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ALBANY – State lawmakers will blow past Wednesday’s deadline to pass Gov. Kathy Hochul’s $263 billion budget plan, as negotiations drag on over her push to delay green energy mandates and her bid to lower car insurance premiums. Democrats in the state Assembly and Senate passed a one-week stopgap measure Tuesday keeping the government funded through next week amid the largely-stalled discussions between Hochul and legislative leaders. “We’re still at the beginning of the middle, as it turns out,” Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D-Westchester) said, using a stale Albany adage to indicate the discussions have not moved much since...

President Donald Trump dismissed concerns about rising gas prices, insisting they’ll be dropping “very soon” once the Iran war wraps up. Trump spoke to reporters at the White House on Tuesday after signing an executive order cracking down on mail-in voting, and when confronted about the sharp rise in gas prices since the strikes against Iran were launched, the president insisted the U.S. will be leaving Iran “very soon.” According to AAA, the national average for gas is around $4. One month ago, it was below $3. The country hasn’t faced a $4 average for gas since 2022, when Russia...

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Several of the United States' closest allies in Europe have curbed U.S. military access to their airspace or bases on their territory, a sign of further rupture that European officials have sought to play down despite obvious anger from the White House. The limits on access for U.S. jets and weapons heading for the Middle East to strike Iran come after European nations were caught off guard by the start of U.S.-Israeli operations on February 28, then quickly distanced themselves from the aerial bombardment now well into its fifth week with no visible end in sight. Thousands of specialized U.S....

Your prayers have helped me and my family get through some awful days before so I am once again turning to my Freeper Friends for prayers for my niece Amy’s son Jack. Because of the grace your prayers have brought down on my family before Amy has asked me especially to ask Freepers for help. Jack has something called autonomic dysfunction. Here’s what that means: Autonomic dysfunction refers to a condition where the autonomic nervous system does not work properly, affecting involuntary body functions like heart rate, blood pressure, digestion, and temperature regulation. Symptoms can include dizziness, fainting, and gastrointestinal...

U..S. District Judge Roger Benitez ordered California to pay $4.52 million in attorney's fees to the victorious plaintiffs who challenged California's so-called gender secrecy policies that hide students' gender identity from their parents and force teachers to withhold that information. Tuesday's order blames California's "litigation intransigence" for the staggering sum. Early in litigation, after Benitez denied their motion to dismiss, Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond and Board of Education tried to "sidestep the effect" of his orders by asking for judgment on the pleadings, then filed new motions to dismiss and for judgment on the pleadings after the plaintiffs...

The UK will pay France an extra £16.2m to keep police patrolling Channel beaches and prevent a surge in small-boat crossings after negotiators failed to agree a permanent deal before a midnight deadline. The stopgap arrangement, which will last for two months, comes after French negotiators refused to agree to UK demands for further interventions and patrols to stop asylum seekers from reaching the UK via the Channel. It is understood the French government also refused to guarantee that patrols would continue without extra funds. Signed off by the home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, the temporary deal comes after a deadlock...

President Trump is expected to sign an executive order Tuesday that would crack down on mail-in voting across the country. The order will require newly appointed Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, aided by the Social Security Administration, to create a list of verified U.S. citizens who are eligible to vote, according to a fact sheet first shared with The Daily Caller. The White House confirmed The Daily Caller’s reporting to The Hill. The order also calls for the U.S. Postal Service to only send ballots to citizens on the state’s approved mail-in ballot list, and the ballots will now have...

President Donald Trump gave his first word on the Kristi Noem cross-dressing husband sex scandal to the Daily Mail on Tuesday, hours after the outlet broke the story. The original story included photos of Bryon Noem, the husband of Trump’s former Homeland Security secretary, posing for photos while clad in large fake breasts and hotpants. Fetish models who said they had online relationships with Noem accused him of being obsessed with “bimbofication.” “Kristi Noem’s husband is today revealed as a secret crossdresser who dons gigantic fake breasts and pink hotpants to chat with online fetish models,” read the Mail story,...

These are the photos that allegedly show Kristi Noem’s husband Bryon wearing comically oversized, lopsided breasts – complete with fake protruding nipples – to female members of an online fetish community. The Daily Mail obtained “hundreds” of messages purportedly sent between the former Secretary of Homeland Security’s husband and three women who are involved in the so-called “bimbofication” fetish scene. The kinky community involves people injecting their busts with freakishly large amounts of saline in pursuit of a “Barbie-doll”-like appearance. The pictures show the South Dakota insurance mogul, who has three children with Noem, clad in pink hotpants and a...

Stocks rose on Tuesday following new reports that gave investors hope that the U.S.-Iran war could soon come to an end. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 1,125.37 points, or 2.49%, and closed at 46,341.51. The move came after an unconfirmed report said Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian was open to ending the war with guarantees. The S&P 500 gained 2.91% to end at 6,528.52, and the Nasdaq Composite advanced 3.83% to 21,590.63. All three indexes posted their best day since May. To be sure, Pezeshkian made similar remarks earlier this month, saying in a post on X that the...

The Postal Service™ is temporarily suspending international mail acceptance for certain destinations due to inadequate transportation options or service disruptions within the country. Customers: please refrain from mailing items addressed to the countries listed here, until further notice. Israel 3-3-26 Temporary Service Disruption The Postal Service™ has temporarily suspended acceptance of items destined to Israel due to logistics impacts resulting from the conflict in the Middle East.

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[HONG KONG/TOKYO] TCL Electronics Holdings agreed to buy a majority stake in Sony Group’s global home entertainment business as the Chinese company seeks to expand overseas. TCL will pay 75.4 billion yen (S$610 million) for a 51 per cent stake in a new joint venture that will hold Sony’s home entertainment business including Bravia televisions, according to a statement on Tuesday (Mar 31), which confirmed an earlier Bloomberg News report. Sony will retain a 49 per cent stake in the business, which also include research and development, design, manufacturing and product sales, as well as home audio equipment. As part...

Royal Caribbean’s newest cruise ship is the world’s largest. The Hero of the Seas, set to launch late next summer, includes a record-breaking water park, the most pools at sea, 28 dining options, a multi-level family treehouse, and a kinetic sculpture, just for kicks. Billed by Royal Caribbean as “the most unstoppable, incredible, revolutionary family vacation ever,” the high-stimulation vessel, which appears to have been designed by an eleven-year-old child high on cocaine, will officially open for bookings on Thursday, April 2. The Hero of the Seas belongs to Royal Caribbean’s Icon class, the cruise line’s newest generation of ships,...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — The Dark Lady is no longer moving forward with a controversial mural that was being painted on the side of the building. The popular Providence LGBTQ+ nightclub announced in a social media post Monday evening that management has made the decision to discontinue the mural and “move forward with removal as soon as possible.” The Dark Lady had been working with artist Ian Gaudreau, who was in the process of painting the mural on the Snow Street building. The mural would have honored Iryna Zarutska — a Ukrainian refugee who was stabbed to death on a...

Louis Rossmann opens by greeting viewers and introducing a discussion about televisions that now require a Walmart account for full functionality, highlighting how this has become a real trend. He references a Consumer Rights Wiki article explaining that certain newer Vizio TVs—and other brands using the Vizio operating system—require users to create or log into a Walmart account just to complete setup and access smart features. Walmart frames this as a way to streamline setup and connect streaming activity with retail behavior, but he argues the real motivation is clear: companies now make more money from advertising and user data...

“Brothers and sisters, this is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war,” the first American pope, citing a Bible passage, told congregants in St. Peter’s Square, according to The Associated Press. “He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them,” he added.

🚨 BREAKING: Gov. Ron DeSantis just signed a massive new law BANNING judges from releasing serious criminals into the community while they await sentencing LFG!! Do this nationwide! 🔥 Missy's Law is named after a poor 5-year-old girl who got killed by a criminal WHILE he was awaiting sentencing. Because the radical judge RELEASED him. "She's got this stepfather, big-time scumbag. He was convicted, first of all he was abusing Missy, she's like five years old, doing all that, really, really bad what was going on in the home. But then he gets convicted of trying to meet a 15-year-old...

For years, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has waged a relentless antisemitic hate campaign against the Jewish people and Israel. It dates back at least to 2014, when she peddled classic conspiracy tropes, claiming America was “subjugated by Jews” and Europe paralyzed by Holocaust guilt—rhetoric straight out of the antisemitic playbook that has endangered Jews for generations. Her twisted path only intensified in 2022, when backing from the OIC [Islamic countries bloc] and like-minded lobbies helped install her as the UN’s so-called “Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.” From that platform,...