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Los Angeles-based novelist Bret Easton Ellis threw a drive-by grenade at New York City while promoting his latest disgusting — oops, “disturbing” — book, “The Shards,” here this month. “How does anyone live here? How in the f–k does anyone live here?” the author told Vanity Fair, which has yet to meet a Left-Coast arts-world “icon” it doesn’t love. What set poor Ellis off was that eternal scourge of Big Apple life: He had to wait for his luggage at the airport. That ordeal, mind you, came on the heels of another urban nightmare: He arrived “during this horrible storm.” LA’s record 8.95…

An ABC News producer who died after he left his kids at a hotel so he and his wife could go to a posh Midtown restaurant choked to death because he was drunk, officials revealed Wednesday. New York City’s Office of Chief Medical Examiner confirmed to The Post that Dax Tejera’s official cause of death was “asphyxia due to obstruction of airway by food bolus complicating acute alcohol intoxication.” Tejera, who was the executive producer of ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” died suddenly on Dec. 23 at 37. ABC News president Kim Goodwin had originally said Tejera died of a heart…

Baljeet Kaur died from cancer and an investigation has found that Sandwell Hospital’s decision to turn the mum away twice contributed to her delayed diagnosisA hospital that twice turned away a mum who ‘would have done anything for anyone’ have admitted their failings after she died. Baljeet Kaur could have avoided pain and suffering in the final few months of her life if her cancer was diagnosed earlier, an investigation has found She was twice sent home from A&E after presenting with pain, vomiting and bleeding, BirminghamLive report. She underwent an X-ray at Sandwell Hospital in January 2019 and was…

Mayor Eric Adams on Wednesday blamed “woke” fellow Democrats for fracturing their party and distracting it from the issues that matter to most Americans — just hours after Arkansas’s Republican governor accused President Biden of surrendering to the “woke mob.” During an appearance on the liberal MSNBC cable news channel, Adams agreed when “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough asked if there’s “a disconnect between working-class voters, who should be aligned with Democrats economically, and party leaders.” “There was. And you look at the numbers: There’s a hemorrhaging of our Latino community, our AAPI [Asian American and Pacific Islander] communities, that’s…

close Video A police officer in Jamaica was charged with abducting and raping a woman following a traffic stop, authorities said Wednesday.JAMAICA REIMPOSES ‘STATE OF EMERGENCY,’ TOURISM INDUSTRY THREATENED BY HIGH CRIME RATE It happened late last month. A Jamaica Constabulary Force statement said the officer allegedly demanded money in exchange for not charging the woman with an unidentified traffic violation. It said the officer then took the woman to an ATM machine and later raped her.JAMAICA ISSUES STATE OF EMERGENCY IN RESPONSE TO SURGING CRIME THAT INCLUDES TOURIST HAVEN MONTEGO BAYPolice said they launched an investigation after the woman…

Norway’s justice minister apologized Wednesday for having failed to admit, when quizzed in Parliament, that she had installed and used TikTok on her government-issued phone.The popular video-sharing app is Chinese owned, which has raised fears in the West that Beijing could use it to scoop up user data or push pro-China narratives or misinformation.FLORIDA OFFICIALS PITCH TIKTOK BAN FOR K-12: ‘DIGITAL FENTANYL’ THAT ‘ROTS AND ROBS’ CHILD DEVELOPMENTJustice Minister Emilie Enger Mehl, 29, told lawmakers Wednesday that she had installed TikTok on her government phone for about a month last fall and has since deleted it. Questioned by opposition lawmakers…

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says the Voice to Parliament debate is the opportunity for national “unity” instead of “division”, following the government’s decision to release information pamphlets detailing the legislation.“If someone has a suggestion, by all means put it forward, I’m up for it,” Mr Albanese told Sky News Australia.“In terms of whether a pamphlet goes out – it doesn’t hurt.“People are going to put things in letterboxes anyway during the referendum.” Source: Sky News

PALM BEACH, Fla. — Angels owner Arte Moreno changed his mind and decided not to sell the Angels, but there’s no mistaking Moreno’s intention when it comes to his two-way superstar. Shohei Ohtani’s coming free agency is one of baseball’s biggest storylines and should result in a record contract — very likely by $100 million or more — and Moreno made it clear Wednesday in an exclusive interview: He hopes Ohtani will stay an Angel, too. “I’d like to keep Ohtani,” Moreno told The Post at the MLB owners meetings here. “He’s one of a kind, He’s a great person.…

CNN  —  The Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus is throwing its support behind Julie Su, the deputy Labor secretary, to replace Labor Secretary Marty Walsh who is soon departing the Biden administration – a significant public display of support for an Asian American to join President Joe Biden’s Cabinet. “We remain troubled that the Administration has no Secretary-level AANHPI official serving in the Cabinet, the first time we have not had representation at this level since 2000,” CAPAC said in a statement shared with CNN. “President Biden has the opportunity to better realize the ‘most diverse Cabinet in history’ with…

Furious New York pols blasted President Biden on Wednesday for failing to address the Big Apple’s two major crises — the migrant influx and crime — during his fact-challenged State of the Union speech. State Assemblyman Michael Reilly (R-Staten Island) called the city’s $4.2 billion migrant crisis “one of the glaring omissions” in Biden’s 72-minute address, “especially having the mayor of New York City as an invited guest.” “It gives the impression that it’s not being taken seriously,” he said. “I think what we needed to hear was proposals for a resolution and what kind of support the federal government…