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A stranger pummeled a 70-year-old Manhattan straphanger in the face so badly that he had to be hospitalized — all because the elderly man complained about him rolling a cigarette in the station, cops said Friday. The senior was getting off a southbound C train at the 145th Street station at the corner of St. Nicholas Avenue in Harlem around 7:15 p.m. Wednesday when he spotted the cigarette-roller in the station and confronted him, police said. It’s not clear whether the attacker actually got to smoke his cigarette, which is against transit rules, but the elderly man was apparently making...

Yikes. https://twitter.com/LolaSmithJones1/status/1498460655736791041

Texas Republican gubernatorial candidate Allen West said that he removed the mask of a person who confronted him at Dallas-Fort Worth airport for not wearing a mask in public. West said in a statement that he was "berated" at the DFW airport on Wednesday by a man who he called "a left-wing partisan," who "cursed and insulted" him for not wearing a mask. He then responded by "flicking the individual's mask off."

You do not need a Twitter account to see and hear this video.Contact Tracers show up to a no soliciting neighborhood to talk to people on issues that are private and between them and their doctor. https://twitter.com/T_S_P_O_O_K_Y/status/1414691975094226945

Democrat New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy was confronted by several angry people as he ate outside a restaurant with his family, a video posted Sunday shows. ... The video showed Murphy taking a bite of food as a woman said, “Oh my God, it is,” apparently discovering that the person sitting at the table was indeed the governor of New Jersey. “Oh my God, Murphy, you are such a dick,” the woman said, as another woman can be heard saying repeatedly, “How you doing? How you doing? You having fun with your family in the meantime? You’re having all kind...

WATCH: New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy is confronted while having dinner with his maskless family. https://twitter.com/GrantB911/status/1330690895436460032

Elizabeth Warren is best known as a liberal firebrand, but the 2020 Democrat was a registered Republican well into her 40s. The Massachusetts senator's affiliation with the GOP until 1996 when she was 47, documented by Pennsylvania and Massachusetts voting records, was dredged up this week by actress and Bernie Sanders fan Susan Sarandon. The film and small-screen star alluded to the Massachusetts senator's prior party allegiance while introducing Sanders in Iowa, despite the Vermont senator's campaign urging surrogates not to criticize fellow presidential candidates. “He is not someone who used to be a Republican,” Sarandon said of the socialist,...

An irate passenger berated Ivanka Trump and “leered” at her kids aboard a JetBlue plane out of JFK on Thursday morning, screaming, “Your father is ruining the country,” according to a published report. The man was clearly not happy with the election of Donald Trump as president. “Your father is ruining the country,” he said. “Why is she on our flight? She should be flying private.” One passenger on the flight told TMZ Ivanka ignored the guy and tried distracting her three kids with crayons. The airline removed the unruly passenger, who screamed, “You’re kicking me off for expressing my...

In a rare public appearance, The Obama Administration's Information Czar Cass Sunstein gave a lecture at the NYU Law School in NYC yesterday, prompting Luke Rudkowski of WeAreChange to attend. Watch as Luke confronts Sunstein multiple times on an academic paper he co-authored back in 2008 entitled "Conspiracy Theories" in which he called for cognitive infiltration of conspiracy groups by the government.

Human Events' Jason Mattera (I think) challenges Biden on his ever-escalating demagoguery -- he keeps mentioning the threat of rape if we don't Pass This Jobs Bill now. This isn't an off-the-cuff remark; he's now said it multiple times, including his latest "I wish opponents would get raped." This is by design, and out of desperation. Bonus: Oh, and Bush killed some people and burned their houses to the ground. And also, rape.

Rome - Diplomatic cables showed the United States confronted Italy about claims it paid Taliban not to attack its troops in Afghanistan, noting it suffered fewer casualties than other forces, media reported on Friday. Italy has already denied claims that it paid protection money to Taliban and other militants in an area where 10 French soldiers were killed in an ambush in February 2008 soon after taking over from Italian forces. (Snip) "Unfortunately, the significance of this contribution has been undermined by Italy's growing reputation for avoiding combat and paying ransom and protection money.

Video of accoustic weapon used by police on protesters at the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh.

An FBI agent confronted by a Muslim student at the University of California, Irvine, earlier this month was trying to get a closer look at a "suspicious" truck at the time, federal authorities said Sunday. The agent had followed the truck to the campus from a separate location as part of an investigation that was unrelated to the school or student activities, bureau spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said. "The investigation the agents were engaged in had nothing to do with the UCI campus or student activities there," she said. The FBI's response comes after a Muslim student said an agent bumped...

Capitol Hill (CNSNews.com) - Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) was confronted by an anti-war protester Thursday after an outdoor press conference promoting additional federal spending for local first responders. No one was injured in the incident. The unidentified white male approached Clinton as she was speaking to reporters about the amendment she has cosponsored with Senators Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) to add $3 billion in aid to local governments as part of the president's emergency supplemental appropriations request. "Senator, please look at my baby. There are babies in Iraq just like mine that are dying. I wish...