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The New York Times is apparently more concerned about taxpayer-funded goods from USAID not making their way into Hamas-controlled Gaza than USAID potentially funding Hamas terrorists. The February 8 print edition of The Times had this insane headline blaring over the front page: “U.S.A.I.D. Turmoil Threatens Goods Heading to Gaza.” Sure, let’s just forget about the enormous waste that USAID perpetrated over the years, right? Jerusalem Bureau Chief Patrick Kingsley and reporter Adam Rasgon mourned that “[t]he Trump administration’s efforts to downsize the United States Agency for International Development have endangered the funding for food, tents and medical treatment for...

A powerful New York politician claims she was just speaking as a private citizen when she tried to run Chick-fil-A out of town, but she used her official letterhead and even invoked her position as City Council speaker to apply pressure on the embattled chicken chain. New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who has mayoral aspirations, sent a letter to New York University president John Sexton on Saturday asking the school to immediately end their contract with the fast food restaurant. The Atlanta-based company's sole New York City outlet is in the school's food court. "I write as the...

Derek Jeter’s bid for one of baseball’s most hallowed milestones, a mark never reached by other New York Yankees’ greats, is complete. Mobbed by his pinstriped pals after the ball sailed into the left-field seats, showered by ovations from his fans, Derek Jeter stood alone – the first Yankees player to 3,000 hits.

When the Yankees try to nail down their 27th World Series title tonight, they'll do it as one of the most polarizing teams in sports. Few know that better that East Stroudsburg University professor Charles Warner, who was so perplexed with the concept of hating the Yankees — he readily admits to living most of his life as a Yankee hater — he decided to research the subject. The result of more than a year of research and writing came out in October as the book "The Team America Loves to Hate: Why Baseball Fans Despise the New York Yankees."...