Mayor Zohran Mamdani and "tenant czar" Cea Weaver just won't quit their drive to "socialize" city housing via central control of rent-regulated apartment buildings.
Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman on Thursday slammed National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett's statement that President Trump’s policies will create a golden age and cause the economy to grow by 4 to 5 percent this year. Hassett, Trump’s top economic advisor, made the statement on Thursday during an interview on Fox Business' Mornings with...
A new poll found that most Americans say they pay too much in taxes, a metric that has remained high for the fifth year in a row. Gallup's poll released Friday shows that nearly 6 in 10 Americans, or 59 percent, said their taxes are too high. A slightly smaller portion at 37 percent said...
The Artemis II crew is set to return home Friday, with the four astronauts completing their 10-day trip to the moon and back after they traveled farther into space than any human in history. The crew — Cmdr. Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency mission specialist Jeremy Hansen — embarked on the lunar flyby mission on...
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) committed on Friday to holding hearings with victims of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as part of his committee's ongoing probe, a day after first lady Melania Trump called on Congress to let them testify. “I’ve always planned on having hearings with the victims,” Comer...
Former Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday denounced President Trump's threatening posts about Iran as sounding like the "prelude to becoming one of the greatest war criminals in history." Kerry told MS NOW's Jen Psaki on "The Briefing" that the president's Truth Social posts –– an expletive-laden post on Sunday and a Tuesday threat...
Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said she’s unsure whether she still considers herself a Republican following months of dispute with President Trump and the GOP. “I don’t really know if I do consider myself one right now,” Greene told Politico's Dasha Burns on "The Conversation," referring to her longstanding political affiliation as a Republican....
Arizona Sens. Mark Kelly (D) and Ruben Gallego (D) are demanding that the Trump administration immediately end its investigation into the state’s 2020 election results. The Democratic lawmakers urged new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin to end the probe in a Thursday letter. The senators also shared the request with acting Immigration...
Greenland’s prime minister pushed back on Thursday against President Trump’s latest slight on the Arctic territory and urged NATO countries to uphold international law amid tensions between the U.S. and the transatlantic alliance over Iran. Trump has become increasingly frustrated with European allies over their reluctance to support the joint U.S.-Israeli military operation in Iran,...
A Massachusetts high court ruled Friday that the state attorney general's social media addiction case against Meta Platforms can move forward. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled the case can proceed as Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell's (D) case targets Meta's alleged conduct in designing a social media platform, rather than the content posted...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is asking a judge to deny a motion of dismissal made by the man suspected of planting two pipe bombs in Washington, D.C., on the eve of Jan. 6, 2021, after the defendant argued he should be exempt from his charges under President Trump’s related pardons. Brian Cole Jr. faces...
A 20-year-old suspect was taken into custody on Friday morning after allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail toward OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home in San Francisco, the company confirmed to The Associated Press. The San Francisco Police Department said in a statement that officers responded to a residence in the North Beach area around 4:12 a.m....
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee on Friday described his living situation prior to the ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran, saying he lived in one room and had very limited movement. “After 6 wks of living at command center in one room w/ 2 dogs, sleeping on cots, making meals in microwave & hot...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell brought together a group of bank executives this week to discuss cybersecurity concerns in the wake of Anthropic’s new Mythos model, multiple people familiar with the meeting told The Hill. The meeting, held at the Treasury Department on Tuesday, came as Anthropic announced its latest...
