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CHICAGO — Prosecutors say a shoplifting crew stole merchandise worth more than $17,000 by raiding five Lululemon stores in under 90 minutes earlier this month. Two women face felony charges. Surveillance video from the stores showed two women entering the retailer’s West Loop location, 932 West Randolph, around 11:50 a.m. on June 14, officials said. The pair walked out with clothing and accessories without paying. They struck again 15 minutes later at the 944 West North Avenue store and 12 minutes after that at the 1627 North Damen Location. About 20 minutes later, they were in Lakeview, hitting the store...

The Democrat mayor of Atlantic City’s home was raided by armed police officers last week in what he now calls a “political” attack as police investigated a “family matter.” Mayor Marty Small Sr. said Monday he was approached by two Atlantic City Prosecutor’s Office officers while he was helping his mother-in-law into the car so his wife could take her to get bloodwork done at around 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, Fox 29 reports. The officers then presented him with five search warrants on Small’s home and vehicles as part of an ongoing investigation the mayor said he had been aware...

Top Mayor Eric Adams aide Winnie Greco is being investigated by the feds for potentially using workers at a Queens mall to hide campaign donations to Hizzoner, law-enforcement sources told The Post on Friday. The FBI launched raids Thursday on two homes Greco owns on Gillespie Avenue in Pelham Bay in The Bronx — as well as the offices of the New World Mall in Flushing — over the alleged possible illegal straw donor scheme, sources said. The 61-year-old longtime mayoral adviser suffered a “medical episode” during the morning raids — which included federal agents hauling off boxes of files...

FBI agents hit the Bronx home of a top aide to Mayor Eric Adams Thursday morning, a law enforcement source confirmed to The Post. Agents were spotted at the Pelham Bay home of Winnie Greco, who is already under probe by the city Department of Investigation over allegations she improperly used her government position to get perks. It wasn’t immediately clear if Thursday’s law enforcement action, first reported by News 12 Bronx, was connected to that investigation. The source also could not immediately say whether a search warrant had been executed.

Judicial Watch Director of Investigations Chris Farrell said that within 20 minutes of fired FBI Director James Comey’s testimony on Thursday the Department of Justice should have sent U.S. Marshals to raid his home. Appearing on Lou Dobbs Tonight on Fox Business, Farrell said that the memos Comey admitted to leaking were “property of the U.S. government” and that he “absconded with them.” About Comey’s admitted leaking and the bombshell announcement that then-Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch ordered Comey to downplay the FBI’s “criminal investigation” against Hillary Clinton to only just being a “matter,” as to sound more innocent with...

Mexican authorities said Tuesday they staged 153 raids over the last year on a train known as “La Bestia” that rolled toward the U.S. border crowded with hundreds of Central American migrants. Following a big surge in child migrants reaching the U.S. border last year, Mexico’s government cracked down on routes commonly used by migrants to travel from Guatemala to the U.S. border. The head of the National Immigration Institute, Ardelio Vargas, said the 153 train raids were part of 758 immigration inspections over the last year. …

Those who believe our government is too honorable to raid private retirement accounts had better wake up! The seriously dangerous and wounded animal we know as government is fighting for its survival. It will do anything short of dying, reducing spending, or revealing itself as the Ponzi scheme it truly is. Your notions of integrity, law, and morality do not apply to this animal. The biggest, meanest man in town is trying to escape death and will use whatever means possible. Rightly or wrongly, he believes you are his antidote and he is going after whatever he can get. One...

LAS VEGAS -- Nevada state authorities are raiding the Las Vegas headquarters of an organization that works to get low-income people to vote. A Nevada secretary of state's office spokesman said Tuesday that investigators are looking for evidence of voter fraud at the office of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, also called ACORN.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12, 2007 – American and Iraqi soldiers raided suspected bomb-making sites in eastern Baghdad yesterday, military officials reported, while U.S. and Iraqi troops yesterday nabbed 10 suspected insurgents following a firefight near the village of Ubaydah, Iraq. Iraqi and American soldiers targeted eastern Baghdad’s Rusafa section during raids focused on disrupting vehicle-borne improvised explosive device networks, officials said. Soldiers from the 2nd Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army, the 4th Brigade, 1st Iraqi Army, and U.S. soldiers with the 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, participated in the operation. "Our mission is to clear areas in Rusafa...

MOUNTLAKE TERRACE, Wash. – Dozens of chickens were rescued, but dozens more put down. Police raided two locations in Mountlake Terrace after accusations of an illegal cockfighting ring. The roosters and hens were found in the backyards of two separate homes – about one hundred birds in all. An animal rescue group on the scene said there were telltale signs the roosters were raised for cockfighting. They're housed in wooden teepees to separate them from the other birds. “They raise them in tight quarters where they are encouraged to fight. They cut their spurs off and replace them with razor...

Tue Apr 8, 2:39 PM ET U.S. Army PFC Derek Whitehead, from Moore Haven, Fla., takes down an piece of anti-American artwork from the wall of a presidential palace in Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites) Tuesday, April 8, 2003. The palace was the second that soldiers from A Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment had secured in as many days, both lavish buildings heavily damaged by previous Air Force bombing. (AP Photo/John Moore) Tue Apr 8, 3:17 PM ET U.S. Army Pfc. Joshua Butler, from Jackson, Mo., guards a blown-in window after helping secure a presidential palace in...

<p>In May, as he symbolically began construction on a new Department of Transportation building in Los Angeles, Gov. Gray Davis hailed it as part of a "transportation renaissance" that he had begun.</p> <p>"After decades of government inaction, my administration is working hard to relieve the transportation bottleneck," Davis said, citing a record level of highway construction in the state.</p>

Former Michigan Militia Leader's Home Raided U.S. Marshals Find Guns, Ammunition Inside Posted: 8:27 a.m. EST November 7, 2002 Updated: 8:48 a.m. EST November 7, 2002 U.S. Marshals raided the home of a former leader of the Michigan Militia Wednesday night. Federal authorities went to the Dexter home of Mark Koernke (pictured, left) to serve a warrant for illegal use of radio equipment. Inside they found a stash of guns and ammunition, Local 4 reported. Koernke is currently in custody on other weapons charges. Federal authorities believe that weapons they seized Wednesday night belong to Koernke and not his family....

TEHRAN, Oct 8 (AFP) - Iranian police have raided two illegal parties near Tehran, with the 88 young people arrested punished by jail terms, fines and flogging, the Abrar newspaper said Tuesday. The report said 56 people were detained at a party in Shahrak-e-Qods, a residential area west of Tehran, while a further 32 were arrested in nearby Ekbatan. It said those detained -- all aged between 18 and 21 years-old -- were celebrating their entrance into university and were caught while dancing. The report said police also seized a quantity of alcohol. The 88 were sentenced on Monday to...