Wall Street investors are reportedly flooding back into tobacco stocks, erasing years of ethical boycotts as the industry’s aggressive pivot toward smoke-free products blurs old moral lines. For nearly a decade, pension funds and major endowments blacklisted cigarette makers under strict mandates. But that taboo is quickly going up in smoke. Tobacco companies generating massive sales from non-combustible alternatives are “rejoining polite society” and earning premium stock market valuations from returning institutional capital, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The shift gained fresh momentum when the Food and Drug Administration gave the green light for Philip Morris to market 20…

WASHINGTON — A top adviser to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani pushed hard for Maine Democrat Graham Platner in the 2026 Senate race with an eye on a Democratic presidential ticket by 2032, sources told The Post. Morris Katz hyped up Platner as a Bernie Sanders successor who could captivate the progressive base of the Democratic Party — much better than Squad darling Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who he saw as a losing nominee, two Democratic sources revealed. One reason Katz favored Platner’s chances over AOC was that he’s a man, sources said. Katz had worked for around 10…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! EXCLUSIVE: Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner said the Trump administration is working to counteract the housing cost surges that he said resulted from Joe Biden’s open border policies.Speaking exclusively with Fox News Digital from the Great American State Fair on Thursday, Turner insisted President Donald Trump’s team is pursuing policies to improve affordability, a key midterm issue, and bring down home price and rent cost spikes that correlated with the influx of illegal immigration under the previous administration.Republicans have argued their agenda will bring down home prices and rents by…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Tyler Robinson allegedly admitted to assassinating conservative activist Charlie Kirk in text messages to his roommate after the Sept. 10, 2025, shooting, apologized for his actions and claimed he acted because he “had enough of his hatred,” according to testimony Thursday during Robinson’s preliminary hearing.Utah State Bureau of Investigation Agent Brian Davis read portions of the text exchange in court as prosecutors continued presenting evidence against Robinson, 23, who is charged with assassinating Kirk outside a “Prove Me Wrong” event at Utah Valley University in Orem.Reading from the exchange, Davis testified Robinson…

Cringing critics want this Netflix star to address her “tone deaf” mess.  Jade Shenker, 30, a real estate agent with buzzy Big Apple brokerage Serhant — and a featured wheeler-and-dealer on streaming series “Owning Manhattan” — is being digitally dragged down the concrete for perceived slights against NYC’s unhoused.   “I feel like the homeless people on the street are pretty comfortable,” the gal about town casually quipped during a recent impromptu, curbside interview with “Girls Who Sublet” — a virtual hub for gals seeking temporary lodging in Gotham.  The controversy-making comments were prompted by a question regarding the high cost of living in Manhattan…

Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Braydon Fisher is remembering his father, Norm Fisher, after his sudden death on Monday, July 6, while on a road trip with the team. He was 62. “He was an amazing person,” Braydon, 25, told reporters when he rejoined the team on Wednesday, July 8. “I’ve heard you say this about myself, and he always loved when you all said this, but there was never a bad day for Norm. His name was Norm. There was never a bad day for him. He was always happy, cheerful and willing to help anybody. He loved people. He…

Tyreek Hill’s return to NFL action could take longer than originally anticipated. The star receiver, who played for the Dolphins last year, is currently without a team as he continues rehabbing from his knee injury, which he suffered last September in Week 4. The devastating injury included serious damage to his ACL, MCL, PCL and patella. Bleacher Report’s James Palmer had a grim outlook on the potential for Hill’s upcoming return. “There still is, to my understanding, no guarantee that Tyreek Hill plays in 2026,” Palmer said on his podcast late last month. “I think it’s wishful thinking.” The eight-time…

For the first time, physicists have built a working version of quantum mechanics without complex numbers — numbers that have been considered essential to the theory for nearly a century.Complex numbers combine a regular “real” number with an “imaginary” one — a multiple of the square root of -1, represented by the symbol i — into a single value, like 3 + 4i. The square root of -1 doesn’t correspond to any quantity you could count or measure directly (you can’t have negative one apple, for instance), which is why mathematicians call it imaginary.Still, complex numbers have many useful applications.…

Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs has barred employees from trading on prediction-market contracts linked to financial markets and political events, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday. A memo was issued some time back in which the policy prohibits staff from participating in event-based contracts that could create real or perceived conflicts of interest with the bank, its clients or the broader financial industry. Bloomberg News, which first reported the policy, said repeated violations could result in disciplinary action, including termination, and that employees may be required to forfeit gains from prohibited trades. The restrictions do not apply to prediction-market…

San Francisco voters will decide whether the city should have a public bank after city supervisors this week approved such a proposal to appear on the November ballot. The city would be the first in the nation to have a municipal government-owned bank. Only the state of North Dakota runs a major public bank in the nation. But the city’s proposal gives no answer as to where the estimated $325 million in start-up costs will come from as the city faces a $643 million budget deficit. “In a moment like this, asking voters to commit San Francisco to potentially running…