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🚨 JUST IN: Scott Adams says he is paralyzed below the waist. Absolutely heartbreaking. Pray for Scott 🙏 "I am paralyzed below the waist. I can't move any muscles. I do have feeling - just can't move any muscles." "The solution is to ambulance me to a facility to get radiated. They're gonna try to radiate that pesky tumor around my spine." "If all goes well...I could go home. The good news is, we've MRI'd it and looked at it. I got all the help I need at Kaiser."

(The Center Square) – The New York City Council has struck down Mayor Eric Adams' attempt to rein in a city-funded housing voucher program, saying it could cause rents to spike for thousands of low-income residents. More than 60,000 families rely on the CityFHEPS program to help pay their rent. Participants are required to pay 30% of their income toward it. Adams wanted to raise that to 40%, arguing the city needs to contain the program's costs, which rose to more than $1.25 billion last year. In November, Adams vetoed the council's bill rejecting the increase, saying it "would undermine...

Outgoing New York City New York City Mayor Eric Adams signed two executive orders Wednesday aimed at countering antisemitism and preventing city funds from supporting the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. The New York Post reported that Adams barred city business or pension investment decisions that discriminate against Israel, a move that could be viewed as a challenge to Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, who supports the BDS movement. While speaking at a conference in New Orleans sponsored by the North American Mayors Summit Against Antisemitism, Adams said his administration “recognizes the benefit of maintaining a strong relationship between the...

On Monday, I will ask President Trump, via X, to help save my life. He offered to help me if I needed it. I need it. As many of you know, I have metastasized prostate cancer. My healthcare provider, Kaiser of Northern California, has approved my application to receive a newly FDA-approved drug called Pluvicto. But they have dropped the ball in scheduling the brief IV to administer it and I can’t seem to fix that. I am declining fast. I will ask President Trump if he can get Kaiser of Northern California to respond and schedule it for Monday....

Mayor Eric Adams of New York City announced on Sunday that he would abandon his foundering campaign for a second term, upending the race to lead the nation’s largest city just five weeks before Election Day.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams said the “radical left” is “hijacking” the Democratic Party, pointing particularly to bathroom gender policies in schools. “We’re losing mainstream Democrats because of the radical left,” Adams told PIX11 News Monday morning. “It has really hijacked not only the narrative, but hijacked our party.” Sitting next to First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro, Adams doubled down on his call last week to change the city’s school bathroom gender policy, insinuating it was a key reason for this political split. “Little boys should not be sharing bathroom showers with little girls,” Adams said. “I don’t have...

Acting US Attorney for the SDNY Danielle Sassoon abruptly resigned on Thursday, just a few days after she was ordered to drop charges against NYC Mayor Eric Adams. ....Snip.... NBC News reported: Danielle R. Sassoon, the acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York who was ordered to drop the corruption charges against New York City mayor Eric Adams, has resigned, a senior official said Thursday. The move appears to be a rebuke to the Justice Department. It comes three days after Emil Bove, the acting U.S. deputy attorney general, issued a memo ordering federal prosecutors in New...

New evidence being taken from deadly Midtown office shooting Surveillance footage shows 27-year-old Shane Tamura entering 345 Park Avenue with an M4 rifle before shooting an NYPD officer and later killing himself. The building houses major firms including the NFL and KPMG. Police say Tamura drove from Las Vegas just days earlier. FOX 5 NY's Hayley Fixler has the latest. The Brief * An NYPD officer was one of four people killed in a Midtown Manhattan office building Monday evening. * The gunman wound up in the 33rd-floor offices of Rudin Management, one of the city's largest real estate firms....

On Friday’s broadcast of Fox 5 New York’s “Good Day New York,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) discussed the federal lawsuit filed over the city’s sanctuary policy and said that the law should be adjusted to allow for greater coordination with the federal government when it comes to violent criminals, but for people “who are going about following their next step on the American Dream that are undocumented. We should not be harming them at all” by denying them taxpayer benefits because they “are innocent people who are just trying to pursue the American Dream.” Adams said that...

Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year-old socialist and Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City, shocked the political establishment with his primary win last month, including New York City real estate executives, with his radical ideas, like rent freezes and tax plans that single out specific neighborhoods. Marc Holliday, CEO of SL Green, a New York-based real-estate investment trust, is hosting a fundraiser for Mamdani's opponent, Mayor Eric Adams, at One Madison Avenue, one of his office towers, on Wednesday, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Holliday invited dozens of New York City's top real-estate executives to the rooftop cocktail...

It would take an act of God for this man to be reelected, and if he is to be believed, there just might be one. New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ reelection campaign stepped out of the shadows on Thursday, with a kickoff rally that crowded the steps of City Hall. The show of support for the recently embattled incumbent mayor came not from establishment Democrats or major unions who backed him in 2021, but the faith leaders who have stood by him through unprecedented turmoil over the past year… Adams, who has leaned on his faith in good times...

New York Mayor Eric Adams set out Thursday to persuade skeptical voters to grant him a second term, hosting a kickoff event for his independent reelection bid after a corruption indictment, a controversial dismissal and a decision to drop out of a the Democratic primary. On the steps of City Hall, Adams rattled off his political accomplishments while punctuating his speech with barbs for the expected Democratic nominee, Zohran Mamdani, casting the young liberal as a child of privilege with no real political achievements or realistic policies. “This election is a choice between a candidate with a blue collar” and...

Speaking Sunday at a packed Easter service at the Temple of Restoration in Brooklyn, Adams framed the now-closed indictment as a divine test and part of his spiritual journey. “Fifteen months ago, I was indicted for fighting for this city,” he said. “Many people said, ‘He’s finished.’ Many people said, ‘His life is over.’ I was threatened with 35 years in prison. And the day after I was indicted by an over-aggressive prosecutor's office...I stood in front of the entire press and I told them my faith in God is stronger right now than it ever is.” Adams was accused...

The New York City mayor's race is this way by design. The polls showing that Zohran Mamdani, a socialist and Muslim terror supporter who only became a citizenship in 2018, could become the mayor of New York City, where his compatriots murdered thousands of Americans, may or may not be true, but there’s no reason why they wouldn’t be. Mamdani is up against Cuomo, a repulsive and widely hated figure that opponents of the Muslim socialist are only getting behind because the alternative is even worse, and then Mayor Eric Adams, whom much of the city probably right believes is...

“In the mid-1970s, California Congresswoman Karen Bass, who is now under consideration to be Joe Biden’s running mate, was an organizer for the Venceremos Brigade… An event blurb in an October 1975 issue of the communist Daily World newspaper describes Bass, then 22, as “leader of the Venceremos Brigade in southern California….As a ‘brigadista’ and then organizer for the Venceremos Brigades, Karen visited Cuba every 6 months.” (Tablet magazine, 7/28.) In that heady Age of Aquarius hundreds of starry-eyed college kids were volunteering to “help build Cuban Socialism” and “fight U.S. Imperialism,” mostly by joyfully cutting Cuban sugar cane and...

Adams, Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) promised that if he is elected mayor of New York City he will "spend eight years in Washington leading the fight against Trump." While acknowledging that this campaign promise "might seem to be outside the normal scope of a mayor's job, vowing to fight Trump has been a key factor in the elections of other Democrats in New York. Democrats hate Trump more than anything. Two-thirds of the City's voters are registered Democrats. It's a winning platform." Cuomo also dismissed the chances of his rivals, saying "the typical budgets and boroughs issues that Republicans...

Although Jews comprised a small part of the population of colonial America, the country’s Founding Fathers realized the importance of freedom of worship for even this small minority. George Washington’s 1790 letter to the Touro Synagogue in Rhode Island affirms the American commitment that bigotry would have no place in the US and that Jews would not be a tolerated minority but would “possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship.” That commitment has withstood the test of time. While American Jews have always admired the nation’s Founding Fathers for their genius and vision, they tend to ignore that...

Scott Adams, the influential author, cartoonist, and pundit, revealed Monday that he is suffering from metastasized prostate cancer — the same diagnosis President Joe Biden reported the day before. “I have the same cancer that Joe Biden has,” Adams said. “I also have prostate cancer that has also spread to my bones.” “My life expectancy is maybe this summer,” he said. He said that he was considering ending his own life, as California law allows, using self-administered drugs. “I’m in pain,” he said, “I’m always in pain.” He said he had come to terms with his condition. “It’s kind of...

The terrifying face of an alleged Tren de Aragua gangster was revealed on Friday after he was arrested by ICE officers in Denver, Colorado - a sanctuary city. Joel Matos-Nieto, a 23-year-old illegal Venezuelan migrant with a face full of tattoos, has been accused by ICE of being a member of TdA, a gang whose members often have very specific ink. According to pictures shared by ICE's Denver Field Office, Matos-Nieto was arrested on a street in Denver and was seen handcuffed next to an agent with the DEA, which often participates in ICE raids. Since its founding in a...

City Council members sued Mayor Eric Adams over his alleged “corrupt bargain” to return ICE to Rikers Island – raging that it’d give President Trump free rein to deport innocent New Yorkers. The incendiary, 29-page lawsuit filed Tuesday in Manhattan court seeks to halt the long-awaited, controversial Executive Order 50 allowing the feds to reopen the dormant ICE office. Trump officials have made clear they plan to use Rikers as homebase for sweeping deportation operations, despite the order only permitting criminal probes, the lawsuit argues. “Executive Order 50 is a blank check,” the lawsuit states. “Its ostensible limitations are a...