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An abandoned tower looms 18-stories into the sky. Zombie-like bodies with blank stares shake and stumble about aimlessly as a corpse lies on the cold, blood-stained pavement. Dangerous criminals wielding weapons indiscriminately shoot firearms and swing knives and machetes. Deadly potions are passed around, and sharp needles poke up from the ground. Armed guards patrol the premises as surveillance cameras watch every move. This morbid scene isn’t the backdrop of a Halloween haunted house. It’s a real life scary situation outside of the Speaker Nancy Pelosi Federal Building in San Francisco. The conditions are so frightening, federal employees have been...

Documents released Monday from New York State Attorney General Tish James’ office about CNN anchor Chris Cuomo’s major role in helping craft an expansive and targeted response strategy earlier this year to the sexual harassment allegations made against his brother and then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) have rocked the low rated cable news network, prompting them to say in a statement that they would be conducting “a thorough review and consideration … over the next several days” of the new information as it related to the longtime “Prime Time” anchor’s role.But as it turns out, Chris Cuomo is not the only...

Text messages released as a part of the probe into former New York Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo show a former top political adviser to then-presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg sharing disparaging sentiments about Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who accused now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault. A text exchange uncovered by Josefa Velásquez, a senior reporter at The City, reveals that Lis Smith – a former senior adviser to Pete Buttigieg, and former girlfriend of disgraced New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer – called Blasey Ford "looney tunes," and "the height of Me Too overreach." While former presidential candidate and...

London is now more crime ridden and dangerous than New York City, with rape, robbery and violent offences far higher on this side of the Atlantic. The latest statistics, published earlier this week, revealed that crime across the UK was up by 13 per cent, with a surge in violence in the capital blamed for much of the increase.

In a London preview of Wall Street's bonus nightmare, more than 1,000 investment bankers have quit Royal Bank of Scotland to work at rivals due to curbs on their paychecks, according to people familiar with the situation. Wall Street banks fear top talent would flee en masse for greener pastures if Uncle Sam's pay czar, Ken Feinberg, and Congress try to put more ceilings on bonuses and pay at financial firms. In the UK, the rules are modeled after US actions to curb pay at firms bailed out by the government.RBS will soon be about 84-percent owned by the British...

Jasper Gerard reveals how City high flyers will spend their £8.4 billion in bonuses They make Chelsea footballers look socially disadvantaged. They are the galacticos of the City, the unacceptable wallets of capitalism, the merchant bankers who make other merchant bankers jealous. Yep, Goldman Sachs. No wonder Champagne corks popped with extra fizz at the works party this week. The firm has just announced bonuses of £8.4 billion, greater than the GDP of many countries. Its 26,000 toilers will typically find, nestling with tangerines in their Christmas stocking, bonuses of £320,000; it has been rumoured that 25 Goldman stars have...

Police foil hackers' £220m raid on London bankBy David Derbyshire, Consumer Affairs Editor(Filed: 18/03/2005)An audacious attempt by computer hackers to steal £220 million from the London branch of a Japanese bank has been foiled by police.The crime ring gained access to the Sumitomo bank's computer network and tried to transfer money electronically to 10 bank accounts around the world.   Rumours of an attempted theft had been circulating in the City If the theft had been successful it would have been one of Britain's biggest bank heists. However, the plan was uncovered before any money was stolen.Police in Israel...

If Osama Bin Laden is ever caught alive, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani has one wish: He wants to be the one to execute the terrorist. In his new book, "Leadership," Giuliani revealed how he asked President Bush - three days after the Sept. 11 terror attacks - if he could be the executioner. "What can I do for you?" Bush had asked. "I told him, 'If you catch this guy, Bin Laden, I would like to be the one to execute him.' "I am sure he thought I was just speaking rhetorically," Giuliani wrote. "But I was serious. Bin Laden...

JOIN US:   PROTEST RALLY!   Monday, August 26th at 6PM at City Hall (South End) Led by Artist Scott LoBaido, 4th generation New Yorker Supported by NYC C.L.A.S.H. " A TRUE REVOLUTION " Click here for a message from Scott LoBaido Mayor Bloomberg has decided to supercede the city council's proposals to ban smoking in NYC with a totalitarian one of his own, backed up by his own hand-picked gestapo, Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden and his agents. On Monday, August 12th, the mayor made his proposal public --  TO BAN SMOKERS EVERYWHERE IN NYC (NY Times Reports:  Bloomberg...