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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg fired back at Republican criticism over his response to the derailment of a train carrying toxic chemicals in East Palestine, Ohio, blasting his critics as “card-carrying members of the East Coast elite.” “It’s really rich to see some of these folks — the former president, these Fox hosts — who are literally lifelong card-carrying members of the East Coast elite, whose top economic policy priority has always been tax cuts for the wealthy, and who wouldn’t know their way around a T.J. Maxx if their life depended on it, to be presenting themselves as if they...

The “Aquaman” star was spotted shopping at discount department store TJ Maxx in the Hamptons on Thursday. Sources told The Post in early June that the 36-year-old actress is “broke” due to hefty legal fees associated with her and Depp’s bombshell trial — and that was before she was ordered her to pay millions for defamatory statements. SNIP Still, Heard was shopping at the TJ Maxx in Bridgehampton, NY — where the average home goes for around $3.8 million according to Zillow — so she probably isn’t maxing out her credit cards at the big box chain.

Two crooks casually walked out of a TJ Maxx in Los Angeles with armfuls of merchandise on Monday — apparently walking by several store workers on the way to the exit. One man filmed the brazen act at the Granada Hills store, according to Fox 11. “That looks great,” the man can be heard saying in a video posted to Instagram. “What’s up, guys? I wanna see how far you guys get,” he adds, as he follows them outside.

In yet another example of California’s decline under Democratic leadership, two men were caught on film casually walking out of a suburban Los Angeles TJ Maxx store while carrying armfulls of merchandise – just seven months after LA District Attorney George Gascón announced his office would no longer prosecute misdemeanor crimes such as shoplifting. Thanks to Prop 47 thefts under $950 will not be prosecuted, so cops will not bother showing up. Just a reminder that you get what you voted for, California! pic.twitter.com/jWUPdJzy0A — Adam Carolla (@adamcarolla) July 20, 2021 The incident occurred at the TJ Maxx in Granada...

Amid growing pressure for stores to drop the first daughter’s brand, it is no longer being sold at Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, Belk, Jet, and ShopStyle. Days after Nordstrom and Neiman Marcus announced they would stop selling the Ivanka Trump collection due to lagging sales, the brand is disappearing from a growing list of retailers. The removal of the first daughter’s brand from multiple retailers follows the widespread #GrabYourWallet campaign to boycott businesses the Trump family profits from. Shannon Coulter, founder of #GrabYourWallet, reported the brand’s disappearance from ShopStyle on Tuesday after tracking the amount of Ivanka Trump stock across retailers.(CHART-AT-LINK)...

Last week, employees at T.J. Maxx and Marshalls got very clear instructions about where to put signs for Ivanka Trump products: in the garbage. The TJX Companies, the retailers’ parent company, told employees not to display Ivanka Trump merchandise separately and to throw away Ivanka Trump signs, according to a note to employees on Wednesday, a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times. “Effective immediately, please remove all Ivanka Trump merchandise from features and mix into the runs,” the note read. “Runs” refers to the normal clothing racks where the majority of products hang. “All Ivanka Trump...

Employees at T.J. Maxx and Marshalls were instructed to trash any signs advertising merchandise from Ivanka Trump's retail brand, The New York Times reported Wednesday. According to the Times, employees at the two sister stores were told to throw away Ivanka Trump signs and move her products from individual display areas to shelves mixed with other brands.   “Effective immediately, please remove all Ivanka Trump merchandise from features and mix into the runs,” read a note to workers obtained by The New York Times. “All Ivanka Trump signs should be discarded." “Runs” refers to the other clothing racks where the majority of...

WATERTOWN, N.Y. - A woman who claims she was used as unknowing bait to catch a man taking photographs up women's skirts is suing retailer T.J. Maxx. Svetlana Van Buren said store personnel surreptitiously videotaped a man taking photos up her skirt while she was shopping for coffee at the company's store in Watertown on June 14, 2006. It was only after the man committed the crime that store personnel told her the photos had been taken and that the act was caught on tape, said Van Buren, a psychologist who was working at a state-run facility for youths at...

Officials in Pittston Township said Thursday the T.J. Maxx Distribution Center in the township still employs immigrants who are illegally in the United States.Township Supervisor Anthony Attardo, speaking at a news conference called by a state attorney general candidate, claimed the company had even more illegal workers now than it did last fall, when federal immigration officials determined 274 undocumented workers - about half the workforce - were employed there."My sources tell me it's worse than it ever was," said Attardo.Bill Riley, spokesman for the U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Philadelphia, said he could not comment on...

More than 200 workers at a T.J. Maxx distribution center in southern Indiana have walked away from their jobs since the company asked to see immigration documents to determine whether employees were working legally in the United States. Problems with undocumented workers began surfacing at the plant after the company, owned by The TJX Companies Inc. of Framingham, Mass., hired a consultant to check on the immigrant status of workers. The company has five distribution centers and 41,500 employees nationwide. The check found discrepancies in the documentation of 261 workers at the company's distribution center in Evansville, which employs about...

T.J. Maxx's KOZ eyed Remove business from tax-break program, says Pittston Township supervisor Anthony Attardo. By KIMBERLY JAMES Times Leader Correspondent PULL QOUTE: "People are making it a racist issue. We're finding racial slurs on telephone poles around here now." Michael Kotter, a shop steward at T.J. Maxx PITTSTON TWP. - If T.J. Maxx won't keep its promise, neither will Pittston Township, according to Supervisor Anthony Attardo. "They received state grants, free taxes. The township gave them free taxes, and as far as I know, they aren't hiring people from Northeastern Pennsylvania," said Attardo said Monday at a township meeting....

Feds: 274 illegals at T.J. Maxx By Thomas K. Staff 10/07/2003 Federal investigators found that 274 employees at the T.J. Maxx distribution center in Pittston Township -- more than half of the work force -- were illegal aliens. The Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement has ordered the center to terminate the workers, but a spokesman said no civil charges will be filed against T.J. Maxx at this time. Nor will the bureau, a branch of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, seek to prosecute any workers determined to be in this country illegally, agent Lance Payne said. Mr....

Posted on Tue, Sep. 16, 2003 T.J. MAXXProof of illegal workers claimedBy LANE FILLERlfiller@leader.net T.J. MAXX PITTSTON TWP. - A person claiming to be a T.J. Maxx employee who declined to be identified in any way painted a picture of plant procedures Monday night at a Pittston Township Board of Supervisors meeting. In the heat of the exchange, Pittston Township Police Department Chief Stephen Rinaldi revealed results of an ongoing investigation. "We subpoenaed their applications three weeks ago and we have received 700 of them. Of those, 180 have been inspected and 90 are illegal," Rinaldi said. Rinaldi later...

The union representing T.J. Maxx distribution center employees defended its workers on Wednesday and criticized officials and residents who "have claimed without any proof that Hispanic T.J. Maxx workers are here illegally." The statement, issued by the Pennsylvania, Ohio and South Jersey Joint Board of UNITE, went on that, "Such baseless accusations can lead to prejudice and discrimination and should stop. To judge someone on the basis of their race and the language they speak without knowing anything else about them is intolerant and wrong." UNITE Local 295 represents the workers at the Pittston Township distribution center, which opened earlier...

Pittston Township officials believe immigrants are coming in to work at the new T.J. Maxx warehouse.By MICHAEL McNARNEYmmcnarney@leader.net PITTSTON TWP. - Will T.J. Maxx laborers at the company's township warehouse soon be living on site in company housing? That's what township Supervisor Tony Attardo says he is told. "If anybody makes any (zoning) applications up there, we'll have our good eye on it," Attardo said. But supervisors, he said, are bound by township zoning laws - if modular housing is allowed by ordinance, he said, then T.J. Maxx has the right to build. Laborers are paid $6.50 to start at...

PITTSTON TOWNSHIP: Officials, citizens voice concerns about possible illegal immigrants. By MARK SCARAMASTRO and MICHAEL McNARNEY tlnews@leader.net More than 40 township residents, many applauding speakers critical of what they believe is a largely Hispanic work force at the new TJ Maxx warehouse, jammed Monday night's meeting of the township supervisors. Police Chief Stephen Rinaldi - out of uniform but sitting at the supervisors table - told residents and township officials not to talk about the topic. "Don't bring the immigrants up," Rinaldi told Tom Szumski of Boston Street, who had signed up at the start of the meeting to talk...