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New York’s top elected attorneys were like deer in headlights when pressed about a congressional investigation claiming they’d directed staff to downgrade illegal immigrants’ charges to avoid deportation. The attorneys — state AG Letitia James, and city District Attorneys Melinda Katz and Eric Gonzalez — stared blank-faced when asked by The Post about the damning report at a Thursday gun-safety press conference. “Did any of you order prosecutors to downgrade gun charges to keep illegal immigrants in the US, per the Judiciary Committee report the recent house judiciary report?” a reporter asked, explaining the report could clearly indicate a gun-safety...

Salmon, beef, organic produce and Amy’s Kitchen meals: These are just some of the luxury foods that California welfare recipients can have delivered to their homes each week, for free. Californians like TikTok user “Lupita” are taking full advantage. Earlier this year, she posted a video of herself opening a taxpayer-funded grocery box, apologizing to her manicurist as she unboxed it by hand. Inside, she found carrots, heads of broccoli, apples, oranges, celery, rice, lettuce and more. “Yesterday, I was like, ‘I need some lettuce,’ but the lettuce was like $5,” she said. “And look at this. Fresh lettuce! Thank...

Texas Democrat James Talarico’s Senate campaign accepted $3,000 from a celebrity Muslim leader who was accused of grooming female fans for sham marriages and assured husbands that Allah would “let you get away with” wife-beating — under certain conditions. Nouman Ali Khan — founder of the Bayyinah Institute, an Islamic studies outfit boasting millions of fans on YouTube — cut the Texas Democrat three $1,000 checks, FEC records show. The most recent donation arrived Oct. 19, the day early voting opened — and one day after Talarico worked the room courting Muslim voters at a halal barbecue spot in Irving....

In 2019, Evanston, Illinois, a Cook County city, announced it would provide $20 million in racial reparations to black people. The city has made $7 million in illegal racial payments, but is being sued for racial discrimination, and its financial problems are leading to a 9% property tax hike. The whopping $5 million tax increase includes an 8.9% property tax hike, a 25% water rate increase, and a doubling the natural gas tax, which will help push local residents out of their homes, and ironically, the homeowners most likely to be pushed out as a result will be black. The...

Parents are undefeated when it comes to ruining youth sports. But we have first ballot hall of shamers in the parents of 3-year-old soccer player Nevada Pierre. As the viral story went, the Florida tot — who is black — was so darn good at soccer that people on the sidelines called the police on the wunderkind. ---SNIP--- The real reason poor Nevada is no longer in the league is pretty simple. His parents reportedly acted like entitled jerks during a i9 league game in Winter Park on Saturday. The league director said he took their son out to give...

Far-left “squad” member Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) claimed there is “much more trust in government” in democratic socialist countries, and she called government “the great equalizer of opportunity.” Jayapal lauded socialism in an interview released on Thursday on the It’s Open with Ilana Glazer podcast and also accused the “right wing” and “fascists” of sowing distrust in government to maintain control. “It is really important to the right wing, to the fascists, and all the people who want to control this country, and the billionaires, that people don’t trust government. Because, back to the idea of socialism, the idea for...

On his Truth Social site, President Trump has been praising the quality of RSBN's coverage at his rallies. . So I searched for recent RSBN YouTubes. And found a terrific interview with a regular MAGA guy attending the Port Huron, MI event. He brought his own sign to the rally saying, "You got to be a Fool to Vote for Abdul." His 9 minutes of informal Q&A from the RSBN reporter cut to the chase. So well done! I simply reformatted the transcript a bit. But check out the YouTube at the link... 0:00 RSBN: Sir, can you tell us...

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It’s unclear how many users were impacted. The company’s U.S. platform was not compromised. Traders first reported on social media platforms that they were seeing unauthorized withdrawals from their accounts on Thursday afternoon. In response, the company halted trading on its international platform. Polymarket said that it has fixed the issue on its end, and that trading resumed at 3 p.m. ET. It told users later in a chatroom on Discord that users who had less than $10,000 taken from their wallets will have funds restored by Oct. 30, and those with funds greater than that figure withdrawn will have...

Daily Readings from the USCCBOn a sabbath Jesus went to dine at the home of one of the leading Pharisees, and the people there were observing him carefully. In front of him there was a man suffering from dropsy. Jesus spoke to the scholars of the law and Pharisees in reply, asking, “Is it lawful to cure on the sabbath or not?” Luke 14:1–3Today, we can easily and confidently answer Jesus’ question: “Yes, it is lawful to cure on the Sabbath!” But the scholars of the Law and the Pharisees were unable or unwilling to answer that question. And when...

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"All Scripture is . . . profitable for . . . correction" (2 Tim. 3:16). God’s Word strengthens the repentant sinner. If you're a gardening buff, you know that skillful pruning promotes the overall growth and productivity of a plant. Jesus assumed His audience knew as much when He said, "I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it, that it may bear more fruit. You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken...

Lawyer for Jake Tucker, who uses they/them pronouns, has countered with sentencing proposal of four years and requested it be served in women’s prisonThe Crown is seeking a 12-year sentence for Jake Tucker after the Innisfil Pride founder was convicted on seven sex-trafficking and related counts by a Barrie jury earlier this year. Tucker, 39, who uses they/them pronouns, was found not guilty on sexual assault, assault with a weapon and assault by the same panel. Tucker’s lawyer, Martin Montes, has countered with a sentencing proposal of four years and requested it be served in a women’s prison. There are...

Election Day is fast approaching, and many candidates for office are busy doing everything they can to convince any remaining undecided voters. And then there are Democrats running in New York City Districts 7 and 13, areas so blue that candidates for Congress don't need to campaign at all. Darializa Avila Chevalier is running in the 13th District. Claire Valdez is running in the 7th District. They're both members of Democratic Socialists of America, or DSA. "We're still encouraging folks to go out. Early voting has already started. Election Day is Nov. 3," Avila Chevalier said. The district she's running...

- FNC Continues Reign as Number One Cable Network This Year in Primetime Viewers - FNC is Pacing to be Highest Rated Midterm Year with Total Day Viewers. - The Network Notches 99 of the top 100 Cable News Telecasts in October. FOX News Drives Nearly 1 Billion More YouTube Video Views than Any Other News Brand in 2026. - 'CBS Mornings' and '60 Minutes' Each Post Lowest-Rated October in History with Viewers. - MS NOW Racks up 12 Year October Lows in Total Viewers and 24 Year Lows in A25-54 Demo for Midterm Year... The Five (5 PM/ET), FNC's...

President Trump will no longer travel to Kansas or Iowa over the weekend to rally voters ahead of Election Day, instead opting for virtual campaign appearances. A White House official confirmed to The Hill Thursday the in-person Kansas event had been canceled, without providing more details about the decision. Later in the evening, the Republican National Committee (RNC) announced the cancellation of another Trump campaign rally in Iowa. “President Trump will continue connecting directly with Americans nationwide through more than 20 telerallies before Election Day,” the White House official said in a statement. “These events give him the opportunity to...

At least two Harrisburg-area television stations have taken down an ad from a Trump-aligned PAC that sought to boost Republican Congressman Scott Perry by airing an unsubstantiated allegation of public nudity against Janelle Stelson, his Democratic opponent. The now-stricken ad relies on a statement from Stelson’s next-door neighbor, Sharon Orr, that she saw Stelson naked outdoors and took a photo before calling the police – the same allegation that Perry has used in ads from his own campaign, which began airing online last week. Perry has declined to say what, if any, attempts were made to verify Orr’s account before...

an Obama-era investigation found some evidence that Ms. Omar had entered into a sham marriage with a man who may have been her brother The F.B.I. and Department of Homeland Security investigated the marriage in summer 2016, during the Obama administration, and found some evidence that it was fraudulent that case stalled chiefly because prosecutors concluded that the potential crime, a felony, fell outside a five-year statute of limitations Federal agents in Minnesota opened an investigation... They found evidence suggesting that Mr. Elmi and Ms. Omar were siblings Mr. Elmi had obtained a provisional two-year green card based on the...