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In today’s edition, Andrew Cuomo has a New York Post problem. (In that he's running for mayor and it hates him.) But the New York Post also has an Andrew Cuomo problem. (In that Rupert Murdoch wants to influence the mayoral race, and Cuomo is the front-runner.) Melissa DeRosa, Eric Adams and the rest of the New York political world are watching closely. 

London's most pedigreed private members' club impresario, Robin Birley, is opening up in New York this year, trailing eyebrow-raising stories of exotica. But we've learned you'll need a positively un-British quantity of money to get in the door early.

Plus the story of how the media industry's most feared husband-and-wife legal team Tom Clare and Libby Locke of the firm Clare Locke (who have represented everyone from Matt Lauer to Dominion) came together.

Wham, bam, and thank your mother for the rabbits.

The New York Post has a wood problem

(Exclusive.) For years, the New York Post has made and broken politicians in local, state and federal government. Even in an era of diminished influence for newspapers, it remains a fearsome voice, unafraid to smash its opinions forcefully over the millions of New Yorkers who glimpse its vivid front pages, or read it online.

But this year's mayoral race is dominated by Andrew Cuomo, who the Post loathes, and Eric Adams, who they once endorsed but who seems likely to lose, if he makes it to polling day at all.

The rest of the candidates are seen as too left-wing for the paper to consider. That leaves the Post with limited influence. And that is not OK with the Post's owner, Rupert Murdoch, who very much loves to be a player of real consequence in these games. We have learned that Murdoch is paying...

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