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A vein treatment at a clinic owned by a celebrity surgeon has left a Long Island councilwoman in crippling agony, after she was given a procedure she never agreed to that was painfully botched, a new lawsuit claims. Oyster Bay Town Councilwoman Vicki Walsh claims a doctor employed by TV medical pro Dr. David Greuner — who was once dubbed “America’s Most Beautiful Doctor” — was supposed to give her a complimentary vein test under anesthesia, but wound up giving her an unexpected surgery. The two-term Republican lawmaker claims Dr. Arno Rotgans did the 2020 surgery while she was passed...

An ABC TV station was hit by gunfire on Friday afternoon, just one day after protestors gathered outside and railed against the network's decision to pull Jimmy Kimmel off the air. Police say the broadcasting station in Sacramento, California, was struck by at least three bullets in what they're calling a drive-by shooting. No injuries were reported, but the shots hit a window that faces the street, and people were inside the building at the time, according to Sacramento Police. 'We haven't had a lot of attacks on our media partners, and we'd like to keep it that way,' Officer...

Calls to unite in the aftermath of the leftist assassination of Charlie Kirk are naive at best. How are we supposed to unite when we cannot even agree that Ilhan Omar needs to be ejected from Congress, where she represents not America but her preferred country Somalia? Trump’s political genius consists largely of taking common sense positions like this: “I think she’s terrible. I think she should be impeached. I think she’s terrible,” the president told reporters aboard Air Force One on Thursday. Appallingly, Republicans could not even agree to censure her. The Blaze reports on the perfidy of RINO...

John Impellizzeri, a Munroe Falls City Councilman in Ohio, has resigned following nationwide backlash over his social media post in response to the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, in which he stated, “the world is a better place.” Impellizzeri is also under investigation at University Hospitals — where he works — due to his heinous remarks. Impellizzeri has resigned from the council and is the subject of an investigation by his employer following backlash regarding a Facebook post he made last week about Kirk’s assassination, according to a report by Record-Courier. “The world is a better place...

A group of Chicago Democrats, demoralized over their powerlessness to stop ICE from enforcing the law, have taken to street violence in the Windy City today. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers clashed with protesters who were trying to blockade official vehicles, obstruct officers from coming and going, and even slashing police tires on Friday outside its Broadview facility, as the Trump administration continues its “Operation Midway Blitz” campaign to rid Chicago of “the worst of the worst” criminal illegals. The protesters became so violent and obstructive that ICE officers tossed gas canisters among the crowd to disperse them and...

Hunter Kozak, a Utah Valley University undergraduate, was the young man at the mic when Charlie Kirk got shot. He is the final person Charlie spoke to during his last moments on earth. A must watch interview…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday signed a proclamation that will require a $100,000 annual visa fee for highly-skilled foreign workers and rolled out a $1 million “gold card” visa as a pathway to U.S. citizenship for wealthy individuals, moves that face near-certain legal challenges amid widespread criticism he is sidestepping Congress.If the moves survive legal muster, they will deliver staggering price increases. The visa fee for skilled workers would jump from $215. The fee for investor visas, which are common in many European countries, would climb from $10,000-$20,000 a year.H-1B visas, which require at least a bachelor's...

GOP Sen. Ted Cruz on Friday denounced Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr’s threats to pull ABC’s broadcast license as “unbelievably dangerous” and compared some of his rhetoric to “mafioso” tactics.In an episode of his podcast, “Verdict with Ted Cruz,” released on Friday, the Texas Republican said he was “thrilled” Jimmy Kimmel was pulled off the air by ABC over his comments about conservative influencer Charlie Kirk. But he said he strongly disagreed with the government policing speech, asserting it could come back to bite conservatives when Democrats retake power.“I hate what Jimmy Kimmel said. I am thrilled that he...

After more than 45 years of living in merry old England, I called a halt some time ago and chose the Big Bagel as my main residence. Alas, I left many friends behind, very good friends who ask me what New York has to offer that London does not. Well, I’ll only tell you, my Chronicles readers, because it would seem like rubbing it in if I published this in an English mag. British phlegm, humor, self-deprecation, and good manners are now a thing of the past in that nation’s capital. London no longer has a majority white population, but...

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ICE and CBP federal agents fought with protesters attempting to block vehicles from entering and exiting their immigration enforcement facility in Broadview, Illinois on Friday morning. At least one agent unholstered his sidearm during the arrest of a man dressed as Captain America. Filmed by Ford Fischer NO REUSE WITHOUT PERMISSION Please contact Ford Fischer at fordfischer@news2share.com or call (573) 575-NEWS to license video. Photos and additional footage may be available upon request.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday officially creating the ‘Gold’ and ‘Platinum’ cards for heavy-pocketed immigrants wanting to get into the country. The ‘Gold’ card will cost $1 million, and the ‘Platinum’ card will cost $5 million. Trump previously pitched the gold card as a replacement for the EB-5 visa program. The president believes the program will bring in more than $100 billion for the Treasury Department. He says the funds will be used “for cutting taxes and paying down debt.” Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the new program will allow the United States to “only take...

Fired MSNBC political analyst Matthew Dowd on journalist Katie Couric’s YouTube channel Friday complained about how his former network was covering Jimmy Kimmel’s indefinite suspension, but not his firing. Dowd was fired on Sept. 10 after appearing to suggest on “Katy Tur Reports” the same day that Turning Point USA (TPUSA) founder Charlie Kirk’s rhetoric naturally led to him being shot. Dowd said on Couric’s YouTube channel that MSNBC pundits were providing wall-to-wall alarmist coverage about Kimmel, whose suspension also followed comments about Kirk, while ignoring him. “All the shows are talking about how this is awful for America that...

<p>OK. This might be hard. You know how the FCC can fine someone on radio or TV for obscenity or for a wardrobe malfunction? This applies to the public airways—broadcast radio and TV. Here’s the idea: Extend this to cable and internet (that alone would require some heavy lifting), but instead of obscenity, the rule covers lying. Not opinion, of course. Actual lying.</p>

Attorney General Pam Bondi suggested this week that the government, in response to the assassination of Charlie Kirk last Wednesday, may start to target “hate speech.” In a podcast interview with Katie Miller, the AG stated that hate speech isn’t free speech and that her office may prosecute those who cross the line. “We will absolutely target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech, anything—and that’s across the aisle,” Bondi declared, adding that we can’t allow “that hate speech in the world in which we live.” Her comments outraged many on the right, who correctly...

You might not be aware of it, but there is a trial going on in Florida for Ryan Routh, the man authorities say came within minutes of carrying out his plan to assassinate President Donald Trump on Sept. 15, 2024, during the presidential campaign. The Routh assassination attempt came just two months after Thomas Crooks fired a high-velocity rifle round that hit Trump in the ear during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. One man was killed and two others were wounded in Crooks’s attack. Crooks was killed by a Secret Service sniper after firing eight rounds. Crooks’s motive has never...

I'm trying to start a new career as a graphic artist and I was looking at the cover of Bill O'Reillys new book and thought it was pretty pathetic. So I improved it. What do you think? I think it's more on the mark, more accurate. Should I show it to Bill? If he likes it I could have a new career

On his “Soul Boom” podcast Wednesday, “The Office” star Rainn Wilson recounted some of his liberal friends having a “kind of a good riddance” reaction to the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk last week. “I spoke to a couple of — let’s say — some liberal friends last night at an event, and they were like, ‘You won’t find me shedding any tears,’ and someone else was like, ‘Oh well.’ There was a little bit of a, kind of a good riddance thing, and it’s like, ‘Guys, no,” he told actor Mark Ruffalo. “We cannot think or...

Just two days after Donald Trump was elected to the White House for a second term, Perry Sook held an earnings call with Wall Street analysts. As the founder of Nexstar Media, the former West Virginia news anchor, now 66, had risen to become one of the most powerful, if least known, moguls in broadcast television. His company owns local stations from Tampa to Burlington to Portland, Oregon (and KTLA in Los Angeles), in addition to cable-news outlet NewsNation, Congressional trade The Hill and a majority stake in The CW. On that November Thursday, Sook had a fervent wish for...

Liberal host Bill Maher mourned the killing of conservative activist and Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk, contrasting conservatives who embrace dialogue with far-left activists who, he argued, seek to silence it. “Look, I might drink a little more than usual today,” Maher told guest Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins. “Because I don’t know when this is airing, but this is a s— day. A guy who sat there – Charlie Kirk – got shot today, and I can’t stop thinking about it.” Kirk’s assassination during a campus event stunned the nation and reignited a national conversation about the...