Editor in chief Bari Weiss — a longtime critic of cancel culture — was said to be initially reluctant to do so, according to a source with knowledge of the matter.

But the increasingly persuasive argument within CBS News was that the outlet couldn’t platform an expert giving medical advice after hundreds of chummy, eyebrow-raising emails between Attia and Epstein surfaced, the person said.

CBS is weighing whether to cut ties with anti-aging influencer Peter Attia in light of newly surfaced emails with late pal Jeffrey Epstein, The Post has learned. Getty Images for The New York Times

CBS News declined to comment. The Post has sought comment from Attia and Weiss.

Attia’s disturbing emails with Epstein — in which Attia once joked that female genitals were “low carb” — came to light over the weekend, just days after he was named as one of CBS News’ 19 new contributors. The hire came as Weiss has sought to shake up the struggling outlet.

The Attia-Epstein emails were included in the trove of 3 million documents released Friday by the Department of Justice, as mandated by the “Epstein Files Transparency Act.” Attia is mentioned in the files 1,741 times.

Editor in chief Bari Weiss — a longtime critic of cancel culture — was said to be initially reluctant to do so, according to a source with knowledge of the matter. Getty Images for Uber, X and The Free Press

In stomach-churning missives, the controversial anti-aging guru frequently asked about Epstein’s wellbeing and alluded to the convicted sex offender’s “outrageous” lifestyle.

The messages from Attia, 52, renowned as a “longevity influencer” specializing on metabolic health, included crude and offensive humor.

“P—y is, indeed, low carb. Still awaiting results on gluten, though,” Attia wrote in one email from 2016, eight years after Epstein had been convicted in Florida of procuring a child for prostitution and soliciting a prostitute.

The disturbing correspondence came to light just days after the celebrity doctor was named as one of the network’s 19 new contributors. REUTERS

Attia expressed remorse over his emails on Monday.

“I apologize and regret putting myself in a position where emails, some of them embarrassing, tasteless, and indefensible, are now public, and that is on me. I accept that reality and the humiliation that comes with it,” he said in a lengthy statement on X.

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Members of Congress “were displeased, shocked, engaged and ready to consider legislative and oversight action,” Lindsay Owens, executive director of consumer advocacy group Groundwork Collaborative told The Post on Thursday, after meeting with 15 lawmakers.

The report finding Instacart charged hundreds of customers widely different prices at  big chains including Target, Kroger, Safeway, Albertsons and Costco came as Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) introduced legislation to ban such practices.

Instacart is a delivery company that handles mostly grocery deliveries. Bloomberg via Getty Images

“Greedy corporations are compiling Americans’ personal data and using AI to find their ‘pain point’ – the maximum they’re willing to pay. That’s not fair pricing, that’s predatory pricing. My bill puts an end to it,” Gallego said in a statement.

Sen Ruben Gallego (D. Ariz.) introduced The One Fair Price Act. Getty Images

The lawmaker flagged January research from the Federal Trade Commission showing that retailers “frequently use customers’ personal information – everything from their location to the type of device they are searching on – to set tailored prices for goods and services,” according to his office.

In the House of Representatives, lawmakers are exploring ways to curb dynamic pricing, which sometimes employs AI tools to track customer data.

“They wanted to know what types of legislation they could pursue to protect consumers from this practice,” said Owens, who met with all Dems.

Instacart is on the hotseat after a report was released showing that grocery shoppers are being charged differently in the same stores. JHVEPhoto – stock.adobe.com

The pols were part of the “Congressional Dad’s Caucus” of Dems focusing on working families.

Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D.-Calif.) said after meeting with Owens, he’s “weighing next steps to bring costs down and rein in this type of pricing.”

“If Instacart’s AI pricing is quietly, unfairly and/or deceptively making some people pay more for the same groceries, that’s a big problem,” he said in a statement to The Post.

Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.) said he’ll take steps to crack down on “dynamic pricing.” CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

Any action on dynamic pricing would need GOP buy-in in the Republican-controlled House and Senate.

The high cost of living has caught the attention of pols across the political spectrum in recent months.

The Groundwork Collaboration report found that Instacart charged Target customers at a North Canton, Ohio store $2.99 for Skippy Creamy Peanut Butter one day in September – while other Instacart users that day paid as much as $3.59 for the same jar picked up from the same location. 

Target distanced itself from Instacart’s pricing strategy, stating that it is “not affiliated with Instacart.” Christopher Sadowski

Target said in response to the findings that it is not “affiliated with Instacart and is not responsible for prices on the Instacart Platform.” 

Instacart was likely trying to determine how much money it could make off of Target shoppers, Owens said.

“At a place like Target which is not known for being on the low-end, Instacart was probably like ‘this is an interesting place for us to explore a higher mark-up,” she explained.

Instacart did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The company previously told The Post that its price “tests,” which “have now ended,” are never based on personal characteristics of shoppers and do not change in real time.

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The United States’ loss of its last triple-A credit rating and mounting concerns about government debt are threatening to disrupt the relative calm in financial markets that has prevailed since President Trump began pausing tariffs early last month.

One factor jarring markets is a bill in Congress that would make Mr. Trump’s signature 2017 tax cuts permanent and could add trillions of dollars to federal debt. A House committee voted to approve the bill on Sunday night although it was expected to remain a focus of contentious congressional debate.

On Friday, the ratings firm Moody’s cited the legislation, along with broader concerns about the fiscal deficit and growing debt costs, when it downgraded the credit rating of the United States. The move by Moody’s means that all three major rating agencies no longer consider the United States qualified for their top credit ratings.

U.S. stock futures indicated that markets would decline about 1 percent when they begin trading in the United States on Monday morning.

During Asia trading, South Korea’s Kospi and Taiwan’s Taiex indexes fell more than 1 percent. Stocks in Tokyo and Hong Kong declined about 0.5 percent. The U.S. dollar continued to weaken against other currencies including the euro and yen.

The U.S. credit rating downgrade could send further ripple effects through financial markets if it begins to shake the safe-haven status of Treasury bonds. That would likely spur global investors to demand higher premiums in return for buying U.S. debt.

The 10-year Treasury bond yield climbed to 4.51 percent in Asian trading, after closing at 4.44 percent on Friday.

Some analysts attributed the rise in yields to the credit downgrade exacerbating existing concerns about Mr. Trump’s tariff agenda and the effect it may be having on the American economy.

U.S. stocks had made strong gains last week when investors reacted positively to the U.S.-China deal to cut tariffs.

Analysts say that the downgrade of the U.S. credit rating could train a spotlight on fiscal spending and interest rates paid on government debt in other countries as well. That includes in Japan, which has one of the highest debt-to-GDP ratios in the world.

When Standard & Poor downgraded U.S. Treasury bonds in 2011, the move contributed to significant volatility in global financial markets. All three major stock indexes declined in the United States, dragging on markets in Asia and Europe as well.

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