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A pair of brazen bandits stormed a crowded Brooklyn restaurant and robbed three diners at gunpoint while the horrified dinner crowd looked on, according to cops and a report. The duo rushed into Williamsburg Chinese hotspot Birds of a Feather with a gun and demanded a $200 Seiko watch and phones from three patrons around 9:35 p.m. in plain view of other customers, police said. The robbers then fled westbound on a moped on Grand Street with the bounty, according to the NYPD. Police said investigators later tracked and recovered three iPhones to an address on North 11th Street

In a move that could upend scores of Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot prosecutions, the Supreme Court on Friday narrowed the use of a charge of obstructing an official proceeding. In a 6- 3 decision in which Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson joined the conservative majority and Justice Amy Coney Barrett sided with the liberal dissenters, the high court concluded that prosecutors need to hang closer to the statutory langue of the obstruction charge used in a slew of Jan. 6 prosecutions. “The Government must establish that the defendant impaired the availability or integrity for use in an official proceeding of...

President Joe Biden, who reportedly will not drop out of the 2024 presidential race, will participate in the second debate in September, a Biden adviser told CNN Friday. ABC News’ David Muir and Linsey Davis will serve as moderators for the September 10 debate. More details of the event, including rules, location, staging, and format, are not yet decided, according to ABC News. Pressure is mounting on Biden to step down as many Democrats and media members display hysteria following a disastrous Thursday debate. Biden mumbled, sounded raspy, and appeared to lose track of his thoughts a few times. Even...

First lady Jill Biden praised her husband’s performance during the debate despite nearly every political commentator saying that he not only did poorly but that he should be replaced. “Joe, you did such a great job. You answered every question. You knew all the facts,” Jill Biden said to her husband as the crowd cheered. “And what did Trump do?” she asked the crowd, all of whom responded with “Lied!” "Joe, you did such a great job answering every question. You knew all the facts." Jill Biden may be the worst human ever…. pic.twitter.com/wKy2Wud1FM — Graham Allen (@GrahamAllen_1) June 28,...

New York Times columnist Thomas L. “Tom” Friedman, a close friend of President Joe Biden, has had enough. The seemingly tear-stricken writer used an opinion piece Friday to counsel the octogenarian to withdraw from the 2024 race after his “heartbreaking” showing in the debate. Friedman’s editorial offering got straight to the point. Under the headline Joe Biden Is a Good Man and a Good President. He Must Bow Out of the Race, Friedman highlighted his own personal distress at what unfolded: I watched the Biden-Trump debate alone in a Lisbon hotel room, and it made me weep. I cannot remember...

President Biden spoke to reporters following Thursday night’s CNN debate and expressed the belief that he performed well against former President Trump. “I think we did well,” Biden told reporters at an Atlanta area Waffle House when asked how he performed. When asked if he had any concerns about his performance, the president said, “No it’s hard to debate a liar, New York Times pointed how he lied 26 times. Big lies.” Biden was then asked if he was suffering from a cold, which the campaign revealed following the debate performance where many expressed concerns about the sound of Biden’s...

Democrat strategist Donna Brazile admitted that the Democratic Party has “work to do” after President Joe Biden’s performance at the presidential debate but said he would be the party’s presidential nominee. Brazile responded to a post on X from CNN political commentator Bakari Sellers saying that Biden is not “going anywhere” and all the people responding negatively to his performance at the debate need to “let go” of their pearls. “Biden ain’t going nowhere,” Sellers wrote. “It’s June. Let go of your pearls and dry your bed. He lost a debate. Bad. But it’s June. You’re not replacing him. So...

MSNBC contributor Claire McCaskill said Thursday, following the presidential debate, that President Joe Biden’s performance was so bad that Vice President Kamala Harris or Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) should be at the top of the ticket. crisis.”

During an interview with CNBC on Thursday, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo stated that “We want China’s economy to flourish.” But they can’t have “our most sophisticated, leading-edge AI chips or the equipment that makes those chips.” CNBC Washington Correspondent Megan Cassella asked, “[T]here’s been some reporting recently that the U.S. is looking at further export restrictions to limit the amount of China’s access to our chips and sophisticated technologies. Can you give us any information on sort of what’s under consideration and what to expect?”

Almost 200 people have been charged in a nationwide operation probing false health care claims involving approximately $2.75 billion in losses, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday. Under its 2024 National Health Care Fraud Enforcement Action, the DOJ filed charges against 193 defendants, including 76 doctors, nurse practitioners and other licensed medical professionals in 32 different federal districts across the country. The DOJ said in a nationwide law enforcement action, the government seized “over $231 million in cash, luxury vehicles, gold, and other assets.” “It does not matter if you are a trafficker in a drug cartel or a...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Cleanup is underway throughout the Pittsburgh area as several communities were hit with suspected tornado damage on Wednesday evening. At least three tornadoes have been confirmed in the Pittsburgh area so far. We have confirmed three tornadoes so far. The areas highlighted indicate where NWS Storm Surveys or Doppler Radar Tornado Debris Signatures have validated the tornado damage. pic.twitter.com/lWRD8NXROW — NWS Pittsburgh (@NWSPittsburgh) June 27, 2024 An EF-2 with winds up to 115 mph touched down south of Route 22 in Westmoreland County, tearing a path from Delmont to Shieldsburg to New Alexandria.

The number of foreign nationals in the U.S. currently eligible for naturalization outnumbers the 2020 presidential margin of victory in five battleground states. A report released by the American Immigration Council (AIC) on Thursday concluded that if some or all of the country’s 7.4 million not-yet-naturalized-but-eligible residents got their citizenship before November, they could swing the 2024 election. That’s unlikely to happen, as the naturalization process for eligible foreign nationals takes roughly eight months from application to receiving a certificate of citizenship. But the report highlights the disconnect between the size of immigrant communities, their economic impact and their political...

WASHINGTON - The 2024 Atlantic Hurricane season is officially in full swing and our FOX 5 weather team is forecasting a potentially active season. The Atlantic hurricane season began on June 1 and runs through Nov. 30. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season is expected to be above normal, with 14-22 named storms, including 7-10 hurricanes. This is higher than the average of 12-14 named storms per year. Don't Play This Game If You Under 40 RAID | Sponsored The reason for this increased activity is due to several factors, including a...

Two top Democratic congressmen have called out President Biden for omitting mention of rapes committed by Hamas terrorists from a recent White House fact sheet on international sexual violence. Jewish Reps. Adam Schiff of California and Dan Goldman of New York wrote in a letter Wednesday that they wanted “to express our deepest concern” about the fact that the unspeakable Hamas sexual violence had been left off the June 17 fact sheet on the “Biden-Harris Administration’s Actions to Address Conflict-Related Sexual Violence.” “Given the evidence of these horrific incidents, the brutal and vicious sexual violence committed by Hamas must not...

Harris County’s Democratic district attorney slammed the “broken system” that allowed the two illegal immigrants accused of brutally murdering 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray loose in the US with only ankle monitors to keep track of them. “They should have never been released when they crossed over into El Paso, but we have a broken system and Jocelyn’s death resulted. And it’s just hard when you know something could have been prevented like a child’s death,” Kim Ogg told local channel KPRC on Thursday. She said the ankle monitors have proved completely ineffective. Both Johan Jose Martinez-Rangel, 21, and Franklin Jose Peña...

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) said he did not vote for President Trump in the Georgia presidential primary in late May. Kemp in an interview with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on Wednesday said he didn’t vote for anyone in the state’s primary because the GOP’s presidential race had already been decided. “I voted, but I didn’t vote for anybody. I mean, the race was already over when the primary got here,” Kemp told Collins. “Well, it would be, for me, personally, politically, I mean it would be interesting if [I’d] voted for him, it would be interesting if I didn’t, it...

Chris Wallace, the moderator of the sole debate between President Biden and President Trump in 2020, said that lost the presidency due to his performance that night. Biden and Trump will face off against each other Thursday in a CNN-hosted debate in Atlanta. “I actually think it was one of the most consequential presidential debates in history,” Wallace said Wednesday on “The Source with Kaitlan Collins” on CNN. “I actually think Donald Trump lost the presidency in that debate by his performance. He dropped about 4 or 5 points. He never regained it.” Wallace, who worked at Fox News in...

What is it with Never Trumpers and underage boys? Because here we go again… “The Alachua County [Florida] Sheriff’s Office (ACSO) continues to investigate the case of Archer resident and Newberry education activist Joel Searby after a judge denied him bond in a pretrial hearing on Tuesday,” reported local news. “Searby was arrested [June 20] for [alleged] lewd and lascivious behavior, obscene communication to lure a minor, and obscene communication to travel to meet and lure a minor,” the report continues, adding: “The arrest report recounts Snapchat conversations between Searby and a 15-year-old boy in which Searby solicited the victim...

CHAUTAUQUA — Having experienced the White House during the time of three different presidents, Andrew Card Jr., former chief of staff, has seen the changes in the political state of America during his time in the position. Speaking at Chautauqua Institution on Wednesday as a part of the Institution’s opening week, Card began by discussing how he first got into politics and how he was a big fan of George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan, two of the three presidents he would work under. Card became “very involved” in campaigns, including the 1980 cycle, which he said involved 22 Republicans....

Former first lady Michelle Obama is reluctant to publicly campaign for President Biden’s re-election because, in part, of how the family treated Kathleen Buhle, her close friend, in the wake of her divorce from Hunter Biden, a new report claims. The wife of former President Barack Obama has largely steered clear of the 2024 campaign trail after expressing frustration in private over Buhle’s apparent exile from the Biden family years earlier, Axios reported, citing two sources familiar with the relationship. Michelle’s disdain for partisan politics is also partly to blame for her absence so far this election cycle, the sources...