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Hayley Peterson was enjoying a few beers at Gottscheer Hall in Queens when a staffer asked if her table wanted to participate in the bar’s steinholding competition.  She’d never held a stein — competitively, that is — but the concept isn’t too tough to grasp: Participants must hold a 5-pound liter of beer with their arm extended, parallel to the floor, for as long as they can. Bending the elbow or leaning too far back can get you in trouble. Spilling the beer is an automatic out. Drinking it is a (warm, flat) afterthought.  “We’re young and hot,” Peterson, 28,…

WASHINGTON — Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy walked back his past support for foreign worker visas on the latest episode of “Pod Force One,” out Wednesday, saying the controversy is “irrelevant compared to our own deeper failure in education that we need to address.” “I’m not afraid to start a conversation,” Ramaswamy declared to The Post’s Miranda Devine while discussing the explosive MAGA infighting he prompted in December 2024 over his initial stance in support of the H-1B program, which lets highly skilled foreign workers enter the US so long as companies sponsor them. Following Trump’s election, the then-Department…

Kim Keon Hee, the wife of South Korea’s ousted former president Yoon Suk Yeol, appeared in court on Wednesday at the start of her corruption trial, part of a criminal probe that has ensnared high-profile political and religious figures. Kim, who faces charges including bribery and stock manipulation, arrived at the Seoul Central District Court in southern Seoul wearing a black suit, making her first public appearance since her arrest in August. In brief remarks to the court she confirmed her personal information and asked for a trial by judge, rather than a jury, but did not address any of…

The daughter of 59-year-old Ryan Routh, who was convicted on Tuesday of attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump during his 2024 presidential campaign, stormed out of the courtroom after the verdict, cursing at the press and making threats. The drama came after Routh was found guilty of all charges against him, and seemingly tried to stab himself in the neck with a pen several times before four US Marshals restrained him. His daughter, Sara Routh, stood up in the courtroom and started cursing in front of the jury. “Don’t do anything. I will get you out,” Sara Routh said. “What the f—. F—. He didn’t hurt…

A year ago, Max Tsyplakov started the season on the second line and Casey Cizikas often featured on the third line. This time around, the Islanders have enough depth that the two have been pushed down to the fourth line at the opening of training camp. While that is a welcome development, it also means that the scramble for roster spots has become ever more tight. Tuesday’s preseason game at the Devils, a 6-2 loss in which the Islanders rolled out a roster light on NHLers and got whacked by a New Jersey roster featuring most of the top Devils…

Never-before-seen “dark beads” and other unique structures were observed in the atmosphere above the north pole of Saturn — stumping astronomers who say the “unexplained” phenomenon has “no analog” in our solar system, according to a recently published paper. The shocking structures were observed by the James Webb Space Telescope’s Near Infrared Spectrograph, which was aimed at the distinctive form swirling in the hexagonal storm at the north pole of the gaseous ringed planet, according to a paper published on Aug. 28 in Geophysical Research Letters. Saturn as previously imaged by the Cassini probe, which did not detect the “black…

In our previous posts, we explored how family trauma can shape your parenting without you even knowing it, and then looked at six specific ways trauma shows up in your daily parenting. Now comes the most important question: How do you actually break these patterns? Here are nine concrete steps you can take to interrupt these cycles and create healthier relationships with your kids. 1. Understand Your Triggers Start by looking closely at what specifically sets off your sudden anger. When a child’s action triggers us, there’s usually a thread connecting it to something from our own childhood. Maybe their…

ADI IGNATIUS: I’m Adi Ignatius. ALISON BEARD: I’m Alison Beard, and this is the HBR IdeaCast. ADI IGNATIUS: All right. So Alison, the more I think about leadership, the more I think that leading effectively is almost all about psychology. ALISON BEARD: Yeah, I can see what you mean. You need to understand consumers’ wants and needs, your employees’ wants and needs, your business partner’s wants and needs. Really anticipating everything that stakeholders might do or think. ADI IGNATIUS: Yeah, exactly. I think successful leaders need to think on multiple levels, both to cope with the complexity of their jobs…

THE BRIDE!: “From Maggie Gyllenhaal (Academy Award-nominated writer/director of The Lost Daughter) and starring Academy Award nominee Jessie Buckley and Academy Award winner Christian Bale comes THE BRIDE! A bold, iconoclastic take on one of the world’s most compelling stories. A lonely Frankenstein (Bale) travels to 1930s Chicago to ask groundbreaking scientist Dr. Euphronious (five-time Oscar nominee Annette Bening) to create a companion for him. The two revive a murdered young woman and The Bride (Buckley) is born. What ensues is beyond what either of them imagined: Murder! Possession! A wild and radical cultural movement! And outlaw lovers in a wild and combustible…

A defiant but emotional Jimmy Kimmel failed yet again to apologize for his false and inflammatory comments about Charlie Kirk’s assassination in the late-night show host’s return to the air Tuesday after spending nearly a week on the sidelines. Kimmel didn’t roll back claims that Kirk’s alleged killer Tyler Robinson was likely affiliated with the MAGA movement, but the comic teared up while praising the slain conservative activist’s wife Erika Kirk during his highly anticipated monologue. “She forgave him. That is an example we should follow. If you believe in the teachings of Jesus, as I do, there it was.…