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Activists and several elected officials gathered outside New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office in the Capitol in Albany on Monday to protest the closure of two hotels housing several hundred migrants in the state’s capital region. New York City has a “right to shelter” law, requiring the city to provide shelter for anyone who asks…
President Biden’s days in office are coming down to the wire, and amid President-elect Donald Trump’s transition into the Oval Office, the 46th president is reportedly considering pardoning high-profile allies and fellow Democrats who are viewed as Trump’s political foes. After Trump’s election win over Vice President Harris last month, Massachusetts Democrat Sen. Ed Markey…
The House is set to vote Wednesday on its must-pass yearly defense bill that would give junior enlisted troops a significant pay bump and work to eliminate DEI programs at the Pentagon. The 1,800-page bill known as the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), details how $895.2 billion allocated toward defense and national security will be…
The pardon debate – individual, group, partisan, preemptive – is spinning out of control. In his “Meet the Press” interview, Donald Trump mocked Joe Biden’s repeated assurances about Hunter: “‘I’m not going to give my son a pardon. I will not under any circumstances give him a pardon.’ I watch this and I always knew…
Luigi Mangione, the former Ivy League student arrested in Pennsylvania on Monday in connection to the apparent assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City last week, likely won’t be extradited for several days. Mangione, 26, was detained at the Altoona Police Department in Pennsylvania after an area McDonald’s manager recognized him around…
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are facing a new blow as some of their Montecito neighbors have stepped forward to criticize the couple. German network ZDF has aired a new documentary, “Prince Harry – The Lost Prince,” which explores the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s life in California. Vanity Fair reported the filmmakers visited the…
As you’re sitting on the plane and waiting for take off, your airline pilot could activate a “ding” sound mid-flight, but what does that sound really mean? In a now-viral video garnering nearly 10 million views, an American Airlines pilot shared insight into what these mysterious “dings” refer to. Known as Captain Steve on TikTok,…
Kash Patel, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for FBI director, was the chief investigator in the congressional probe into alleged Trump-Russia collusion, uncovering government surveillance abuse that led to the appointment of two special counsels: one who determined there was no such collusion and another who determined the entire premise of the FBI’s original investigation was…
A Philadelphia man who was freed from prison after serving 24 years for a murder conviction for which he was exonerated is returning to prison for a separate killing. Shaurn Thomas, 50, was exonerated and given a $4.1 million settlement after he was released from a life sentence in 2017 following the overturning of his…
