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New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers have reportedly endured a 63-percent rise in assaults over the past six years. A New York Post article published on Saturday reported the alarming numbers of assaults on cops and numerous instances of the Big Apple’s officers being injured. The outlet continued: There have been 970 assaults on uniformed police officers in the city so far this year, up from the 595 officers attacked at the same point in pre-pandemic 2019, NYPD data show. The number of assaulted cops, which includes all city law enforcement officers, is up 57% so far this year...

The Western Hemisphere could have its first tropical storm of 2025 this week off the southwestern coast of Mexico, roughly two weeks after the beginning of hurricane season for the Eastern Pacific Basin. What we’re watching: The National Hurricane Center is watching a region south of Mexico in the Eastern Pacific that has a high chance of tropical development in the next couple of days. A broad area of low pressure that is producing showers and thunderstorms is becoming better organized, and atmospheric and oceanic conditions favor it becoming a tropical depression soon. If the area of interest becomes a...

By now, Americans have grown painfully familiar with the new breed of soft-on-crime, far-left attorneys general. They’re everywhere—installed in one liberal hellhole after another like little ticking time bombs, handpicked to do one thing: dismantle law and order from the inside. They let violent criminals walk free, ignore looters, and go after political opponents instead of real threats—because that’s the whole point. These AGs aren’t just soft on crime; they’re part of the plan to destroy US cities. ... But the AG in Massachusetts? Well, she takes the cake. This isn’t just your run-of-the-mill Soros-style puppet. We’re talking about a...

Alvin sampling a hydrothermal vent in 2021. Photo: WHOI-MISO, D. Fornari, S. A. Soule, WHOI/NSF/2022, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution The Alvin submersible is now capable of diving to 21,325 feet (6,500 meters), putting 99% of the ocean floor within its reach. Alvin’s upgrade has been in the works for over four years, with its last iteration completed in 2021. The veteran submersible can now dive nearly 6,700 feet (2,000 meters) deeper than before, enabling scientists to explore the ocean’s most abyssal recesses. “The new maximum depth puts roughly 98-99% of the global seafloor in reach —including the lower Abyssal Zone...

Lawsuit would target DA Alvin Bragg and the medical examiner's office.. Marine veteran Daniel Penny's defense team is eyeing a malicious prosecution lawsuit against District Attorney Alvin Bragg and others behind the charges, turning the tables after the lengthy high-profile case concluded with an acquittal. "Just like Danny said in his interview, it was like they wanted to try and get him on something," Penny's defense attorney Steven Raiser said Wednesday, reacting to the acquittal on "Fox & Friends." "They knew they weren't going to be able to get him, so they had to get rid of that top count...

Six of the migrants charged in connection to the vicious attack on two NYPD officers in Times Square were offered plea deals Tuesday as a Manhattan judge revealed that one of the accused cop-beaters was arrested again while out on bail. Yohenry Brito, 24 — who was remanded after his initial arrest — was nabbed last week for petit larceny after an activist Brooklyn priest posted his $15,000 cash bail in February, Judge Laura Wood said in Manhattan Criminal Court on Tuesday. “I am furious that Mr. Brito was rearrested and charged with petty larceny while he was out on...

If you glanced at the New York Times today, you might be shocked at the “real news” they featured. In a rare burst of honesty and clarity, the Old Gray Hag actually let a well-respected legal professor from Boston University publish an opinion piece. This piece didn’t just poke holes in Alvin Bragg’s sham “hush money” case—it blasted it into a pile of dust. The professor called it not only a legal embarrassment but a historic mistake. Ouch. His name is Professor Shugerman, and while he was never onboard with Biden’s show trial, led by Fat Alvin Bragg, after what...

On Wednesday, August 16, Texas authorities announced that they had arrested 43-year-old Alvin woman, Abigail Jo Shry, for allegedly threatening federal Judge Tanya Chutkan. According to Newsweek, Shry threatened to kill Judge Chutkan since she is presiding over the trial of former President Donald Trump. Abigail Jo Shry reportedly expressed that she is willing to harm anyone attempting to oppose Trump. "If Trump doesn’t get elected in 2024, we are coming to kill you...You will be targeted personally, publicly, your family, all of it." Donald Trump has been indicted due to allegations that he attempted to interfere with the 2020...

The taxpayer-funded leftists at National Public Radio flung proverbial sewage at critics who dared raise Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s financial ties to billionaire George Soros. NPR’s Apr. 6 edition of All Things Considered decried “conservative politicians” who made Soros a “bogeyman” in Bragg’s highly politicized prosecution of former President Donald Trump. The outlet railed at critics like Trump, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA). NPR Host Mary Louise Kelly brought on guest and liberal Soros biographer Emily Tamkin who downplayed the fact that Soros gave $1 million to the anti-police Color of Change PAC...

Manhattan District Attorney, Alvin Bragg, and his team have arrested former President Donald Trump, while some of NYC's worst criminals still roam the streets. New Yorkers who survived the city during the pandemic remember the long months when Bragg's office became a revolving door for career criminals who hit up the streets in broad daylight and had many fearing the subways. In February 2022, Bragg walked back a little on his policies, sending out a memo that made it clear to all his staff that any crime involving a firearm would be prosecuted as a felony — reversing the stance...

The Gateway Pundit previously reported New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan is presiding over President Trump’s Stormy Daniels ‘hush payment’ case. Judge Merchan previously oversaw the tax fraud cases of the Trump’s Org and the Trump Org’s former CFO Allen Weisselberg. Trump is not a fan of Merchan and took to Truth Social last week and wrote “Juan Manuel Merchan, was hand picked by Bragg & the Prosecutors, & is the same person who “railroaded” my 75 year old former CFO, Allen Weisselberg.” Merchan has been described as a life long Democrat and a bombshell discovery of his daughter’s...

The unemployed military veteran who won the South Carolina Democratic nomination to run against then-GOP Sen. Jim DeMint in 2010 has been arrested for trespassing in Myrtle Beach. Police said Alvin Greene was arrested Friday for trespassing at an apartment complex. He was found wandering around looking “disoriented,” according to reports, and paramedics were called to the scene. Greene remained in jail as of Monday. In a stunning upset, Greene edged out former state lawmaker Vic Rawl in the Democratic primary despite spending no money on his own campaign. He lost the general election to DeMint by a large margin....

She may be five foot and weigh 125lbs, but that didn't stop one mother chasing down three burly brothers, suspected of stealing from a Walmart store. The aptly named Monique Lawless, 42, from Alvin, Texas, ended up with a scratched face, broken lip and scrapes to her legs, after she launched herself onto the alleged thieves' car in an attempt to stop them. The young men drove off with Ms Lawless clinging onto the side door, but were later arrested at another Walmart nearby after an hour-long police chase. (snip) Ms Lawless, an engineering safety specialist at Boeing, had been...

Greene makes watchdog's 'crooked' listBy DANIEL STRAUSS | 7/29/10 12:09 PM EDT Alvin Greene has been South Carolina's Democratic Senate nominee for less than two months but already a Washington watchdog group is nailing him as one of the most "crooked" politicians in the nation. Greene, the political neophyte who came out of nowhere to win the Democratic nomination to face GOP Sen. Jim DeMint, made the good government group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington’s recently-issued list of the "most corrupt and unethical candidates vying for federal office in 2010." The “crooked candidates” list focuses on office-seekers “who...

Rap song on Alvin Greene: 'He don't show porno to college chicks'Updated: Jul 24, 2010 7:05 PM EDT CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV/WMBF) - A viral video and rap song advocating U.S. Senate candidate Alvin Greene is gaining popularity on YouTube, after it was added to the website on Wednesday. In just two days, YouTube has clocked more than 18,300 views of the video. Greene, who is running in South Carolina, says it's something that "everyone should listen to." It's unclear who actually released or made the song, which is about 2 1/2 minutes long and is titled "Alvin Greene Is On...

Questionable Candidate Alvin Greene Under InvestigationBy Boyce Watkins, PhD on Jun 29th 2010 11:46AM Thank goodness. The 5th Circuit Solicitor General's office is investigating U.S. Senate candidate Alvin Greene and his finances to determine if any laws were broken on his way to stardom. In case you didn't know, Greene is the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate out of South Carolina who mysteriously found his way into the national spotlight, even though every interview he's done proves that he was being manipulated by someone else. Greene doesn't appear to have even average intelligence, and I'm not sure if an...

Alvin Greene: Will South Carolina Dems yank him from their ranks?By Patrik Jonsson Published Fri, Jun 18 2010 9:39 am ATLANTA — Alvin Greene shocked the political system by winning a South Carolina Democratic primary for the US Senate. Now his campaign is in the hands of state Democrats, who'd rather see him go far, far away. An unemployed Army veteran with a criminal charge against him, Greene beat former judge Vic Rawl 59 to 41 percent in the June 8 primary. The state Democratic Party is hearing evidence Thursday that includes reports of faulty voting machines and allegations of...

Members of the South Carolina Democratic Party's executive committee voted overwhelmingly tonight against holding a new Senate primary, upholding last week's controversial win by unemployed veteran Alvin Greene (D) over former state Rep. Vic Rawl (D). Rawl, who lost to Greene 59 percent to 41 percent, had brought his case before the committee tonight, but the 61 members present rejected his protest by a five-to-one margin. Rawl said in brief remarks after the committee meeting that he would not appeal the decision. Greene did not attend the meeting, which took place in Columbia and lasted for more than five hours.

S.C. Democratic Party Considers Overturning Alvin Greene Election Results June 17, 2010 Alvin Greene said he has no plans to attend a meeting Thursday of party leaders deciding whether to overturn the primary election result that named him the South Carolina Democratic Senate nominee to challenge Sen. Jim DeMint in November. In a brief phone interview with FoxNews.com, Greene said he was not attending the state party's executive committee meeting in Columbia to hear a protest by former state lawmaker Vic Rawl, whom he defeated in the June 8 primary. South Carolina's Democrats are poised to decide the fate of...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- South Carolina Democratic Party officials on Thursday upheld a surprising U.S. Senate primary win by an unemployed military veteran, nixing a protest lodged by their favored candidate that could have required a new vote. The party's executive committee decided there was not enough evidence of impropriety to nullify the June 8 election victory by Alvin Greene, a 32-year-old who lives with his father and waged no visible campaign against a former lawmaker.