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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul made the case for Manhattan’s congestion tolling during an Oval Office meeting with President Donald Trump after federal officials ordered a halt to the program, a spokesperson for the Democratic governor said.Hochul and Trump met for more than an hour on Friday afternoon and also discussed other issues including immigration, infrastructure, economic development, energy, offshore wind and nuclear power, press secretary Avi Small said. He said Hochul presented Trump with a booklet showing the early success of congestion pricing.Small declined to comment further on the conversation. The White House did not immediately respond to an…

Peacekeeping forces or soldiers from other countries being deployed to Ukraine is not a realistic prospect, Mikhail Podoliak, the top adviser to the country’s leader Vladimir Zelensky, said on Friday.Podoliak made the statement in an interview with Polish radio station RMF just days after a number of European top officials gathered for an emergency meeting in Paris. Ahead of the event, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he was “ready and willing” to put his nation’s troops on the ground in Ukraine to help secure a peace deal.Podoliak, however, stated that a deployment of foreign peacekeeping forces or soldiers “do…

President Trump at CPAC on 2/22/25 President Trump addressed the crowd at CPAC 2025 on Saturday telling the American people that the United States has been liberated from the past four years of chaos. “We fought through hell together, but in the end, we achieved the great liberation of America. We are liberating our country right now,” President Trump said. Watch: “We achieved the great liberation of America!” – President Trump at CPAC 2025 in Washington, D.C. pic.twitter.com/pDTQpLni5Q — RSBN (@RSBNetwork) February 22, 2025 President Trump told the crowd of the changes that are occurring under his new administration. “The…

The new LINES skincare products by Dr. Marnie Nussbaum.Photo Courtesy of LINES As a New York-based dermatologist, Dr. Marnie Nussbaum is used to treating busy, on-the-go women juggling careers, family, and other social and community-minded commitments. She has watched them experience their aging process and learned a lot from her patients’ at-home skin care. Her solution is LINES, a new skincare product line Nussbaum created focused on women 35 and over. “We lose 1-2% of collagen per year after age 30. By age 40, we had lost a considerable amount, so we started to see fine lines and wrinkles. Next,…

German police arrested a migrant male accused of planning to attack the Israeli embassy as he allegedly attempted to leave the country for weapons training with the Islamic State. An 18-year-old Russian migrant of Chechen origin was arrested at Berlin Brandenburg Airport on Thursday and was charged Friday on ‘suspicion of preparing a serious act of violence endangering the state’. A political motive at least is presumed and an Islamist motive is being investigated, newspaper Die Welt states its police sources have said. It is believed he was planning to temporarily leave Germany to link up with the Islamic State in…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Friday blocked a sweeping executive order from President Donald Trump that sought to end government support for programs promoting diversity, equity and inclusion. Judge Adam Abelson in Baltimore found it likely violates free-speech rights and granted an injunction blocking the funding withdrawal as a lawsuit plays out. Trump signed an order his first day in office directing federal agencies to terminate all “equity-related” grants or contracts. He signed a follow-up order requiring federal contractors to certify that they don’t promote DEI. The plaintiffs — including the city of Baltimore and higher education groups…

[Getty Images]One person has been killed and three police officers injured in a knife attack in the eastern French city of Mulhouse.A 37-year-old Algerian man was arrested at the scene and the prosecutor has opened a terrorist inquiry because the suspect reportedly shouted “Allahu Akbar”, or “God is great”.The man injured two police officers seriously, one in the neck and one in the chest. A 69-year-old Portuguese man who tried to intervene was stabbed and killed.The suspect was subject to a deportation order because he was on a terrorism watch list, according to the local prosecutor. President Emmanuel Macron said…

PANAMA CITY (AP) — A boat carrying 19 migrants — part of a “reverse flow” of migrants who once hoped to reach the United States — capsized off the Caribbean coast of Panama on Saturday, claiming the life of an 8-year-old Venezuelan boy, border authorities said.The boat, full of mostly Venezuelans and Colombians, carried 21 people in total, including two Indigenous Panamanians in charge of maneuvering the vessel headed toward Colombia.Authorities say the accident happened because of choppy sea conditions, which discouraged two other boats from making the trip. Twenty people were rescued, Panamanian border police confirmed, adding they “are…

WAWARSING – A Kerhonkson man was accused of the armed robbery of a Stewart’s Shop in the town of Wawarsing late Monday night.State police said the case began when troopers responded to a panic alarm at the Stewart’s Shop at 6331 Route 209 in Wawarsing just before 11 p.m. Monday.According to state police, a preliminary investigation revealed that a male suspect wearing a gray hoodie and a blue ski mask entered the store armed with a firearm.He approached a female employee, pointed the weapon at her back, demanded money and threatened harm if she did not comply, police said.He subsequently…

The US president has demanded access to Ukraine’s rare earths, although Vladimir Zelensky has reportedly refused to sign a deal Ukraine will face “a lot of problems” if it doesn’t agree to sign over the rights to a large chunk of its natural resources to the US, President Donald Trump has warned.Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky first floated the idea of granting Washington access to his country’s rare-earth minerals back in October. Earlier this month, Trump said he would pursue a deal and demanded the “equivalent of $500 billion” worth of natural resources, as compensation for aid provided to Ukraine throughout…