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Deadly Central Park bike crash and more: Letters to the Editor — Oct. 4, 2026

NYPost readers discuss deadly Central Park chaos and more.

Former GOP Rep. David Rivera sentenced to 10 years for secret Venezuela lobbying

A former Miami congressman and longtime friend of U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison in connection with a secret $50 million lobbying campaign on Venezuela's behalf during the first Trump administration.

Voters favor Democrats on key issues but lack faith in either party to solve problems: Poll

Aaron Siever was never a single-party voter. But now, the 41-year-old from southwest Virginia is more frustrated than ever with the two political parties whose chief accomplishment, he says, is blaming each other for getting little done.

I saw affirmative action trap India. America is next

Growing up in Guntur, India, structural inequality was not an abstraction — it was the street I grew up on. For centuries, the caste system fixed entire communities into place at birth, and the doors that mattered — schools, government jobs, land — opened or closed accordingly. India’s fix was Reservations, an affirmative action system […]

Republican battleground candidate opposes Iran war but won’t challenge Trump’s war powers

A Republican trying to flip a Northern Maine congressional district is telling voters he wants the Iran war to end, but will not force President Trump's hand.

Hochul eyes changes to state’s rape law amid Cornell crisis

RAPE LAW LOOPHOLE: Gov. Kathy Hochul vowed today to close a loophole embedded in state rape law around voluntary intoxification as she laced into...

Cold jobs report offers mixed bag for GOP before midterms

The final jobs report before the midterm elections showed sluggish hiring in September, but the mediocre number offers a silver lining for President Trump and his Republican Party's defense of Capitol Hill majorities.

Young Men Are Turning Away from Republicans. That Doesn’t Mean They’ll Embrace Democrats

Men who turned out for the GOP in 2024 because they were alienated by progressive overreach may stay home because of concerns about the...

Richard Nixon — Now More Than Ever?

Let’s be fair to Nixon, a flawed but accomplished politician. Yet he shouldn’t be a role model for the right.

Governors form AI coalition, citing federal inaction

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore touted a bipartisan, governor-led coalition on artificial intelligence, saying at Thursday's Maryland Innovation Summit that the group is filling a policy void left by federal inaction.

Antifa activist who called for ‘armed’ resistance to ICE asks Supreme Court for release

A self-professed antifa agitator who called for outing and harassing ICE officers "at the barrel of a gun" asked the Supreme Court on Friday to order his release from pretrial detention, telling the justices he's not a real threat to society.

Nix ‘Nixon Nostalgia’

‘Let’s not try to whitewash what Nixon actually was.’

Trump heads to Alabama: ‘I go there because they want to see me there’

President Donald Trump will continue his midterm campaign swing with a rally in deep red Alabama Friday, returning to the place where he drew his first mega crowd.

What Does ‘Reversing 40 Years of Globalization’ Mean?

So what would it mean to turn back the clock?

UCLA Law School Discriminated Against Whites, Asians in Admissions, DOJ Finds

The school refused to meaningfully change its admission policies after the Supreme Court ruled against affirmative action, according to the DOJ.

Kennedy Center Honors to be held at Capital One Arena amid fight over adding Trump’s name

This year's Kennedy Center Honors will be held at Washington's Capital One Arena, not the riverfront building that's been at the center of a legal fight over adding President Donald Trump's name to the building.

Kansas becomes a surprise Senate battleground

Senate Republicans are suddenly rushing to save a Senate seat in Kansas.On Friday, the Senate Leadership Fund, Senate Republicans’ top super PAC, reserved over...

Dems demanding Venezuela brief face State Department fury as senators leave town without answers

Senate Democrats have challenged the legality of a Pentagon equity stake in Venezuelan oil company NABEP, but the State Department fires back sharply.

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