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The race for New York City mayor has tightened considerably — with ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo cutting front-runner Zohran Mamdani’s lead in half from a month ago, according to a new poll. Mamdani, the Democratic nominee, now leads Cuomo, running as an independent, just 44% to 34% among the likely Big Apple voters, the Suffolk University survey found.Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa is in third place with 11% support. But Mamdani had a 20-point lead over Cuomo in Suffolk University’s prior poll conducted in September. It’s Suffolk’s first survey since Mayor Eric Adams completely dropped his re-election bid and endorsed Cuomo. Cuomo...

In a startling episode of bureaucratic overreach, the British National Health Service (NHS) quietly removed a controversial guidance document extolling supposed “benefits” of first-cousin marriage, from “stronger extended family support systems” to “economic advantages.” The document barely saw the light of day before public outcry forced its withdrawal.However, the deeper issue remains: a publicly funded health institution considering normalizing consanguineous marriage based on cultural sensitivity is concerning.It’s a warning sign that the U.K. is quickly losing its grip on both medical ethics and science.Image generated by Chat GPT Let’s be clear. Marrying one’s first cousin is a known risk factor...

Tyler Avalos, 29, was arrested Oct. 16 after allegedly posting the threat on TikTok, FBI says. A Minnesota man was arrested after allegedly offering $45,000 for the killing of Attorney General Pam Bondi, according to court documents.Tyler Avalos, 29, published the threat on TikTok saying he wanted Bondi "dead or alive" but "preferably dead," according to an affidavit by FBI Special Agent Caleb Jurchisin.The investigation into Avalos started Oct. 9 when a tipster from Detroit "submitted a report to the FBI National Threat Operations Center" and flagged the suspect's TikTok feed, the FBI said. The TikTok post included a picture...

Federal prosecutor David Raskin was expecting that the criminal case he had helped build against former president Donald Trump would be filed in Washington, D.C., when a colleague bumped into him with surprising news: Their boss, special counsel Jack Smith, had decided to bring the case in Florida. “Are you all f---ing insane?” Raskin blurted out to his fellow prosecutor on that spring day in 2023, in a hallway at a Justice Department building in D.C. Raskin, who had been investigating Trump for keeping dozens of classified documents at his Palm Beach golf club, was alarmed by what he saw...

It didn’t take long for someone to go to court and attempt to seize control of the president’s White House renovation project.The White House — the People’s House — can’t fit many people in its walls for special events, so it must pitch a tent about one football field away from the building for major functions. Event capacity is capped at 200 people in the White House’s East Room. It has been a problem for more than 150 years, according to the Trump administration. Now Trump is using around $300 million in private money to make the White House more...

Virginia’s statewide off-year elections this November were predicted by most “experts” to be an easy win for the Democrats. Usually, the party that wins the White House struggles in the Old Dominion during the following year. Yet the most reputable polls show a much tighter race than expected. Even more surprising, after five weeks of early voting the heavily Republican areas of the Commonwealth have consistently had stronger turnout than have the state’s Democrat strongholds – perhaps setting the stage for a historic upset.The top of the ticket this year features a showdown between incumbent Republican Lt. Governor Winsome Earle-Sears...

The Maryland man has been in federal custody since being returned to the U.S. in June, following his mistaken deportation to El Salvador earlier this year The Trump administration has identified a new country where it intends to imminently send Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man wrongly deported to El Salvador earlier this year, the Department of Justice said in a court filing Friday.The West African nation of Liberia has agreed to accept Abrego Garcia, the DOJ officials said, and the Department of Homeland Security is aiming for a removal date as early as Oct. 31.“Although [Abrego Garcia] has identified...

The Nashville native had been dealing with a neuromuscular disease.Isabelle “Izzy” Tate, who appeared in the pilot episode of 9-1-1: Nashville, has died. She was 23. She died peacefully Sunday after facing a rare form of Charcot-Marie-Tooth, a neuromuscular disease, the McCray Agency, which represented the Nashville native, told The Hollywood Reporter. This week, Kim McCray, owner of the talent agency, said on social media: “We are deeply saddened and completely heartbroken to share that Isabelle Tate passed away … I’ve known Izzy since she was a teenager and she recently returned to acting. She booked the first series she...