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  • NY Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, 56, refuses to address romance with lobbyist, 32: ‘My life will never be in conflict’

    03/18/2024 7:27:24 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 12 replies
    New York Post ^ | March 18, 2024 | Vaughn Golden
    State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie has reportedly been canoodling with a lovely lobbyist, and it’s all the talk in Albany — but he is refusing to comment on her and scoffs at the notion of a conflict of interest. The 56-year-old powerful Dem has been in a romantic relationship with 32-year-old Rebecca Lamorte, a lobbyist and communications coordinator for the union Greater New York Laborers-Employers Cooperation & Education Trust, or LECET, since at least November, according to the outlet NY Focus. Heastie got feisty with reporters when asked about the couple Monday morning, bristling at the suggestion he should discuss...
  • ‘We’re So Sick of It’: Northern Border Crisis Gets Worse

    03/18/2024 4:33:21 PM PDT · by george76 · 20 replies
    Epoch Times ^ | March 17, 2024 | Allan Stein
    Border Patrol apprehensions of illegal immigrants at the northern U.S. border have jumped from 916 in fiscal year 2021 to 10,021 in fiscal 2023.. HIGHGATE, Vt.—At dawn or dusk, Kristy Brow used to enjoy alone time walking in the woods on her 21-acre property in Highgate, Vermont, a small rural town near the U.S.–Canada border. Lately, however, she’s cautious—she’s worried about potential encounters with illegal immigrants along the remote logging trail. “I don’t go out by myself anymore—especially at night,” said Mrs. Brow, who runs a dog obedience business from her home. “It’s unsettling. You can’t feel relaxed anymore,” she...
  • Trump Lawyers Say Posting $464 Million Bond ‘Impossible’ in NY Fraud Case

    03/18/2024 2:54:43 PM PDT · by NYer · 51 replies
    Epoch News ^ | March 18, 2024 | Catherine Yang
    Attorneys for former President Donald Trump urged a New York appeals court again on March 18 to remove or lower the $464 million bond President Trump must pay in less than a week as he tries to appeal a more than $350 million judgment from a civil fraud case.“Enforcing an impossible bond requirement as a condition of appeal would inflict manifest irreparable injury on Defendants, and ‘defeat or impair [this Court’s] appellate jurisdiction,’” they argued.The New York Attorney General’s office, which brought the civil fraud lawsuit, argued the appeals court had no authority to do so, while the defense pointed...
  • Trump unable to secure $454 million appeal bond in New York civil fraud case, his attorneys say

    03/18/2024 7:57:38 AM PDT · by CFW · 82 replies
    Just the News ^ | 3/18/24 | By Madeleine Hubbard
    Former President Donald Trump has been unable to secure the $454 million bond, the full amount of the civil fraud judgment against him, which he must post in order to appeal, his attorneys said in a filing Monday. Trump offered last month to post a $100 million appeal bond rather than the full amount as the process plays out in court, but the judge denied the proposal. Trump's "ongoing diligent efforts have proven that a bond in the judgment’s full amount is 'a practical impossibility,'" the former president's lawyers said, per NBC News. "These diligent efforts have included approaching about...
  • Joe Lieberman slams Schumer for anti-Netanyahu speech: ‘Can’t ever remember anything like it’

    03/17/2024 3:54:59 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 36 replies
    Nypost ^ | 03/17/2024 | Carl Campanile and Chris Nesi
    Former Sen. Joe Lieberman on Sunday blasted Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer for calling for an election to replace Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, denouncing the New York Democrat’s remarks as “outrageous.” “I thought the statement he made this week … was a mistake. I can’t ever remember anything like it,” Lieberman told host John Catsimatidis on the “Cats Roundtable” on WABC 770 AM. Lieberman, 82, a former Democratic senator from Connecticut who later became an Independent before his 2013 retirement, was the first Jewish-American to appear on a presidential ticket when then-Vice President Al Gore tapped him as his...
  • California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Very Bad Month

    03/17/2024 10:03:11 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 6 replies
    New York Post ^ | March 16, 2024 | Susan Shelley
    Restaurants, recalls and resistance are giving California Gov. Gavin Newsom one of the worst months of his political career. California held its presidential primary election on Super Tuesday, March 5, but it was far from super for the state’s ambitious governor. Voters showed more than a little resistance to passing the ballot measure Newsom had branded with his name and image in TV ads for which he had raised $20 million. Given the razor-close outcome, what was really shocking was the amount spent to oppose the governor’s effort: nothing at all.
  • ‘He Made a Good Speech,’ Biden Says of Schumer's Call To Oust Netanyahu

    03/17/2024 5:01:46 PM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 32 replies
    Washington Free Beacon ^ | 15/3/24 | Charles Hilu
    President Joe Biden told reporters on Friday that Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer's (D., N.Y.) call for Israelis to vote out Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came in "a good speech." "Sen. Schumer contacted my staff, my senior staff, he was gonna make that speech. I'm not going to elaborate on the speech," Biden told reporters in the Oval Office. "He made a good speech, and I think he expressed a serious concern shared not only by him, but by many Americans." Schumer in the Thursday speech on the Senate floor said Netanyahu was "stuck in the past" and that he...
  • NYC Burger King hit with $15M suit, accused of allowing ‘open air drug bazaar’ run by ‘professional’ dealers

    03/17/2024 12:15:30 PM PDT · by grundle · 42 replies
    New York Post ^ | March 17, 2024 | Matthew Sedacca and Social Links for Kathianne Boniello
    A Burger King blocks from City Hall is so overrun with drug dealers, junkies and unhinged vagrants that an angry neighbor is suing the fast-food operator for $15 million for helping to turn “Fulton Street into an open air drug bazaar.” A group of eight to 10 “professional drug dealers” are allegedly having it their way at the BK at 106 Fulton St., near Dutch Street, which they use as a “base of operation, selling illegal drugs either at the entrance . . . or during inclement weather, selling illegal drugs within the Burger King restaurant itself,” according to the...
  • Netanyahu: Biden, Schumer Trying to ‘Paralyze the Country,’ Force Israel to Lose

    03/17/2024 9:10:54 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 73 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 03/17/2024 | Joel B Pollack
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his government on Sunday that international leaders who are pushing for elections in the midst of the war are trying to “paralyze the country,” forcing Israel to stop fighting and lose the war. Netanyahu did not name President Joe Biden explicitly, but spoke in the wake of Biden’s endorsement Friday of an alarming speech Thursday by U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) demanding new elections in Israel to oust Netanyahu.
  • AOC’s Once-Family Friendly District, Now Overrun With Illegal Aliens and Prostitution

    03/17/2024 5:18:56 AM PDT · by george76 · 36 replies
    Townhall ^ | March 16, 2024 | Sarah Arnold
    An area in Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez’s (D-NY) district is looking like a scene out of a horror film as illegal immigrants take over the streets and overwhelm its resources. .. illegal immigrants have made the sidewalks of the neighborhoods of Corona, Jackson Heights, and Elmhurst their home. Trash and prostitution have overflowed the areas, with illegal aliens harassing passersby trying to sell them food and various clothing items... prostitutes openly solicit sex in broad daylight on the sidewalks of the once family-friendly, up-and-coming neighborhood of New York. prostitution has become so prevalent in the area that it was nicknamed...
  • AOC district neighborhood labeled 'Third World' as migrants clog streets and prostitutes overrun every block

    03/16/2024 11:31:22 AM PDT · by grundle · 77 replies
    Fox News via Yahoo ^ | March 16, 2024 | Michael Dorgan
    An area in Squad member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s district is being described as looking more like a Third World country as opposed to a thriving American neighborhood, as desperate migrants block up sidewalks selling food and shilling clothing items while prostitutes openly solicit sex from passersby — reportedly including teens. The neighborhoods of Corona, Jackson Heights and Elmhurst — a once-vibrant community in northwestern Queens — has now essentially deteriorated into a large flea market with trash overflowing on street corners, leading to unsavory and unhygienic conditions, as video obtained by Fox News Digital shows. Meanwhile, the neighborhood’s main strip along...
  • Amid deepening tensions, White House weighs how to respond if Israel defies Biden with Rafah invasion

    03/16/2024 9:22:14 AM PDT · by Mr. Mojo · 88 replies
    NBC via Yahoo ^ | March 16, 2024 | Monica Alba, Courtney Kube, Jonathan Allen, Carol E. Lee, Andrea Mitchell, Kelly O'Donnell, etc.
    WASHINGTON — The White House is considering options for how to respond if Israel defies President Joe Biden’s repeated warnings against launching a military invasion of Rafah without a credible plan to protect Palestinian civilians, according to one former and three current U.S. officials. The discussions are taking place amid growing concern in the administration and frustration among congressional Democrats that the president’s pleas will simply be ignored. Israel this week inched closer to initiating an incursion into the southernmost city in the Gaza Strip. The Biden administration set a March 24 deadline for Israel to provide written assurance, followed...
  • NJ lawmakers pull bill that would give them power to block info from public after backlash

    03/15/2024 10:08:16 AM PDT · by lowbridge · 8 replies
    nypost.com ^ | March 15, 2024 | Steve Janoski
    New Jersey state lawmakers did an about-face on a controversial bill that critics said would have given government bureaucrats and politicians more power to block information from the public. Some Garden State Democrats had looked to fast-track the bill to change the state’s open records law but backed off on Thursday, pulling the proposal before a key committee could vote to advance it. The decision was hailed as a victory for open-government advocates who fought tooth and nail to kill it — even though it may not be gone for good. “Democracy only functions when the voice of the people...
  • Chicago boy, 11, is knifed to death while trying to protect 33-weeks pregnant mom 'from her serial-abuser ex-boyfriend' who'd been freed from jail a DAY earlier

    03/16/2024 3:13:52 AM PDT · by lowbridge · 41 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | March 15, 2024 | Alexa Cimino
    An 11-year-old boy was stabbed to death in Chicago while trying to protect his 33-weeks pregnant mother from her 'abusive ex-boyfriend'. Suspect Crosetti Brand, 37, was charged with first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder in connection with the fatal stabbing on Wednesday that took the life of Jayden Perkins and left his mother, Laterria Smith, in critical condition. Brand was Smith's ex-boyfriend and on parole after being sentenced to 16 years in prison for a home invasion. Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling said that Brand had been released on parole just one day before the attack. Cook County State's Attorney...
  • Why this Democratic Nikki Haley backer Is Endorsing Trump for President

    03/14/2024 8:52:04 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 30 replies
    New York Post ^ | March 14, 2024 | Andrew Stein
    It’s time for America to come together and make Donald Trump the next president of the United States. I was one of those who doubted he could pull off a second presidential victory and backed Nikki Haley. I was wrong — Trump is ready to be president again, and the country needs him. Indicted 91 times by biased prosecutors out to stop him, Trump has engineered a great comeback.
  • NYC subway rider who shot ‘aggressive’ straphanger during rush-hour commute won’t be charged: ‘Self defense’

    03/15/2024 12:21:37 PM PDT · by lowbridge · 53 replies
    nypost.com ^ | March 15, 2024 | Joe Marino and Kyle Schnitzer
    The Brooklyn straphanger who shot a berserk rider attacking him on a rush-hour train Thursday will not be charged, prosecutors said Friday. “Yesterday’s shooting inside a crowded subway car was shocking and deeply upsetting,’’ Oren Yaniv, a spokesman for the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office, said in an an e-mailed statement. “The investigation into this tragic incident is ongoing but, at this stage, evidence of self-defense precludes us from filing any criminal charges against the shooter.” The shot man, Dajuan Robinson, 36, had bought the gun on the train and whipped it out during his attack on a stranger, who shot...
  • Man Shot in Head During NYC Rush Hour Subway Traffic One Week After Gov. Hochul Deployed National Guard

    03/15/2024 7:35:49 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 11 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 03/15/2024 | Simon Kent
    A man was left critically injured after being shot multiple times Thursday afternoon while waiting on the platform of a Brooklyn subway station. The attack came a week after Gov. Kathy Hochul deployed hundreds of National Guard members and state troopers to check riders’ bags in an effort to deter crime so commuters could “feel safe.” “Teams of mental health workers” were also promised by Hochul to calm riders. CBS News New York reports the incident happened just before 5 p.m. on the northbound platform of the A/C line at the Hoyt-Schermerhorn station.
  • Biden Slaps More Sanctions on Israel While Giving $10 Billion Sanctions Waiver to Iran

    03/14/2024 9:11:23 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 30 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 03/14/2024 | JOEL B. POLLAK
    President Joe Biden’s administration slapped more sanctions on Israelis over so-called “extremist settler violence” on Thursday — including on two outposts in the West Bank, marking the first sanctions on Israel relating to a specific area. The sanctions are a virtual gift to the anti-Israel and antisemitic “boycott, divestment, sanctions” (BDS) movement, at a time when Biden is trying to shore up flagging Arab- and Muslim-American support. The news also came on the same day that the Biden Administration sent senior White House officials to meet with Palestinian-Americans in Chicago. The sanctions also came a day after the Biden Administration...
  • Schumer: Netanyahu and obstacle to peace, has to go Senate Majority leader gives address from the Senate floor on "a pathway to peace and achieving a two-state solution." attacks Israelli government and calls for new elections

    03/14/2024 8:47:33 AM PDT · by Nextrush · 68 replies
    israelnationalnews.com ^ | 3/14/2024 | Israel National News
    US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer gave a speech on "a pathway to peace and achieving a two-state solution" today (Thursday). In his remarks Schumer called for the holding of new elections in Israel, saying that "Netanyahu has lost his way". He further called the Israeli Prime Minister an "obstacle to peace." According to Schumer, Netanyahu is one of four obstacles to peace, among others being Hamas, "radical Israelis", and Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas. Schumer's criticism of Netanyahu centered on the prime minister's "outright" rejection of the idea of creation of a Palestinian state in the aftermath of October...
  • Schumer criticizes Netanyahu leadership amid war on Hamas, calls for Israel to hold elections

    03/14/2024 8:59:04 AM PDT · by hardspunned · 41 replies
    Just the news ^ | 3/14/24 | Madeline Hubbard
    Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday criticized Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's handling of his country's war on Hamas and called for Israel to hold elections, an apparent signal that he thinks new leadership is needed. "Nobody expects Prime Minister Netanyahu to do the things that must be done to break the cycle of violence, preserve Israel's credibility on the world stage," Schumer, the country's high-ranking elected Jewish lawmaker, said in a roughly 40-minute speech on the Senate floor.