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Little Cole Stoddard told his dad, Tony, something that will probably tear your heart to pieces like it did his dad. The 5-year-old said "I'm not going to grow up to do anything." not long after, Cole died from a vicious form of brain cancer. Stoddard put in a formal request with the Empire State Building asking to go gold for one night to raise awareness for pediatric cancer research. But, the Empire State Building said no, simultaneously crushing Tony's promise to son that his life would mean something. Other young cancer patient parents are now rallying around the Stoddards.

A patient kept in isolation at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York on suspicion of having the Ebola virus has tested negative for the disease, according to a statement from the New York hospital. “The patient is in stable condition, is improving, and remains in the care of our physicians and nurses,” the hospital said today in a statement. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention determined that the patient wasn’t infected with the virus, the hospital said.

On July 25th a group of anti Israel protestors targeted Jewish owned businesses in what they called a direct action .

Stasi: Al Sharpton now has fake ID to go with fake leadership role, but NYPD keeps giving him reasons to fussAl Sharpton, who is about as believable as “Sharknado” (parts one and two), now has the fake credentials to go along with his fake leadership role because the cops have made a fake ID with him as the NYPD Commissioner. This, after he humiliated the real police commissioner last week. Thing is, the cops should stop giving Sharpton reason to show up, but they don’t. Tuesday, they gave him another reason to stage a protest. A Daily News exclusive revealed...

New York Rep. Charlie Rangel wants the world to know: Tea party members are a bunch of “white crackers.” “It is the same group we faced in the South with those white crackers and the dogs and the police,” Mr. Rangel told the Daily Beast. Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/3/rangel-gets-racial-tea-party-bunch-white-crackers/#ixzz39cwzpJlj Follow us: @washtimes on Twitter

Since my original article discussing how an abandoned Catholic church was being converted to a mosque in Syracuse, NY, that city has embraced the Mosque of Jesus, Son of Mary with open arms.  In April, a local publication, the Syracuse New Times, published an interview with Dr. Yusuf Soule, the executive director of the Northside Learning Center, who bought the church and rented it to a still unidentified group of Muslims.  In no news report has the group who transformed the church into a mosque been identified as anything other than a “new Islamic society.”  When asked how the plan...

In November 2013, 54-year-old Theodore Wafer was charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter, and possession of a firearm for fatally shooting 19-year-old Renisha McBride on the front porch of his suburban Detroit home. McBride, who had been drinking heavily and smoking pot that night, wound up at Wafer's door after wandering away from the scene of a late-night car accident several hours before. (Witnesses said she appeared "disoriented.") Prosecutors and McBride's family say she was clearly looking for help. Wafer said that he acted in self-defense, having taken the noise McBride was making outside for a sign that someone was trying...

(VIDEO-AT-LINK)CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta spoke about six patients in New York City that were tested for Ebola and one who had recently traveled to Africa that is undergoing tests for the Ebola virus on Monday’s broadcast of “Wolf.” Gupta said, “I would guess by tomorrow sometime we'll have a better idea” what malady the individual has. He also pointed out that even though the patient isn’t in isolation, “This isn't the kind of thing that they worry about spreading to other patients in the hospital, spreading to people who are walking around the hospital. This is not an airborne virus....

A man who was tested for Ebola at New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital on Monday is “unlikely” to have the virus, the city’s health department said. “After consultation with CDC and Mount Sinai, the Health Department has concluded that the patient is unlikely to have Ebola,” the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene said in a statement early Monday evening. “Specimens are being tested for common causes of illness and to definitively exclude Ebola.” The male patient had come to the hospital’s emergency room early Monday morning with a high fever and gastrointestinal problems, according to the...

The man showed up Monday at the Mount Sinai Hospital emergency room on the Upper East Side with gastrointestinal symptoms and a high fever. He recently returned from traveling in one of the four African countries where the deadly disease has been confirmed. Hospital officials said if the patient does have Ebola, it cannot be transmitted through casual contact on the subway or street.-hospital-report-article-1.1891511#ixzz39SzvfFA1

A patient at Mount Sinai Hospital was under treatment Monday afternoon, after being tested after traveling to a country where the Ebola virus is present, the hospital said in a statement. The man arrived at the East Harlem medical center’s emergency room early Monday morning with high fever and gastrointestinal symptoms. The man told doctors he had recently traveled to a West African country where Ebola has been reported, the hospital said. The man has been placed in “strict isolation” and is undergoing various tests to determine the cause of the symptoms, the hospital said.

UPPER EAST SIDE (WABC) -- Mount Sinai Hospital is performing tests on a patient who had recently traveled to a West African country where Ebola has been reported, the hospital says. A male patient with high fever and gastrointestinal symptoms came to the hospital's emergency room on Monday morning. The hospital says the patient has been placed in strict isolation and is undergoing medical screenings to determine the cause of his symptoms. "All necessary steps are being taken to ensure the safety of all patients, visitors and staff. We will continue to work closely with federal, state and city health...

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For years, New York City has been dutifully pumping more and more money into its giant pension system for retired city workers. Next year alone, the city will set aside for pensions more than $8 billion, or 11 percent of the budget. That is an increase of more than 12 times from the city’s outlay in 2000, when the payments accounted for less than 2 percent of the budget. But instead of getting smaller, the city’s pension hole just keeps getting bigger, forcing progressively more significant cutbacks in municipal programs and services every year. Like pension systems everywhere, New York...

beautiful pro-Israel rally spontaneously erupted in New York City on July 25, filling the street with chants celebrating the Jewish State. This outburst responded to an ugly crowd of anti-Israel zealots targeting Jewish-owned businesses in what they called a “direct action.” The anti-Israel protesters marched through the streets, stopping traffic while screaming “Free, free Palestine! Free, free Gaza!” These seemingly innocuous slogans were mixed with darker ones such as: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” i.e., from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, ‘Palestine’ will replace Israel. “Intifada, intifada!” which is a call for violence...

 by Brian Hayes | Top Right NewsA Brooklyn reader sent us this video tonight, apparently showing two female NYPD officers attempting -- and I use the term loosely -- to make an arrest of a man who may or may not have committed assault. We have still trying to corroborate the details of the arrest with our NYPD sources, but that is most certainly not what will be discussed online.We have heard for years about fitness tests requirements being diluted for NYPD recruits, and with the new leftist mayor Bill DeBlasio now permitting two females to be partners (previously a female had to...

<p>Like most progressives, Bill de Blasio is a champion of public financing for political campaigns. And with good reason.</p> <p>For all his railing against the evil of big money in politics, he’s been quick to take advantage of big fat donations to fuel his agenda — provided they come in a way that doesn’t require him to leave his fingerprints on them.</p>

There’s fallout from the July 27 Houston Chronicle exposé of a trip to Azerbaijan by 10 member of the House that violated House rules. The trip was ostensibly sponsored by nonprofit groups but was actually funded by oil companies BP, Conoco Phillips and SOCAR, the national oil company of Azerbaijan. According to the New York Post today: Rep. Gregory Meeks pushed to let an Iran-backed natural-gas project dodge US sanctions — after attending an illicit junket paid for by energy companies. Also from the Post: “Congressman Meeks went on a 2013 Congressional trip to Baku, Azerbaijan, subsidized in part...

City Councilwoman Debi Rose said she backs a call by Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, her fellow Democrat, that New York house children who are entering the U.S. illegally from Central America. But Republican Councilmen Vincent Ignizio and Steven Matteo disagreed. Ms. Rose (D-North Shore) said many of the children "are fleeing situations more dangerous than Iraq or Afghanistan." (SNIP) "I represent a district of mostly middle class homeowners," Matteo said. "They pay the city's bills but all too often it is their needs that are overlooked. It is my responsibility above all others to put their interests first." Other borough Republicans...

Normally, the Congressional votes are about as exciting as watching paint dry on growing grass, but when House Representative Tom Marino accused the Democrats of not being brave enough to pass immigration reform when they controlled the Congress, former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi jumped up and came at the guy! Marino struck a nerve by pointing out that the Democrats owned the entire Congress and White House for two years and did nothing about illegal immigration. Nancy Pelosi then crept up on Marino and began taunting him. Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., said it best: “What is she doing?”...