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New York Republican Congressman Anthony D'Esposito is in hot water after bombshell allegations that he had an affair with a woman and then put her on his taxpayer-funded payroll. According to the New York Times, the 42-year-old first-term lawmaker was having an affair with Devin Faas. It attributed news of the relationship to four people familiar with it. Last April, Faas started receiving $2,000 a month for a part-time job in his district office. The job came soon after D'Esposito also hired his longtime fiancée’s daughter to work as a special assistant in that same district office shortly after he...

Donald Trump has claimed he will stop taxing the Social Security benefits of seniors if he wins a second term in the White House. The cut is the latest in a series of tax relief policies which Democrats claim with endanger federal benefits and see the U.S' debt balloon. Others say Congress would be unlikely to pass the plans. But this latest proposal made on Fox and Friends is the most significant and expensive yet, costing the government $1.8 trillion over the next decade, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. They claim the cuts would see Federal...

Robert Kennedy Jr. has finally admitted he was involved in the shocking discovery of a bear found dead in Central Park a decade ago. The bear was found in the New York park in October 2014 by a dog walker who then notified a Central Park Conservancy worker who contacted police. An investigation by the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) concluded that the six-month-old bear was run over and killed by a vehicle, but they could not figure out how it ended up in the park.