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Arab states and China pledged deeper ties at a summit with president Xi Jinping on Friday, with Saudi Arabia saying it would balance its relationships with Beijing and the kingdom’s traditional partner, the US.Xi wrapped up a three-day stay in the Saudi capital Riyadh, saying China would work more closely with the region and boost oil and gas trade, after a visit the US was watching closely.The US has had strained ties with Saudi Arabia that hit a low point after the Saudi-led Opec+ cut oil production earlier this year. It hosted the summit just months after president Joe Biden…

Pennsylvania Senator-elect John Fetterman will have a cameo in an upcoming 1800s period film on Netflix, alongside his wife Giselle Fetterman and major actor Christian Bale.”It me + G + Christian Bale circa 1830,” Fetterman said in a Twitter post Friday announcing the cameo. “This is the second time I’ve had the pleasure to work with these incredible guys – First in “Out of The Furnace” and now in “The Pale Blue Eye,” the future Senator said.The film “The Pale Blue Eyes” follows the story of a detective investigating the murder of a West Point cadet in 1830s New York. In…

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The white gunman who pleaded guilty to state charges in the massacre of 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket is willing to plead guilty to federal charges if spared the death penalty, his lawyer said in court Friday.Payton Gendron, 19, pleaded guilty last month to state charges of murder and hate-motivated terrorism in the May 14 mass shooting at Tops Friendly Market.His guilty plea in the state case guarantees he will spend the rest of his life in prison.But he still faces separate federal hate crime charges that could result in a death sentence if convicted.Judge H.…

Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment, the acclaimed Hollywood producer behind Moonlight and The Big Short, has been bought by France’s Mediawan in a rare transatlantic deal that values the US group at more than $300mn in cash and shares.Pitt told the Financial Times that the Oscar-winning company he co-founded in the early 2000s was “already bulging out of the seams of our little garage” and was ready to expand with the backing of Mediawan, a content group backed by three of France’s most prominent media investors.“We weren’t going to do this unless we found like-minded partners. We certainly feel that…

Gov. Kathy Hochul gave her blessing Friday for state lawmakers to return to Albany in the coming weeks for a special session on raising legislative pay — despite refusing for months to beckon them back to address rising crime. “I believe they deserve a pay raise. They work extremely hard. It’s a year-round job. I’ve been with them many times in their districts, and they’ve worked very hard and they deserve it. It is up to them on whether or not they want to come back and make that effective,” Hochul told reporters Friday. The comments follow reports that some…

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Steve Cohen will buy you, your pet, your family and every free agent in sight. What the Mets owner is doing to this franchise is nothing short of remarkable. He is thumbing his nose at the luxury tax bill. He is blowing through it and nobody will stop him. The Mets payroll after luxury tax will go over $400 million and he will pay every cent of it. They have put together a championship roster and they aren’t done yet. To react to the Mets re-signing Brandon Nimmo, signing David Robertson and Jose Quintana and trading for Brooks Raley, we…

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday once again drew international attention when he warned that if even one missile enters Russian territory, “hundreds” of warheads will respond.”I assure you, after the early warning system receives a signal of a missile attack, hundreds of our missiles are in the air,” Putin said from a summit in Kyrgyzstan, Russian news outlet RIA reported. “It is impossible to stop them.””There will be nothing left of the enemy, because it is impossible to intercept a hundred missiles. This, of course, is a deterrent — a serious deterrent,” he added.  UKRAINE CALLS ON US TO BACK…

East Bronx residents are another step closer to a much-anticipated one-ride to Penn Station following the groundbreaking for a new Parkchester train station. “Penn Station Access – it means two big things: One, the East Bronx will no longer be a transit desert, finally. And second, people from the Bronx and Westchester will be able to go directly to Penn Station,” US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) told reporters in the Bronx on Friday about the $3.18 billion project. The upcoming station is scheduled to open by 2027 along with new stations in Hunts Point, Morris Park and Co-Op…

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