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“There is no Curtis as a candidate. There’s Curtis as a spoiler,” Cuomo said to radio host Sid Rosenberg. “If Curtis is not in the race, I win. And that’s a choice for Republicans. Do you vote for Curtis so you can say ‘I voted Republican’ and wind up electing Mamdani? Or do you vote for me?”Polling suggests Cuomo is overstating his case. The Fox News poll released Thursday had 52 percent of likely voters supporting Mamdani. Cuomo, who was in second with 28 percent, would need to pick up all 14 percent of Sliwa voters, the 2 percent still...

Amid a wave of U.S. military strikes in the Caribbean and plans for covert operations in Venezuela, Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., is leading a bipartisan effort to force a vote to stop President Trump from unilaterally declaring war on the South American nation. Kaine, a longtime proponent of Congress' powers to declare war, filed the resolution late Thursday, a move that will force the Senate to take up the legislation after a 10-day waiting period. Sens. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Rand Paul, R-Ky., co-sponsored the plan. Kaine said concerns about war in the Latin American region are growing. "The pace...

* __ The "genocide" LIE [October 16, 2025] The Genocide Lie: Why the Accusation Against Israel Collapses Under Scrutiny.In the months since "Palestine" regime Hamas’s October 7 attacks, there has been a full-force campaign to frame Israel’s counteroffensive in Gaza as a supposed "genocide." The charge is not only false—it is an outrageous distortion of both international law and moral truth. The accusation dishonors the real victims of genocide, manipulates suffering for political purposes, and, worst of all, shields the genocidal intentions of Hamas behind a false moral equivalence. Simple introduction:The war launched in retaliation to Hamas's October 7, 2023,...

The seeds of Andrew's downfall were sown many years ago, when he began a friendship with financier Jeffrey Epstein in the 1990s. Andrew once counted both Epstein and his former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell as friends, and the trio were seen on holiday together at Donald Trump's Mar-a-lago club in Florida in 2000. In the same year, Epstein and Maxwell attended a party at Buckingham Palace held to mark birthdays including the prince's 40th. Flight records show the then-Duke flew on Epstein's private plane in May 2000. In 2008, Epstein was sentenced to 18 months in prison for soliciting a minor...

With two and a half weeks before Election Day in New York City, Zohran Mamdani is maintaining his front-runner status while independent candidate Andrew Cuomo and Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa struggle to chip away at his support. Ahead of the race’s first of two general-election debates, Mamdani achieved a significant milestone as he hit 50 percent in a poll for the very first time in the race. In a Fox News poll released Thursday, Mamdani received 52 percent from likely voters, followed by Cuomo with 28 percent and Sliwa with 14 percent. Among registered voters, Mamdani dipped slightly to 49...

On Thursday, Senate Democrats voted for the 10th time to prolong the federal government shutdown. They also voted against funding the military, thereby necessitating that the Pentagon initiate some innovative accounting in order to ensure service members are paid on time. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) defended his caucus's latest vote, opining, "It's always been unacceptable to Democrats to do the defense bill without other bills that have so many things that are important to the American people in terms of health care, in terms of housing, in terms of safety." But to most Americans, such tendentious bloviating falls...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - Nearly 2,300 Kansas City children are the latest at risk in the government shutdown. Head Start, a federally funded program, is on the chopping block in Jackson, Clay, and Platte counties. Head Start promotes school readiness via complementary early learning, health, nutrition, and family support services to low-income children from birth to age five. Eligibility is primarily based on income, but children in foster care, who are homeless, or whose families receive public assistance, qualify. Among Kansas City’s Head Start parents, 1,351 are employed, 169 are in training programs, and 168 are enrolled in school....

Following meeting with Ukraine's Zelenskyy, Trump calls on Ukraine and Russia to 'stop where they are' and end the war.

Democratic party attorney Marc Elias on Thursday told MSNBC's "The Weeknight" that President Donald Trump is trying to intimidate his political "enemies" from being a meaningful and robust opposition to him. MICHAEL STEELE, CO-HOST: Marc, Marc, here we go again. One more, right? What's your reaction, my friend, as the indictment counts seem to mount up here? MARC ELIAS, DEMOCRATIC ATTORNEY, DEMOCRACY DOCKET FOUNDER: Yeah, look, I think that we can't overcomplicate this with all due respect to your one of your prior guests. The fact is Donald Trump came into office saying he's going to seek vengeance against...

The former special counsel was referred to the Justice Department by several current GOP lawmakers. Former special counsel Jack Smith was criminally referred to the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Oct. 16 by multiple Republican lawmakers for alleged misconduct and possible disbarment. A group of GOP lawmakers, led by Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, asking her office to refer Smith, who was involved in two federal cases against then-former President Donald Trump, to the Office of Professional Responsibility for an investigation. A statement from Blackburn’s office said Smith had “allegedly engaged in serious...

Anyone who grew up before Y2K remembers what it was like to make a phone call on a landline: You’d punch in your friend’s phone number (which you had memorized), make awkward small talk with their mom or dad until your friend got on the line, and then see how far you could stretch that curly cord to get some actual privacy while you chatted. While landlines never really went away, it’s been many years since their heyday. Most Americans — 76% of adults and 86.8% of children — live in wireless-only households, according to a 2023 report from the...

A security guard was arrested after allegedly shooting and killing a man who reportedly took $90 worth of merchandise from a Halloween store in Northeast Albuquerque Thursday evening. Josiah Armijo, 25, was arrested and charged with second-degree murder Friday. He was booked into the Metropolitan Detention Center and does not yet have a lawyer. Officers were dispatched to the Spirit Halloween on Carlisle NE at Indian School around 5 p.m. Thursday following reports of a homicide. Upon arrival, police saw a man with a gunshot wound to the chest ... Security camera footage from the store showed the man place...

Animal lovers beware: Some of the biggest charities in the biz are more than happy to bite the hand that feeds them. At least, that's the contention of one Washington, D.C.-based watchdog. If you’ve ever worried about where your charitable dollars go, you’re not alone. The holidays are the busiest giving season of the year, with Americans donating roughly $3.1 billion in 2023. About 30% of all annual giving happens in December, with the Tuesday after Thanksgiving now known nationwide as “Giving Tuesday.” Yet Americans’ growing distrust of institutions is starting to affect their willingness to give. A recent study...

The President’s vigorous effort to call to account those who waged lawfare against him is a necessary purgative Has Donald Trump “weaponized” the justice system to go after his political enemies? The answer is no.“What about former FBI director James Comey?” you ask. “What about New York Attorney General Letitia James?” Both went after Trump hammer and tongs. Now both have been indicted by the Trump Justice Department. Are those not textbook cases of “weaponization,” of “retribution,” of using the power of the system to punish people who have punished you?Hold on. I write this in mid-October. By the time...

Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe is defending his pro-life beliefs this week after he denied clemency to a convicted murderer and is facing criticism from activists who oppose the death penalty. Kehoe, a Republican, rejected last-minute appeals to halt the execution of Lance Shockley, who was convicted of killing Missouri State Highway Patrol Sgt. Carl Dewayne Graham Jr. in 2005. Shockley was executed by lethal injection Oct. 14 in Bonne Terre, Missouri, marking the first execution since Kehoe took office as governor, Missouri news station First Alert 4 reported. “The murder of Missouri State Highway Patrol Sergeant Carl DeWayne Graham, Jr.,...

President Trump used an expletive Friday to warn Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro against conflict with the U.S., as the administration escalates military action against drug trafficking in the region. “He doesn’t want to f‑‑‑ with the U.S.,” Trump said, speaking from the White House during a lunch meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.Trump said Maduro had “offered everything” as part of diplomatic talks with the U.S., but which Trump reportedly called off last week. The New York Times reported Maduro had offered the U.S. a dominant stake in Venezuela’s oil and other mineral wealth, as part of months-long discussions. The...

In response to Russian President Putin’s refusal to agree to a ceasefire in the Ukraine War and his stubborn defiance of President Trump’s peace efforts, Ukraine wants the U.S. to give it Tomahawk cruise missiles. Ukraine’s rationale is that enabling it to go on the offensive against Russia with these advanced, long-range missiles might force Putin to agree to a ceasefire. Providing Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine might be dangerously escalatory. Still, this proposal, coupled with the success of President Trump’s diplomacy to end the Israel-Hamas War, may have motivated Putin to agree yesterday to new rounds of high-level diplomacy with...

Back in 2018, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) urged her supporters to make members of President Trump's Cabinet uncomfortable in public saying, "If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station — you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere."For years, Democrats have done just that. Including back in September when President Trump and others dined out in DC and were heckled by protesters.But Democrats never thought the shoe could one day be on the other foot...

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (FOX 5/KUSI) — Vice President JD Vance is set to return to Marine Corps ranks in a historic homecoming as he leads the celebration of the U.S. Marine Corps’ 250th anniversary at Camp Pendleton on Saturday, Oct. 18. The event, titled “America’s Marines 250: From Sea to Shore — A Review of Amphibious Strength,” will showcase the Marine Corps’ evolution as a global force in readiness and its commitment to amphibious warfare, according to a press release announcing the affair.

What the indoctrination of third-wave feminism has wrought — loneliness.I have an acquaintance. She’s a lot younger than me. I like her, but she’s one of those people who thinks she’s a rebel by doing things which are annoyingly conventional for women her age.I try not to hold that against her, because it’s quite clear she’s been propagandized and indoctrinated into a worldview she will hopefully discard. I think she’s smart enough to do that.Eventually.And because I like to keep politics and even social commentary confined to my professional life and out of my day-to-day life as much as...