According to a lengthy release issued by Mayor Zohran Mamdani's office Tuesday, Hizzoner has discovered that Jew hatred in Gotham is dangerous and widespread.
In Sen. Eric Schmitt's effort to trip up former Trump prosecutor Jack Smith on Tuesday, the Missouri Republican seemed to mistake basketball teams playing about 650 miles apart.
Idaho is putting doctors in the impossible position of choosing between violating federal law by not providing emergency abortion care or violating state law if they do.
More than a dozen members of the Kennedy family endorsed President Biden for reelection on Thursday, rebuking the candidacy of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., which critics have argued his independent bid will help elect former President Trump. Kerry Kennedy, the younger sister of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., addressed a group of Biden supporters in Philadelphia, joined on stage...
The FBI is monitoring for threats against Jewish Americans ahead of the Passover holiday, FBI Director Christopher Wray said, adding the number was already high before Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel. Wray mentioned the FBI’s work on investigating anti-Jewish hate crimes while speaking at an event Wednesday hosted by the Secure Community Network,...
Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-Minn.) daughter Isra Hirsi announced Thursday she had been suspended from college after taking part in an unauthorized pro-Palestine protest on campus. “i’m an organizer with CU Apartheid Divest @ColumbiaSJP, in my 3 years at @BarnardCollege i have never been reprimanded or received any disciplinary warnings,” said Hirsi on X. ...
A key architect of a straw donor scheme to help get New York City Mayor Eric Adams elected pleaded guilty to larceny on Thursday. Shamsuddin Riza, who owns a construction company, pleaded guilty on Thursday to conspiring to make illegal campaign donations, according to court records. He was charged alongside five others last year in...
The Congressional Progressive Caucus will continue to focus on increasing the minimum wage and lowering the cost of living for Americans after November’s election, according to its agenda for 2025. Progressives unveiled an agenda Thursday that highlights “proactive, top-priority policies that lift up poor and working people.” Their priorities focus on raising wages and lowering...
Vice President Harris is almost as popular as Beyoncé, a new survey shows. The April survey by Echelon Insights found that 43 percent of respondents view Harris favorably, while 45 percent view Beyoncé favorably. Almost 2 in 5 respondents — 19 percent — had a "very favorable" view of Harris, who is running for reelection...
The U.S. will use its veto power against a Palestinian bid to be recognized as a member state of the United Nations during a vote at the Security Council expected to take place Thursday evening. Vedant Patel, principal deputy spokesperson for the State Department, described as premature an effort by the Palestinian Authority (PA) to...
The Senate voted Thursday to advance a House-passed bill reauthorizing the Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Act’s (FISA) warrantless surveillance program, setting the stage for a bruising debate over the controversial program before it’s set to lapse after Friday. The Senate voted 67-32 to advance a motion to begin debate on the bill, the first of at least...
A newly proposed change to the tax code would require greater specificity from the IRS when it comes to logging and correcting simple accounting errors on Americans’ tax returns, a plan that could affect the way that millions of Americans claim the popular child tax credit (CTC). Currently, the IRS has the authority to fix...
A new report says that Black inmates sentenced to death by lethal injection suffered a botched procedure at higher rates than white prisoners. In the analysis released this month, researchers at the anti-death penalty group Reprieve found that Black people had a 220 percent greater chance of suffering a botched lethal injection execution than white people, regardless...
A new memoir penned by former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) will be available later this year, according to publisher Simon & Schuster. In the book, titled “The Art of Power,” Pelosi details her years in public service, legislation she's helped to enact as House Speaker and her personal account of the Jan. 6, 2021,...
