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Blue cities sure love their taxes, and they collect them like Daffy Duck clambering up the side of the pile of gold in Aladdin's Cave, screaming 'MINE, MINE, MINE!' What's yours is theirs, theirs, theirs. And they tax it all - everything they can - even if you're only there for an outing. God forbid you actually own property or live in a city like, say, Michelle Wu's Boston.Beege ADDS: I'd just like to encourage everyone to take a close look at the taxes on this receipt.They are all the same taxes for the same day, which is confusing until...

A Massachusetts man on Thursday was charged with attempting to assassinate a member of President Donald Trump's Cabinet, after he brought Molotov cocktails to the Capitol in January. Ryan English, who turned himself into Capitol Police over the incident, allegedly admitted in January that he brought knives and two Molotov cocktails fashioned out of 50 milliliter Absolut Vodka bottles, which were stuffed with cloth doused in hand sanitizer, to Capitol Hill. The man is now charged with carrying a dangerous weapon or incendiary device on the grounds of the Capitol, and unlawful possession of an incendiary device, the department said....

Penn station is no longer under the control of NYC itself, instead President Trump has seized control of Americas largest train station... which might be the best thing to ever happen to it. Journalistic report. Includes news footage and commentary. "the Trump administration is kicking the MTA off the 7 billion Penn Station reconstruction project and giving it to Amtrak which is federally funded with transportation secretary Shawn Duppy saying the MTA has a history ofinefficiency waste and mismanagement "

A woman spat on Acting DC US Attorney Ed Martin on Thursday afternoon while he was interviewing with Newsmax. “We need to stay focused,” Ed Martin said during an interview with Newsmax when he was interrupted by a leftist protester who approached him. Ed Martin backed up as the woman became aggressive and spat on him. “Whoa!” Ed Martin said. “You’re a disgusting man!” the woman said as she walked away with her dog in tow. In the uncensored version, the woman is heard screaming, “who the f*ck are you?! You are Ed Martin!” before spitting on him. Assaulting a...

President Donald Trump’s Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is warning that the United States is at risk of major widespread blackouts similar to the power cuts that recently shut down most of Spain and Portugal.. Burgum said the blackouts in Europe were caused by over-subsidizing intermittent renewable energy sources. However, he warns that America is now “dangerously close” to suffering from similar “rolling blackouts and grid failure.” Speaking to David Freeberg on “The All-In Podcast,” Burgum admitted that the artificial intelligence (AI) “arms race” with China keeps him “awake at night” due to the amount of electricity that the technology requires....

NEW ORLEANS — The first American Pope has a family history with deep ties to New Orleans.

With former President Joe Biden emerging from a the darkness after the Democratic defeat in November, Americans might have to get used to seeing the octogenarian meandering out in public for a while yet to come. Now getting media advice from a high-powered former spokesman for the Pentagon, according to Politico, Biden did an interview with the BBC published Wednesday that was basically an attack on President Donald Trump and a defense of his own sorry record. He sat for a meeting Thursday with the shrews from “The View,” in an appearance that even the Hollywood trade mag Variety called...

-Local farmers report huge financial losses as many yaks in the area have fallen ill -GB authorities say veterinary team has been sent with medicines to treat the animals Over 100 yaks have been killed after a mysterious disease broke out in the high-altitude pasture of Shimshal Pamir, local residents said on Wednesday, as officials confirmed the situation and said a medical team had been dispatched for rescue. Located at 3,100 meters above sea level, Shimshal is the highest settlement in Pakistan’s northern Hunza region and the last village before the country’s border with China. “A disease broke out in...

Multiple migrants and a smuggler were all arrested after a high speed chase ended with a foot pursuit in a residential neighborhood... Journalistic report. Includes news footage and commentary.

President Donald Trump has tapped "The Five" co-host Judge Jeanine Pirro to be the interim U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C. "I am pleased to announce that Judge Jeanine Pirro will be appointed interim United States Attorney for the District of Columbia," Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social on Thursday. "Jeanine is incredibly well qualified for this position, and is considered one of the Top District Attorneys in the History of the State of New York. She is in a class by herself. Congratulations Jeanine!" Pirro has left Fox News Channel and a rotation of Fox News personalities...

Washington Governor Bob Ferguson signed a bill Wednesday that set limits on rent increases—one of the first in the country. Rent stabilization bill, HB 1217, caps rent increases at 7% plus inflation, or 10%—whichever is lower. Washington now joins Oregon and California in drafting legislation that curbs climbing rent prices. “There is no single policy that will fix our housing crisis, but we need this comprehensive approach,” Sen. Emily Alvarado said at the bill signing.

U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said again today that deported illegal alien Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an alleged MS-13 terror gang member, will not return to the United States.During a hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Noem said that Garcia is a citizen of El Salvador who will be deported if he returns to the United States. Noem addressed Garcia, also credibly accused of smuggling illegal aliens and brutally beating his wife, under questioning from two of the Salvadoran thug’s biggest fangirls, Democratic U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen of Maryland and Chris Murphy of Connecticut.Van Hollen and other Democrats...

A South Carolina firing squad tried to shoot a convicted cop killer in the heart and missed in a “botched” execution that left him in “excruciating” pain as he bled out, according to an autopsy and experts. Mikal Mahdi, 42 — who murdered a South Carolina police officer during a crime spree in 2004 — was shot to death by a three-person firing squad on April 11. But an autopsy later revealed that none of the bullets hit his heart directly, and that his chest showed only two bullet wounds instead of three, according to a disturbing report by NPR....

BRUSSELS — The European Union published on Thursday a list of U.S. imports that it would target with retaliatory duties if no solution is found to end President Trump’s tariff war, which could include aircraft maker Boeing. At the same time, the EU’s executive branch, the European Commission, said that it would begin legal action at the World Trade Organization over the “reciprocal tariffs” that Trump imposed on countries around the world a month ago. “The EU remains fully committed to finding negotiated outcomes with the U.S.,” commission President Ursula von der Leyen said. “At the same time, we continue...

Letitia James’s lawyer dismissed the allegations as the Trump administration’s “latest act of improper political retribution."NEW YORK — The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into real estate transactions involving New York Attorney General Letitia James, according to a person familiar with the case — the first known criminal probe of a law enforcement official who took action against President Donald Trump.A grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia has issued subpoenas over a mortgage application in which James attested that she intended to make a single-family home in Norfolk her primary residence, said the person, who spoke...

Prevost is a vocal critic of U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration and has consistently used his X account to promote material hostile to Trump’s immigration policies. In one instance from February 3, Prevost reposted an article by NCROnline titled “JD Vance is wrong: Jesus doesn’t ask us to rank our love for others.” The article criticizes the U.S. vice president for correctly arguing that we owe more immediate responsibility to our own family members and country than to those overseas – a position taught by St. Thomas Aquinas and reiterated in the “social encyclicals” of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century popes....

Robert Francis Prevost, now Leo XIV, was named the first American pope of the Catholic Church on Thursday — and his lineage traces back to New Orleans, according to Jari Honora, a local genealogist and historian. When Honora heard the last name "Prevost," he started digging, on the odd chance Leo XIV's paternal line might be French Canadian or Acadian with Louisiana ties. What he found, to his surprise, was that Prevost's mother, Mildred Martinez, was the one with familial cords to the city. In less than an hour, Honora — who works as a historian for The Historic New...

The newly elected Pope Robert Francis Prevost, who has since been renamed Pope Leo XIV, spent the last several years reposting criticisms of President Trump’s policies. Robert Francis Prevost spent the last several years retweeting posts on his official X account, @drprevost, dozens of articles and posts critical of President Trump and Vice President JD Vance.

Comedian says it would benefit auto enthusiasts, while environmentalists say it would increase air pollutionShould old cars get a break from California’s smog check laws? Former Tonight Show host and avid car collector Jay Leno thinks so. He’s thrown his support behind a bill in the state legislature that would exempt vehicles 35 years or older from the state’s requirement to pass a smog check test that most other California vehicles face every two years. “I know there’s nothing more annoying than Hollywood people involved in politics,” Leno said at a rally at the state Capitol last month. “But this...