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I’LL BE WOKE

Arnold Schwarzenegger welcomed far-left mayoral frontrunner Nithya Raman to meet with his inner circle of Hollywood heavies and business bigwigs at a private LA mixer. California’s last Republican governor, who typically avoids taking sides, sent...

‘We will win because we have no other choice’

In a fiery speech to the United Nations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called out Arab states for demonizing Israel, saying Jews are fighting for their survival and claims of “genocide” in Gaza are “the lie of the century.”

GEEK SQUAD

Gov. Newsom on Wednesday named four dyed-in-the-wool lefties — including advisers to former presidents Obama and Biden — to help shape stronger guardrails on artificial intelligence. Records show three of them are donors to big-name Dems.

I DID WHAT YOU WOULDN’T!

President Trump defended the Iran war in an address to the UN Tuesday, saying that the country was “the bully of the Middle East” and he had “no interest in leaving dangers to grow for another day.” He said he still preferred to negotiate with Iran,...

CINDY’S SORROW

Cindy Crawford and her husband Rande Gerber had their hearts broken after their son died only hours after checking into a luxury Santa Monica rehab facility on Sunday. Presley Gerber, 27, followed his mother and sister into the modeling industry but...

RED FLAG

LA’s cops union has slammed socialist Nithya Raman, accusing her of hiding her loony agenda from voters. The Post gave Raman a chance to reject 16 of DSA-LA’s most radical demands — from seizing private homes to slashing police funding — but she dodged...

BOT TO THE FUTURE

President Trump anounced Saturday he’s creating a new “AI Force” and designating a new “czar to regulate and grow artifical intelligence.” He said he would not “stand by” and let his political opponents take down an industry he views as paramount to US...

GREEN NEW DEAL

President Trump announced Friday that the United States had signed a deal with Denmark to take over “permanent” security for Greenland, including that no foreign power could build a military base there without our permission.

BEST IN THE WEST — AGAIN

HELLCOPTER

A soon-to-be-married TV reporter and the veteran helicopter pilot she’d flown with for years were killed in a fiery crash Tuesday in Chatsworth. Eliana Moreno and pilot George Marciniw (pictured) had been covering a deadly smash between an SUV and an...

THE WOKE WIZARDS OF A.I.

Worried what AI will do to the world? Don’t fret — we’ve got a group of woke elitists who will protect us. That’s the pitch from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who said he has found an outside team that can regulate AI and make sure it doesn’t destroy...

ZEN AND WOW!

CAPTAIN Olivia Benson was in charge. Hosted by Mariska Hargitay and held on Monday, live from LA’s Peacock Theater, the 2026 Emmys were a surprisingly unpredictable night. Newcomer “Widow’s Bay” swept. The Apple TV horror /comedy was a word-of-mouth...

‘A’ FOR NO EFFORT

It’s the geek fraud! California high schoolers are earning double the number of straight A’s as they did a decade ago, then getting to college and finding themselves unprepared for basic math and reading. Teachers say they’re told not to fail too many...

CODE RED

Pioneers of artificial intelligence said Saturday that companies, including their own, should immediately “slow the pace” of development or face an imminent web takeover by rogue bots. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei (right), OpenAI’s Sam Altman (left), and...

Passing the torch

Heidi Peters embraces her daughter Hazel Reeves, 7, at yesterday’s Ground Zero memorial as they pay respects to Heidi’s grandfather Louis Neil Mariani, who died on 9/11. Many of the speakers at the memorial were just children, or not even alive, when...

IN OUR HEARTS

Twenty-five years ago today, in a cowardly act of terror, 2,977 people were killed when hijacked planes struck and destroyed the Twin Towers and hit the Pentagon, and Flight 93 crashed in a Pennsylvania field. Today, the names of the fallen will ring...

HISTORY HIJACKED

UCLA’s School of Law is planning to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks with a sick symposium featuring the lawyer for the al Qaeda ringleader who planned the horrors and a professor who once bashed the fight against Islamic...

TAKEN BY STORM

Squall hell broke loose on the Southern California coast as Hurricane Marie slammed Long Beach (right) with 12-foot waves, forcing families to flee their homes. As of last night, Malibu (top right) ordered evacuations of 31 coastal properties,...

HONEYMOON ERA

In their honeymoon era. Newlyweds Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce stepped out for a romantic date night in New York City over the weekend, just two months after tying the knot at Madison Square Garden. The couple dined at the Indian restaurant...

EYE 4 AN EYE

Celeste Rivas Hernandez would have turned 16 today, but instead of celebrating with their daughter, her devastated parents face a sensational public murder trial — and they’re pulling no punches. The couple has thrown their support behind the death...

WORLD CLASS WELFARE

The state is spending tens of millions to help illegal immigrants attend college, while local students fight to pay tuition and navigate the high cost of living. The US-born teens are outraged that, as they flail, their counterparts benefit from...

THE FORGOTTEN

Jurors in the trial of Lindsay Clancy, who killed her three children in what her lawyers argue was a fit of postpartum psychosis, were hopelessly deadlocked, resulting in a mistrial yesterday. Clancy has become a cause célèbre among some activists,...

ONE ANGRY JUROR

Kevin Reddington, attorney for Lindsay Clancy (both right), furiously argued yesterday that one holdout juror “refuses to listen to law” on reasonable doubt — revealing that 11 jurors agree on whether to find Clancy not guilty of killing her three...

TOXIC AVENGER

Even the Hollywood-friendly Anti-Defamation League has turned its back on controversial antiIsrael actor Mark Ruffalo as the Hulk star seeks to make amends for outrageous comments linking the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger to deadly fighting in Gaza,...

HEAVEN SPENT

The Angels were bought for $4 billion by Rams owner Stan Kroenke (far left) Tuesday, delighting fans long frustrated by the Anaheim team’s losing ways. “The Angels are a storied franchise anchored in a great market,” said Kroenke, a proven winner with...

JUSTICE FOR TUPAC

Duane “Keffe D” Davis, 63, was found guilty yesterday of ordering the 1996 driveby shooting murder of rapper Tupac Shakur. Davis is the first person to face justice in the headline-grabbing crime, bringing a close to one of the music industry’s...

CANYON HORROR

The National Park Service is desperately seeking a group of missing hikers after a flash flood Saturday afternoon in Bright Angel Creek tore through the Grand Canyon, killing at least one, forcing dozens of people to be evacuated and creating what...

WALK ON THE VILE SIDE

It’s enough to make you lose your lunch. Nearly 10,000 stomach-churning public-health complaints about LA County street food vendors were uncovered through a Post public-records request — as it was revealed that Mayor Bass ordered police to go easy on...

‘FIRST OF MANY’

In what LA’s top federal prosecutor Bill Essayli (right) said was the first arrest of many in the government’s efforts to root out fraud in California elections, DHS agents cuffed Darwin Jonathan Riverza Flores, a 30-year-old Honduran national and...

CART BLANCHE

LA Mayor Karen Bass ordered police to stop criminally citing illegal street vendors for lacking required permits, giving outlaw food carts the green light to run rampant across LA. The move comes as a blow to taxpaying brick-andmortar restaurants that...

FACE $LAP

Meta yesterday settled a lawsuit brought by 48 state attorneys general that claimed Facebook and Instagram harmed children. Besides an enormous payout, the company will limit the amount of time 13to 17-year-olds can use apps each day, and limit...

We will always love you

One of the all-time biggest hits by Dolly Parton, the country music icon who died Tuesday at 80, is not widely known as one of the biggest hits by Dolly Parton. That song is 1974’s “I Will Always Love You,” which, nearly two decades later, would...

PARKS & WRECKED

Furious LA residents are warning the city’s decision to scrap a key homeless enforcement tool will bring back encampments, fires, drugs and filth. The City Council moved last week to strip anti-camping protections from areas around public spaces,...

EXIT STAGE LEFT

Paramount and CEO David Ellison (left) are threatening to leave California if Attorney General Rob Bonta (right) refuses to settle the lawsuit intended to block the proposed merger with Warner Bros. The move — with Texas and Tennessee among possible...

FAT CAT’S PET RAT

A former Penthouse Pet accused of robbing older men has revealed she plans to testify against her ex-fiancé billionaire Stephen Cloobeck — who is facing charges for allegedly threatening witnesses in her criminal case. Adva Lavie (pictured), the...

GOLDEN IDLE

Gov. Newsom’s secretive datebook has finally been obtained by the California Post after a legal battle — and the records show a staggering 18 blanked-out work days, marked mysteriously as “no official business,” within the year’s first four months....

FACING THE RAP

Duane “Keffe D” Davis (right), whose trial for allegedly ordering the murder of rapper Tupac Shakur begins Monday in Las Vegas, faces an uphill climb in court after taking apparent credit for the hit in his own 2019 memoir “Compton Street Legend.” In...

BIG-SCREEN SAVER

Los Angeles’ struggling film industry could have a new lifeline, with a 25% federal film tax credit now on the table. Former mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt pitched the idea in a meeting with President Trump to stop the movement of major productions...

PARADISE CO$T

Here’s a Honolulu for you: Carol Adelkoff, the well-paid head of 1736 Family Crisis Center — which operates domestic violence shelters, crisis hotlines and homeless programs across LA and Orange counties — runs the nonprofit from her Kamuela, Hawaii,...

HERO TO ZERO

Decorated Marine Jeanine John Taele, 38, was found with seven journals of surveillance logs, had a fantasy of being a State Department security operator and was regularly spotted casing out Donald Trump’s private golf course. The Iraq and Afghanistan...

THAT’S A BIT RICH

Ultra-rich lefties Wendy Schmidt (left), wife of Google founder Eric Schmidt, and actress Jane Fonda (right) are set today to begin a campaign to oppose California’s Prop 45 — a widely popular plan to relax environmental reviews and ease the...

$100M WING DING

Chicken finger billionaire Todd Graves is Hollywood’s hands-down premiere party king after dropping a staggering $100 million hosting A-list friends during the World Cup in New York and LA, sources tell Page Six Hollywood. The self-made fast-food...

GOLDEN STATE WARRIOR

President Trump is hitting the Golden State on Tuesday, The Post has learned — to tout his wins for California, including middle-class tax cuts, a secure border and falling crime rate. The president also fired a pre-trip salvo at Gov. N e w s o m , d e...

EMPTY PROMISE

Nearly 18 months after the Palisades Fire razed about 600 Malibu homes, only around 10% of homeowners have begun rebuilding in the face of miles of costly red tape. Some frustrated residents said they’re throwing up their hands and selling instead of...

HIDE AND SNEAK

Gavin Newsom’s sham “release” of his tax returns is under fire after revelations that not one of the 718 pages has actually been provided to the public. The carefully orchestrated so-called release saw handpicked media outlets, excluding the California...

FREAKS & GEEKS

Holy hookers, Batman! Cops arrested dozens of sex buyers in a three-day San Diego prostitution sting during Comic-Con as out-of-town pimps and johns descended on the city for the massive costumed event and quickly found out that crime doesn’t pay.

DOCTOR NO

A defiant Anthony Fauci refused to answer questions from Congress more than 100 times yesterday in a contentious hearing following the release of his pandemic diaries. He dodged queries about the Wuhan lab, mandatory lockdowns and vaccines alike,...

HOT TUB HUSTLER

Gov. Newsom’s scandalous tryst with Ruby Rippey, the wife of his close buddy, began with a sordid scene beside a Napa Valley hot tub — before becoming a sexually-charged affair of boozy hotel hookups with the then-mayor of San Francisco. Rippey tells...

GAVIN NEW-SLUMS

Gavin Newsom’s Homekey spending spree is fueling a new crime epidemic — dumping maniacs in apartments on once-peaceful and safe streets. Cops are being bombarded with hundreds of calls from terrified homeowners to investigate assaults, batteries,...

XAV YOU NO SHAME?

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra has been accused of failing migrant children while serving as health secretary. A California shelter whistleblower claims kids were separated from siblings, sent to unverified addresses and spirited...

BADGE TO WORSE

LAPD Chief JimMcDonnell (right) revealed the disturbing low to which the department’s staffing has fallen, with only about 8,550 officers remaining on the beleaguered force — making the case for an additional 4,000 heads in an exclusive interview with...

LOST ANGELES

A sudden spike in homeless sparked a blame game between the leaders in charge of LA’s spiraling vagrancy debacle. Socialist Councilwoman Nithya Raman — despite being chair of the council’s Housing and Homelessness Committee — attacked Mayor Bass’...

GO BIG AND COME HOME

President Trump is considering a major escalation, a “massive attack” as he said, against Tehran, which has shown no interest in signing a peace agreement that includes giving up on nuclear weapons and allowing free passage through the Strait of Hormuz.

WRECK THE VOTE

The rig is up! Golden State Attorney General Rob Bonta pulled a last-minute switcheroo on the ballot wording of a voter-ID proposal, angering the measure’s advocates, who say he’s put his thumb on the scale to influence the election. “This is blatant...

FRAUD BLOCK

Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr. (left) is putting a hold on more than $ 1 billion in federal Medicaid payments to California and Minnesota as the White House aims to reduce widespread healthcare fraud, blaming Democratic leadership for...

OFF THE DEEP END

Newly appointed California city chief Elaine Forbes was arrested over the weekend for alleged burglary after locking herself inside a stranger’s yacht and laying on the horn. The Democrat, who started her $275,000-a-year job just three weeks ago, was...

SPAIN REIGNS!

The World Cup of stars ended with a trophy lift for the team whose strength lies in its collective. Spain, so understated in its brilliance, is on top of the world, winning a championship with 1,000 cuts. The last came in East Rutherford on Sunday...

CITY DUMP

Records obtained by the California Post paint a revolting picture of LA’s junkie-filled MacArthur Park: Over 6,000 tons of debris, including over 70 tons of human waste and 12 tons of syringes and sharps were removed from the park in 2025. Critics...

CALIF. A GYM DANDY!

Two California cities have earned top spots in the new ranking of America’s fittest locales. The 2026 American College of Sports Medicine and the Elevance Health Foundation report ranked San Francisco and Irvine among its Top 10 healthiest cities in...

CAPITOL SWILL

■ Revealed: Third member of Democrat ‘Animal House’ had sex with two aides ■ Buddy Eric Swalwell resigned, other pal Jimmy Gomez had affair, under investigation Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz., left) had sexual relations with at least two staffers when...

STAND BY ME

Alleged parent slayer Nick Reiner is reportedly “rapidly deteriorating” in LA jail after the brutal slashings of Rob and Michelle Reiner (right) last December — but still has the support of his father’s sister, Annie Reiner (left), sources tell The...

RUNNING ON EMPTY

A $60 million City Council plan to find 2,000 apartments for Los Angeles’ homeless, championed by ultraleft mayoral candidate Nithya Raman, has filled just three units since March, The Post has learned. Raman wants to take the fiscal fiasco citywide if...

STRAIT FLU$H

■ Trump reimposes blockade, touts 20% toll on Hormuz cargo ■ US will be ‘guardian angel’ of waterway, prez says after strikes

DEATH OF A PATRIOT

Lindsey Graham (R-SC) died Saturday night of a ruptured aorta brought on by chronic heart disease, according to the preliminary findings of the DC medical examiner’s office released yesterday.

SLACKERS

The Dem-dominated Los Angeles City Council wants to work even less. Led by far-left Eunisses Hernandez and endorsed by mayoral hopeful Nithya Raman, the city’s well-compensated councilmembers have agreed to cut their required meeting schedule down to...

LOVE STORY

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce stepped out for their first outing as husband and wife. The couple attended JuJu Smith-Schuster and Laura Kruk’s wedding Friday at the Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel in Orange County, — one week after their own star-studded...