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I live in a picture-perfect region — the Hudson Valley, memorialized by painters and poets; a patchwork of autumn reds and yellows, majestic hillsides, storied waterfalls, and little homesteads dotted picturesquely on the slopes of sleepy hamlets. Towns in our area look like Norman Rockwell paintings: there is Main Street, Millerton, with its white 19th century church steeple, its famous Irving Farm cafe with the excellent curated coffee beans, its charming antiques mall, its popular pizzeria. When you drive to Millerton, it looks like you are driving into the heart of archetypal America; everything that Woody Guthrie songs memorialize, everything...

The Democratic Governors Association has created an independent expenditure committee in New York to boost Gov. Kathy Hochul in the final week of her election bid. .... Hochul has raised $3.5 million in the past few weeks. That brings her contribution total to $49.8 million over the course of the campaign, enough to surpass the previous record of $46.9 million raised for a gubernatorial race by Andrew Cuomo in 2014. She spent $8.4 million and had nearly $6 million remaining. Zeldin raised $3.5 million, bringing his total for the campaign to $21.4 million. He spent $2.2 million and had $5.8...

Chris Cuomo is demanding that his bosses at NewsNation move his new show to a different time slot — his latest, desperate bid to improve his sagging viewership on the fledging cable-TV network, The Post has learned. Cuomo — who joined NewsNation Oct. 3 after getting fired from CNN for secretly helping his older brother, ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, navigate a slew of sex scandals — is fuming about the lackluster performance of his nightly broadcast, which currently airs at 8 p.m., Monday to Friday, sources said.

President Biden again claimed over the weekend that he was detained by South African authorities while trying to visit Nelson Mandela in prison in the 1970s — despite admitting just last month that his telling of the story was false. “I got stopped when I was a young senator trying to see Nelson Mandela in South Africa,” Biden said during a forum broadcast Sunday by left-wing outlet NowThis News. “Afterward he heard, and when he got released, he came to see me in Washington and he walked up to me [and] said, ‘Thank you.'” Biden was responding to Jon-Adrian Velazquez,...

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is asking the state's Supreme Court to investigate New York Attorney General Letitia James for publishing a report claiming he sexually assaulted multiple women during his tenure. Cuomo claims James manipulated the investigation in order to pursue her own run for governor, failed to appoint independent investigators to the case and omitted crucial evidence from her report released last August. Cuomo argued James's press conference announcing the findings of the report "was meant to be prejudicial and highly inflammatory, and to villainize me in the public eye, and to mislead the public and the...

VIDEOEver since his ignominious downfall and resignation as New York Governor, Andrew Cuomo has been convinced that he will make a comeback, and now he says he’s ready. During a phone call into the Jimmy Dore Show, Cuomo insists not only that he’s back but also that a big part of the reason for his successful return will be the wildly popular phone calls he’s made into Jimmy’s show for the two “bulls” to talk to one another.

The following is a detailed expose of New York City's ACS, Admnistration for Children's (Kidnapping and Alienation) Services. ACS fought for years to have the piece taken down and succeeded. Please share widely if you find value in it. All are at risk from these goons, as we have seen on multiple levels. The Almighty will stop them, but demands that we do our part. The Article: It's time to call a spade a spade, to name names and to finally shine a light on despots who threaten, bully and rip people's lives apart under the full protection of the...

One expert said he saw this occur in the Middle East. He said the purpose was to "control elections. I never expected to see it in America." Sometimes, you run into something so out of place that you have to ask yourself, how did that get there? A boat in the desert, A fossilized battery, crop circles, and now, New York’s voter rolls. New York Citizens Audit (NYCA) is an all volunteer group of individuals who have been studying the 2020 General Election since last August. After a year’s worth of effort, they have made some impressive findings. They have...

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo filed suit Wednesday demanding New York State fund his legal defense against sexual misconduct allegations following his August resignation. Cuomo’s New York State Supreme State Court lawsuit challenges State Attorney General Letitia James for denying a him state-funded private counsel in April in the ongoing sexual harassment and unlawful discrimination lawsuit that a female former member of his security detail brought against him. The former governor claims he has a right to such representation because his alleged misconduct toward the New York state trooper is said to have occurred as he operated as governor.

Update (1700ET): According to Newsweek, the FBI had a 'confidential human source' (a mole) inside Mar-a-Lago, who was "able to identify what classified documents former President Trump was still hiding and even the location of those documents."👀 The FBI is AGAIN sending undercover informants to target President Trump? It’s the Crossfire Hurricane debacle, all over again. This time, likely, at the behest of the Attorney General. https://t.co/f8FXr74qer — Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) August 10, 2022* * *The Trumps have revealed more about Monday's FBI raid of their Mar-a-Lago property.For starters, Eric Trump told the Daily Mail that "the 30 agents who...

A New York state law, signed by former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, is preventing the public release of the booking photo for a man accused of attempting to stab Rep. Lee Zeldin. In 2019, Cuomo sought to ban the public release of all booking photos, arrest records, names, and charges for suspects accused of crimes. The state’s Democrat-controlled legislature moved forward with a similar plan that prevents local and state police from releasing a suspect’s booking photo to the public unless it serves a law enforcement purpose. The law, which Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) has never objected to, is now helping...

Power-hungry Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York is singlehandedly starving New York City’s restaurants. By executive edict, Cuomo ordered the city’s restaurants, which were barely getting along as it was, to once again shut down their indoor dining services completely. Cuomo the grinch did so just in time for the holidays, when restaurants were hoping to make up for at least some of the revenue they have lost this year. By decimating the restaurant industry, Cuomo is also destroying the livelihoods of low and middle-income New Yorkers. For many restaurants, Cuomo’s draconian order is their death sentence. Restaurants are closing...

Democratic mayoral candidate Eric Adams appeared in public with Gov. Cuomo on Wednesday and addressed everything from the city’s surging shootings to the governor’s sexual harassment scandal. Ahead of a meeting with community leaders in Brooklyn to discuss the Big Apple’s epidemic of gun violence, Adams — who last week narrowly won the Democratic primary — decried the city’s increasing lawlessness and said officials needed to address recent soft-on-crime initiatives Adams, a former NYPD captain, also warned that the Big Apple was turning into a free-for-all and said the decline needed to be nipped in the bud.

"Real Time" host Bill Maher insisted that Andrew Cuomo has overstayed his welcome as New York's governor amid the growing scandals plaguing the prominent Democrat. During his opening monologue Friday night, Maher began by telling his audience that it's "Day Four of the Andrew Cuomo death watch." "The report came back. Yes, sleaze," Maher recapped, sharing the findings by New York Attorney General Letitia James. "Democrats are dropping him like he's made of gluten."

The HBO star slammed 'blue states' for keeping schools closed despite minimal health risks to children "Real Time" host Bill Maher had some tough words for liberals over their handling of the coronavirus outbreak. In his closing monologue Friday night, Maher took aim at the media's "panic porn" during the pandemic, citing a Dartmouth study showing that "nearly 90 percent" of U.S. national media coverage was negative in comparison to other countries even as conditions were getting better. Maher also called out politicians who "lie" to "save their own asses." know, the high-information, behind-the-science people?" Maher then pointed to a...

Disgraced ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D-N.Y., wrote in a Monday column for the New York Daily News that New York Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin's resignation and indictment "raises troubling questions." Cuomo, who resigned as governor in August 2021 following several sexual misconduct allegations, said that his administration "reformed the insidious pork-barrel member-item process" after several scandals. Benjamin was forced to resign last week over federal charges of bribery and other offenses.

ISLAND PARK, N.Y. — Republican Ari Brown defeated Democrat David Lobl by a 2-1 margin in a special election for the New York State Assembly’s 20th District seat, as Republicans continue to gain momentum on Long Island and predict victories across the state and nationally next November. “This is just the beginning of a red wave like never before,” Brown said Thursday night, after he won the seat — covering areas including the Five Towns, Island Park, Long Beach and Atlantic Beach — which was vacated by Republican Melissa “Missy” Miller in February, who took a position on the Hempstead...

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo hit Albany’s ethics watchdog with a lawsuit Friday, accusing it of “extraordinary bias” against him as he seeks to hold onto proceeds from his $5.1 million book deal. The Joint Commission on Public Ethics voted overwhelmingly in November to rescind its decision that allowed Cuomo to write “American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic,” arguing state resources were used to write the book, which it said contained “serial omissions and misrepresentations” about New York’s pandemic response. ... The former governor claimed that staff members who worked on the book did so on their...

Disgraced former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo reportedly sent CNN boss Jeff Zucker's mistress Allison Gollust text messages offering to be her 'pool boy.' Cuomo, 64, and Gollust had reportedly met up several times for drinks between 2019 and 2020, following his split with Sandra Lee. He allegedly sent Gollust a text, reading: 'You don’t want to see me now that I’m single?' after the breakup in early 2020, according to Rolling Stone.

Defiant ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo turned a Brooklyn church appearance into a 25-minute gripe session Sunday in which he again blamed “cancel culture,” the media and “political sharks” for tanking his career. In his first public appearance since resigning last year, the accused serial sexual harasser whined about his explosive scandal to about 150 congregants at God’s Battalion of Prayer in East Flatbush, calling it “probably the toughest time of my life.” “As you probably know, I’ve gone through a difficult period the past few months. I resigned as governor, the press roasted me, my colleagues were ridiculed, my brother was...