in that case, which remains open.

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Wasn't handed over

ICE demanded local authorities hand him over after the 2025 arrest, but the request was not honored because of New York's sanctuary laws.

Agents first tried to arrest Belgal in September but he evaded capture, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

“They were looking for him, It seems he had a pending case; Immigration goes after people who have committed crimes,” said the neighbor, who claimed Belgal dodged ICE by scrambling down one of the building’s two fire escapes. “Immigration is just doing its job. They go after those who have committed crimes.”

His most recent run-in with the law was Thursday when two plain-clothes ICE agents, with guns drawn, approached the front left side of the gray Honda CR-V he was driving as he peeled out of a parking spot on 225th Street in Marble Hill in The Bronx.

One punched and smashed the glass of the driver's side window. Marcos Charles, the head of ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations division, said Belgal “accelerated” at the agents, “smashing” into two of them, which was not captured on the CCTV footage obtained by The Post Friday.

Agents caught up with Belgal about half a block away on Marble Hill Ave outside the C&G Gourmet Deli before bullets rang and he was shot in the neck, according to NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch.

His 5-year-old son, who was in the back seat of the vehicle, was unharmed.

Belgal is expected to recover.

On Saturday, protests erupted in Midtown in support of the alleged gangbanger, with anti-ICE rioters holding signs demanding “justice for Oscar Belgal” and to “abolish ICE.” Other posters called for Tisch to be fired. “He’s putting his son at risk. He’s got legal trouble, yet he drives around with his son in the car?” Belgal’s outraged former neighbor asked. “No, I don’t think that’s right. If he owes a debt to society, he should pay it . . . He was a danger to society.”

Another resident was surprised to hear that her former neighbor was wanted by the feds.

BORDER CRISIS

'with a machete' & 'dodged ICE'

GOT HIM: Oscar Belgal (right, on the ground), who was shot in the neck after ICE agents fired upon his vehicle (left and below), reportedly got into a fight in his building (below) and pulled out a machete.

Obtained by NY Post

"It might be true, I suppose — I'm an older person and I'm not out here all the time — but I never heard anything like that about him," she said.

A third resident seemed more familiar with Belgal, saying, "He wasn't a hardworking person, I'll put it that way. He was in the streets doing crazy things."

Melvin, a neighborhood barber who cuts hair about an avenue away from Belgal's former apartment, was glad that Belgal had been taken into custody.

"It's a relief that he was apprehended," he said. "The thing is, when someone is a criminal, they go out onto the streets to cause harm. They don't care about anyone's life; they only care about what they can gain by hurting others.

"He harmed his own family; he harmed his son, who was in the car with him. He was the one who got shot, but what if the child had

been killed?"

After being taken into custody, Belgal was transported to New York-Presbyterian Allen Hospital in stable condition. He was discharged at 9:58 p.m. and taken by ICE to Delaney Hall in Newark, NJ, at 10:43 p.m. He was transported to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn on Friday.

Belgal's attorney did not respond to The Post's request for comment.

Sanctuary. law slap WH pointing at NYC

By GEOFF EARLE

The White House on Saturday slammed New York City for being a sanctuary city for immigrants and for creating conditions that have led to violent crimes and other chaos.

“Radical Democrat politicians must stop releasing criminal illegal aliens from jails into our communities,” fumed White House spokeswoman Lauren Bis. “These reckless policies have consequences and far too often they are the death of innocent Americans. Extreme Democrats must stop putting criminal illegal aliens above American citizens.”

The Trump administration is vigorously defending the actions of ICE agents who shot criminal migrant Oscar Belgal, 28, in The Bronx on Thursday — arguing that situations like his could have been avoided had NYPD handed over suspects to immigration authorities before releasing them.

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Cop stabbed

The Dominican migrant had a lengthy criminal record yet stayed on the streets under New York's bail and sanctuary policies, according to sources and court records.

Belgal's case is not the only one the administration is pointing to. Several high-profile cases involving suspects previously arrested and released by the NYPD have become central to its argument.

D'Angelo Caraballo and Sneider Mejia Bautista, the illegal aliens accused in the stabbing of off-duty NYPD Det. Jose Mercedes last week, had been previously arrested on separate charges and released.

Authorities say they pulled up to Mercedes on an e-bike, then tried to snatch his gold chain. When he fought back, he was stabbed seven times.

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Agent shot

Cristhian Aybar-Berroa, 22, and Miguel Francisco Mora Nunez, 21, the suspects who shot an off-duty Customs and Border Protection agent during a July moped robbery in Fort Washington Park in Manhattan, had been arrested by the NYPD and released.

Aybar-Berroa, who entered the country illegally in 2022 during a crush of migration under the Biden administration, was cuffed eight times by the NYPD after a federal immigration judge ordered he be deported in 2023 — getting released each time.

As The Post previously reported, Mora Nunez had multiple arrests in New York, including a pair in August 2024 after allegedly assaulting a pregnant woman. He was also wanted on weapons and kidnapping charges in Massachusetts.

Richard Williams, an 83-year-old Air Force veteran, died from a brain bleed after being shoved onto the F/Q subway tracks in Manhattan in March by a Honduran illegal who had been deported four times.

Police called the suspect, Bairon Posada-Hernandez, a "serial criminal" with at least 15 charges on his rap sheet. Charges included simple assault, domestic violence, and obstruction of justice.

The cases have become ammunition in the wider fight over sanctuary-city policies.

Additional reporting by Tina Moore

ZO'S ITALIAN ICE

By RICH CALDER, ANDREW BALABAN and SIDNEY BLASCO

Mayor Mamdani slapped New York's Italian American community in the face again Saturday — snubbing Brooklyn's annual Columbus Day Parade and ghosting organizers of a similar event in Queens.

Members of the Federation of Italian American Organizations of Brooklyn, which organizes the parade along 18th Avenue in Bensonhurst honoring the famed but controversial explorer, said the Mayor's Office confirmed on Thursday that Mamdani declined their invitation sent out weeks earlier.

But at least Brooklyn's organizers got an answer.

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City Hall crickets

Organizers of the annual Queens Columbus Day Parade in Astoria said the mayor never responded to an invitation to attend their parade — leaving them hanging as it concluded Saturday near the Columbus statue by Astoria Boulevard, the same monument Mamdani famously flipped the bird to in 2020.

And the mayor is also unlikely to attend the larger Columbus Day Parade in Manhattan on Monday, sources said.

The Columbus Citizens Foundation, which runs the famed parade along Fifth Avenue, got plenty of heat from other Italian American groups for trying to extend an olive branch to Mamdani by inviting him to the event despite the socialist mayor's past rocky relationship with Italian Americans.

Christopher Loiacono, president of the foundation, and other leaders of the group did not return messages.

But Angie Markham, executive director of FAIO of Queens,

MAM'S MESSAGE: Mayor Mamdani made his feelings about Columbus clear in 2020 (left) and by snubbing Brooklyn's parade Saturday (below) and one in Queens, residents said.

Parade-snub blowback

which organizes the Astoria event, said Mamdani not attending the Astoria parade "isn't gonna make or break the event for me."

"People wanna change history," she said. "It is what it is. This is the day we chose to [honor] Italian heritage. The Spanish have a whole month. The blacks have a whole month. We have one day. Leave us alone!"

Jerry Iannece, a criminal court judge and parade chairman, said Mamdani and other far-left pols' disdain for Columbus is "misguided," adding that "there's a lot of people who want to rewrite history."

Carlo Scissura, vice chairman of the FAIO of Brooklyn, declined to address Mamdani's snub at the Bensonhurst parade but said, "We are proud and excited to host our annual parade, a powerful celebration of Italian American heritage, pride

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and culture."

Many Brooklyn patrons said they were upset — but not shocked — Mamdani snubbed Italian Americans yet again.

"It's very disappointing," said Albert Esposito, 72, a retired school teacher.

"It's a slap in the face," said Paul DeSpirito, 53, who runs a neighborhood Italian sandwich and catering business.

The Mayor's Office did not immediately return messages.

Kamar schools speech nixed

Embattled New York City Schools boss Kamar Samuels broke with tradition and became the first chancellor to fail to deliver a “State of Our Schools” speech since it was established.

The custom was started by then-Schools Chancellor David Banks during Mayor Eric Adams' administration in 2023, and was used to outline visions and priorities for the city's schools as the new school year got underway. It's always been held in September.

The DOE confirmed that no “State of Our Schools” speech is currently scheduled.

Ditching the yearly tradition has sparked ire in parents who already feel the administration is failing to produce a coherent vision on the troubled school system.

"Parents and advocates are all grumbling; they have no clue what education policy Kamar or the mayor has," a well-placed DOE insider said.

DOE insiders are buzzing about the sudden break from tradition, and speculating that City Hall may be muzzling the scandal-scarred schools chief.

“Does City Hall not have confidence in Kamar to deliver a high-stakes speech?” the DOE insider speculated.

Mayor Mamdani's administration has been criticized for not having a clear education policy vision. His campaign education plan was light on details, and insiders say that problem has grown worse since he took office.

Neither Mamdani nor Samuels returned requests for comment. David Spector

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ELECTION 2026

Michigan ‘capitalist’ Senate hopeful’s

By GEOFF EARLE

By GEOFF EARLE

The midterm battle map continues to expand, as Republicans scramble to put out brush fires across the country in the all-out fight for control of the House and Senate.

On Saturday, President Trump flew to Clarksville, Tenn., for a rally in his latest jaunt into deep-red southern states. The president scratched plans to fly to Tuscaloosa to catch the Alabama-Georgia football game Saturday night because of Hurricane Isaias.

Last week, Trump was in Ohio, a state he carried by 11 points in 2024, to try to bolster incumbent Republican Sen. John Husted and gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, who each find themselves in tight races. A new Marist University poll has former Sen. Sherrod Brown up 8% over Husted, who was appointed in 2025 to fill the seat of Vice President JD Vance.

Many close races

Some experts, including prognosticator Nate Silver, consider the state a “slightly easier” flip for Democrats than Maine, where GOP Sen. Susan Collins is relying on decades of experience outperforming her party while her opponent Troy Jackson has had stumbles after prior nominee Graham Platner’s implosion.

Even deep-red Nebraska is getting the president's time and attention, as soaring gas and diesel prices take a toll on farmers. He traveled there Oct. 5 for the first time since 2022.

GOP plays ‘D’efense

The battle for America Here are the key midterm races that will determine which party controls the House and Senate Tossups Leaning Blue Leaning Red

"I think the president's coming to Nebraska to help me campaign so I can get re-elected," GOP Sen. Pete Ricketts told reporters bluntly before the visit, after polls showed a tight race with Dem-backed independent Dan Osborne.

It's the same prairie fire that has put GOP Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall into the column of competitive races.

Republicans hold a 53-47 majority in the Senate, and a slim 218-214 edge in the House.

The GOP is boosted by Trump's \$400 million war chest and a \$100 million advantage in funding controlled by its party committee compared to scrounging Democrats.

Trump is also planning an Oct. 13 trip to Alaska to boost Sen. Dan Sullivan.

Michigan Democratic Senate candidate and self-described "capitalist" Abdul El-Sayed has deep socialist ties that run straight through New York City's radical elite, The Post can reveal.

A newly surfaced, now viral 2019 photo tied him this week to notorious Israel-hating socialist Linda Sarsour, who at the time proudly called him DSA's "newest member."

The bombshell photo ties El-Sayed to powerful Democratic Socialists of America activists like Sarsour, exploding his debate-night claims that he's not part of the far-left group. The scandal erupted just after a fiery televised showdown Thursday against GOP rival Rep. Mike Rogers, who trails El-Sayed by a razor-thin 3 points in the RealClearPolitics average.

But the connection is no one-off encounter — a Post review has found Sarsour has backed “Uncle Abdul” for nearly a decade — and it’s now part of the secret to his surprising success.

Sarsour, 46, is a figure of national reputation whose efforts helped give rise to New York City Mayor Mamdani.

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'Squad' booster

She helped deliver the lefty "Squad" in Congress after serving as executive director of the Arab American Association of New York and co-founding online mobilizing group MPower Change — while facing repeated accusations of antisemitism along the way.

“Linda Sarsour has spent years building a political network to elect far-left candidates who share her anti-American worldview, and Abdul El-Sayed has hardly concealed his own hard-line ideological commitments,” said Jesse Arm, vice president of the Manhattan Institute.

"It led me to my beloved communities in Michigan to build, strategize, inspire and expand an electorate," she wrote, adding that she had coached another socialist — future "squad" Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) — by telling her "you were made for this" before her own successful run.

House Republicans are fast-tracking a crackdown on Flock surveillance cameras, taking the lead on the issue as “Squad” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tried to seize on growing surveillance anxiety with her own bill.

Repubs Flock to anti-cam crusade

House Speaker Mike Johnson said in Michigan last week that the House would take up legislation targeting the automated surveillance cameras — named for the company that makes them, Flock Safety — during the lame-

"The ascendant far left is not merely a collection of radical candidates, but an organized political movement with the infrastructure and relationships to translate its Islamist-sympathetic, anti-Western agenda into political power."

duck session after the November elections.

tion, when everybody returns to town," Johnson said, the Michigan Advance reported.

Johnson specifically mentioned a bill co-sponsored by Michigan Rep. Tom Barrett that would prohibit federal agencies from buying or accessing automated surveillance while campaigning for Barrett, who is in a tough re-election fight against William Lawrence, a former member of the Democratic Socialists of America.

A proposal from Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie, a libertarian-leaning Republican, would prohibit federal funds from being used for covered camera systems and give agencies 180 days to dismantle them.

The bill "will be processed in the lame duck right after the elec-

Sarsour's support for El-Sayed dates back to his failed 2018 bid for governor against Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, when she drove with Muslim activists from New York to Michigan to back him, gushing that she was “transformed” by meeting him and that God had “sent me the Abdul El-Sayed for Governor campaign.”

She appeared with him onstage in Ann Arbor at a town hall in December 2017 and she told the crowd, “I have the audacity to believe we can make history and put the first Muslim governor in office” and said she wasn’t beholden to any political party but is drawn to El-Sayed because he is a progressive.

AOC released a bill last week with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders that would put restrictions on the surveillance technology. Geoff Earle

Then she boasted of raising an eye-popping \$27 million for Bernie Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign in a month. "Every one of us has something to give," she said.

Eight years later, her support is unwavering.

"It's very CLEAR to me and has been. @AbdulElSayed is THE CHOICE for U.S. Senate race in Michigan!" Sarsour posted on Instagram in May, urging people to knock on doors for him. "So proud of Dr. Abdul and his incredible movement."

longtime ties to NYC socialist stalwarts

A FAN: Israel-hating socialist Linda Sarsour (near left) backs Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed against GOP Rep. Mike Rogers (inset).

Sarsour, who didn't respond to a call seeking comment, donated \$1,000 to El-Sayed's Senate campaign a week before the Aug. 4 primary, the same amount she gave to socialist New York House candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier, who wrote an incendiary post about using the American flag as a napkin.

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Power broker

Sarsour's allies and political associates regard her as a power broker and mentor in the growing socialist movement.

She has played a controversial role in progressive politics since emerging as an organizer of the 2017 Women's March, only to step down under pressure two years later. She has helped mentor Mamdani's political circle, backed the boycott movement against Israel, faced accusations of antisemitism and argued that feminism is incompatible with Zionism.

She also built a long trail of incendiary statements about Israel and occasionally the US, which she accused of being built on “genocide & slavery.”

The Michigan-born El-Sayed has an NYC connection — he lived in the Big Apple from 2015 to 2018 while attending medical school at Columbia University. The stint caused him issues in his first campaign when he needed to demonstrate Wolverine State residency.

El-Sayed is also backed by Gustavo Gordillo, 38, co-chair of the DSA's NYC chapter.

Gordillo, 38 — who The Post in August revealed is living in his parents' \$1.5 million Brooklyn home after faking working-class credentials — snapped a picture of fellow socialists aboard an August flight to Detroit to campaign for El-Sayed in his primary fight against Rep. Haley Stevens.

"At LaGuardia going to Detroit and everyone on the flight is going to canvass," he hyped on X.

It was El-Sayed's apparent connection to the Detroit branch of the DSA and Sanders that came together in the 2019 photo that threatens to close the purposeful distance he keeps from the socialist party.

In the photo, Katherine Brezler, who works for the Queens borough president, smiled for a selfie with El-Sayed, tagging Sarsour and writing that she was pictured with “the newest member of @detroitdsa.”

The Detroit DSA chimed in: "Welcome to the team comrade @AbdulElSayed!" The group added: "@Organizer-Jess36 — you did it!"

That appears to be a reference to Jessica Newman, a Detroit DSA member who helps run the Michigan Education Justice Coalition and who once posted about getting “cuddles” from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's French bulldog.

AOC herself gushed at a fundraiser Monday that an El-Sayed victory would prove lefties can win “anywhere.” She plans to join him on the campaign trail for a three-stop bus tour in Michigan, she announced in an Instagram post Friday night.

Brezler, speaking as a private citizen and not for her city employer, told The Post her comment about El-Sayed being in the DSA was just “a little jokey joke on the Internet.”

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'Longtime friend'

The Detroit DSA also touted El-Sayed as a “longtime friend” and highlighted his appearance at its 2019 Douglass-Debs dinner, named in part for socialist presidential candidate Eugene Debs.

The group saluted Él-Sayed that February after he “signed onto our bold demand to seize abandoned GM plants & convert them to green, public use,” in a reply to the future candidate’s since-deleted X post.

Critics wonder what El-Sayed really stands for.

"There's a real fear that these DSA candidates or DSA-adjacent candidates are beholden to a hardcore activist class," said Jake Altman, a former Boston DSA member who says he left the group in disgust.

"What is the agenda he's pushing? Clearly he can't say the [Is-

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps] is a danger to the United States and he can't say that Hezbollah, a terror group, is a danger to the United States. He's going to be doing the bidding of the IRGC and Hezbollah in Washington, DC."

El-Sayed's campaign rejects the suggestion that he is a socialist or a DSA member.

“Abdul has said he is not a socialist. He is a capitalist and he has never been a member of the DSA,” campaign spokeswoman Roxy Richner told The Post.

Not everyone is convinced.

"It's a charade," Stu Smith of the Manhattan Institute said of El-Sayed's insistence that he is not a socialist — a posture that he says is politically advantageous in a statewide election.

"It's just bizarre how they really do go out of their way to kind not say they are a member of DSA. Anyone would see if it quacks like a duck, and waddles like a duck, and floats like a duck, it's a duck. It just defies imagination on some fronts."

Additional reporting by David Spector and Gabrielle Fahmy

ETHICS SLAP VS. AG 'Cornell 7' note

By GABRIELLE FAHMY

A bar ethics complaint has been filed against New York Attorney General Letitia James for allegedly making prejudicial statements about the “Cornell 7” in the days before being appointed special prosecutor to look into criminal charges for the Ivy’s Chi Phi frat members, The Post has learned.

Two days before she was appointed special prosecutor to reopen an investigation into a 2024 alleged gang rape at Cornell University's Chi Phi house, James posted on social media: "What this young woman has been forced to endure is horrific and unacceptable.

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'Compromised'

"To her, and to all survivors: you're not alone. We stand with you," she wrote in the Sept. 28 post on X.

By showing whose accounts of the drug-fueled night of partying she believed — before even beginning to investigate — James compromised herself, argued the Washington, DC-based National Legal and Policy Center, which filed the complaint.

“It is clear that she must recuse herself from having anything to do with this case to preserve the impartiality and integrity of any investigation and prosecution,” according to the complaint filed in New York State Supreme Court. “This kind of public statement exhibiting clear bias on a highly publicized case by the highest law enforcement officer of New York violates New York rules of professional conduct.”

James should either recuse herself from the case, or be removed, said the nine-page complaint filed to the court's Attorney Grievance Committee.

"The violation is flagrant, obvious and therefore shocking," said legal ethicist Jack Marshall, whose expert witness report was included with the complaint.

At Thursday night's attorney general debate against Republican challenger Saritha Komatireddy, James pushed back.

"Those comments demonstrate empathy," James said.

Jane Doe 'ritual cutting' anguish

The Cornell University student who claimed she was gang-raped by a group of fraternity brothers engaged in ritualized cutting weeks before the alleged incident.

Jane Doe cut herself and left scars on her legs in August 2024, just two months prior to the night she was allegedly plied with drugs and raped by the "Cornell

7" at a Chi Phi frat house, she revealed in her November 2024 statement to the Cornell Police Department, which was first published in full by CBS News.

During that encounter, Doe claimed one of the fraternity brothers brought up her scars but then dropped the subject, which only made her feel more isolated that night. David Spector

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Ivy degrees for inmates

Embattled Cornell University is set to become the first Ivy League to offer bachelor's degrees to jailbirds.

The Cornell Prison Education Program is launching a three-year Bachelor of Professional Studies program at Cayuga Correctional Facility in August 2027.

The medium-security prison for men in Moravia, NY, has housed notorious inmates, including transgender Big Apple serial killer Harvey Marcelin.

Cayuga prison is 20 miles from the Ithaca-based university (left).

The first approved major will be in “Organizations, Markets and Society,” a degree that combines business, policy and social science studies.

A first cohort of 12 to 18 inmates will enroll in classes that will include economics, statistics, data analytics, entrepreneurship, marketing and finance, through a combination of self-paced learning and in-person sessions with Cornell professors at the prison for “discussion and networking.”

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Sex-ed guides gave 'permission'

Cornell University has a history of pushing raunchy sex-ed guides that critics claim fueled the Chi Phi frat scandal by encouraging drug-fueled orgies.

In 2019, Cornell Health published "Yes, No, Maybe So: A Sexual Inventory Stocklist," which contains dozens of risque sex acts and asks respondents to answer if they're interested in performing them.

Among the activities listed are “Sex of some kind(s) with three partners at a time,” “Sex of some kind(s) with more than three partners at a time” and “Some kind of casual or occasional open/non-exclusive sexual relationship.”

Other activities mentioned on the checklist are "Initiating or having sex while or after I have been drinking alcohol or other recreational drugs" and "Having a partner talk to acquaintances, family or co-workers about our sex life."

Other sex-ed materials Cornell Health recommends be displayed in dorms include the worksheet “Sexual Pleasure: Finding the ‘Sweet Spot,’” which discusses BDSM, fetish gear and sex toys. Another worksheet called "Sensate Focus" discusses "mutual touching."

Jared Lederman, a Cornell senior who first reported the checklist on his Substack, said promotion of such acts creates a “permission structure” that could lead to non-consensual encounters.

Cornell did not respond to requests for comment.

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SAU Houthi missile strike kills 12

By GABRIELLE FAHMY

A Houthi missile attack rocked Riyadh's international airport on Saturday, killing at least 12 people, shutting down the facility and sending dozens of Saudi civilians to the hospital — as President Trump warned the US “may” join the kingdom in responding to the strikes.

Several people were seen lying injured on the ground inside the passenger terminal at King Khalid Airport, with blood stains covering the floor. Residents heard at least two loud blasts that shook the capital, as plumes of black smoke emanated from the airport and ambulances raced through.

"Everyone was running," a witness told Agence France-Presse as the airport was being evacuated.

The Houthis claimed responsibility for the attack Saturday, saying it was retaliation for Saudi Arabia's renewed bombing campaign with the rebel group across the border in Yemen.

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Deadliest blast yet

Five people remained in intensive care Saturday, with “dozens” more wounded, according to a source at King Fahad hospital.

The attack killed at least 12 people and injured 50 more, three officials briefed on the strike told The New York Times. That makes it the deadliest attack in a Gulf Arab country since the start of the war in Iran in February.

TERROR: Smoke and flames rise Friday from a passenger terminal at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh after a Houthi missile attack that killed 12 people and injured dozens more.

An Iraqi pro-militia outlet put the number of people injured at 45. Asked Saturday if Washington would provide military support to Saudi Arabia in retaliating against Houthi offensives, Trump left the door open.

“We may,” he told reporters. “We’re going to look at it. We just found out about the recent attack, so we’ll make a decision. We move very quickly.”

All flights to Riyadh were either diverted or canceled Saturday, with Kuwait Airways, Etihad Airways and Qatar Airways shuttering travel between their hubs and Riyadh into Monday.

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Yemen conflict

Four people, including a Saudi pilot, were killed in two other Houthi strikes on the airport this week in an unprecedented barrage on the kingdom that has opened a new front in the war in Iran.

The attack comes during an escalation in fighting between Yemen's Saudi-backed government forces and the Yemen-based Houthis, a Tehran proxy groups.

Meanwhile, Yemeni government forces said they had driven the Houthis from the strategic Bab el Mandeb Strait as they pushed to reclaim Red Sea coastal territory — a claim the rebels denied.

Iran nuke facility brought back to 'half-life'

Iran has quietly resumed operations at a nuclear facility that was battered by Israel in March, with new satellite imagery showing “significant renewed activity” and construction.

The high-resolution images, released by the Institute for Science and International Security, show “unusually heavy” vehicle traffic and excavation work at the Minzadayi compound, a nuclear weapons site northeast of Tehran.

"This points to Iran's efforts to not just clean up the site . . . but to resume regular activities," the Washington-based organization said Saturday on X.

The site is believed to be involved in developing nuclear warheads, based on public reporting and the Israel Defense Forces.

Significant vehicle presence was spotted between early September and October, with cars parked outside the security perimeter in the parking lot — and several passenger vehicles and trucks seen inside.

"Given what is known about this compound, this activity may be indicative of an effort by Iran to reestablish a nuclear weapons development capability and to reconstitute what was lost in the attack on the compound," the institute said in its report re-

leased this week.

The images showed repairs to what the institute said was a probable water tank — and the addition of a small building.

Israeli aircraft struck the site March 3, three days after the war in Iran began. Gabrielle Fahmy

Rev puts pause on 'the end'

Doomsday has been de-

layed.

A South African pastor who bungled his prophecy of the Rapture claims that the end is still nigh — it has simply been postponed.

Joshua Mhlakela of South Africa claimed that the Biblical event — the end of humanity marked by Jesus whisking his followers up to heaven, per the New Testament — will not occur on Sept. 23, as previously predicted, but will now go down early next week, the Daily Mail reported.

“God told me because there’s no other date coming out, 12 to 13 October, which is the true feast of trumpets, which is when I will be meeting my savior face to face in the Rapture,” said the self-proclaimed prophet in a YouTube clip.

The religious figure flipped the script-ure after his previous heavenly forecast didn't come to fruition despite him insisting on Sept. 17 that that was "the final date."

Unfortunately, many in his legions of followers allegedly quit their jobs and sold their homes and cars in anticipation of Armageddon.

"I didn't do my exams because I [thought] it doesn't matter," one crestfallen believer wrote on TikTok.

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The 'head' of night

You might not turn into a pumpkin, but at midnight, your brain could undergo a dramatic transformation.

Some researchers call it "mind after midnight": when your brain becomes more impulsive, negative and emotional — making you more likely to do something you'll regret.

Researchers from Harvard, the University of Arizona and the University of Pennsylvania coined the phrase in 2022.

“Nighttime is associated with an increase in . . . maladaptive behaviors,” including self-harm, violent crime and substance use, they wrote. Allie Yang

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WHEN he took the oath of office last January, Mayor Mamdani pledged that his administration would

serve everyone in Gotham, without fear or favor. As he put it at a frigid City Hall, “If you are a New Yorker, I am your mayor. Regardless of whether we agree, I will protect you, celebrate with you, mourn alongside you and never, not for a second, hide from you.”

These days, the sweeping pledge sounds like a bad joke — or a bald-faced lie.

Mamdani's dismal performance has been a painful wake-up call to those who foolishly believed and trusted him. But the extent to which his dangerously radical beliefs take precedence over his pledge was never more obvious than last week.

Two shocking incidents demonstrated that his allegiance is reserved for his warped ideology, and everyone and everything else can go to hell.

First, he demonstrated that his hatred for Israel has metastasized into a cancer that makes him unfit for his job. No mayor in modern history has singled out one group of New Yorkers the way Mamdani has targeted Jews.

On top of his relentless condemnation of Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he is the first mayor in six decades to boycott the Salute to Israel parade.

Still, he had an opportunity on Oct. 7, the third anniversary of the Hamas terrorist invasion, to prove he could rise above personal prejudices to be a mayor for all New Yorkers.

Instead, he chose to deliver heartless remarks that flipped facts and truth on their heads. With an outrageous effort to depict all Palestinians as victims of an Israeli “genocide,” Mamdani made it clear he has no desire to build bridges to those who don’t agree with him.

His statement was an unsubtle declaration that his duties always will take a back seat to his radical agenda's battering ram.

Signs of that have been apparent ever since he entered the mayoral race, but coming late in his first year in office, his Oct. 7 statement amounts to a “burn the boats” moment.

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He boarded up the exits and left himself no wiggle room for compromise or decency. Instead, he made it cruelly clear he has no intention of changing his tone.

He has learned nothing from history. Gotham's best mayors proved their mettle under fire and earned widespread gratitude by putting their obligations first, and their politics and personal prejudices second.

In Mamdani's case, it is now certain he intends to fight the lone Jewish state and its New York supporters with every tool at his disposal.

That conclusion is the only one that makes sense given his atrocious statement marking the deadliest day for Jews since the end of the Holocaust.

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Anti-Israel speech

He noted the scope of the slaughter in a perfunctory single paragraph, saying the anniversary "marks three years since the horrific war crimes of October 7. On that day, Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 others. We grieve alongside our many friends and neighbors who still carry that unthinkable loss."

From there, the entire speech was an acid attack on Israel. He blasted the Israeli government's "devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians — including more than 21,000 children."

The numbers are from the Gazan health ministry, which is controlled by Hamas. The masters of terror also would have applauded the remainder of his statement.

“Even since the so-called ceasefire, more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed,” he claimed, again using Hamas’ numbers. He went on to exhibit his ignorance by accusing Israel of bombing “ambulances waiting outside hospitals,” of “targeting” residential buildings and journalists and of turning away shipments of food aid.

From there, it was pure domestic politics, saying “our tax dollars fund these war crimes” and that “we must refuse to accept a world in which occupation and apartheid continue, where war crimes are met with impunity, and our federal government continues its complicity with every arms shipment."

Shamefully, no prominent officials from Albany or the five boroughs rose to denounce his attack on our embattled ally.

The job was left to Israel's UN ambassador, Danny Danon, who compared the mayor's bid to make Hamas the victim to "turning September 11 into a day of mourning for al-Qaeda terrorists."

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Wrong side again

Writing on X, Danon defined “‘Mamdani-ism’ as “an attempt to hijack the anniversary of October 7 and turn it into yet another propaganda attack against Israel.”

immigrant with a criminal record who recklessly tried to escape from immigration agents in The Bronx.

The second extremely troubling incident last week came when the mayor took the side of an illegal

Agents wounded him as he tried to flee in his car with his 5-year-old son in the backseat.

In a late-night news conference, Mamdani said he spoke to President Trump and told him the city wants all ICE agents out.

"All they do is terrorize this city," the mayor said of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. He accused the agency of acting "with impunity" and spreading "chaos and terror" across the country.

“Today’s shooting is only further devastating confirmation of what we have long known,” the mayor said publicly, that “ICE is rotten to its core.”

Bull. ICE agents risk their lives to protect the public from dangerous thugs. It's Mamdani's policy that is rotten to the core.

The Post reports that the Dominican man in the current case, Oscar Belgal, 28, probably entered America illegally in 2022 under Joe Biden's open-border policy. He is suspected of carrying out an armed robbery a year later, of selling dangerous drugs and of being connected to the Trinitarios, a violent street gang.

This is the sort of “New Yorker” Mamdani wants to celebrate and defend.

Markwayne Mullin, secretary of Homeland Security, put the blame on New York's sanctuary laws, which largely ban local cooperation with the feds. He said those policies prevented agents from catching Belgal earlier and created the dangerous confrontation that unfolded in The Bronx.

"Sanctuary politicians create an environment for criminal activity to thrive, not for American citizens to be safe," he said. "When you have sanctuary cities and politicians, you endanger the safety of the public."

That message is also lost on Gov. Hochul, who again showed she will never criticize Mamdani, lest she turn off his supporters in her desperate re-election campaign.

She said on X that she also spoke to Trump and Mullin, huffing and puffing that “I expressed outrage on behalf of New Yorkers and urged them to halt ICE enforcement operations in New York.”

Imagine that — she also claims to speak for all New Yorkers when she is defending a criminal illegal alien.

If there were any doubt, we know for certain whose side Hochul and Mamdani are on.

Harry and Meghan thriving in the UK

By SARA NATHAN

IX weeks after moving from California to England's bucolic Cots-

wolds, sources tell Page Six that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are in a "honeymoon" phase with their new life — despite not yet having seen King Charles.

Although Harry is believed to have had multiple phone calls with Charles, the father and son have yet to meet in person, we're told, as Charles and Queen Camilla have been enjoying a break in Scotland. The holiday included a stay at Balmoral Castle, where Harry's estranged

MERRY OLD TIMES IN ENGLAND: Meghan and Harry's new life in the UK includes bucolic strolls (below), hanging at pubs (inset right) and pageantry for Harry (inset left, at the Invictus Spirit Gala Dinner and Awards).

brother, Prince William, Kate Middleton and their children, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, joined them.

The king and queen, who remain in Scotland but have been popping down to London for meetings, will also undertake a tour to the Caribbean on Oct. 27, so it could be a while before they see the Sussexes.

That is not to say there isn't still a good chance of Harry and his father reconciling.

“Absolutely, everyone hopes that father and son can have a closer — more private — relationship,” a royal insider said. “It just does not help when every time they meet or speak it leaks out.”

Another thing that hasn't helped father-son relations is Charles Spencer's new book about Diana, which is currently topping the book charts.

COUNTRY LIVING

Royal sources told us that Spencer, Harry's uncle, received \$5.3 million for the book — “Swan Song: Diana, My Sister.” In it, he claims that Charles hissed down the phone that Diana would soon be forgotten following her 1997 death. That allegation has not gone down well with the king, whose reps issued a stern denial of the allegations.

"The fact that Harry was just with his uncle in the summer makes it seem that he has a good relationship with him — and the king is furious about the book," said another source.

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Happy to be home

As fall settles on the English countryside and the Sussex children — Prince Archie, 7, and Princess Lilibet, 5 — settle into their new schools, many Brits are still baffled by just what made the

Sussexes jet back to Harry's homeland seemingly out of the blue.

But we're told that Harry, 42, and Markle, 45, had been mulling over a decision to return to the UK for the past few years. Indeed, this week Harry revealed how he "slipped into depression for two weeks" following Megxit back in March 2020 and felt a "crash unlike anything I'd ever felt before".

The duke of Sussex, 42, said he became “useless” after he and his wife sensationally quit both royal life and the UK and fled to British Columbia.

"Being in Canada, away from the stressful environment where presumably my body was just pumped full of adrenaline, within two or three days, I experienced this adrenaline crash, something that I'd never experienced before," he told neuroscientist Dr. Mary-Frances O'Connor in his new grief Masterclass.

"It was as if I needed stress in order to get the adrenaline to make my brain function . . . I felt like I couldn't function."

The couple made the final decision to leave their Montecito mansion after their summer vacation, which included a reunion between Charles, 77 and his grandchildren — and a visit to Diana's ancestral estate, Althorp. They had to move quickly to get their children in to school.

They're thrilled to be back in Harry's homeland and now plan to stay for at least the school year,

— but they still haven't seen Charles

DADDY DEAREST: Harry (in 2015) has yet to meet up with King Charles in person, but there's still hope for a reunion.

NOT CALIFORNIA CASUAL: The pair haven't made an official appearance together in England just yet, but they looked smart at a recent black-tie event in British Columbia.

which ends next summer, a source in the know told us.

This will give Harry time to work on a reported documentary marking the 30th anniversary of his beloved mother Princess Diana's death and helm next year's Invictus Games in Birmingham.

It also gives enough time for Harry to get his long-awaited wish for armed security from the British government, alongside crucial security briefing.

After that, the family could set up home even farther afield — potentially in Canada or even Australia, both places they have an affinity for. "They love trav-

eling," said a source in the know.

The Sussexes returned to live in the UK in late August after six years in North America. They have described the move as an “extended stay” with their children, while they plan to live as an “international family,” keeping their homes in California and Portugal.

Amid the likelihood of putting Harry, Markle and the rest of the royal family back in the headlines with “crisis over Christmas”-style stories, the Sussexes don’t plan to join the monarch and Harry’s brother William for the traditional festivities at Sandringham, according to the in-the-know source.

Instead, they will either remain at the cottage where they are currently staying — on multimillionaire financier Ian Wace's estate in Northamptonshire — or return to California for the holidays. Either way, they will be joined by Markle's mom, Doria Ragland.

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Out and about

"There is a hierarchy," said a palace insider, "and the king is the CEO, he's the boss — what he says go, so it's better not to put themselves in any difficult position."

Harry and Markle are planning on making their first official public outing together in the UK within days, we're told, after being photographed holding hands on a lunch date at The Falkland Arms, a 16th-century pub in the Cotswolds village of Great Tew, Oxfordshire.

The pair were dressed casually, with Markle opting for gluten-free fish and chips and Harry choosing a chicken, ham and leek pie.

And although the couple have not yet made an official appearance together, Markle was seen enjoying afternoon tea with campaigner Malala Yousafzai this past Wednesday in her first London outing since returning to Britain.

The Duchess, dressed in a \$2,300 outfit, was seen having afternoon tea with the 29-year-old Pakistani activist at the five-star Claridge's hotel in tony Mayfair.

“They do go way back,” said a source in the know, as the pair have previously bonded over their shared passion for female education.

Back in October 2020, Harry and Markle joined Malala — who became the youngest Nobel laureate ever when she was 17 — for a virtual conversation that celebrated the International Day of the Girl.

Since arriving in the UK, the Sussexes have also been pictured spending time with various other friends, including Ellen DeGeneres, 68, and Portia de Rossi, 53, their former neighbors in California, at another local pub in the Cotsworlds. They've also spent time with Markle's BFF, Kelly McKee Zajfen, an entrepreneur and activist based in Los Angeles, who posted an Instagram carousel of her time visiting the couple in the UK.

The intimate images showed Markle holding her friend's baby Jack in a pub, Harry cuddling him on a rug on the ground and a trip to Soho Farmhouse.

In her caption, Zajfen wrote: "To everyone we've met or bumped into, thank you for being so loving to my friend. It's been beautiful to witness. She missed you too!"

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Meg is working it

Markle, of course, still has work to do. She has recently launched The Holiday Collection: Chapter One for her lifestyle brand, As Ever, including a \$148 luxury advent calendar created in collaboration with Los Angeles chocolatier Compartés, inspired by her Montecito home and garden.

There's also a wicker basket filled with items including various teas, fruit spreads, flower sprinkles, scented candles, a chocolate holiday trio and playing cards.

But the prospect of the former "Suits" actress appearing on the third season of Netflix show, "The Gentleman" — a possibility first reported W — appears to be dead in the water.

"It was something that came to her," said an industry source, "And it was something she looked at, but it was only ever a brief idea, and as always things escalated.

"But Meghan is always open to looking at things."

Zo's DSA pal 'conspired in Cuban luxury'

'Hav-an' a fine time plotting

By DAVID SPECTOR

d valdesnyc/X; Obtained by the NY Post

A friend and adviser to socialist Mayor Mamdani met with the president of Cuba during a luxe trip to the communist nation, where they conspired to subvert US foreign policy, according to a since-deleted travel diary obtained by The Post.

Danny Valdez, who hosted a fundraiser for Mamdani's mayoral campaign in 2025, traveled to Cuba with a delegation from the DSA International Committee from Oct. 22 to Oct. 26, 2023, according to the Nov. 9, 2023, blog post, entitled “The Cuba Diaries.”

The delegation met with President Miguel Diaz-Canel on the third day of the trip with the purpose of partnering to end the US embargo, in place since 1962, three years after Fidel Castro imposed a communist dictatorship on the island, he recalled.

“It was genuinely a big accomplishment for our delegation that this meeting took place. It was a sign that the Cuban government took our organization seriously and saw us as potential partners in the work of ending the US blockade,” Valdez wrote.

During the meeting, the Cuban president whined about the US-imposed blockade.

"No other country has to operate under such conditions. Vietnam and China are not under blockade, and are able to develop their approach to socialism," Diaz-Canel said, according to Valdez.

Valdez and the delegation have not been accused of any criminal wrongdoing in connection with the visit.

Valdez can be seen grinning in a group photo with the Cuban president, who became the first non-Castro to lead the island in over 60 years after Fidel Castro's brother Raul stepped down in 2021.

In April 2026, Valdez founded "Cuban Americans for Cuba," a nonprofit group that advocates for an end to the US embargo.

"We are Cuban Americans united by a common goal: to end the US embargo on Cuba," its website stated.

DSA co-chair Ashik Siddique is also seen next to Diaz-Canel in the photo posted on Valdez's blog.

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'Splendor'

During their stay, Valdez, Siddique and other DSA members lodged at the “glitzy” Grand Aston Havana, a privately owned five-star, 600-room hotel equipped with a rooftop pool, spa, bars and restaurants.

"We undoubtedly had an abnormally luxurious experience of Cuba. We were driven around in a large air-conditioned bus. We had ample access to food and water. Our hotel was sleek and modern, with a rooftop pool, a gym, and a full bar at our disposal," Valdez kvelled about the trip.

Valdez claimed that the hotel would “hoard food” and contrasted the “splendor” he and his fellow champagne socialists enjoyed with scenes of starving people and buildings he described as looking “bombed out.”

The group dined at many of the top restaurants in Cuba and concluded their trip at La Torre, an elegant restaurant located on the 33rd floor of Cuba's iconic Focsa building.

A stunning 94% of Cubans live in extreme poverty, and eight out of 10 people on the island skip meals daily, according to the "Ninth Study on Social Rights" put out by Spain-based human rights organization Cuban Observatory of Human Rights in August.

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Ties to mayor

Valdez, who staged a short-lived bid for New York City Council in District 3, which encompasses the West Village and Chelsea, claimed in a 2025 DSA candidate questionnaire to have advised Mamdani on Cuba policy. He also gushed about their friendship in a November 2025 X post.

“Almost a year ago, we hosted a small fundraiser in our living room for a friend, organizer, and socialist in office running what felt like a long-shot campaign for mayor,” he wrote.

Valdez, who lived in a Chelsea

GRAND: Danny Valdez (top with Mayor Mamdani) had a "luxurious" trip with DSA co-chair Ashik Siddique (left, left circle) to meet Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel (left, center circle).

apartment until 2025, works as an information technology lead for science education nonprofit BioBus, according to his LinkedIn. It is unclear where he resides currently.

Valdez confirmed the trip to The Post and that he met with Cuba's president. He also said that he advised Mamdani on Cuba policy during his mayoral campaign ahead of a September 2025 appearance on “The Moment with Jorge Ramos and Paola Ramos” podcast.

He said he and the DSA traveled to Cuba to “challenge the blockade” and “affirm our position that we do not support the general policies the US has toward Cuba.”

Siddique did not respond to The Post's request for comment.

Push tot in dire shape

The baby who plunged from a 15-floor Bronx balcony while in her mother's arms after the two were pushed by the child's monster father has taken a turn for the worse and is in dire condition at a hospital, The Post has learned.

"They are keeping their fingers crossed," a hospital insider said. "She is not doing well."

The 8-month-old was rushed to Jacobi Medical Center after the infant and her mom, Nathaly Ramirez, 23, were pushed Tuesday, but has since been transferred to Cohen Children's Medical Center in Queens.

Ramirez's ex-boyfriend Angel Carrasco, 31, was taken to Jacobi for a medical evaluation. His arraignment is pending.

A vigil was held for Ramirez, who died from the fall, and her daughter Saturday at the building where they were pushed.

Purple and white balloons and heart-shaped candles decorated the afternoon event that was attended by about 200 people.

Attendees chanted "Justice for Nataly" and "Long live Nataly."

Ramirez's heartbroken mom, who identified herself as Nathaly, thanked everyone. Georgett Roberts and Tina Moore

'Sex harass' job-ax suit

A Bronx woman claims she was fired from Costco after sounding the alarm that her female boss was allegedly sexually harassing her.

The anonymous accuser alleges she was fired from the East Harlem Costco on East 117th in January 2025 after working there for two years because she reported the "hostile environment" created by her direct supervisor, Andrea Mills, according to the complaint filed Oct. 1 in Manhattan Supreme Court.

Mills allegedly called her "a very busy woman," then allegedly sang to her that she was "the most beautiful girl in the room," the complaint said. Sonya Gugliara

CHRISTA PIKE

In jail after failed execution.

'Dead' woman walking

Christa Pike was released from a hospital and sent back to prison 10 days after shockingly surviving a botched execution, her lawyers revealed.

“She is grateful to the first responders and her medical team for their care in these extraordinary circumstances,” Pike’s attorneys said.

"She is continuing to receive medical care at the prison, and we will continue to track her recovery."

Pike, 50, was rushed to the hospital after surviving two doses of the lethal injection drug pentobarbital Sept. 30.

The death-row inmate was unconscious and put on a ventilator — and her lawyers believed she was brain dead on Monday night.

However, she regained consciousness Tuesday — the day her life support was set to be switched off — and started communicating.

Pike received a death sentenced after murdering her 19-year-old classmate, Colleen Slemmer, in 1995.

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Trump weighs execution vid

President Trump isn't sure whether the public should witness the firing-squad execution of Fort Hood killer Nidal Hasan, indicating Saturday he'll "make a decision ultimately."

"He was vicious. He was violent," Trump said Saturday of Hasan, who killed 13 people and wounded 32 during his Nov. 5, 2009, massacre at the Texas base.

"There are two thoughts: don't show it and show it. Because you know by showing it, maybe other people won't be doing what he did. So I'll make a decision ultimately." Geoff Earle

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce step out holding hands while enjoying a night out on Jane Street in the West Village. Swift The outing comes just days after the lovebirds celebrated Kelce's 37th birthday with a romantic dinner Monday at Manhattan hot spot Torrisi.

BACKGRID

DEADLY STORM IN S.E. Hurricane Isaias

By NICHOLAS McENTYRE and KATHERINE DONLEVY

Four people were killed when deadly Hurricane Isaias hit the Southeast "like a freight train" with walloping 105 mph winds.

Three people died from downed trees, while another was killed by fumes from a generator. At least five others have been hospitalized.

The storm made landfall as a Category 2 with 105 mph winds near Destin, Fla., at around 9:30 p.m. Friday — with localized gusts in the area reaching up to 116 mph — hammering homes and communities throughout the Panhandle.

Isaias weakened rapidly as it made landfall to a post-tropical cyclone with maximum sustained winds of 65 mph by 1 a.m. Saturday, according to NBC. Yet it still wrought destruction across the Southeast.

The cyclone then was moving into northern Alabama, dispensing heavy rains and strong wind gusts. The National Hurricane Center said flood watches were still in effect for parts of the Southeastern US and the southern Appalachians.

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Tragedies

Forecasters project that Georgia and the Carolinas could see up to 10 inches of rain, but totals are likely to be 3-6 inches.

Officials warned the storm could still create life-threatening hazards, like flash, urban and river flooding.

Over 670,000 people were without power in Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina and South Carolina, according to PowerOutage.

Alabama Power reported

267,000 outages but restored around half of the customers' service by later in the day.

Two people were killed in Escambia County, Fla., in storm-related tragedies, officials said.

One woman was pinned beneath a tree that crashed through her home and was dead by the time fire rescue arrived, Escambia County Sheriff's Office spokesperson Melony Peterson said.

The other victim was killed by the fumes of a generator because “it was not properly ventilated,” Sheriff Chip Simmons said. Four members of the victim’s family, aged 72, 24, 5 and 4, were also hospitalized.

Two others were killed in Alabama when a tree fell on a home and another one struck a car, said Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey.

"This storm cannot clear fast enough. It brought in heavy winds throughout Alabama, taking down trees, knocking out power and doing some damage," Ivey said.

In Dale County, Ala., a sheriff's deputy was injured when a tree fell on him.

Sheriff Mason Bynum told News4 the deputy was responding to a rollover car crash when a tree fell on one of the vehicles involved, trapping the driver and striking the deputy.

The driver was unharmed, but the deputy was taken to a hospital with minor injuries, Bynum says.

As the storm pummeled Florida on Friday, Lt. Gov. Jay Collins told Fox News: "This thing hit like a freight train. It was fast. It came in like a Mike Tyson punch."

AccuWeather meteorologist Dan DePodwin told The Post, "The worst of the impacts are done." With Wires

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Divorces by day, nups by Donn

Ian Mohr

IT sounds like the plot of a rom-com by Wes Anderson, but we hear a high society band leader, Alex Donner, was once a divorce lawyer by day while playing weddings by night!

Hampton Sheet publisher Joan Jedell, who was at the event among a clutch of socialites, told Page Six: "Donner told some life stories between tunes — like when he was doing divorces during the week as a lawyer and weddings on weekends with the band." Then he'd go back to crooning songs from the Great American Songbook by Gershwin, Irving Ber lin, Lerner and Loewe, Cole Porter and more. When we caught up with the maestro Donner — a graduate of Princeton, the Sorbonne and Fordham Law — he was in Casablanca, Morocco, on his way to Spain to visit Spanish socialite Marquesa Barbara San Damian and La Goulue founder Jean Denoyer.

“Yes, I started out doing divorces during the week as an attorney, weddings on the weekend with my band,” he confirmed, recalling that he “played a ‘second-time-around wedding’ for a divorce client [and Texas oil heiress] in the biggest destination wedding in India’s history, hosted by the Maharaja of Jaipur, which led to my first love, music full time.”

Donner recounted the job juxtaposition while playing a recent gig with his orchestra at Upper East Side haunt La Goulue.

When we asked if he'd been approached by Hollywood, he said he's had inquiries from producers over the years to turn his tale into a film but "was too busy with my career at that point."

THE Franciscan Friars of the Atonement honored Margo Cat-simatidis with its Graymoor Sharing Hope Award at the Annual Sharing Hope Celebration at the Pierre, we hear. Margo said she accepted it "with great humility because [it] is really about the people who inspire us to make a difference in the lives of others." With her husband John standing nearby, she added, "The Friars have helped thousands upon thousands of people, and tonight is one of those rare times they are recognized." Margo then quipped dinner was taking a while "because they don't get out much — they're always helping people!"

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Donner also recalled that during his career, he got to know “Leonard Bernstein, President Trump, Joan Collins, Roy Cohn, Rudy Giuliani, Rebekah Harkness, President H.W. Bush and Queen Noor while doing 1,000 weddings and 500 benefits with my bands. Still love every minute of it.”

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Mrs. Cats lends paw

Thirty years after his last cabaret shows at Cafe Carlyle, Donner has sold out La Goulue twice. Donner also plays big bashes in LA, many of which are protected by NDAs.

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Will's harp-ing away

WILL Arnett told us he wishes his parents had forced him to play an instrument as a child. At the NY Film Festival premiere of his new movie “Behemoth!,” in which Arnett (above) is the brother of a renowned cellist, he quipped to PageSix.com’s Nicki Gostin, “I wish my parents had done a better job with me.” Arnett confessed he got a little street cred with his two older boys when he voiced Batman in “The Lego Movie.” “Especially when the first movie came out and my youngest was 6 and my oldest was just 8, perfect age,” he said.

Lovely Emily Ratajkowski sparkles in a sheer see-through Gucci at the Clooney Foundation's Albie awards in London Friday evening.

'Spy'ing on writers

LEGENDARY Spy magazine held its 40th anniversary bash at the Waverly Inn Thursday night. Founding editors Kurt Andersen and Graydon Carter and publisher Tom Phillips mingled with former staff and friends, including Nell Scovell, Air Mail writer Michael Hainey, "Slab Rat" author Ted Heller, "I Dream of Joni" author Henry Alford, Aimée Bell of Simon & Schuster, "Hollywood High" author Bruce Handy and "Lorne: The Man Who Invented 'Saturday Night Live'" author Susan Morrison. After everyone belted out a version of "My Way" rewritten as "Spy Way," the gang gathered outside for a group pic. The satirical magazine ran from 1986 to 1998 and was famous for its irreverent hit pieces on the high and mighty.

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We hear

THAT Anastasia Bain is already shopping a script based on her novel "Seeking Alpha" ... THAT Hank Stampfl, founder of luxury events company Revel Rouge, has released an EP titled "Feel Good" ... THAT Blade has new routes from New York to Miami, Palm Beach and Aspen.

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Liv & learn in love

BE careful, famous people, because you might get what you wish for. We're told Olivia Rodrigo ended up dating financier Julian Croonenberghs because she told pals she was tired of seeing celebrities and wanted to date a "normal guy." (Rodrigo had been with Geese singer Cameron Winter, "Enola Holmes" star Louis Partridge and Disney co-star Ethan Wacker, among other off-puttingly talented and wealthy types.) But as "normal women" could have told the "Drivers License" singer (above), dating normal guys isn't the ceaseless shower of pleasure and joy it sounds like it'll be. They've already broken up. Croonenberghs had worked at Goldman Sachs and now works for private equity firm Hg.

Social media Meta with fear

JEREMY Allen White plays Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz, who helped uncover a Facebook scandal, in "The Social Reckoning" and says he's not too keen on social media. "I find it very scary," he told PageSix.com's Nicki Gostin at the premiere of the Aaron Sorkin-helmed movie. "Especially for young people, for

children. My kids are already aware of all this stuff, and they're 5 and 7. I want young kids to be able to live in as small a world as possible for as long as possible, to get to understand themselves and know themselves before an algorithm or prompt is telling them how they should look, how they should be." His co-star, Mikey Madison, isn't active on social media and doesn't have an Instagram account — despite playing Frances Haugen, a Facebook engineer and whistleblower. "When I was a lit tle girl, like maybe 13, I dipped my toe in the water and tried it," the 27-year-old Oscar winner said, but she gave it up. "It lived and died with me when I was 15." She added, "I don't have any personal relationship with social media, and I haven't for the majority of my life. And it's just a personal choice that I've made."

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NYC's priciest rental — with a catch

The city's most expensive rental has just hit the market.

It's a \$250,000-a-month condo inside troubled 432 Park Ave., Gimme Shelter can reveal.

The 8,100-square-foot skypad spans the tower's entire 88th floor. It comes with five bedrooms, seven baths, two powder rooms, oak floors, $12 \frac{1}{2}$ -foot ceilings and a library with a wood-burning fireplace.

Panoramic views stretch across three states, from the city skyline to the rivers and the Atlantic Ocean.

A private elevator landing opens to an entry gallery that leads to a corner living room. There's also a corner dining room and a windowed eat-in chef's kitchen with marble floors, a wine cellar and a pantry.

The decadent main bedroom suite boasts a sitting room, dressing rooms and two windowed baths clad in marble, with radiant heated floors.

"It's one of the most beautiful apartments in New York," said a source familiar with the residence, which is also for sale at \$88.5 million. "Spectacular, understated and elegant."

The sellers are Lewis "Lew" Sanders, the former chairman of AllianceBernstein and the founder and CEO of Sanders Capital, and his wife, Alice.

The couple bought the unit for \$60.8 million in 2016, property records show.

"It was a raw box when they bought it, and they put around \$10 million into it," the source said. The interiors are by Andrew Sheinman of Pembrooke & Ives.

Despite it being the most expensive rental currently on the market, according to StreetEasy records, it is not the most expensive listing ever.

Back in 2015, a full-floor Presidential Suite on the 39th floor of The Pierre Hotel was briefly listed for rent for a whopping \$500,000 per month, before returning to the rental market for the same price in 2017.

The Sanders also own a Palm Beach mansion beside Howard and Beth Stern, a home in East Hampton and a \$19.4 million West Palm Beach condo they bought earlier this year.

Listing broker Richard J. Steinberg of Compass declined to comment. So how did they land on the astronomical rent?

"Lew decided to list the apartment at a premium. He doesn't need the money. He isn't an anxious seller or renter. He doesn't care. That's the truth," a source said, adding that rental income is an enticing way to offset the city's pricey new pied-à-terre tax.

"It is appealing to someone moving to the

city from the West Coast or internationally, not a New Yorker," the source said.

But there's a catch. The Billionaires' Row building, once the tallest residential tower in the world, has a notoriously rocky history.

Completed in 2015, the 1,396-foot tower was designed by the late architect Rafael Viñoly and developed by Harry Macklowe and CIM Group. The supertall, superskinny design was inspired by the city's grid and by a trash can that Austrian architect Josef Hoffmann designed in 1905.

The building drew buyers like Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez, who sold after about a year. But structural flaws have since led to major problems.

The tower is so skinny that it sways and makes noise in the wind, and residents have long complained that the garbage chute sounds like a bomb when trash goes down.

There are also leaks and elevator problems. And the experimental white concrete exterior is cracking, which could endanger pedestrians if chunks fall.

Work to fix the building has already begun, sources tell Gimme Shelter. Repairs are estimated at around \$160 million.

The owners have also filed two lawsuits. The first, in 2021, demands that the develop-

ers pay for about 1,500 alleged construction and design defects.

The second, in 2025, seeks at least \$165 million in damages for alleged fraud, charging that the developers hid the cracks in the exterior concrete. The developers have denied wrongdoing.

"All of the complaints are true," a broker with listings in the building tells Gimme Shelter. "The elevators make noise. There's rattling, and on windy days you can hear the clanging. It all goes back to Harry [Macklowe] and Viñoly. It was the perfect storm. They chose form over function. They were

fanatical about design and didn't care about how people lived."

Viñoly once told Gimme Shelter that the building “has a couple of screw-ups,” including oversized window frames and a layout that gave bathrooms the best views instead of living spaces.

Even a garage promised 10 years ago has yet to be built. "There's nothing there! Just empty space," a source said.

Even so, brokers in the building say buying there beats renting right now because prices are so low, even if the cost of repairs isn't factored into the purchase price.

Amenities include an 8,000-square-foot private restaurant with a 5,000-square-foot dining terrace, helmed by Michelin-starred Australian chef Shaun Hergatt.

There's also a 14-seat boardroom with a marble table, office suites, staff suites, storage units, climate-controlled wine cellars, a residents' lounge, a library, a gym, a 75-foot pool, a billiards room, a screening room, a children's playroom, a concierge desk, in-suite dining and room service.

But all of that is moot if the problems aren't fixed. The building could become “uninhabitable,” structural engineer Steve Bongiorno told the New York Times in October 2025.

He also urged the Department of Buildings to investigate. The DOB said the building has passed inspections.

Still, “People who live in the building love it,” says one of the building’s brokers.

"They love the restaurant and the lounge, the daily breakfast, and the great location," the broker said.

“For those who can afford it, I encourage them to buy. The prices are depressed, the problems will rectify and the prices will go up. Every building has problems. This one just has more than most. But it’s still the best location on Billionaires’ Row.”

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Li'l shops of horror Underage drug sales

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DANGER! Kratom products line the shelves at Smoke Scene at Ninth Avenue and West 52nd Street in Hell's Kitchen. Underage reporter Sidney Blasco wasn't asked to show ID.

By SIDNEY BLASCO and SONYA GUGLIARA

Nearly half the smoke shops in Manhattan visited by an underage Post reporter as part of a weeks-long probe into the kratom crisis were willing to sell her highly addictive opioid-like products without ever bothering to ask for ID.

In New York, buyers must be 21 or older to purchase any products containing or derived from the South Asian kratom plant, known for its euphoric or sedative-like effects.

Post scribe Sidney Blasco, 20, found the drug at 18 smoke shops along Eighth Avenue in Hell's Kitchen — and only nine bothered to ask her to show a valid form of identification.

Seven stores sent her walking because she couldn't prove she was 21. Two shops simply asked her if she was 21 without asking to see her ID. Blasco never purchased any products from any of the stores.

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'Sell whatever'

"There's many little smoke shops around, they sell whatever they want because they don't have the license or anything," Rohi Bati, 38, the manager of Esmoke at 40th Street and Eighth Avenue told Blasco after she revealed her identity.

Bati was one of the store employees who asked Blasco for identification and refused to sell to her.

Pills, tablets, powders, drinks and gummies containing 7-OH — a compound derived from kratom that experts say is 13 times stronger than morphine — have become staples at smoke shops. Critics slam the substance as “gas station heroin.” The products are often marketed in brightly colored packages resembling candies and energy drinks.

It came as no surprise to Rich Marianos, an executive with the Tobacco Law Enforcement Network, that many shops were willing to sell the products without checking Blasco's ID.

"These guys [smoke shops] are such bad actors . . . So why would you expect them to say, well, 'Are you 21?'” Marianos said. "They're giving all this stuff to kids."

Experts and concerned antikratom advocates are worried about how easily young New Yorkers are getting their hands on the drug — which acts as a stimulant when taken in lower amounts, and as a sedative in higher dosages.

Wendy Chamberlain, the founder nonprofit Kratom Danger Awareness, said she's tried helping hundreds of people in the throes of addiction since she founded the group in 2022 — two years after her son Joseph Chamberlain, 38, died in his upstate home from an accidental kratom overdose.

Mayor Mamdani's office, the Health Department and the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection did not return requests for comment.

'KILLER'

By SONYA GUGLIARA, ADRY TORRES, RICH CALDER and SHANE GALVIN

Deadly synthetic kratom is being sold in smoke shops across New York City, despite containing lethal compounds banned by federal laws, a Post investigation has found.

Over a two-week span, The Post visited 52 shops across the city and found eight stores — about 15% — peddling products containing two synthetics banned nationwide by the Drug Enforcement Administration in an August emergency order: mitragynine pseudoindoxyl, known as MGPI, or dihydro-7-hydroxy mitragynine, known as MGM-15.

Two dealers face up to 20 years in prison for peddling newly banned Schedule I synthetics linked to the overdose deaths of two University of Mississippi students.

The federal action comes amid rising alarms over the dangerous substances, including an urgent warning in Utah linking four recent fatalities to semi-synthetic kratom chemicals.

Smoke shops sell 'banned' drug of death

"When's it going to end?" asked Kratom Danger Awareness founder Wendy Chamberlain, whose son Joseph Lumbrazo, 38, died in his upstate New York home in 2020 from an accidental kratom overdose.

Chamberlain, who has dealt with hundreds of people of all ages struggling with kratom addictions, is begging lawmakers for immediate intervention.

"You can't have one without the other — if you get rid of the entire plant, then you're not going to have the synthetic or semi-synthetic," she said.

Kratom, a plant from Southeast Asia, mimics the effects of stimulants and opioids, according to the Mayo Clinic.

Small amounts of the drug can spark a surge in energy, while larger amounts act as a depressant or sedative.

Synthetic variants can be tens to hundreds of times stronger.

The Post visited smoke shops, convenience stores and dispensaries to see what dangerous and illegal substances lined their shelves — or were hidden behind their counters.

Employees at several Big Apple stores boasted that their most powerful products contain MGPI or MGM-15 — either unaware or indifferent that they're peddling an illegal substance.

Each product containing MGPI

ANGUISHED: Wendy Chamberlain holds a photograph of her late son Joseph Lumbrazo, who died from a kratom overdose in 2020 at the age of 38. Micah Knox (above), 29, OD'd on 7-OH pills.

or MGM-15 also contained 7-Hydroxymitragynine, 7-OH — a kratom-derived compound legal in New York that is 13 times stronger than morphine and widely known as “gas station heroin.”

Flashy colorful packages of pills and powders with 7-OH are readily available at 34 of the stores The Post reporter visited.

Varieties that contained MGPI available for purchase across the boroughs included 1,000 mg packs of a Kama brand product called “7-Hydroxy+Pseudoindoxyl,” which were proudly promoted at New City Smoke Shop on the corner of Park Place and Church Street in lower Manhattan.

An employee at East Village Smoke Shop along First Avenue in Manhattan promoting the same product tried enticing the Post reporter by saying it's now "hard to find" because "it's about to be banned."

The exact breakdown of its components is unclear, but MGPI is an eye-popping 31 times stronger than 7-OH, according to the National Library of Medicine.

A worker at New City Smoke Shop reluctantly admitted customers opt for the MGPI-containing Kama product because it's much stronger than other varieties — but a health inspector warned the store a few months ago that the tablets would soon be illegal.

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'Feel stronger'

He said he didn't know the current legal status of any of the substances — a sentiment shared by employees at multiple other stores.

An Astoria business called Ditmars Organic Convenience selling Kama and similarly illegal pseudoindoxyl-containing products from a brand called Opia seemed well aware that they were selling contraband. Instead of displaying the products out in the open, an employee pulled out an iPad to show off the illicit selection.

KRATOM IN NY

"They say that it makes them feel stronger, stay awake, focused," said the man, who only identified himself as Rifa.

"[But] when you see him [after they take the tablet] they're too f--king weak. Literally you can see them too weak. If you push them, maybe they're going to fall down," a worker at an Astoria shop said.

The ingredients in the products found by The Post were similar to those of the "SMAX Pseudo-

East Village Smoke Shop also sold dangerous tablets containing 7-OH, MGPI and MGM-15 from a brand called Rush.

DHM" tablets linked to Hamilton and Strang's deaths, which officials said contained MGPI, MGM-15 and 7-OH.

Customers love how the stuff makes them feel, according to employees.

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'Crack houses'

"We are licensing these places [and they're] like crack houses," Rich Marianos, a former ATF boss who founded the Tobacco Law Enforcement Network, warned of smoke shops. "No syn-'ABOUT TO BE BANNED': Blue Dream Convenience in Queens sells several high-dose versions of kratom, including pills under the brand name Kama, which is "about to be banned."

thetic narcotic producing a euphoric high like heroin should ever be sold without a doctor's authority."

Products created using botanical kratom are technically legal on the federal level, but are fully banned in nine states.

The DEA did not return requests for comment.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said between December 2024 and December 2025, 1,221 drug overdose deaths involved kratom. Some 24 million Americans have used kratom.

'Krisis' by the numbers

The New York State Health Department reported 100 overdoses linked to kratom from 2023 to 2024. It contributed to 45 overdose deaths from 2024 to 2025, ■NYC smoke shops visited: 52

■Stores selling any kratom products: 34

■Stores selling synthetic kratom products: 33

■Stores selling DEA-banned products: 8

but a spokesperson noted there were other substances involved in some of these cases as well.

The Department of Justice announced Friday plans to ban 7-OH, adding it to the federal Schedule I controlled substances list — which means, like MGM-15 and MGPI, anyone caught selling 7-OH could face up to 20 years in prison once the ban goes into effect.

Dana Knox, of South Carolina, whose 26-year-old son Micah accidentally overdosed from synthetic kratom in June, slammed the drugs as “just like fentanyl and heroin.”

She asked: "If it's going to be just as addictive as those, why are we selling it over the counter?"

Industry spends big to stop bans

The kratom industry has poured millions of dollars into political action committees, candidate campaigns and lobbying efforts to fight blanket bans on products containing the opioid-like supplements and persuade lawmakers to target synthetic alternatives instead, records show.

Leading the way is the American Kratom Association — which has spent more than \$1 million on lobbyists over the past decade, including \$443,000 alone this year, according to data tracked by OpenSecrets.com.

Their top lobbyists include longtime Capitol Hill power broker and former Reagan administration official Mac Haddow and former New York state Sen. David Carlucci (D-Rockland).

Botanic Tonics, an Oklahoma-based supplement company founded by Jerry W. Ross, has reportedly spearheaded a multi-million dollar lobbying effort that leveraged private audiences with top federal honchos to promote the benefits of natural kratom leaves of a tropical tree native to Southeast Asia.

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A British man smashed his own record by growing the world's heaviest pumpkin — weighing a staggering 2,856.8 pounds — right in time for Halloween.

Plant nursery owner Ian Paton, 65, entered his voluminous veggie, which has a circumference of over 20 feet, into the Wargrave Nursery Giant Pumpkin Weigh-off in Berkshire, England, on Oct. 3.

The pumpkin, which Paton named "Bagheera," after the panther from "The Jungle Book," was officially weighed at the contest under the supervision of a Guinness World Records adjudicator.

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FOOLED: Tavus AI's model creates video agents (above) it claims 48% of people believe are human.

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Can you spot the bot?

Nearly half the people who chatted with an AI-generated “interviewer” thought they were talking to a real person, according to the startup that built it.

Bay Area company Tavus said its new model, Griffin, fooled 48% of the 54 participants in a job interview test, a result it says shows the avatar can pass the Turing Test — which measures whether a machine can exhibit intelligent behavior indistinguishable from that of a human.

Participants who thought the interviewer was human were 79% confident, on average, according to the company's announcement. Those who thought it was a bot were

81% confident.

Griffin generates every pixel of every frame in real time from a single reference image, the company said. That includes not just the face, arms and fingers, but also the movement of the chair, the shadows it casts and the background.

The avatars come in male and female looks and appear to breathe and blink naturally.

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“Humans are evolutionarily designed to communicate face to face. We speak as much through our words as we do our expressions, tone, gestures and timing. So much of human communication is non-verbal. It’s an art, a dance,” company CEO and co-founder Hassaan Raza said in the announcement.

Raza said the new model has eliminated some of the reality-breaking aspects of communicating with an AI-generated avatar — including smiling while hearing bad news.

The Griffin model reacts in real time and can even interrupt a person, adjust to new subject matter, and be interrupted without losing its train of thought, the company said.

In one demonstration, the model teaches a participant how to solve a Rubik's Cube, showing that it can respond to visual cues when needed. In another clip, the model is seen successfully playing a game of Simon Says.

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DEPENDING on whom you ask, critics such as myself are either totally irrelevant relics of the past like almanacs or sundials — Hollywood's dream scenario — or snarling Godzillas who go around crushing poor, innocent movies to death with relish.

Well, it was clear which reality was true last weekend.

After some scathing reviews, Tom Cruise's "Digger" became the flop heard 'round the world. Tom tanked so hard, his wreck is on track to be one of the biggest flops of all time.

Much as I enjoy quoting myself, my favorite line actually came from my very reasonable pal David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter.

"You watch in excruciating weariness as it disappears up its own ass and then realize to your dismay that there's another eardrum-shattering hour left to endure," wrote King Ghidorah, excuse me, David.

After the critiques dropped, the domestic box office projections for “Digger” dove off a cliff like Agent Ethan Hunt: \$20 million (dire to begin with) slipped to \$15 million to its eventual sad, sad \$8 million. Even fellow failure “Masters of the Universe” opened to \$29 million.

Keep in mind that “Digger” — a message-heavy meta-satire from the director of “Birdman” about an oil tycoon facing an environmental catastrophe — reportedly cost between \$135 million and \$180 million to make. That’s a staggering budget for what it is. Less arthouse, more art-mansion.

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Even so, there is a palpable sense that Hollywood is shocked that critics would do this to Tom Cruise, who they tend to play nice with. They're even more flabbergasted that our kvetching worked. Cruise should be critic-proof, they figure. To them, in a just world, everything should be.

These days Herculean efforts are taken to circumvent the honest opinions of professional reviewers.

The stars go film cute videos making pizzas at The New York Times.

They sit down on happy podcasts like “Good Hang with Amy Poehler” and “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend” and chat for an hour about their childhoods and first jobs.

Most nauseatingly, my Page Six Hollywood colleague Tatiana Sie-

Flop's its own grave 'Digger'

gel reported that “Digger” had a special trailer launch event to butter up influencers. Attendees got to pose for a professional photo with Cruise. Naturally those free-loaders all think “Digger” is better than “The Godfather.”

See? Tom and Co. did everything right to defang Manohla Dargis of The New York Times, Kyle Smith of The Wall Street Journal, Owen Gleiberman of Variety and David Erlich of Indie-Wire. And little old me, of course.

Whoops. Didn't work. Those five very different critics all hated it.

Now, Hollywood is manically scrambling to fix the disaster — kinda like Digger does! But that's mission: impossible.

Warner Bros. released a desperate new clip seizing on the movie's divisiveness and imploring audiences to "decide for yourself." The subtext being, "... since we weren't able to decide for you."

And Anne Hathaway went on the cinephile website Letterboxd and filed her first-ever review.

Welcome to my lucrative field, Anne! Soon you too can have a fourth-floor walk-up with one cabinet.

"I loved this brilliant movie," the movie star wrote. "It's worth making the time [to] see and decide for yourself what you make of it. For me? 10/10."

See? There's that patronizing phrase again. The notion of critics swaying public opinion is absolutely repulsive to these people.

Could Hathaway's passion come from the fact that she'll star with Cruise next year in "Days of Thunder 2"? I wouldn't dare suggest such a thing.

And oddly Jane Fonda jumped in the fight. Anti-critic activism, perhaps?

CRUISE-ING BRUISING: Tom Cruise stars in "Digger," an apparent attempt at Oscar bait that's on track to be one of the biggest flops ever.

"The film allows us to witness another side of Tom Cruise's courage," Fonda wrote about him on Instagram like he's Nelson Mandela. "It was a big, brave risk for him to take on this role and he was very good in it and very brave."

Eh. Climbing the Burj Khalifa is brave. Slapping on prosthetics and speaking in a hokey Texas accent in a film from the director of "The Revenant" is shameless Oscar hunting.

Cruise is every bit as transparent about his hunger for a statuette (he's never won an Academy Award) as Timothée Chalamet was during "Marty Supreme," except people actually liked that movie and it made money.

Maybe he'll manage a pity nomination as a gesture against the cranky critics — the industry coming together to rebuke the horrible monsters who spend years seeing, pondering and analyzing all of their work. But he won't win.

We're not all bad, you know.

Like we did with “Marty” in 2025, reviewers have helped plenty of movies that were hardly sure things this year: “The Invite,” “Coyote vs. Acme,” “Project Hail Mary” and “Obsession,” among others.

But not Cruise's broken-down vehicle, which sure is struggling because of us. Don't go digging critics' graves just yet.

Trump 'Posts' Tish dirt

President Trump blasted out a Post exclusive Saturday about a whistleblower who says state Attorney General Letitia James pushed her team of prosecutors to go after Trump despite a lack of evidence.

Daniel Wiesenfeld, a prosecutor in the Investor Protection Bureau, said he was told by a superior to keep making the case against Trump and to search for dirt in his finances and associations.

The whistleblower said that the directive came from the top.

"Tish was the boss and what Tish wanted, Tish got," he said. "So we had to keep it going."

Trump sent out a link to the story to his 13 million followers on Truth Social, along with the comment: "Prosecutorial Misconduct!"

Wiesenfeld was placed on leave after clashing with his boss and posting about internal pressure in the office.

An earlier August report in the Albany Times Union cited since-deleted emails from Wiesenfeld saying he was told to "find and pursue crimes" by Trump allies.

A state appeals court in August 2025 threw out a \$454 million civil fraud judgment against Trump, calling the fine excessive.

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US intelligence officials who witnessed a bizarre parade of orange orbs could be called to testify before Congress, Rep. Eric Burlison (R-Mo.) told The Post.

The officials said that in late 2025 orange orbs flew alongside their helicopter near a West Coast military base as “countless” smaller objects swarmed in all directions, according to an FBI report released in May.

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By DAVID SPECTOR

Teens waved terrorist flags and learned Maoist war tactics at a radical “Anti-Imperialist Summer Camp” hidden in the Pacific Northwest, The Post has learned.

The late August camp, run by the terrorism-linked Anti-Imperialist Front USA, was attended by teenagers from their off-shoot, Revolutionary Youth, along with community college students and young workers, according to materials provided to The Post by education watchdog group the North American Values Institute.

The campfire goals of left

Pictures from the trip showed nearly 20 hoodie- and bandana-clad campers sitting around a fire alongside flags and banners from terrorist groups, one of which read “Victory to the Axis of Resistance!” — the network that includes Hamas, the Houthis and Hezbollah.

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The campers studied documents from foreign communist groups that have been designated as terrorist organizations in their home countries, according to a since-deleted Aug. 21 post on their website.

One group studied was the Communist Party of Peru, a k a the Shining Path, which, in its attempt to overthrow the Peruvian government in the 1980s and '90s, killed over 35,000 people and disappeared countless others.

“These studies deepened participant’s [sic] grasp of the international significance of the People’s Wars in Peru, Turkey, India, and the Philippines. As the People’s Wars across the globe showcase the only path to freedom for the working class and oppressed peoples,” the website stated.

Another group studied was the Communist Party of Turkey/

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CLASS STRUGGLE: High school students learn about communism at a summer camp in the Pacific Northwest in August.

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Marxist Leninist, which was founded in 1972 for the purpose of “armed struggle” and is a designated terrorist group by the Turkish government. The group has staged numerous kidnappings and attacks on Turkish soldiers and police.

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The campers also studied was the Communist Party of India (Maoist) which was formed in 2004 and has committed over 4,000 terrorist attacks since its founding, according to the South Asia Terrorist Portal.

"Camaraderie was strengthened through physical discipline cultivated through sports and collective singing of revolutionary songs. Exercise and diligent study strengthened comrades revolutionary optimist spirits," the group's website said of the trip's itinerary.

NAVI Director of Research Mika Hackner said that Revolutionary Youth recruits new members from high schools across the West Coast by staging class walkouts, most recently on the anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2026, terrorist attack in Israel.

“High schoolers are being led into a dangerous, violent ideology by groups associated with terrorist organizations,” Hackner said.

By DOREE LEWAK

"I'm still in shock, but it's a miracle she's alive," mom Yasmin Ochayon told The Post. "It's half shock, half joy."

An Israeli mom whose son was murdered in the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas massacre cheated a second devastating tragedy when her daughter survived the attempted hijacking aboard a flydubai flight on Sept. 30.

Yasmin's daughter Miryam Ochayon, 24, was traveling the world with stops in Mongolia, India and the Philippines for nearly a year when she decided to return to her native Israel to attend

her native israel to attend this year's memorial for her brother, Eviatar.

She booked a Sept. 30 trip aboard flydubai Flight 1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv — a horrifying near disaster when Omani copilot Hamam al-Hammami stabbed the captain, Smit Machchhar, and attempted to crash the plane full of mainly Israelis.

HER VOW: Miryam Ochayon (left), whose brother died in the Oct. 7 attack, was on the recently hijacked flydubai plane. “I knew I had to stay alive for my mother,” she said of mom Yasmin (above left).

Flydubai halts service to Israel

Flydubai has halted service to and from Israel in the wake of the failed terrorist plot by one of the company's co-pilots.

“Flydubai flights to and from Israel are suspended until further notice, a company spokesperson confirmed to The Post.

Machchhar with a cockpit crash ax.

The suspension follows the Sept. 30 crisis aboard Flight FZ1073, which was traveling from Dubai to Israel when its Omani co-pilot, Hamam al-Hammami, 29, allegedly attacked Capt. Smit

"We remain in close coordination with the relevant authorities and regulators, and will communicate any updates regarding our

The attack was allegedly part of a premeditated plot to hijack the Boeing 737 and crash it into either the passenger terminal at Ben Gurion Airport or a tower block in Tel Aviv, to cause a 9/11-type disaster, investigators said.

flights through our official channels."

The plane plummeted “out of control” as passengers started to panic, Miryam told The Post.

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Miryam turned a shaky camera on herself in a harrowing scene capturing the passengers' blood-curdling screams, as she quietly repeated: "It's going to be OK — I'm not going to die. I'm going to see my mom."

mom. If she lost me, she couldn't go on."

Amid the chaos, Miryam gripped the hands of her Row 6 seatmates, the young children of hero passenger Tzvika Manes, who helped subdue the suspect and save the 182 souls aboard.

She repeated her calming refrain as much to reassure herself as to soothe the young Manes girls.

Miryam called her mother after making an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia.

"They screamed so strong, it felt like it was Oct. 7," said Miryam. "We were 30 seconds away from crashing, and I knew I had to stay alive for my mother."

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She described "feeling death in the air" as she prayed to her 22-year-old brother from her seat.

"I said to Eviatar, 'I'm not going to see you up there,' she said. "I'm going to go home and see my

Completely in the dark about the terror unfolding onboard her daughter's flight, Yasmin, a single mom from Jerusalem, was already at Ben Gurion Airport anticipating her arrival.

“She told me that the plane was close to crashing, that they were close to dying,” recalled Yasmin.

"To lose a son is crazy, but to happen to her too . . . I couldn't even imagine that," said the shaken mom, who added that it took days to process the horrific ordeal.

“I thought, ‘Eviatar watched over us,’” the grateful mom said. Eviatar (inset), an ambulance driver in the elite Golani unit and a talented artist, was fighting at the Kissufim military outpost on Oct. 7, 2023, when a Hamas terrorist threw an explosive into the

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HOPE: Miryam Ochayon felt "death in the air," but she survived the recent flydubai hijacking while praying to her brother Eviatar, an ambulance driver in the elite Golani unit, who died fighting in the Oct. 7 attacks.

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shelter, killing him and five fellow soldiers. It was supposed to be his final day of active duty.

Blue-eyed Eviatar, whose name in Hebrew signifies success in life, was the oldest of six children, and his sister calls him “the most talented, the most beautiful, the bravest” soul with an “enormous heart.”

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At the memorial service Oct. 4 at Mount Herzl, Israel's national cemetery, Miryam sobbed over her brother's grave, held up by two of her brothers. She said she had prayed to survive so she could make it to his gravesite.

"I'm not going to die today — I'm going back to my brother's memorial," she recalled at the memorial in front of her bereaved family and friends with a mixture of joy and pain.

"I stood next to him, and I couldn't believe I'm alive. It felt like a miracle," she added.

"I know Eviatar played an incredible part in this," she said at the packed memorial.

"I'm standing here, looking at your grave," she said as her brothers comforted her, "and not looking at you from above."

Meanwhile, Yasmin went alone to her son's grave on Oct. 7 this year for a private moment.

"Every year is hard, but emotionally it was different this year," she said. "God took my son, but he gave me back my daughter. He took life and gave life. We feel the miracle."

Patching leaky love lives

Israel has an unlikely new sex symbol.

Yaniv Hayoun (inset) — the plumber who put the flydubai co-pilot accused of trying to butcher the pilot in a headlock, pulled him from the captain's chair and then managed to stabilize the nosediving plane using techniques

he learned from the TV show "Air Disasters" — has left many single women intrigued.

Israeli women are looking at plumbers in a whole new light, hoping one can prevent them from flushing their love lives down the toilet.

"I want a plumber, baby," Pasadena native Chaya Lev, 52, who's been living in Israel for a past decade, told The Post. "They're not afraid

of anything. I'm obsessed. That's the man I want."

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"It's about being a man who knows how to step up," said the social media personality who hopes to unclog her dating life.

“Plumbers are hot, Israeli men are hot,” American-Israeli Sivan Hadari told The Post.

“Most Israeli men — a plumber, the pizza guy — will spring into action,” added the founder of Her Tel Aviv, a networking community for female transplants to Israel. Doree Lewak

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President Trump continued to rip the Norwegian Nobel Committee for passing him over for the long-sought Nobel Peace Prize.

In a Truth Social post Saturday, Trump claimed he had “settled 8 Wars” and was close to “settling, or win[ning], two more” — arguing that his record made him more deserving of the honor than this year’s recipient, South African jurist Navi Pillay.

Trump cited a range of achievements he said should have earned him the prize, including his administration's operation to capture Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, efforts to secure the return of Israeli hostages held by Hamas and US strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities. Maduro is now facing narco-terrorism charges in New York.

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By SHANE GALVIN

A man was savagely mauled to death after entering the tiger enclosure at a zoo in England.

The unidentified man got into the tiger's lair at Yorkshire Wildlife Park on

Saturday afternoon and was quickly set upon by a Siberian tiger.

Heart-stopping footage showed the tiger biting and clawing at the man's back as he sat on the grass and tried to stop the attack.

"No! No! No!" the man shouted after the initial bites, holding up his index finger and appearing to try to reprimand the beast.

Bystanders made frantic pleas of "No!" as the tragedy unfolded.

Police rushed to the scene after receiving reports of a man inside the enclosure at 1:35 p.m.

Park closed for the weekend after the incident.

TRAGEDY: An unidentified man is seen wagging a finger at the Siberian tiger in a Yorkshire, England, zoo moments before he was mauled to death.

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"The tiger was not doing anything wrong by being a tiger. I am relieved to hear that the animal was not harmed," Baskin told The Post in a statement.

“Our thoughts are with them at this distressing time,” police said.

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The victim's family is being supported by "specialist officers," according to the South Yorkshire Police, but it is not clear if they were at the scene.

Meanwhile, "Tiger King" star Carole Baskin pleaded with authorities not to kill the beast who did what

"We don't yet know all the circumstances that led to this man's death ... What we do know is that a tiger is a powerful wild predator, and no amount of captivity, training, or familiarity can change that," she explained, while also offering her condolences to the victim's family.

Philly cop shot dead

One Philadelphia cop was fatally shot and another is fighting for his life after reportedly being ambushed by a crazed city worker, early Saturday.

Cops responded to a call for a man armed with a gun on a porch just after midnight on the 100 block of North 52nd Street in West Philadelphia.

As soon as they stepped onto the porch the cops were ambushed and hit with a hail of gunfire, according to WPVI.

One cop, a 33-year-old father of five was shot 12 times, and another officer, a 40-year-old father of two, was shot three times and was rushed to the hospital in critical condition.

Both officers were taken to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center. Police have not confirmed which officer was killed.

The alleged shooter has been identified as Eric Lewis, who works for the Philadelphia Water Department, sources told the Philadelphia Inquirer.

He initially fled, continuing to fire off shots at police in a nearby alley and then climbing a tree to hide. Lewis eventually surrendered to police after a SWAT unit arrived, according to Fox 29.

Officers reportedly recovered three firearms, including two handguns and a shotgun. One of those weapons belonged to a cop.

Mayor Cherelle Parker said she spoke to the families of the victims.

"Their families right now are feeling unspeakable pain," Parker said early Saturday. Neither of the victims has been identified.

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OILING POINT: President Trump lambasts Volodymyr Zelensky (below) Saturday at the White House after the Ukrainian leader ignored his demand to stop striking Russian oil refineries (left).

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By GEOFF EARLE

President Trump ripped into Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday, insisting that it's time for Ukraine to "get a new president."

The fiery comments came just hours after his administration announced a deal to have Russia supply 300,000 metric tons of diesel to the US and global energy markets.

The president described the arrangement as a direct response to Zelensky's targeting of Russian oil refineries, even after Trump asked him to stop the attacks.

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House for a rally in Tennessee.

He hammered Zelensky for failing to end the Ukraine war, which began with Russian strongman Vladimir Putin launching a full-scale invasion in February 2022.

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"You've lost 30% of your country, and you've had over a million people killed . . . I think it's time for Ukraine to get a new president," Trump fumed.

"Zelensky could have settled this war many times — many, many times. And he chooses not to. Very difficult. It's a war that should have never been started." Trump added of the refinery attacks: "He'd better damned well stop."

Average US diesel prices have topped \$6 per gallon, hitting farmers and consumers.

Trump's rally in Tennessee was his latest trip to a red-leaning state ahead of the midterms, where Republicans are facing tight races due, in part, to high fuel costs, party operatives say.

It was some of the sharpest remarks thrown at Zelensky since the infamous Oval Office blowup in February 2025.

After Moscow launched a massive air campaign overnight into Saturday that killed at least 17 Ukrainians, including three children, Zelensky responded with his own biting post on X.

“Today, Russia expressed its thanks for the lifting of sanctions on diesel exports by dropping five glide bombs on residential buildings in Zaporizhzhia,” he wrote. “Last night confirmed once again that, in Russia, they take any easing of pressure to mean . . . they can keep dropping bombs on cities.”

Some Republicans have also criticized the deal with Russia.

"While I understand the desire to bring down diesel prices, I am concerned the lifting of sanctions on Russian oil will only fund the Kremlin's war machine — emboldening more violence and destruction, as we have seen in recent days," Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said Friday on X.

Vlad to Don: No peace talks

Russian strongman Vladimir Putin shot down any prospect of peace talks with Ukraine during his phone call with President Trump — the day before Moscow killed at least 20 Ukrainians in strikes early Saturday.

Putin (right) said he would continue fighting with Kyiv until he has achieved “all his objectives,” during a Friday call with Trump.

"Putin made it clear that Moscow will continue hostilities until it achieves all stated goals," Russian foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov told state media.

Putin tried to convince Trump that Ukraine had “no prospects whatsoever” and that Russia has the outcome of the war “entirely in their hands”—despite evidence of Moscow’s advances slowing in recent weeks.

Ushakov claimed that Trump said he'd relay the message about peace talks to the Ukrainian government.

It came after high-level talks on Friday — between US special envoy Steve Witkoff, Ukrainian negotiators and representatives from the UK, France, Germany, the European Commission and NATO — failed to make any breakthrough after six hours at the table. Gabrielle Fahmy

CHINA

Nikon disqualified the winner of its Small World in Motion competition after discovering it was generated by AI.

The 52-second video of a tiny roundworm and a single-celled Dileptus, submitted by Ning Xu, an optical engineering researcher at China's Tsinghua University, "did not comply with the competition rules regarding generative AI," Nikon said in a statement.

The annual competition is for movies or time-lapse photography taken through a microscope.

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MEXICO

They're now on the hook.

The nation's Senate unanimously approved a bill cracking down on spam calls.

Companies that make persistent calls could be slapped with fines ranging from \$3,123 to \$126,982.

Mexico ranks sixth in the world for spam calls, according to True-caller, a caller-ID and spam-blocking app.

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CANADA

It's making waves for this in-trepid journey.

A 3.8-ton Canadian buoy appears to have floated 3,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean to Ireland.

The buoy, which belongs to the Canadian Coast Guard, was discovered on the shore of Achill Island in County Mayo.

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AUSTRALIA

They worked 9 to 5 to pull this off.

A small town that pays homage to Dolly Parton with an annual festival had its largest turnout ever Saturday, weeks after the country icon died Aug. 25 at 80.

Each October, the 3,500-resident town of Narromine in New South Wales renames itself “Dollymine” for the festival, which began in 2022 and is spearheaded by a volunteer committee of Parton superfans.

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ITALY

The prisoners broke out their inner athletic spirit.

Inmates at the Rebibbia women's prison in Rome competed against prison officers, magistrates and members of sports clubs on Oct. 10.

The events included five-a-side volleyball, track and field, table tennis, foosball and chess — with the final ranking that saw the prison police win.

WVU frat 'hazing' penalty

Trouble is brewing for the frat bros at West Virginia University.

The school has slapped Lambda Chi Alpha with an interim suspension amid hazing allegations, adding to a string of fraternity scandals on college campuses across the country.

The Morgantown university announced the suspension on Oct. 9, three days after campus police issued a warning following anonymous reports of hazing, according to UVA Today.

A campus warning is issued when a reported crime covered by the federal Clery Act is considered to pose a “serious or continuing” threat to the community.

And university officials are taking a hard line.

"WVU has zero tolerance for hazing or any dangerous activities that threaten student safety or well-being. The University is committed to providing a safe environment for students, faculty, and staff," the university said on its website.

Under university policy, hazing incidents are investigated and referred to the WVU Office of Student Rights and Responsibilities for review.

Lambda Chi did not respond to The Post's requests for comment.

Jeanne Erickson

Obesity and cancer help

When it comes to cancer, carrying extra weight has been considered dangerous.

The 2-in-5 American adults with obesity are at an increased risk of 13btypes of cancer — like breast, colon, and pancreatic cancers — which make up 40% of all cancers diagnosed in the country every year.

New research revealed a twist in the relationship between body weight and cancer survival that seems to defy conventional wisdom.

A number of studies have shown that obesity is associated with improved cancer survival: something referred to as the “obesity paradox.” Allie Yang

Film exposes Bigfoot 'sighting' lie

By SHANE GALVIN

A new documentary is blowing the lid off history's most famous Bigfoot sighting, exposing the legendary footage as a hoax with a newly unearthed "rehearsal" reel.

The film, “Capturing Bigfoot,” which hits theaters and Prime Video on Oct. 20, features a top-secret canister of 16-mm film stashed away in a safe for decades, showing a “test run” clip of the hairy guy, purportedly shot in 1966 — exactly one year before Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin’s famous film tricked the world.

The shaky footage is 40-seconds long and shows a Bigfoot walking through the woods and looking over its right shoulder in a very similar manner to Patterson-Gimlin's footage, which they said was taken in Bluff Creek, Calif., on Oct. 20, 1967.

The 1967 footage is widely considered by enthusiasts and researchers as the definitive evidence of the creature's existence.

The new footage is shot in a lush forest with a more svelte, ape-like creature retreating into the woods slowly, distinct from the Patterson-Gimlin film, which showed the Bigfoot stalking through a leafless stretch of woods.

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'Holy Grail'

"This is like the Holy Grail or something. This is going to change everything about my dad's film," Roger Patterson's son Clint says in "Capturing Bigfoot."

Both films were shot on the same K-100 Kodak film camera, which left a unique edge, numbers and geometric designs date codes on the film itself.

"That's the answer we've been looking for, for years. That's definitely faked and that's definitely rehearsed," said Larry Lund, known as the "Sasquatch Sleuth," after being shown the film.

"So uncannily like the '67

CASTING: Bob Gimlin (left) and Roger Patterson compare casts they made of footprints they claim were made by Bigfoot on Oct. 27, 1967.

film. To me it's a practice," said Greg Long, author of "The Making of Bigfoot."

"It's a smoking gun, and thank God someone's found it," he added.

The bombshell reel was discovered in 2017 by Teresa Brooks, the daughter of Norm Johnson, who worked in the film department of Boeing in the 1960s. Brooks, a professor at Olympic College in Washington state, then gave the footage to her colleague, filmmaker Marq Evans.

Johnson was recruited into Roger Patterson's hoaxing plot, but never spoke out publicly due to pressure from his wife, Brooks claimed in the documentary. She came into possession of the film reel after her mother died in 2017.

"This film has been sitting in a safe for 50 years," Brooks said in the film. "Part of me wanted to keep the family secret."

Lund's emotional reaction to finding out the original footage was a hoax was featured in the documentary.

"I feel a deep loss," he said. "Look what he's done to people. The lives he changed," the 80-year-old Sasquatch seeker said, shaking his head.

Health indicator is at your fingertips

Your nails might be trying to tell you something, and checking them could be an easy way (hands down) to spot hidden health problems.

Meaning "little moon" in Latin, lunulae are the halfmoon shapes at the base of your nails. Researchers analyzed studies going back to 1954 to find exactly what the lunulae can tell us about our health.

Lunulae are usually white, because the nail is thicker there, obscuring the blood vessels on the nail bed. If lunulae turn red, it could spell danger.

“Red lunulae may reflect both systemic disease activity or local pathology,” the Rutgers University study authors wrote.

Nails are highly sensitive to health changes in the body. They need a steady flow of nutrients, oxygen, and blood flow to grow continuously.

The 1954 report said 61% of people with red lunulae also had heart failure.

Since then, research has shown red lunulae are connected with autoimmune conditions like alopecia, dermatomyositis and lupus.

Allie Yang

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How Russia and China could send us back to the Dark Ages P. 42-43

CARACAS

ROWING up in Venezuela, I watched the socialist strongman Hugo Chávez use the politics of resentment to turn a rich country to ruins. He

promised an oil-funded utopia, but we got hunger, blackouts and a murderous dictatorship.

I know what happens when legitimate economic frustration becomes moral condemnation — and when citizens are encouraged to blame their problems on a single group that is supposedly taking something from them.

GERMANIA

RODRIGUEZ

POLEO

It is why I'm increasingly alarmed as I see the same socialist ideas of popular resentment becoming increasingly popular in America today.

A recent survey

found that 53% of young adults have a favorable view of socialism — and 38% view communism positively.

It's hard to fathom this reality given that this ideology caused 100 million deaths in the 20th century.

Meanwhile, capitalism has lifted a billion people out of poverty in the 21st century alone. But only 45% of young adults in America view it favorably.

How could this be?

I know what they say. I used to say it too. They claim that democratic socialism isn't the same kind of socialism that devastated my homeland — or Cuba, Nicaragua, North Korea, China, the Soviet Union, East Germany, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and so on. Venezuela wasn't really ever socialist, so they say, and the reason Cuba is poor is because of US sanctions.

They're wrong.

Venezuelans didn't vote in 1998 to become Cuba, or even a socialist country — and we, too, dismissed warnings from Cubans who told us Chávez was not the moderate democrat (and capitalist) he presented himself to be.

Chávez didn't use the word “socialism” in his first six years in office. When he ran for office in 1998, his rhetoric was tame compared to the anti-capitalist ideas spouted by today's DSA.

But he grew increasingly radical and eventually called his movement “socialism of the 21st century,” as he pledged to make Venezuela more like Cuba. He expropriated companies and pulled a TV station off the air. He imposed price controls and opened government grocery stores. He fired oil executives who challenged his direct takeover of the industry on live TV. He corrupted the judiciary, put political loyalists in charge of the military and brought in Cuban security operatives to sniff out dissident generals.

Before Chávez, Venezuelans had legitimate grievances about inequality and corruption. Chávez directed their anger at the rich, Yankee imperialists, business owners and the journalists who dared to question his policies.

Socialist policies caused massive food shortages, leading to rampant childhood malnutrition and starvation. It caused the largest peacetime economic collapse in modern world history, and the largest displacement crisis in the history of the Western Hemisphere.

Yet somehow socialism is gaining popularity in the US.

I understand why: Historical evider doesn't matter as much as political slogans mouthed by charismatic politicians, which are what sway voters.

Once a movement convinces its supporters that a particular group is not merely pursuing its interests but actively harming society, increasingly extreme policies and even persecution become easier to justify.

America's political debates are increasingly falling into that dynamic, and New York politics serve as a great example of it.

I was particularly troubled when M Mamdani filmed a video outside billionaire Ken Griffin's Manhattan penthouse to promote a tax on second homes. He described the measure as targeting the "richest of the rich." Griffin later said he believed the video had put him in harm's way, and it probably did.

What I found particularly unset-

I watched Venezuela descend into socialist chaos before my family escaped — I see America going down the same road

Socialist politicians like Mayor Mamdani are following in the footsteps of Venezuela's Hugo Chávez (left), who cratered the economy despite warnings from journalists like Marcel Granier (below) of Radio Caracas Television.

tling is that Mamdani was turning a private citizen into a target of resentment. It reminded me of Chavez pointing at buildings and ordering their expropriations on live TV when I was a kid.

And the use of resentment to accumulate power is not a problem exclusive to the left. The right also engages in toxic populism, with its own set of villains used as a cover for policies that erode our fundamental rights. Instead of billionaires, landlords and

corporations, they go after immigrants, “globalists” and the media — like Chávez.

As Marcel Granier, the director of Venezuela's most important TV station, Radio Caracas Television, which Chávez forced off the air in 2007, noted in a new documentary that I narrated about

tary that I narrated about the collapse of my country, the collapse of my country, "Totalitarianism isn't a switch you flip." It's "a process that gradually takes over."

It takes over when we decide that defeating our enemies is all that matters. Listen to Venezuelans like me who saw their homelands gradually destroyed. We've seen this movie before. It doesn't end well.

Germania Rodriguez Poleo is a New York-based journalist and narrator of Reason's upcoming film, "Escaping Venezuela," which premieres in New York on Oct. 13.

POSTSCRIPT Culture Club

Party Pooh-pers

Sit time Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends were sent back to Britain? Need the UK repatriate them forcibly?

This year marks the hundredth anniversary of A. A. Milne's evergreen creation, Winnie-the-Pooh, the beloved "bear of very little brain." Although the character first appeared in a poem in a 1924 poem, it wasn't until 1926 that the teddy was given his own starring role in "Winnie-the-Pooh."

ALEXANDER LARMAN

Pooh Bear was inspired by a stuffed animal called Edward that Milne had bought for his son, Christopher Robin, from Harrods. To-

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A hundred years after A. A. Milne (right) created Winnie-the-Pooh and friends, the originals (below) have a comfortable home at the NYPL.

day, that original model for Winnie, along with the toys that inspired his equally beloved friends Tigger, Kanga, Eeyore and Piglet — the original Roo, alas, is long since lost — are housed in the New York Public Library. They sit in the Polonsky Exhibition of the library's greatest treasures, alongside a Mozart manuscript and a copy of Shakespeare's First Folio.

NYPL is sparing no effort on Pooh's centenary. A new exhibition, "Silly Old Bear!" features reproductions of the original Milne stories and E. H. Shepard's cherished illustrations. Also on display are versions of the story in different languages — including Latin, so the classically minded can enjoy the adventures of the ursus pusilli ingenii.

A particular coup for the NYPL's show is the gift Queen Camilla made earlier this year, a modern reproduction of Roo, granted in celebration of America's 250th.

But across the pond, many Brits are

Winnie and his friends arrived in New York in 1947 as part of a publicity tour organized by the book's US publisher E.P. Dutton. They stayed in the Big Apple largely because Christopher Robin, who had wearied of being associated with the characters from his childhood, made no effort to reclaim them.

rankled. Why should America get to host Pooh's big birthday? He is, after all, a subject of the Crown.

Although they were loaned back to Britain briefly in 1969 and 1976, the

The US is celebrating Winnie-the-Pooh's 100th birthday with a big shebang — but some Brits are trying to spoil it

NYPL in 1987. They've since never returned to their native country.

The British have tried, on occasion, to repatriate Winnie back to his home in Hundred Acre Wood. In the 1980s, Milne's biographer, Gyles Brandreth,

made a request to the NYPL for their return. In Brandreth's telling, the library responded: "We own Pooh. Pooh stays here."

The British politician Gwyneth Dunwoody went further in 1998, asking then-Prime Minister Tony Blair to lobby President Bill Clinton to have the toys returned.

The editors of these esteemed pages responded in trenchant fashion. Under the headline “GET STUFFED!” the newspaper wrote, “That’s New York’s response to Brits who want to yank Winnie-the-Pooh and his four plush friends from the comfort of their home at the New York Public Library and drag them back home to England.”

Reportedly, a later attempt by David Cameron to schmooze his BFF

President Barack Obama into intervening met with no more luck. NYPL CEO and President Dr. Tony Marx told Brandreth that an intermediary for POTUS made a request for Pooh to be returned temporarily, but it carried no weight in the halls of the library. Marx responded: "I am the president of the New York Public Library

— and the answer is no."

When asked for comment on this story, an NYPL spokesperson said, "The New York Public Library has been the proud steward of Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends since 1987... We're excited to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Winnie-the-Pooh, and invite everyone to see them up-close in our Treasures exhibition — always for free." An invitation worth taking!

And as the bothered Brits ought to know, anything can happen, as the presence of the Bayeux Tapestry in England for the first time in a millennium proves. Perhaps if something truly significant might be offered in return as a quid pro quo — Meghan Markle, maybe — then Winnie and his friends might once again be allowed back into Britain, albeit under the closest scrutiny imaginable.

Otherwise, His Majesty's Armed Forces might have to come to New York and drag the bear and his pals back to his home of Hundred Acre Wood, with all necessary force.

Alexander Larman is the author of "Lazarus: The Second Coming of David Bowie."

Chatter

'We're watching it very closely, hour by hour.'

'I know his mother. I met her a few times in Palm Beach. She's a fantastic, beautiful woman. He is some player.'

— President Trump discussing Baltimore Ravens QB Lamar Jackson

— Sec. of State Rubio speaking to the press about the Russia plague outbreak

'What Tish wanted, Tish got.'

— Whistleblower Daniel Wiesenfeld, claiming NY AG Letitia James forced him to dig up dirt on Trump

'This is no visionary, this is a lawyered-up billionaire.'

— WSJ

columnist

Peggy

Noonan

describing

OpenAI CEO

Sam Altman

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE

On the days following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, American special operations forces infiltrated Afghanistan from the K2 airfield in Uzbekistan to

meet up with the Northern Alliance. Over the next two decades, as a journalist and researcher, I spent years in the battlefields of the Global War on Terrorism to observe and report on US Special Operations Forces. As the country reflects on the lessons of 25 years of war, several fundamental SOF Truths and hard-earned lessons carry great salience for today.

LINDA

ROBINSON

The US defense machine has much to learn from SOF. As I traveled with SOF units in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere, I became familiar with the special operators' shorthand for their approaches to war.

Three sayings in particular unveil how these elite soldiers relied as much on savvy and wit as on brute force.

“Humans are more important than hardware,” the first SOF truth, conveys the central principle of working with local populations to develop partnership.

“Use the weapon between your ears” was the admonition to think strategically, not tactically.

And “work your way out of a job” was the ultimate objective. In other words, their primary mission was to help the country build capable security forces to leave behind a lasting solution for peace and security.

That last objective was one reason that President Trump was re-elected

Over the past 25 years, US Special Forces have created an invisible winning culture — but the secret to their success is being threatened

— to get the country out of forever wars. These three sayings reveal what really make the SOF such a powerful body: Its secret sauce is imparting expertise to indigenous forces and working with other cultures to understand what would and would not create lasting security.

That worked in rural parts of Afghanistan, where village-level pacts were struck and sons of tribal leaders defended their homelands. It worked in the Philippines' southern Mindanao region, where Abu Sayyaf — a Jihadist militant group — gave way to the Bangsamoro Accord and peace. And it worked in the late phase of the war in Iraq, where Special Forces combat advisers supported Iraqi and Syrian Kurds in the ousting of ISIS. Had the Special Forces' ap-

proach been enshrined in the overarching policy and strategy of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the major missteps of the long war on terrorism would have been averted.

Instead, money flowed and emphasis shifted to hardware and other costly “things” that would supposedly win the war. A focus on body count supplanted an understanding of why and how the terrorist leadership continued to regener-

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Dan Caine (inset), chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, hailed the role women play in the Special Operations Forces (pictured in Iraq).

victory.

ate. SOF commanders recognized that mowing down recruits was counterproductive: for every one terrorist you kill, you create a handful of new recruits out of his neighbors, friends and family. SOF calls this COIN math — counterinsurgency math.

In other words, “lethality” — the ability to kill — has been mistaken as a winning strategic concept. Wiser commanders know you cannot kill your way to peace. An overreliance on sheer military power does not create lasting

Special-operator culture is pragmatic and solution-oriented. Among the innovations introduced during the Afghan fight was the use of women in combat formations as a vital tool to understand and interact with rural Afghans. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, credited these women's contributions during his confirmation testimony.

Last year, a Navy officer was selected to become the first woman promoted to lead a unit in the Naval Special Warfare command. At the last minute, her promotion was yanked for inexplicable reasons. Many in the Navy believed her gender was the reason for the reversal, although the Pentagon denied this. If it is the case that her promotion was denied based on her gender, then it's clear that senior defense leadership has no grasp on what makes SOF successful.

These and other women have served in combat with distinction, contrary to the erroneous claims that they have not met the standard. Many in uniform know that it's detrimental to the US military and US national security to sideline women who are performing invaluable service on the battlefield. Besides their ability to fight, their talent for working with local cultures was vital to SOF successes in the Middle East.

That skillset is what makes SOF necessary for the country's national security. SOF has certainly not been without its lapses during the 21st century's long wars and deployments. But its ethic and mindset are vital to the upholding of US national security, and its value cannot be overstated.

Linda Robinson is the author of three books on special operations and the long wars. A new edition of "Masters of Chaos: The Secret History of the Special Forces," will be republished on Oct. 13 by PublicAffairs Books.

'My investors are going to kill me if this

YOUNG & RESTLESS

Number of adults aged 18-29 who feel they're doing well in life has fallen.

Number who rate themselves as "thriving"

2026

44%

2023

51%

2020

39%

2010

64%

Source: Gallup

— Anduril Industries founder Palmer Luckey on the company's mission to build a massive defense shipyard

'If it costs 13 cents to make a five-cent coin, Washington should fix the problem.'

—Rep. Lisa McClain (R-Mich.), pushing for cheaper nickels after the WH scrapped the penny

'Honey please I need you to get this done for me today.'

— Kimberly Guilfoyle, begging a MAGA donor to pay her \$100K credit card bill days before her ambassadorship confirmation

Most Americans are down on the state of the economy.

21% feel economy is excellent or good

37% feel it's fair

Source: Pew

What I saw on 'Death Road' — Israel's open-air memorial to the victims of Oct. 7

ROAD TO RECOVERY

HREE years after Hamas's Oct. 7 massacre, a long stretch of highway in southern Israel remains a haunting open-air me-

morial, marking ■ Morial, marking where festivalgoers' desperate attempts to escape ended in slaughter.

The highway, Route 232, was the only way out of the Nova music festival — but for hundreds fleeing the attack, it became a road to tragedy as its roadside bomb shelters turned into death traps and surrounding fields into killing grounds.

As rockets flew overhead, terrified revelers streamed onto Route 232, where concrete bomb shelters built to protect civilians from rocket attacks are as ubiquitous as bus stops. Some crammed inside, believing they had found refuge. Others abandoned their cars and scattered across the countryside, desperately search-

ing for cover.

Hamas gunmen hunted them down, firing into the shelters, hurling grenades through their narrow entrances, and then pursuing and ambushing those who fled on foot and by car.

Today, the highway is referred to by locals who spoke to The Post as “Death Road” — a sprawling, miles-long memorial where one

bullet-riddled shelter gives way to another, their walls covered with smiling portraits of the dead, flowers and handwritten tributes.

Beyond the asphalt, makeshift shrines dot the fields where people were gunned down trying to escape.

At the nearby Nova festival grounds, photographs stand where thousands once gathered to dance, while faded “Bring Them Home” posters still hang from residential gates.

Together, the memorials trace the extraordinary reach of the massacre, marking the places where people were murdered across miles of roads and farmland.

Nearly 300 people were killed along a 33-mile stretch of Route 232 and connecting roads, including festivalgoers, motorists, cyclists, farmworkers and police officers, according to the October 7 Parliamentary Commission Report.

Among those who escaped was Israeli-American Gilad Karplus, 34, who was shot in the head while fleeing through the fields.

"People scattered to all different places for survival," he told The Post. "Most of our survival story is off-road."

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A road with nowhere to run

Karplus had not come to Nova to party.

"I was a professional who came to work at the festival as a masseuse, to heal people," he said.

"On the morning of the attacks I saw my entire childhood area, where I grew up, going in flames while at the festival."

When rockets began raining down, Karplus and his friends packed their massage equipment into a Jeep.

But moments later, Karplus, who had served in the Israeli special forces, soon recognized the distinctive sound of AK-47 gunfire.

"They were shooting, and before I noticed, all these kids around me just fell to the ground," he recalled.

He jumped into the car with friends, beginning a desperate escape through a landscape swarming with terrorists.

Rather than follow the crowds onto the highway, he urged his friend to drive through the surrounding fields.

"I was thinking they were going to attack more people on the road, which was correct, and in the kibbutzim," he said. "So I told my friend to drive off-road."

But the danger was everywhere.

"Then we found there were also

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terrorists off-road," he continued.

As they drove, Karplus recalled finding an apparently attacked military vehicle, with blood on its exterior.

He retrieved an M16 rifle but said it was too badly overheated to fire. Shooting, screams and smoke surrounded them.

"Just for a moment, time stood still, and it was like time died," he said.

At one point, gunmen in pickup trucks approached while some of the group were outside the Jeep.

Karplus and the others tried to draw the attackers away so their friends could hide.

"They just started chasing us towards the fence of Gaza," he said.

One friend was abducted into Gaza and later killed, according to Karplus.

Israel's Route 232 is now a grim memorial to the victims of the Oct. 7 massacre by Hamas, with rocket shelters (left) marked to remember those killed inside and those taken hostage. Survivor Gilad Karplus (far left) can't bring himself to retrace the full route.

The remaining group sped through agricultural land, only to encounter more attackers near Kibbutz Be'eri.

"They came from both sides," he recalled. "They shot at us, and one of the bullets hit my side of the car, and I was shot in the back of the head through the side."

He remained conscious, using his hat to stem the bleeding while clutching the useless weapon.

"I did not feel any pain because of adrenaline," he said.

"It was crazy, and I felt like I was going to die."

Eventually, the group found refuge in a bathroom next to a bicycle shop, where they hid for six and a half hours.

"For the entire 6.5 hours, we could hear them; they just didn't know we were there," he said. "I told [my friend] to breathe through her nose to not attract sound."

His thoughts turned to his grand-mother, a Holocaust survivor.

"I was just thinking of her and what she's been through," he said.

When Israeli soldiers finally reached them, the devastation outside was almost incomprehensible.

"There was just unimaginable death and carnage, cars burned and blood on the road," Karplus recalled.

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The shelters that became death traps

Along Route 232, the most chilling memorials are also the simplest.

Built to protect civilians from rocket fire, the door-less roadside shelters offered little defense against gunmen attacking at close range.

At one near Re'im Junction, 22-year-old Aner Shapira repeatedly threw grenades back through the entrance as Hamas attackers targeted those hiding inside.

He was eventually killed.

Among those abducted from the shelter was 23-year-old Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin, whose arm was partially blown off during the attack.

He was murdered in captivity in Gaza in 2024.

At the Be'eri Junction shelter, other festivalgoers were slaughtered after seeking refuge.

Today, their photographs crowd the concrete walls, flowers and personal belongings piled beneath them.

These are not monuments erected somewhere convenient.

They stand where the killing happened — beside an otherwise ordinary highway where traffic continues to pass.

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Where the dancing stopped

At the Nova festival grounds near Re'im, the roadside tributes give way to a vast field of remembrance.

Photographs stand across the site, including the former dance-floor area, showing young men and women laughing, smiling and embracing before their lives were violently cut short.

Bereaved relatives return to stand before familiar faces, some overcome with tears even outside anniversary commemorations.

Among the memorial's most disturbing exhibits is an ordinary yellow rubbish container.

When the attack began, terrified festivalgoers climbed inside and concealed themselves among the rubbish bags.

According to the memorial's account, they hid for hours until a gunman entered at 11:47 a.m. and opened fire.

Nine people inside were murdered and seven survived.

The original container was recovered and returned to the festival site in August 2024.

Inside are photographs and messages sent by those hiding there — pleas for help, declarations of love and final farewells.

The fight to preserve the scars

The shelters' future has become deeply contentious.

In June, Ynet reported that the Eshkol Regional Council was considering moving some to a formal memorial because of the dangers posed by visitors gathering beside busy roads.

Béreaved families fiercely opposed the proposal.

"We have to preserve them where they are," Hila Abir, whose brother Lotan was killed at the Be'eri Junction shelter, told the outlet.

On the massacre's third anniversary this week, Israel's heritage minister declared the shelters national heritage sites, restricting their removal or alteration without professional approval, according to local media.

For Karplus, Route 232 remains too painful to fully revisit.

Three years after being shot in the head, he says he still lives with shrapnel and struggles to obtain ad-

Route 232 near the border with Gaza was the only way in or out of the Nova music festival. On Oct. 7 it turned

into a death trap, with terrorists ambushing fleeing civilians on the road and in its surrounding fields. They also fired and threw grenades into the rocket shelters along the route, killing many.

equate rehabilitation.

He now provides massage treatments to fellow survivors, returning to the healing work that brought him to Nova.

Yet despite living only half an hour away, he has never retraced his entire escape route.

"I haven't been through the entire route of what I've been through," Karplus said.

For visitors, Death Road is a place to witness the scale of the slaughter, to stop at a shelter, read the names and try to comprehend what happened.

For survivors, it holds horrific memories.

Traffic moves past. Flowers are replaced. New messages appear beneath the photographs.

But mile after mile, the faces of the dead remain — a heartbreaking record of those who escaped the festival, but not the massacre.

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What's Dems' Agenda?

If Democrats capture the House next month, as they well may, they'll face an enormous lure: to impeach Trump. Yet they'll be doing themselves, and the nation, a huge disservice if they don't resist. And it could come back to haunt them in 2028.

What they need is an agenda — one that addresses what Americans want most. At the very top of that list: instilling confidence in the economy. Even legendary Dem operative and Trump-hater James Carville warns of that: An impeachment drive is “not going to succeed and will be a distraction,” he says.

Especially since Democrats have zero chance of winning the 67 Senate seats needed for an impeachment conviction. What Carville knows better than most is what's driving voters away from voters isn't their love of Dems' Ahab-like pursuit of Trump; to quote Carville's most famous line: It's the economy, stupid.

Voters still feel the pinch of inflation, which skyrocketed under Biden and which the Iran war (with help from Trump's tariffs) has kept at an uncomfortably high level. Per a late September YouGov/Economist poll, almost 43% of registered voters rank inflation or “the economy” as their top concern. If the GOP gets the boot, pricey gas will deserve most of the blame, not endless “No Kings” screeching.

No matter: Key Dems are nonetheless hinting they'll aim to topple the prez if they take the House. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), who's in line to return as speaker, vows "to hold the crooks accountable."

Even Carville drools at the idea of investigations: "We're going to find out a whole bunch of stuff really fast," he predicted. OK, but how will they improve the lives of Americans? Close down fossil-fuel plants? Halt oil drilling? Ban natural-gas pipelines? That'll only drive utility bills and gas prices higher.

Stifle data centers and AI development? That won't help a single American — but it will give China an edge. Medicare for All? Pure fantasy: There's no money for it, and it would worsen health care in any case.

Remember the “Inflation Reduction Act,” the \$740 billion marquee Dem economic policy of recent years? Even the Biden White House eventually admitted it wouldn’t meaningfully lower inflation — and recent analyses show its green-energy giveaways will cost nearly \$5 trillion by 2050.

Yet Dems haven't moved on; in fact, a freshman crop of radicals like Abdul El-Sayed will be even more committed to punishing the economically productive. No wonder voters give Democrats a massively worse unfavorability rating than the GOP: Their net negative is 21 points vs. the Republicans' 13, per a recent NBC survey.

Fact is, their lack of an agenda is precisely why Dems are forced to harp on Trump and eye impeachment: What else can they offer?

But surely they'll want something to show for themselves when they seek the White House in 2028. And remember: Trump will be gone in two years no matter what Democrats do.

Their best bet: Forget impeachment and push ideas that actually grow the economy. Work to lower prices rather than hiking handouts. Roll back economy-stifling, price-boosting climate mandates. Control federal spending; heck, look for ways to lower taxes to spur growth. And shut down the socialists — jump-start capitalism.

No, we don't expect to see much of that actually happen. But when 2028 rolls around and the Dem record is one of nothing but obstruction, don't blame us for saying we told you so.

Trump's Iran Dilemma

President Trump has put the Iran war in a holding pattern until the midterms. Fine, but he needs to be ready to bring out the big guns after that — and not just threaten, but actually resume major strikes, if necessary.

Yes, Team Trump's economic noose has been “as-phyxiating” the country. Iran's inflation is at its highest since World War II. Its oil loadings (mostly for exports) hit zero, for the first time since 1979, in September. The head of its economic branch of its security forces reportedly recently threatened to jail people for merely reporting on foreign-exchange prices for the country's rial.

Yet the regime is clearly willing to endure enormous pain to maintain its illusory prospect of victory. And while outflows from the Gulf returned to pre-war levels in September, they began to fall recently after Iran ramped up strikes on shipping.

Trump has said he's prepping for major hits on

Iran after the elections. And he struck the right tone Wednesday when he said a deal with Iran “isn’t really something that I want to do.”

Yet he also added that Iran is “willing to offer us anything to stop,” and special envoy Steve Witkoff, who’s negotiating the deal, is “doing very well.”

Here's Trump's dilemma: Absent an enforceable, airtight agreement that eliminates Iran's nuke and missile programs and its claims over the Strait of Hormuz, the United States may not be able to wait until Iran's ailing economy brings down the regime. Not with Iran's continued aggression.

The regime mustn't be allowed even to pretend it controls the Strait, since that in itself will depress shipping and keep oil prices high.

Once the midterms are over, there'll be no political reason for Trump to hold back.

He'll be able to end this sorry saga, once and for all. Cross your fingers.

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POMMES DE TERROR

THE French are revolting. It's a tradition with them. Riots are as French as croissants, adultery and the 35-hour work week.

France's current riots may, however, presage the fall of the Fifth Republic.

Mobs of students in the streets. Schools going up in flames. Police using tear gas and flash-ball guns. Hundreds of injuries and thousands of arrests.

The spark for the disorder was strikes by left-wing teachers and other public-sector workers, including firemen. The students besieged their schools at once.

The truants claim they're protesting overcrowded and underfunded schools.

Nothing says "Please address school-room overcrowding" like setting fire to a fireman and filming it.

Nothing says "Please raise the biggest education budget in the OECD" like a masked youth kicking a policewoman in the head.

The disorder is backed by the far-left

La France Insoumise (France Unbowed) party. Its leader, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, is second in the polls for next year's presidential elections.

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DOMINIC GREEN

The riots, French intelligence agencies told a government crisis meeting on Oct. 1, originated as “an operation organized by LFI (France Unbowed) and its proxies on the far left."

“LFI has always advocated non-violent demonstrations,” LFI parliamentary deputy Louis Boyard replied.

Meanwhile on the streets of Paris, LFI deputy Thomas Portes was filmed shoving police officers. LFI deputy Bally Bagayoko, who has said that “violence is legitimate,” danced with a student mob at the gates of their school amid burning trash cans.

LFI's deputies joined the protests all over France. They exhorted students at barricades and led chants of "Free Palestine." When the students started fires and threw projectiles at the police, LFI's deputies intervened to protect the rioters.

"We must protect the youth from the forces of disorder," LFI Euro-parliamentarian Anthony Smith said.

“We’ll attack all the police stations in the country,” Ritchy Thibault, a former parliamentary assistant to LFI deputy Ersilia Soudais, told students at a Paris

La France Insoumise leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon (below) is backing disruptive protests (pictured) with an eye toward future demographics, and voting blocks.

school on Oct. 2. “We’re going to set fire to the Élysée [France’s equivalent of the White House]. We’re going to blow everything up.”

So far, so French. The French wrote the script of political street theater. One revolution was enough for the English and the Americans, but the French tolerance for mass disturbance is as high as their cholesterol.

“What you’re doing is incredible,” Mélenchon said in an Oct. 6 message to the protestors.

Boyard, a k a Monsieur Non-Violence, was nothing if not faithful to this grand tradition when he led a mob of students at Paris-Est-Créteil University in singing France's revolutionary marching song and national anthem, "La Marseillaise."

But Boyard sang it surrounded by masked youths. And the flag he raised was not the red, white and bleu of le tricolore. It was the Palestinian flag.

These riots are not just about France's schools. They are the latest battle between the French state and the "New French," France's rapidly growing, poorly assimilated and heavily Muslim population. The French call them "immigrants" even though many of them are French-born.

Long before Mayor Mamdani came to America and the DSA took out their student loans, the French saw the emergence of an Islamogauchiste (Islamo-leftist) alliance between the old radicals of the left and the angry youth of the banlieues, the peripheral housing estates.

The same strategy created the voter base of the ruling Labour Party in the UK. In September, the strategy swung Sweden's national elections and Berlin's mayoral elections to left-wing parties that cultivate ethnic bloc votes. It has reshaped the Democrats' ground game in states such as New York and Michigan.

Mélenchon may be happy to see the schools burn, but he knows his electoral math.

The Immigration and Demography Observatory, a French think tank, predicts that on current trends, French citizens with no immigrant parent or grandparent will become a minority around 2050.

Mélenchon, a 75-year-old ex-communist, is an old leftist but also a new immigrant. Born and raised in Morocco, he came to France in 1962, one among the millions who crossed the Mediterranean as Europe's empires folded.

He calls French democracy a design for “white privilege” and “part of an already obsolete present.” He wants a “citizen’s revolution” to create a “new France.” He calls the right-winger Marine Le Pen, who leads the polls for 2027, a “fascist.”

Only days before the protests began, the French turned out to greet Pope Leo XIV. Mélenchon and the LFI have helped to turn the same streets into the stage of bloodshed and destruction.

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"In just one week, we have been able to see in our streets the two Frances that now face each other on our soil," Mélenchon's rival Éric Zemmour, the right-wing anti-immigration politician, said on Sept. 30. Zemmour, the French-

born son of Berber Jews from Algeria, sees a stand-off between the old France of the Fifth Republic, "largely white, Christian, European, even if various minorities join it," and "another France that is largely African, Arab, Muslim," and waves "Algerian, Moroccan or Palestinian flags" as symbols of its resentment.

"Eternal France against the new France: that will be the showdown of the 2027 presidential election," Zémour predicts. Mélenchon agrees. So does Le Pen.

While Mélenchon and the LFI push France off the cliff for electoral gain, a people and their state are coming apart. The political center cannot hold. The markets are turning on France's debt-loaded economy.

France is one of the great democratic nations. It is a nuclear-armed Security Council member, and one of the two pillars of the European Union. But no nation is too big to fail.

Dominic Green (@DrDominicGreen) is a Wall Street Journal and Washington Examiner columnist.

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LETTERS

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Grisly train death

As a long-time straphanger, I was deeply saddened to read about the tragic death of the man exiting an express A train at Brooklyn's Utica Avenue station ("New Subway Perils," Nicole Gelinas, PostOpinion, Oct. 6).

According to initial reports, the passenger's thin plastic bag got stuck in the doors, causing him to be dragged. The train was relatively new and recently inspected, which makes this even more alarming.

The conductor is being investigated for lapses in duty, but the MTA needs to look closely at its door sensors to see why these doors with latest technology cannot detect thin objects like a plastic bag. What happens when the sleeve of a coat or hem of a dress gets caught?

The MTA needs a 360-degree, preemptive approach to rider safety. Safety has to be its absolute first priority.

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Atul Karnik, Woodside

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Biased media

Liel Leibovitz rightfully urges New Yorkers to fight back against Mayor Mamdani through all legal avenues — to confront him with truth and thus silence his dubious claims (“Stand up to Hiz lies and hatred,” Oct. 8).

This solution is easier said than done when opposing words are buried by the politically biased mainstream and social media. The Mamdani administration sees the truth as

nothing more than what citizens can be persuaded to believe in a rhetorical podcast.

In essence, Leibovitz's plea is for the city — but especially the press — to forego politics and concede to what former President Abraham Lincoln called “the better angels of our nature.”

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Robert Sieger, Manhattan

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Petty DST Holdout

Sen. Tom Cotton — the petty holdout — is blocking the passage of the proposed Sunshine Protection Act for selfish reasons (“‘Cott’ in Don’s cross-hairs,” Oct. 5).

The bill would retain daylight savings time, but apparently he doesn't want children to go to school in the dark. Senator, they will change start times for the schoolchildren.

The House overwhelmingly passed the bill 308-117 with bipartisan support.

Many elected officials feel this vote will come back to bite Sen. Cotton. What can we do to convince this confused, anxious and irrational politician?

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James Fragale, Manhattan Clean up Queens!

The proliferation of prostitution on the streets of Corona and Jackson Heights is disgraceful and inexcusable (“Bruce lets loose at Roos. Ave,” Oct. 8).

I grew up on those once-beautiful streets in the '60s and '70s before they were surrendered to their present conditions.

To allow this type of seedy activity to define these neighborhoods is not only a failure on

the part of city government, but also on the part of the good people of Queens who could do more to force this garbage out.

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Thomas Urban, Wantagh

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Fall of the Yanks

The Yankees — the most successful team in baseball history — is past its time of dominance (“Pinstripe pain,” Oct. 8).

The old Yankees teams of Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio and Mantle once won half of the 40 World Series played from 1923-1962. Then they slipped to winning only 1/6 of the World Series played from 1963-2000.

Since 2001, they've won only 1/25 — which is more like their fair share, considering that there are 29 other teams working towards victory.

Yankees fans need to realize that they are not entitled to more of the success its teams of the past have provided.

Peter Sulzicki, Stratford, Connecticut

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REQUIRED READING

By Hailey Eber

Peck & Peck: A Novel

Bonnie Garmus (Scribner)

After the phenomenal success of her 2022 debut, "Lessons in Chemistry," Garmus is back with a story set in the New York City publishing world of the 1980s. A recent college grad scores a job at a poetry journal called "Peck & Peck" and is soon wrapped up in the rivalry between the two twins who run the publication.

The Best Kind of American: A True Story of Murder, War, and America's Undoing in the Middle East

Kim Ghattas (Henry Holt and Co.) A bestselling author sheds new light on the 1984 assassination of Malcolm Kerr, the president of the American University of Beirut, amidst the Lebanese Civil War. Kerr's family, which includes the notable basketball coach Steve Kerr, has sought answers for decades.

THE BEST KIND OF AMERICAN

RIM GHATTAS

Ethel Kennedy: The Extraordinary Life and Bold Legacy

Kerry Kennedy (HarperOne)

Kerry Kennedy offers a fond portrait of her formidable late mother, touching on her storybook courtship with RFK and how she carried on his human rights work after his assassination.

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Dark Horse

C.R. Jane (Entangled: Amara) The first book in a new cowboy romance series centers on a divorcee who runs her car off the road and ends up stranded in a Montana cowpoke town with a handsome rancher and a history of serial killers.

Chasing Goodfellas: Lufthansa, Henry Hill, Point Shaving, and Making Movies

Edward McDonald (Post Hill Press)

A Brooklyn prosecutor who worked closely with the mobster who inspired Ray Liotta's protagonist in "Goodfellas" recalls consulting on the classic film — and then convincing Martin Scorsese that he should play himself in the movie.

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Homemade Nara Aziza Smith

(William Morrow Cookbooks) The model-turned-internet personality — known for her designer clothes, soothing voice and propensity for whipping up ridiculous homemade foods — shares recipes and stunning photos.

Russia and China are targeting the world's vital underwater cables in terrifying ways, a new book reveals

by JOE PAPPALARDO

On Nov. 15, 2024, a Chinese-flagged cargo ship called the Yi Peng 3, laden with mineral fertilizer, left the Russian port of Ust-Luga and pushed into the Baltic Sea. Two days later, the ship crossed over an undersea communications cable connecting Sweden and Lithuania. The line went silent. Less than 24 hours later, the Yi Peng 3 cruised past the only communications cable connecting Finland with Germany, and it too went dark.

European investigators soon discovered both subsea cables had been physically severed and that the Yi Peng 3 was at the scene of both incidents. It seemed like sabotage, but little could be done about it. The countries impacted could only ask China for help with the investigation, which was declined. The ship slipped away.

Since the Yi Peng incident, insidious sabotage has only become more prevalent around the world, and the pace is picking up. Mysterious fires have swept weapon plants in Estonia, Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic and Bulgaria. On Aug. 20, Romanian air force scrambled two F-16s to blow up an intruding robotic boat loitering near a Black Sea gas platform with hundreds of workers on board. And in September the FBI charged five people working for Russian intelligence services who were soliciting arson and murder around the world, including in the United States.

Security experts call these “hybrid attacks,” and they are getting more common and more violent. They are perpetuated in a gray zone between war and diplomacy, where shady actors are used to create deniability for a nation’s provocative actions.

Now comes author Elisabeth Braw's new book “Undersea War: The Battle to Control the Cables and Pipelines That Connect Our World,” to enlighten readers on another vulnerability to worry about — the underwater spaghetti bowl of pipelines and cables that support the modern world.

THE globe is stitched together with a network of underwater communication cables and energy pipelines. There is an estimated 20,000 miles of subsea pipelines worldwide carrying petroleum, crude oil and natural gas, and a million miles of garden hose-size oceanic communications cables in service globally.

Braw somewhat grandiosely calls this "the Undersea Kingdom," but makes a good case for its importance. Cables down there transmit the world's data, including trillions in daily financial trans-

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SEA AN-ENEMIES

actions, and subsea pipelines provide fuel to entire continents.

“Behind every email, credit card payment and Zoom call is an ocean worker,” Braw writes. Underwater pipelines “keep the lights on, heat the house.”

Yet this infrastructure is reachable by any bad guy with a civilian ship and a deep enough anchor. Making matters worse, soft targets underwater are vulnerable to attacks that are hard to attribute and therefore more tempting to try. “If undersea disaster struck and life had to revert to life circa 1858, people would definitely notice,” Braw explains, as close to a chuckle as the book attempts.

B RAW, a senior fellow with the Atlantic Council's Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, may be as dry as the topic is wet, but she's certainly an expert. She efficiently chronicles the underwater misbehavior of Russian and Chinese ships, which have ducked behind a lack of maritime laws and diplomatic bravado to sabotage undersea cables and pipelines with near impunity.

The existing legal framework that governs these cables is rooted in paperwork signed during the 1884 Paris Convention. It authorizes virtually no enforcement options if the vessel in question is registered to another nation.

The world is entangled in underwater cables and pipelines (below left) that make modern technology possible. Some of those cables went dark as the Chinese cargo ship Yi Peng 3 (right) passed overhead.

“Undersea Warfare” provides sobering real-world examples about the adventures of repeat offenders such as the NewNew Polar Bear, implicated in anchor-attacks on a communication line and a natural gas pipe in Finnish waters, and the now-notorious Yi Peng 3.

Perhaps the most infamous attack on this sea-bound empire was the Ukrainian sabotage of the all-important Nord Stream pipeline in 2022. Braw treats this incident in a disjointed, fragmented narrative, and the book compares poorly on this topic next to other recent entries such as Bojan Pancevski's thrilling “The Nord Stream Conspiracy.”

Still, not every book needs to "read like a thriller," and "Undersea War" certainly won't be confused for one. But it is certainly thorough, and the risks it presents are no doubt fear inducing.

ONE ship can bring life to a standstill. For example, in 2023 Chinese cargo ships severed the two communication cables that connected Taiwan's disputed islands of Matsu to the rest of the world. In an instant, the internet went down. "Suddenly, information could only be obtained by word of mouth." Hospitals were forced to rely on generators. "Digital payments could not be processed. The backbone enabling modern life was simply not there anymore."

Investigators quickly determined which ships were responsible. The boats were easily located, but they had left Taiwanese waters, and, thanks to the archaic laws governing the sea, the Taiwanese coast guard “didn’t have the authority to detain them.”

The UN law of the seas says that investigations into damage to underwater pipelines and cables are the responsibility of the culprit boat's home nation. China, unsurprisingly, was not keen to punish the boats that had cut Matsu off from the world.

Besides presenting the risks of sabotage, Braw more quietly posits solutions that could blunt the impact.

The best way to harden this infrastructure from attack is redundancy. Adding duplicate cables is the best and most common way to safeguard subsea communication lines. That's what Braw says happening in the Baltic, around Taiwan and elsewhere.

The idea that undersea sabotage might be the start of a global war, rather than a probable casualty, comes up often in Braw's narrative, perhaps a bit too casually. In the introduction, she even quotes Tom Clancy's submarine thriller, "The Hunt For Red October": "This business will get out of control . . . and we'll be lucky to live through it."

The era of persistent hybrid war is clearly already upon us, undersea infrastructure included, and the only good news so far is that it hasn't yet started World War Three. In August, German authorities blamed Russia for landing explosive-laden aerial drones at its airports, aiming at parked civilian aircraft used to support Ukraine. Germany didn't invoke NATO's self-defense rallying cry, Article 13. No tanks surged to the border of Poland and Lithuania, towards Russia.

that's not to say there's nothing to fret about — far from it. The subsea vulnerabilities cited in "Undersea War" certainly still exist, and the tensions seem to be spilling over the boundaries of law enforcement and hybrid war.

In mid-September, officials told Reuters that a joint NATO operation off Norway thwarted a Russian subma-

rine exercise aimed at disabling undersea data cables. British submarines followed three vessels from the GUGI, the Russian undersea warfare directorate, during a month-long covert operation in the Arctic to test a weapon that could cut cables without leaving telltales, NATO officials said.

Somewhere, you can almost hear Braw ringing a bell and declaring her Undersea Kingdom already under siege. And for all that modern humans have at stake in the outcome, the battle for it won't be seen or heard, until the power goes out and the internet goes dark. That day, Braw will be able to say, "I told you so." Only no one will be able to hear it.

Joe Pappalardo is an author who has covered national security and infrastructure issues for 25 years.

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MADE BY ORDER

By ERIC SPITZNAGEL

date in Ben Meer's early 20s turned into an assessment of everything he was doing wrong. "You dress in baggy clothes," his date, a Dutch

woman, told him. "You eat too fast. You walk without grace. You don't speak a second language. You can't cook . . ."

Her list of his shortcomings “was longer than a CVS receipt,” Meer recounts in his new book, “How to Be Good at Life” (Avery, out now). The criticism stung because he knew she had a point. He didn’t have it together in myriad ways.

He was running a failing skin-care business from a 350-square-foot apartment and carried \$32,000 in credit-card debt. He paid the rent by waiting tables on weekends, working 14-hour shifts. Eventually, he closed the company and included a sample kit with his application to Cornell's business school, which accepted him.

A class in business operations gave him a different way to think about his problems. His startup, he realized, had no reliable way to bring in sales or handle customer complaints. He applied that same thinking to his own life, setting up systems to manage his life using savvy and behavioral science — not sheer will power — to meet deadlines, get in workouts, stick to a budget and the like.

"We hear things like ‘trust the process,’ but I spent years trusting the process when I didn't actually have a process," he said.

Meer, now 34, has made a career of teaching that worldview. He has roughly 2.25 million followers across his social media accounts. Another 252,000 active subscribers receive his free newsletter, System Sunday, which offers practical ways to make smarter

Ben Meer has built a life — and a thriving business — with the power of simple systems

choices and avoid distractions.

His advice is simple but effective. Meer charges his phone in the living room, so he sleeps better and doesn't waste endless hours scrolling. To watch less TV, he removes the batteries from the remote control so that he has to get up off the couch to put on a second episode.

Meer didn't intend to become a productivity guru. After earning his MBA, he joined Ernst & Young as a consultant in 2019 and was assigned to write an internal newsletter. He was going through a breakup and threw himself into the writing. His manager suggested he become a writer, advice that took a while to appreciate.

"I was actually a little bitter about it because I'd just spent \$150,000 on an MBA and wanted to be thought of as this great strategist," he told The Post.

He returned to writing during the pandemic, launching a blog about using systems to improve everyday life in February 2022, and things took off from there.

His company now rakes in seven figures, with coaching clients who pay tens of thousands of collars for his expertise.

Meer won't reveal the names of his clients, but he told The Post he helped a creative director get home in time to put his kids to bed. He also described working with a senior product leader at a major tech company who started an advisory practice and eventually quit her job to run it full-time.

Meer and his fiancée, Jade Bonacolta, also run Archimedes, a 12-week program for building a following on LinkedIn. It has a listed price of \$3,299.

Bonacolta, a former Google marketing leader who also writes about self-improvement, brings an audience of her own. Her advertising page lists 482,000 LinkedIn followers and 312,000 subscribers to her newsletter, The Quiet Rich.

He and Bonacolta hold a monthly "Life Dinner," an idea the book credits to venture capitalist Brad Feld.

Over supper, they discuss their relationship and what each needs from the other, which sounds like a performance review with appetizers. At one of their first Life Dinners, Bonacolta told him he'd seemed tired and distracted during a meal with her colleagues. He figured he could be better company next time if he took a nap first.

Years ago, as he was helping clients make better use of their time, Meer spent two hours every morning trying to set himself up for success. His routine included brushing his teeth on one leg and dunking his face in ice water. "I thought that I had to do all of these things to prove that I was worthy of success," he said. "I just got really good at checking all of these boxes. But they hadn't made me happier."

His morning routine now takes 20 minutes, beginning with drinking water, which he calls an “internal shower.” This gives an ordinary glass of water the unsettling suggestion that your kidneys need a loofah. He follows it with espresso and meditation before writing, an improvement on spending two hours preparing for a day that wasn’t getting any better.

Meer is the first to admit that some of his advice — like utilizing birthday reminders and automatic bill payments — may seem obvious, but that's the point.

He said, "Common sense is not common practice."

BUZZ: Page-Turners

In her new memoir, "Once Upon a Trainwreck," Christy Carlson Romano details her life

When it comes to reading, she loves books that help her better understand her childhood.

"There's a through line here between trauma,

addiction, ambition and what we read to make sense of all three," she told The Post. Here, she shares three favorites.

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott

Fitzgerald (Scribner)

"I've read this five times.

The first time I was Daisy.

The last time I understood I'd been chasing the green light my entire career," Ro-

mano told The Post of the beloved American classic.

Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in The Age of Indulgence

Anna Lembke (Dutton)

"This gave me language for what I'd lived through, and it changed how I think about attention, social media and

what we're actually selling when we call something entertainment," Romano said.

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Bessel van der Kolk (Penuin Books) "This book gave me a map for understanding

what growing up famous actually did to me, and how to start fixing it by naming it," Romano said. — Lindsey Kupfer

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"RECIPE FOR DISASTER" By Danny Ebbighausen

Across

1 Glances in a pool hall

7 Longtime Miami Heat star, familiarly

12 Some desktop clutter

18 Sprouts up

19 Italian sausage seasoning

20 Cure-all

21 Arrive à la Cinderella?

23 Saturated with

24 Focus of an outdoor museum in Las Vegas

25 People of the Sioux Nation

26 Lb. and oz.

27 Muscle property

28 Moody genre

30 Studio sign

32 Internet pioneer acquired by the tech conglomerate Bending Spoons in 2026

33 Chef who plans to retire with the perfect tan?

42 Signed up

43 R&B legend Redding

44 Spring bloom

45 Dove call

46 Up to the task

47 Purple shade

48 Festival that bestows a Grand Prix

49 Inspiring start?

50 Dental advice from Lea & Perrins?

54 Paint finish

56 Drain

57 Cry over spilled milk

58 \_ of the pack

61 Sunflower bit

62 Distress call

63 Nourished

64 Piece of coal

66 Mount Ka'ala's island

69 Some unofficial sequels, informally

72 19-Across flavor

74 Paramount channel

77 Dug a little too deep

79 Dinner guest who refuses to use chopsticks and probably won't show up?

82 Half a zygote

83 Short program

86 Wind instrument?

87 "That could work for me"

88 Quote from Homer

89 Noir's counterpart in roulette

90 Bring on board

91 Political position

93 Mini-mart on the edge of the Gobi Desert?

97 Cold-water fish

98 Cold-water fish

99 Mex. neighbor

100 Concerning

102 Had a snack

103 Web designer

107 "The X-Files" topic

111 "I'm the one who screwed up"

113 Spring roll or summer sausage?

116 Pine, for one

117 Set right?

118 Dancer partner

119 Term of endearment

120 Balance sheet item

121 Real \_

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1 Subway unit

2 "East of Eden" brother based on Abel

3 Really get to

4 Norwegian banking hub

5 National repair chain that began as a muffler shop

6 Govt.-issued ID

7 "Here's the \_\_\_\_."

8 A'ja Wilson's org.

9 Chemical substances with similar structures

10 FDR part

11 $90^{\circ}$ bend

12 Furry feet

13 "SNL" alum Gasteyer

14 Service provider?

15 Navigate by sound

16 Bridle strap

17 Levelheaded

19 Boating hazard

20 Membership platform for content creators

22 Mickey or Minnie

26 Expanded, as a search area

29 Coffee, in slang

31 Llama kin

32 Chasm

33 Hooded snake

34 Slather with grease

35 Singles

36 Talks up

37 Like poison ivy

38 "It's all untrue!"

39 Opposite of SSW

40 "Holy guacamole!"

41 On and on and on

42 Ring exchange

47 Kate Middleton's sister

48 Prompted from the wings

51 Garden tool

52 Threat in some fairy tales

53 Smart

55 Nile 33-Down

59 Top-tier

60 Work quickly

62 Shade

63 Italian automaker

65 "Give\_\_ break!"

66 One-sided columns

67 Jargon

68 Like premium gasoline

70 Contest between Giants and Titans, e.g.

71 Take to the cleaners

72 Pulitzer Prize, for one

73 Number in the NATO alphabet

74 Stand-up performer

75 Stabilizing piece

76 Largest of the Inner Hebrides

78 Challenged

80 Rotten to the core

81 World Cup org.

84 Taro dish

85 Full-groan person?

90 Places for pots fresh from the oven

91 Photo \_

92 Mexican dish with fried tortillas

94 Suite sharer

95 "Full House" twins

96 Mongolian dwelling

100 Basics

101 Sign in a construction zone

102 Iowa college town

104 "So that's how it is"

105 Terse caution

106 Sinus doc

108 Lickety-split

109 Worker welfare org.

110 "Ignore that

suggested edit"

112 Baby newt

113 One-named

"Chandelier"

singer

114 Laudatory

poem

115 Before, in

classic 114-Downs

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Post SU DOKU

You must put a number, from 1 to 9, in each empty box. Each number must appear once in each horizontal row, as well as in each vertical column and in each of the 3-by-3 grids.

Super Su Doku, inside, multiplies the challenge — and your enjoyment. For that one, put a number from 1 to 12 in each empty box, making sure each number appears once in each horizontal row, as well as in each vertical column and in each of the 3-by-4 grids. Tips and in-depth strategies at www.SudokuWiki.org. For more Su Doku puzzles, see tomorrow's New York Post.

© Syndicated Puzzles Inc. | 3 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 7 | ---

Difficult #7,218 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 7 | ---

Challenging #576 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 9 | All Sunday puzzle answers on Page 54

Kakuro

Place 1 to 9 in each white cell. To choose the right number, you need to work from the clues in around the edge. The numbers below the diagonal lines are the sums of the solutions in the white cells immediately beneath. The numbers above the divide are the sums of the solutions immediately to the right. Rows and columns do NOT have to be unique.

© Andrew Stuart, Syndicated Puzzles

Each row and each column must contain the numbers 1 through 4 (easy) or 1 through 6 (challenging) without repeating. The numbers within the heavily outlined boxes, called cages, must combine using the given operation (in any order) to produce the target numbers in the top-left corners. Freebies: Fill in single-box cages with the number in the top-left corner.

KENKEN

Trademark KenKen, LLC Distributed by Andrews McMeel

©2026 KenKen Puzzle, LLC www.kenken.com

Chess By Andy Soltis Noteworthy moves

“Annotator” and “annotation” are trendy words in the AI industry today — but they were borrowed from chess.

"Annotator," previously used almost exclusively by chess players, meant someone who writes notes that make sense of a complicated move or position.

For example, in this week's game an annotator would explain why the natural 13...exd5 would doom Black.

The reason is 14 e6! fxe6 15 Ng5 followed by Bg4 and a powerful White capture on e6.

CARO-KANN DEFENSE

Hong Kong 2026 | Alireza Firouzja | Felipe Hurtado | 1 e4......c6 | 12 a4!......Nd5? | 2 d4......d5 | 13 Nxd5......cdx5? | 3 e5......Bf5 | 14 Bg5......Qb6 | 4 Nf3......e6 | 15 axb5......axb5 | 5 Be2......Nd7 | 16 Qb3......Rb8 | 6 O-O......a6 | 17 Rec11......h6 | 7 Re1......Bg6 | 18 Bh4......Bh5 | 8 Nbd2......Rc8 | 19 Bxb5!......Bxf3 | 9 c4......dxc4 | 20 Bxd7+......Kxd7 | 10 Nxc4......b5 | 21 Qxb6......Rxb6 | 11 Ne3......Ne7 | 22 Ra7+......resigns | Later on, an annotator would point out how 17 Rec1! prepared a combination. It would have led to checkmate after 19...Qxb5 20 Qxb5 Rxb5 21 Rc8.

The final act of an annotator is to show why a player resigned. In this case, it was 22...Ke8 23 Rc8 mate.

White to play and win.

N. Abdusattorov-D. Liren

Hong Kong 2026

Last week: Fastest is 1 Qxf6!

gxf6 2 Bh6 and Rxf8+.

Sunday Word Force

John Morton was King Henry VII's treasurer. Morton extracted money from the nobility with this approach: If a man lived well, he must have plenty of money to contribute; if he lived frugally, he must

have money socked away. That was "Morton's Fork."

From the word or phrase above, form at least 24 five-letter words, without using more than one form of the same word. For example, drink or drank, not both.

Morton's name lives on in the "Morton's Fork Coup": You force an opponent to play in a position where he has only losing options.

At today's four spades, West leads the ace and queen of diamonds, hoping to build a second diamond trick. South counts nine

tricks -- six trumps, a diamond, two clubs -- and sees that he can always succeed if he guesses which defender has the ace of clubs. He plays a low diamond from dummy at Trick Two, deferring a discard on the ace, and ruffs in his hand.

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Bridge

If South places the ace of

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ORIENTATION

clubs with West, he can next lead his four of clubs. If West grabs the ace, South wins a third club trick; if West plays low, dummy's king wins, and South discards the queen of clubs on the king of diamonds

and loses in all two hearts and one diamond.

If declarer thinks East has the ace of clubs, South can lead a trump to dummy and return the three of clubs for the same effect.

Is South's play a guess?

West, who didn't open the bidding, has shown the A-Q-J of diamonds and surely has another ace for

his double. If West has the ace of clubs, South will always succeed since East will have the ace of hearts. The danger is that West has the ace of hearts.

If South leads the first club from dummy, you can stick a fork in the defense.

© 2026 Tribune Content Agency, LLC. & Hoyt Designs. All Rights Reserved

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All Sunday puzzle answers are on Page 54

By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek

INSTRUCTIONS: Find as many words as you can by linking letters up, down, side-to-side and diagonally, writing words on a blank sheet of paper. You may only use each letter box once within a single word. Play with a friend and compare word finds, crossing out common words.

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BOGGLE° POINT SCALE

YOUR BOGGLE® RATING

3 letters = 1 point

4 letters = 2 points

5 letters = 3 points

6 letters = 4 points

7 letters = 6 points

8 letters = 10 points

9+ letters = 15 points

151+ = Champ

101-150 = Expert

61-100 = Pro

31-60 = Gamer

21-30 = Rookie

11-20 = Amateur

0-10 = Try again

BOGGLE is a trademark of Hasbro, Inc. © 2026 Hasbro, Inc. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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Boggle® BrainBusters Bonus

We put special brain-busting words into the puzzle grid. Can you find them? Find AT LEAST SEVEN MONTHS in the grid of letters.

by David L. Hoyt

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Sunday Puzzle

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ACROSS | CLUE | ANSWER | 1. Part of an atomic nucleus | UENONRT | 6. Apple-growing area | RAHCRDO | 8. Fleece | LOWO | 9. Practice boxing | PASR | 11. Green-eyed | NVESIUO | 12. London neighborhood | LHECESA | DOWN

10-18-26 | CLUE | ANSWER | 2. Fence in | SOLCENE | 3. Catch by trickery | RTPA | 4. Baloney | SWGHHOA | 5. Bouquet maker | ROLISFT | 7. Strongly disapprove of | PDEOLER | 10. Egg-like shape | LVOA | ---

BONUS

CLUE: The "Major Oak" in \_\_\_\_ is estimated to be between 800 and 1,100 years old.

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How to play

Complete the crossword puzzle by looking at the clues and unscrambling the answers. When the puzzle is complete, unscramble the circled letters to solve the BONUS.

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SCRABBLE 1 Crossword Game G2 R1 A1 M3 S1

Hasbro and its logo, SCRABBLE $^{®}$ , associated logo, the design of the distinctive SCRABBLE brand game board, and the distinctive letter tile designs are trademarks of Hasbro in the United States and Canada. ©202 Hasbro. All rights reserved. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

$A_{1}$ $E_{1}$ $I_{1}$ $C_{3}$ $C_{3}$ $R_{1}$ $P_{3}$

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A1 A1 D2 R1 L1 P3 C3

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PAR SCORE 265-275

BEST SCORE 349

RACK 4

Triple Word Score

RACK 5

FIVE RACK TOTAL

TIME LIMIT: 25 MIN

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.Wonderword

First read the list of words, then look at the puzzle. The words are in all directions - vertically, horizontally, diagonally, backward. Circle each letter of a word found and strike it off the list. The letters are often used more than once, so do not cross them out. It's best to find the big words first. When you find all the words listed in the clues, you'll have a number of letters left over that spell out the Wonderword.

Almonds, Balcony, Bars, Beaches, Bell Tower, Brioche, Cable Car, Castelmola, Cathedral, Charm, Church, Citrus, Coast, Comune, Corallo, Corso, Corvaja, Dine, Duchi, Duomo, Etna, Feast, Food, Funivia, Gelato, Gondola, Grottos, Harbor, Historic, Honeymoon, Hotels, Ionian Sea, Isola Bella, La Scala, Lemons, Limoncello, Luxury, Market, Mazzaro Bay, Mermaid Bay, Messina, Mosaic, Naxos, Odeon, Olive, Orange, Palazzo, Piazza, Pizza, Pools, Porta Catania, Promenade, Ruins, San Giuseppe, Scenic, Sicily, Spisone, Stairs, Sunset, Terrace, Testa di Moro, Tour, Umberto, View, Village, Volcano, Walks, White Lotus, Wine

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TAORMINA, SICILY

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FEELING RACY

"Aquaman" actress Amber Heard gets her land legs and completes her first half marathon in Spain.

Dua Lipa assumes the mantle of looking hot as she perches on a mantelpiece in Paris.

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'ORDER'LY LINEUP

"Law & Order: SVU" stars Aimé Donna Kelly (from left), Mariska Hargitay, Corey Cott and Kevin Kane get the whole squad together in Manhattan.

MARBLE BUST

Michael Douglas (left) and Alice Cooper swap their brand-new memoirs at SiriusXM Studios in Midtown.

TRADING

FACES

COLOR BLOCK PARTY

AWESOME

SAUCE

Kristen Bell and her biker boy Dax Shepard end their meal with a kiss in Los Feliz, Calif.

ROMANCE

TO GO

Chrissy Teigen and her kids — 10-year-old Luna, (from left), Esti, 3, Wren, 3, and Miles, 8 — chow down at In-N-Out Burger.

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RAISING MOM

Singer Jessie James Decker (right) gives her mother — and her cookbook co-writer — Karen Parker an even better view from the Empire State Building.

Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images

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Snaps

OUT OF THE

JUNGLE

"Jumanji" star Jack Black cruises through LA to meet a friend at All Time restaurant.

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BACKUP PLAN

Elizabeth Debicki and Alexander Skarsgård are red-carpet gold at the London screening of their flick "Wicker."

SPRINKLE OF 'MAGIC'

Model Caitlin O'Connor and her fiancé, "Magic Mike" star Joe Manganiello, shake up Las Vegas with massive frozen treats.

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SILK ROADIES

摩卡咖啡……¥48元/杯cup

Mocha Coffee

意大利特拉……¥48元/杯cup

板

Choi

糖醋汤

caramel macchiaro

¥48元/杯cup

If you're keeping up with the Kardashians, better head to China, where Kris Jenner and Khloé Kardashian dress to impress locals.

Kate Hudson twins in white with daughter Rani on her 8th birthday, and her party hat takes the cake!

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FROST BENEFIT ANALYSIS

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STRONG POINTS!

"Kissing Booth" actress Joey King and husband Steven Piet scream and shout at a friend's wedding.

Emma Stone and husband Dave McCary look shocked to see each other at the premiere of "The Debut" at Lincoln Center — even though they produced the movie together.

Universal Studios Hollywood

MAKE A

SPECS'TACLE

KING OF THE THRILL

Charli xcx stays low-key before performing at the Austin City Limits music festival in Texas.

CREATURE

FEATURES

"Scary Movie 2" actress Tori Spelling reunites with a crew of spooky pals at Halloween Horror Nights in Hollywood.

LOOK WHO'S TALKING THIS WEEK'S GUESTS

TONIGHT SHOW

STARRING JIMMY

FALLON

11:35 p.m., NBC

Monday: Sylvester

Stallone, Luke Bryan

Tuesday: Anne

Hathaway, Riz Ahmed

(above)

Wednesday: Florence

Pugh, Josh Hartnett

LIVE WITH KELLY AND MARK

Airs in Syndication Monday: Tom Ellis, Marilu Henner (above) Tuesday: Sylvester Stallone, Rufus Sewell Wednesday: Chandra Wilson, Ryan Phillippe

Sunday October 11, 2026

SP = Spectrum, C = Cablevision, F = FiOS Movies Sports New

WATCH WHAT

HAPPENS LIVE

10 p.m., Bravo

Monday: James McAvoy,

Peter Krause (above)

Tuesday: Craig Conover,

Daisy Toye

Wednesday: Meredith

Marks, Ziwe

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TVMA ★★★★ | Eyewitness News at 11 | 9 WWOR | 9 | 9 | 9 | (6:00) News | Chicago P.D. | Family Feud | Family Feud | Family Feud | Family Feud | Below Deck "Pretty Cheeks" | Below Deck "Pretty Cheeks" | 11 WPIX | 11 | 11 | 11 | Paid Program | Police 24/7 | Miss Congenality (2000,Comedy) Sandra goes undercover as a beauty contestant to capture a terrorist. | PIX11 News at Ten | New York (Live) | Yankees Nation | 13 WNET | 13 | 13 | 13 | (6:00) 60s Pop, Rock & Soul | The Marlow Murder Club | Marble Hall Murders "Episode 6" | Trespasses "Episode 4" | Rufus Wainwright Does Kurt Weill | 21 WLJW | 21 | 21 | 21 | (5:00) Pavarotti | American Masters | II Volo in the Valley of the Temples | The Who at Kilburn 1977 ★★★★ | Movie | 25 WNYE | 25 | 22 | 25 | (6:00) Aktina TV | Buzz | Profiles | On Story | Day's Work | Her Big Idea | Neighborho | Nightmare Theatre "Horror Express" | 31 WPXN | 31 | 3 | 531 | (6:00) NCIS | NCIS "Check" | NCIS "The Enemy Within" | NCIS "We Build, We Fight" | NCIS "Cadence" 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'NOBODY CARES, SEAN'

'Scrubs' cast on Scott Foley's highly anticipated return

SCRUBS

1 New episodes air Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on ABC and stream next day on Hulu

By HOPE SLOOP

n direct contrast to the famous quote from Scott Foley's time on the original "Scrubs" — i.e. "Nobody cares, Sean" — it seems as though every-

one cares (and loves) that Foley is officially back for the show's revival on ABC.

Chatting with DECIDER about the return of Foley's Sean Kelly, a dolphin trainer who dated Elliot (Sarah Chalke) in the OG iteration, cast members Zach Braff, Chalke, and Donald Faison say that bringing back the beloved actor is one of the easiest decisions the show could make.

"He's so handsome. He's more handsome now than ever," joked Braff as Faison added, "He's got like this pepper and salt thing going. He's got salt and pepper, but he has green eyes. He's just so handsome."

Ahead of the episode featuring Foley's return, DECIDER aired an extra clip of Elliot and Sean coming face to face for the first time in years, and Elliot looking flustered by the sudden appearance of the one who may be got away. To that, Chalke says that it was always the plan to bring Foley back, as they love him as much behind the scenes as they do when he's in front of the cameras.

“He’s so funny. We all love having him around. All last year when we got interviewed and people were like, ‘Who do you want to come back?’ And we’re all like, ‘Foley, because he was such an important part of the show and so much fun,’” Chalke shared. “And we did it, he comes back.”

Spoiler alert: he might be around for a while, too. After Season 2 Episode 3, "My Ex's Ex," ends with Elliot and Sean kissing at his aquarium, it feels like this duo will be getting

Scott Foley (above) plays Sean Kelly on "Scrubs."

season goes on. Foley was initially announced as a recurring guest star for the show, but Braff says he will definitely be in a handful of episodes and fans have a lot to look forward to.

While Elliot is initially hesitant to throw herself back into a relationship, claiming that she just wants to focus on herself and her work, it's J.D. who ultimately convinces her to give a new relationship a chance, as she deserves happiness in her love life after the hell they went through with their divorce. And even if Sean and J.D. end up falling back into their old ways (we can only hope!), it's just more for the audience to enjoy.

“Fans — and we — love the dynamic of him and J.D. hating each other. Well, I think maybe J.D. just resents Sean because he’s so handsome and charming. But that ‘Nobody cares, Sean’ dynamic is really funny,” Braff said. “And he and Sarah are great together. So we just love having him back.”

To that, Faison — whose character is working out his own relationship kinks with Carla (Judy Reyes) in the episode — adds that fans should expect to have him around for the foreseeable future.

"It's Scott Foley, you never know with him. That man's like a leech; he just keeps coming back," the actor joked. "He's really good at what he does. I don't think anybody does Scott Foley better than Scott Foley."

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Monday 8 p.m., Bravo

Season 13 takes Captain

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Tuesday, BritBox

Season 2 of the detective drama reunites fans with John "Ludwig" Taylor (played by David Mitchell).

This film based on true events follows Tibetan climber Tenzing Norgay and New Zealand mountaineer Edmund Hillary (played by Genden Phuntsok, and Tom Hiddleston, right), who became the first people to summit Mount Everest.

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7 TENZING Friday, Apple TV

2 TREASURE ISLAND

Sunday 10 p.m., MGM+ David Oyelowo (left) plays Long John Silver in this six-part limited series adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's beloved story.

5 HELLUVA BOSS

Wednesday, Prime Video

Vivienne Medrano's adult animated comedy series returns for Season 3.

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6 HOLLYWOOD ARTS

Thursday, Netflix-Daniella Monet (left) reprises the role of Trina Vega in this "Victorious" spinoff series.

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8 HOLIDAY TOUCH-DOWN: A BEARS LOVE STORY

Saturday 8 p.m., Hallmark Channel

Lyndsy Fonseca and Robert Buckley (left) lead the network's third "Holiday Touchdown" film, which centers on the NFL's Chicago Bears.

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Life has been pretty good to you of late, but there is one area that has been in a worrying state of flux. Now things have started to calm down, you can push ahead again with a creative project that has been very much on-off in recent weeks.

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m SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22)

There is no point feeling guilty about something even if it was partly your fault that it went wrong. That phase of your life is now over and done with, so put it out of your mind and move on. A positive attitude is an absolute must.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23 - Dec. 21)

What is the best way to influence important people? What special talents can you offer that make you stand out from the crowd? Your energy, your enthusiasm and your unrelenting pursuit of excellence will put you ahead of your rivals this week.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 - Jan. 20)

Make sure that you pursue only your own aims and objectives over the coming week. If you allow other people to set the agenda, you could find yourself doing everything for them and nothing for yourself. If in doubt, say "no" and mean it!

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PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 20)

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Don't be surprised or dismayed if partners and colleagues throw their weight around over the next few days. It may seem as if they are being overly assertive, but most likely, it's a reaction to the fact that you have been a bit forceful yourself of late.

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TAURUS (April 21-May 21)

Leave nothing to chance over the coming week, especially on the work front where your rivals won't miss an opportunity to point out your mistakes to people in positions of power. Not everyone wants you to

succeed, so watch your back.

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GEMINI (May 22-June 21)

Something special will happen over the next few days and you will be at the center of it. The end of Pluto's retrograde phase on Thursday could make you somewhat reckless but you have a lot of missed opportunities to make up for.

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CANCER (June 22-July 23)

You may be inclined to hunker down and hope that the current storm blows itself out but a more courageous approach would be to face up to it and show the doubters you are not afraid to take difficult decisions. They will surely be impressed.

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LEO (July 24-Aug. 23)

Although your mind is full of good ideas, not everyone will approve of how you intend to make use of them. Some people are so set in their ways that even minor changes send them into a tailspin, but you are made of sterner stuff.

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mp VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 23)

The efforts you have made in recent weeks have not gone unnoticed and over the next few days even those who opposed you in the past will recognize your true worth. Professionally and financially you are at the start of a wonderful new phase.

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BIRTHDAY SUNDAY

Someone in authority will favor you above your rivals this year, and if you play your cards right, you could find yourself in a could find yourself in a position of power as well.

which means you are naturally ambitious. It's your turn to shine.

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8A-Wool 9A-Spar 11A-Envious 12A-Chelsea

2D-Enclose 3D-Trap 4D-Hogwash 5D-Florist

7D-Deplore 10D-Oval B-Sherwood Forest

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DAVID SOLOMON

About 20 top bosses at Goldman Sachs are set to split a \$500 million bonus pool, and the CEO is set to rake in \$100 million.

JOE ROGAN

Spotify reportedly re-upped with star podcaster in a multiyear deal similar to his previous \$250 million contract inked in 2024.

CHIPOTLE

Struggling burrito chain's shares got a brief bump following a report Starbucks has explored a takeover.

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MICROSOFT

Tech giant and other firms accused of fraud and barred by the Trump administration from participating in a green-card program.

WELLS FARGO

Feds launch probe into programs aimed at boosting black homeownership for potential violations of the Fair Housing Act.

APPLOVIN

Digital advertising firm slapped with lawsuit alleging it served sexually explicit and violent ads to kids.

ITH \$80 billion in debt and a sprawling media empire to combine, David Ellison will have his hands full with the now court-approved combination of Paramount and Warner Bros Discovery, known as Skydance.

But so-called “expert” opinion has him failing before he even starts. His quest to create an artistically and financially successful company is doomed because, well, they say so. Ellison may even be selling pieces of it pretty soon when he wakes and realizes he won’t be able to make the numbers work, their reasoning goes.

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Yet if history, including the history of this deal, is any guide, the experts you see quoted and opining about the supposedly insurmountable challenges of Ellison & Co. aren't worth that proverbial bucket of spit. Follow their leads at your own expense.

I say this not as a hater of the experts that have tracked this saga, which began when the indie producer running the smallish Skydance studio made his first move trying to buy the iconic yet fading media conglomerate Paramount from the Redstone family. Rather, this column is meant to serve as a cautionary tale, a commentary on how elite opinion forms a narrative even when that narrative begins to unravel.

That unraveling began almost immediately, when the so-called smart guys doubted his ability

COVID, including harsh lockdowns, turned out to be spectacularly bad.

Meanwhile, the investing public relies on real-time, and above all, evenhanded digestion of facts. This deal was heavily wagered on arb-trading desks across Wall Street or on various prediction market platforms. People at the companies themselves needed the unbiased scoop to figure out whom they would be working for in the coming years, or if they would be working at all.

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As it turns out, they would have been better off consulting an Ouija board than following the chattering class.

Are the smart guys behind their Ivy League degrees and polished personas just plain dumb? No, but they have their blind spots — much of it caused by ideological biases — which were at the heart of our nation's COVID reaction and many more stories in recent years.

Those biases were front and center in the miscalculations surrounding what went down with Ellison and WBD. As much as elite opinion makers (and I would include my media brethren) tout their egalitarianism, they are an insular bunch (same prep schools, same colleges, same dinner parties and the rest). They're also a sneering bunch when it comes to outsiders and those who veer off the progressive plantation.

David Ellison, with his indie film background and family ties to Trump, represented the ultimate target to sneer at. A more self-aware “expert” would know that he’s got good genes from his father, one of the smartest men in Silicon Valley

to convince the initially reluctant Redstones to sell him Paramount.

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Intense battle

It continued when he faced an intense battle over WBD with streaming giant Netflix. Then after persuading the initially reluctant David Zaslav to sell him Warner Bros. Discovery, no one in this chattering class really expected him to convince the hyperpolitical California AG Rob Bonta to quickly drop his antitrust suit with few conditions so Ellison could consummate the deal and move on with the media merger of the century.

Even worse, with every victory the opinion makers seemed to double down on their misread that David Ellison was a luckysperm kid movie producer of middling success. Sure, he had big dreams of creating a media behemoth — but only with the big bank account of his father, the billionaire

Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, mainstream reasoning went. David didn't deserve to be anywhere near iconic properties like the Warner Studio or CNN, according to the experts.

The fact that his dad is pals with President Trump and he went out and hired the brilliant and heterodox journalist Bari Weiss to run CBS only seemed to confirm their confirmation bias.

We all make mistakes, which is why I'm not naming names, though it's not hard to find out who these people are. They hail from Wall Street, academia or the media.

They may sound like they know what they're talking about with their snappy dial-a-quotes and first-

class academic pedigrees. Sounding good may get you that linchpin quote in the Times or some clicks on your quick takes — but not much else.

You might be saying, so what? It's just a media issue. True, but there's also a bigger problem here about how false narratives are shaped by biases, most of them political and elitist that go beyond this one merger. If you're keeping score, it hasn't been a good few years for expert opinion makers. Recall that their solutions to with a decades-long track record, David must have learned something from pops. Do a little research on him and you'll find that David Ellison is no lucky-sperm kid. He's had commercial success in producing movies ("Mission Impossible," "Top Gun") that people actually watch.

Also, when David began proving the elite consensus wrong, the bias didn't correct. Consider the most recent elite consensus that Bonta would never ever settle his fallacious antitrust lawsuit to stop the deal, even when Ellison threatened to leave town and take all his jobs with him.

It was an idle threat, we were led to believe, until Bonta folded like a cheap suit when he realized the elites miscalculated Ellison's determination. Not all elite opinions are wrong, of course. But if you're going to trust, also verify.

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Operations Specialist for BODUO INTERNATIONAL TRADE LLC, F/T in Hauppauge, NY. An Operations Specialist is primarily responsible for ensuring the efficient, day-to-day management of the supply chain, inventory, and logistics to support both wholesale clients and franchise partners. The main job duties include: Logistics and Supply Chain Management; Order Management & Customer Service; Documentaries; Exp: Documentation & Compliance; Franchise and Operational Support. Bachelor's degree in Business Management or Hospitality & Tourism Management & 2 year' experience required. Email resumes boduogroupusa@outlook.com.

HR Specialist (Jersey City, NJ) – Analz & impl HR policies, practices, & workforce data, in compliance w/ US labor & employmt laws. Req BA in HR Develpmt, Labor Relatns, or Mgmt Info Systems +1 yr exp in job offrd. Req skills & knwldg in Employee Relatns, Employmt Compliance, Compensatin/Benefits, HRIS, Workforce Data. Standrd co benefits w/ \$62k-\$65k/yr. Send rés w/code ANA004 to HR, Premium Tech, 111 Town Square PI, Ste 850, Jersey City, NJ 07310.

Intermediate Architectural Designer: Fogarty Finger Architecture in New York, NY. Create and review architectural designs, plans, drawings, and 3D models; coordinate architecture design, consultants, and construction; administer construction activities; supervise architectural drafters; and ensure code compliance. Travel (local and other U.S. based sites) up to 10% of worktime. Req'd: Master degree in Architecture or a closely related field, 12 months experience as an Architectural Designer, Professional AutoCultural, Ohio, Revit, Sketchup, Encape, Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign). Wage \$93,500/year. Resume to: Fogarty Finger Architecture, Attn: 024044, 69 Walker Street, New York, NY 10013

Graphic Designer (Brooklyn, NY) - F/T. The Graphic Dsgnr dsgns & creates graphics to meet specific commercial & promo needs for the employer's mktg-materials dsgn & production business. Duties incl the following: Create dsgns, concepts, & sample layouts for mktg & promo materials based on layout principles & aesthetic dsgn concepts; \$55,000.00/yr. Bachelor's deg in Graphic Dsgn, Visual dsgn, or a rft file Altreptal, material eqmt: 24 mths of exp in the job offd, or as a Dsgnr, Graphic Artist, or rft dsgn position. Email resume to: Color Consulting US Inc., Attn: Maksym Pastushenko, President at: sales@colorconsulting.com.

Architectural Designer, Brooklyn. Create architectural concepts & designs to meet client programs using 3D visualization & modeling; produce & oversee architectural documentation; conduct code analysis & zoning research. Req'd: B.A. Architecture or related; Knowledge of principles & foundations of architecture; civil & environmental engineering; case studies in sustainable design. M-F, 9-9. Salary: \$71,968/yr. Send resume to Job #2, Brandon Haw Architecture, 630 Flushing Ave., Ste 310, Brooklyn, NY 11206

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PROFESSIONAL

Paralegal Mgr (Queens, NY)

FT Paralegal Mgr to oversee para caseloads/hiring & case assign . coord w/partners & supv attys re staffing needs. Monitor workloads/ PD; Trial prep: consult w/ attys/ paras; prep hearing/: sched appear Req: BA in Law , Bus Admin, HR & 2 yrs exp in job or as HR Mgr. Sal \$90k /yr. Send res to Garcia-Pantaleon Law 36-36 33rd St, #308 Long Island City, NY 11106

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TECH CAREERS

Data Analyst: Anal. fin., sec., & mkt. dtsts.usg. SQL, Py., & stat. tech. to eval. perf. trds., asset metrics, & risk inds. Extr. & integ. data fr. ent. DBs & ext. data provs. usg. SQL qrs. & Py. data manip. tools. Reqts: Master's in Data Science or Computer Science. 3 yr exp in data analysis or quant. analysis. See [website to be decided] for full decr'ptn, reqts & apply. Cathay Holding Group Co., Ltd, 6402 8th Avenue, Suite 403, Brooklyn, NY 11220.

Front End Developers (NY, NY) – Desn & develop s/w apps for front-end functionality. Req BS in CS, Com Engg, Info Tech, EE, or Com Info Systems +2 yrs exp in job offrd. Req skills & knowldg of JavaScript, TypeScript, GIT, HTML, CSS, Algorithms, Machine Learning, Object Oriented Programming. Req 100% travel to unanticptd client locatns in US. Allow telecommtg. \$110k-\$115k/yr. Email rés to HR, Mitchell/Martin, Inc. at VAT002@itmmi.com.

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S'Ware Devlpr Iselin NJ

Rqd Java, C++, Oracle, Linux, .Net, C#, VB.Net, MVC, VB, API, AWS, MS SQL servr, jQuery, Agile methods such as scrum. Rqd BS in Comp Sci (any) Engg (any) BBA (any) W/6 mnths exp or any suitable combination of edu'n, train'g or wrk exp.mail res to HR congensys 33 wood Ave ste 646 Iselin NJ 08830

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MERCHANDISE

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COLLECTIBLES

BUYING BASEBALL CARDS

And All Other Sports Cards,

Cert. Memorabilia & Graded

Vintage Cards. Prefer Pre-1980

Paying Top Dollar \$\$\$

small or large collections

Call Henry 917-273-2353

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

I'm trying to find the person who previously volunteered to donate a kidney for my sister who is blood type O. My email crashed and I lost contact. I would appreciate if you would contact me at my new email: target1950@hotmail.com. I want to thank you for your compassion and humanity. May God bless you. Sincerely Robert Simone.

My sister Is in desperate need of a kidney transplant. She is suffering on dialysis, which will eventually end her life; blood type is O+. Average wait time in NY 1s 7 years. If anyone wants to help by being a kidney donor, Please email me at s imoner451@outlook.com. God bless you. | Zachary Bauchou | 69-64-67 200 | -13 | Michael Brennan. | 68-67-65 200 | -13 | Jacob Bridgeman | 63-68-69 200 | -13 | Stephan Jaeger | 69-65-67 201 | -12 | Keith Mitchell. | 66-65-70 201 | -12 | Adam Scott | 69-67-65 201 | -12 | Jordan L. Smith. | 64-71-66 201 | -12 | Justin Thomas | 69-66-67 202 | -12 | Ryan Gerard | 68-69-66 203 | -10 | Max Homa | 65-68-70 203 | -10 | Mac Meissner. | 65-68-70 203 | -10 | Brian Harman | 69-68-67 204 | -9 | Sungae Im | 69-67-68 204 | -9 | Michael Kim | 68-68-68 204 | -9 | Xander Schauffele | 70-69-65 204 | -9 | Kevin Roy | 70-69-66 205 | -8 | Christiaan Bezuidenhout | 68-68-70 206 | -7 | Ben Kohles | 71-62-73 206 | -7 | Min Woo Lee. | 67-67-72 206 | -7 | Jordan Spieth | 72-66-68 206 | -7 | Kosuke Sunagawa | 69-70-67 206 | -7 | Keegan Bradley | 72-69-66 207 | -6 | Doug Ghim | 69-68-70 207 | -6 | Ryo Hisatsune. | 67-71-69 207 | -6 | Beau Hossler | 70-70-67 207 | -6 | Takumi Kanaya. | 70-69-68 207 | -6 | Patrick Rodgers | 73-69-65 207 | -6 | Michael Thorbjornsen. | 66-70-71 207 | -6 | Lee Hodges | 69-71-68 208 | -5 | Billy Herschel | 71-70-67 208 | -5 | Yusaku Hosono | 72-69-67 208 | -5 | Hideki Matsuyama | 67-72-69 208 | -5 | Denny McCarthy. | 68-72-68 208 | -5 | John Parry | 68-71-69 208 | -5 | Andrew Putnam | 66-73-69 208 | -5 | Kris Ventura | 66-70-72 208 | -5 | Ren Yonezawa | 68-69-71 208 | -5 | Ricky Castillo | 65-72-69 209 | -5 | Nicolas Echavarria | 67-69-73 209 | -4 | Taylor Moore | 72-65-72 209 | -4 | Collin Morikawa | 67-73-69 209 | -4 | Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen | 74-68-67 209 | -4 | Jackson Suber | 72-70-67 209 | -4 | Tomohiro Ishizaka | 70-70-70 210 | -3 | Nick Taylor | 71-67-72 210 | -3 | Matt Wallace | 70-72-68 211 | -3 | Tony Finau | 71-68-72 211 | -2 | Johnny Keefer | 68-69-74 211 | -2 | Jinichiro Kozuma | 74-68-69 211 | -2 | David Lipsky. | 66-72-73 211 | -2 | Pierceson Coody | 65-75-72 212 | -1 | Yoshinori Fujimoto | 72-69-71 212 | -1 | Keita Nakajima. | 69-74-71 213 | -1 | Chandler Phillips | 70-71-71 212 | -1 | Davis Thompson. | 73-68-71 212 | -1 | ---

Champions Tour - Constellation FURYK & FRIENDS At Ocean Course; Palm Coast, Fla.; Purse: \$2.2 million; Yardage: 7,149; Par: 72 Second Round

Mathew Goggin .66-62 128 -16

Rod Pampling .64-65 129 -15

Vaughn Taylor .65-66 131 -13

Michael Wright .65-66 131 -13

Ryan Armour .63-69 132 -12

Paul Goydos .64-68 132 -12

Richard Green .68-64 132 -12

Steven Alker .67-66 133 -11

Scott Hend .68-65 133 -11

Ángel Cabrera .67-67 134 -10

Alex Cejka .69-65 134 -10

Retief Goosen .67-67 134 -10

George McNeill .68-67 135 -9

Kevin Sutherland .70-65 135 -9

Chad Campbell .69-67 136 -8

Darren Clarke .66-70 136 -8

Ben Crane .68-68 136 -8

Zach Johnson .67-69 136 -8

Y.E. Yang .66-70 137 -8

Greg Chalmers .66-71 137 -7

Ken Duke .69-68 137 -7

Miguel Ángel Jiménez .67-70 137 -7

Bernhard Langer .71-66 137 -7

Timothy O'Neal .69-68 137 -7

Scott Parel .67-70 137 -7

Charlie Wi .71-66 137 -7

Stewart Cink .69-69 138 -6

Chris Devlin .70-68 138 -6

Ricardo Gonzalez .68-70 138 -6

Robert Karlsson .70-68 138 -6

Tag Ridings .66-72 138 -6

Henrik Stenson .73-65 138 -6

Kirk Triplett .69-69 138 -6

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DP World Tour - Open de Espana presented by Madrid At Club de Campo Villa de Madrid; Madrid; Purse: \$3.3 million; Yardage: 7,154; Par: 71 Third Round

Joe Dean, England....68-67-65 200 -13

Grant Forrest, Scotland....66-67-67 200 -13

Joel Girrbach, Switzerland....68-66-67 201 -12

Jacob Skov Olesen, Denmark....67-69-65 201 -12

Victor Perez, France....68-68-65 201 -12

Angel Ayora Fanegas, Spain....67-70-66 203 -10

Martin Couvra, France....70-66-68 204 -9

Daniel Hillier, New Zealand....67-69-69 205 -8

Joakim Lagergren, Sweden....71-70-64 205 -8

Eugenio Lopez-Chacarra, Spain....66-69-70 205 -8

Toronto 114, Clippers 106

Vancouver, British Columbia

Atlanta 119, Indiana 117

Washington 114, Detroit 108, OT

Minnesota 125, Miami 124

Boston 144, Philadelphia 106

Golden State 111, Sacramento 106

Phoenix 102, San Antonio 98

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Sunday

Houston vs Dallas, 6am, Macao, China

Orlando at Cleveland, 6:30pm

Milwaukee at Charlotte, 7pm

Chicago at Denver, 9pm

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Monday

Nets at Washington, 7pm

Minnesota at Knicks, 7:30pm

London Lions at Portland, 4pm

Oklahoma City at Atlanta, 7pm

San Antonio at Utah, 9pm

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WNBA Playoffs

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WNBA Finals (Best-of-7) (x-if necessary)

No. 2 Golden State vs. No. 4 Atlanta

Saturday, Oct. 17: at Golden State, 3:30 p.m.

Monday, Oct. 19: at Golden State, 8 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 22: at Atlanta, 8 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 24: at Atlanta, 3:30 p.m.

x-Monday, Oct. 26: at Golden State, 8 p.m.

x- Thursday, Oct. 29: at Atlanta, 8 p.m.

x-Saturday, Oct. 31: at Golden State, 8 p.m.

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Tennis

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WTA China Open

At National Tennis Center; Beijing; Purse: \$9,415,725; Surface: Hardcourt outdoor; (seedings in parentheses):

Women's Singles - Semifinals

Mirra Andreeva (4), Russia, def.

Nikola Bartunkova (26), Czechia, 6-2, 6-2.

Zheng Qinwen, China, def. Elise Mertens (13), Belgium, 7-5, 6-2.

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Women's Doubles - Semifinals

Zhang Shuai, China, and Katerina Siniakova (1), Czechia, def. Aldila Sutjiadi, Indonesia, and Erin Routliffe, New Zealand, 6-4, 6-2.

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Auto Racing

Circuit; Singapore City, Singapore.; Lap length: 4.93 kilometers; Third session

1. Max Verstappen, Netherlands, Red Bull Racing, 1 minute, 31.373 seconds.

2. Charles Leclerc, Monaco, Ferrari, 1:31.427.

3. Lewis Hamilton, Great Britain, Ferrari, 1:31.496.

4. Andrea Kimi Antonelli, Italy, Mercedes, 1:31.562.

5. Lando Norris, Great Britain, McLaren, 1:31.712.

6. George Russell, Great Britain, Mercedes, 1:31.747.

7. Oscar Piastri, Australia, McLaren, 1:31.860.

8. Pierre Gasly, France, Alpine, 1:32.225.

9. Liam Lawson, New Zealand, Racing Bulls, 1:32.369.

10. Arvid Lindblad, Great Britain, Racing Bulls, 1:32.781.

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NASCAR Cup Series Bank of America 400 Lineup

1. (5) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, .000 mph.

2. (19) Chase Briscoe, Toyota, .000.

3. (45) Tyler Reddick, Toyota, .000.

4. (12) Ryan Blaney, Ford, .000.

5. (2) Austin Cindric, Ford, .000.

6. (24) William Byron, Chevrolet, .000.

7. (22) Joey Logano, Ford, .000.

8. (23) Bubba Wallace, Toyota, .000.

9. (9) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, .000.

10. (97) Shane Van Gisbergen, Chevrolet, .000.

11. (77) Carson Hocevar, Chevrolet, .000.

12. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, .000.

13. (17) Chris Buescher, Ford, .000.

14. (54) Ty Gibbs, Toyota, .000.

15. (7) Daniel Suárez, Chevrolet, .000.

16. (48) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet, .000.

17. (20) Christopher Bell, Toyota, .000.

18. (16) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, .000.

19. (71) Michael McDowell, Chevrolet, .000.

20. (3) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, .000.

21. (35) Riley Herbst, Toyota, .000.

22. (6) Brad Keselowski, Ford, .000.

23. (4) Noah Gragson, Ford, .000.

24. (60) Ryan Preece, Ford, .000.

25. (43) Erik Jones, Toyota, .000.

NEW YORK POST ACTION

Belmont

Post Time: 1:10 p.m. vcangialosi@nypost.com

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1 1/16 miles(T); \$100,000; mdn; 3up(f)

After a long stretch of nice, the weather turns. Storm clouds gather. Rain in the forecast.

MAJESTIC MOONLIGHT and MISS TWITTER ran home 2-3 at the Spa. Majestic Moonlight missed by a neck at this longer distance previously. Ms Twitter has never raced this far. Santana rides the debuting CANDILY, a Medaglia Doro filly for Chad Brown. ON TIME DELIVERY debuted a length short at Gulfstream in January. Hasn't raced since. Stretches after finishing well but we will wait. | PN | Horse Wt. | Jockey | Last 3 | Trainer | Odds | 1 | On Time Delivery(L),122 | S Marin | 3-x-x | Motion | 3-1 | 2 | Legal Squeeze(M),122 | K Davis | 6-3-x | Tagg | 9-2 | 3 | Runyon Canyon(L),126 | A Fresu | 4-6-8 | Drysdale | 4-1 | 4 | Candidly(M),122 | R Santana, Jr | x-x-x | C Brown | 6-1 | 5 | Majestic Moonlight(L),122 | E Zayas | 2-2-5 | Abreu | 5-1 | 6 | Miss Twitter(L),122 | M Franco | 3-3-x | C Brown | 2-1 |

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