Deirdre Bardolf

4 days ago | nypost.com | Deirdre Bardolf

The Israeli Air Force blasted 60 Hamas terror targets across Gaza into Saturday, intensifying its escalation of offensive operations as cease-fire talks stall. Israeli troops killed at least two armed terrorists in northern Gaza and struck a booby-trapped building where Hamas operatives were in the Morag Corridor in the south, according to the Israel Defense Forces.

4 days ago | nypost.com | Deirdre Bardolf

New York City students scored far below the rest of the state and country on the SAT — producing the lowest average scores in at least seven years, troubling new data show. Public school students in the Big Apple scored an average 473 on the math portion of last year’s standardized test, which is widely used for college admissions in the US. It was a whopping 71 points below the average for the rest of New York, and 32 points below that of the rest of the country.

4 days ago | nypost.com | Diana Glebova |Deirdre Bardolf

President Trump and European leaders demanded Russian strongman Vladimir Putin agree to a 30-day cease-fire with Ukraine starting Monday, or face “massive” sanctions and bolstered military support for Kyiv. The ultimatum came Saturday out of Kyiv, where Volodymyr Zelensky sat down with the “Coalition of the Willing” — French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer — to discuss the US-led cease-fire plan.

4 days ago | nypost.com | Deirdre Bardolf

They’re just wired differently. A shocking portion of Generation Z say they could form a “deep emotional bond” with an AI-generated partner — and would even consider marrying one, a new study found. Eighty-three percent of the young people, born between 1997 and 2012, said they could develop a meaningful connection with a chatbot, while 80% said they would even consider marrying one — if it was legal, according to a poll of the most digitally native age group.

4 days ago | nypost.com | Susan Edelman |Deirdre Bardolf |Rich Calder

NYC mayoral candidates likely violated long-standing rules forbidding the use of school visits for political purposes to participate in an endorsement “stunt” by the powerful teachers’ union, The Post has learned. With the blessing of schools Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos, the United Federation of Teachers announced in March that candidates must spend a full day teaching in a NYC public school to be considered for its endorsement.