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Fifteen New York sheriffs are suing Gov. Kathy Hochul over a state law that took effect this week banning formal agreements between local governments and federal agencies. The Federation for American Immigration Reform in Washington, D.C., filed the lawsuit on behalf of the sheriffs of St. Lawrence, Wayne, Broome, Madison, Cattaraugus, Orange, Jefferson, Saratoga, Lewis, Franklin, Delaware, Fulton, Oswego, Cayuga and Rensselaer counties, according to the Albany Times-Union. Rensselaer County Executive Steve McLaughlin said Hochul had “escalated her administration’s war on the police and she expanded policies to put criminals before the citizens of New York.” “Under the New York…

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa paid for a coffee in Damascus using a Visa card on Wednesday, a common sight in most countries but unprecedented in the modern history of his country as it represented the first such transaction since Syria was removed from the U.S. State Sponsors of Terrorism (SST) list. The State Department first announced in July that President Donald Trump had approved beginning the process of removing Syria from the SST, a designation reserved for the world’s most hostile and prolific terrorist powers. Syria was placed on the list in 1979, during the reign of dictator Hafez Assad,…

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday, renaming Lake Ontario Lake America amid trade tensions with Canada. The move comes less than a week after prospects of a trade deal with Canada collapsed and days after he announced a 50 percent tariff on Canadian autos and steel set to kick in next year. “We’re going to be changing the name of Lake Ontario effective immediately to Lake America. That’s going to take place right now as I sign the order,” Trump said.  The order specifically instructs Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum to update the lake’s name in the…

On Thursday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) argued that “Democrats are the only one talking about the real issues” while Republicans are “going to try to distract” by talking about DSA candidates and their views, but “a bunch of us are calling out the same issues that they’re calling out, because I don’t believe they’re part of our values in the Democratic Party.” Co-host Boris Sanchez asked, “Republicans are expected to play up efforts to label Democrats as socialists and Communists. They want to spotlight some of your party’s furthest left candidates. And, as you’ve known,…

A House Democrat is already pushing back on President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming Lake Ontario “Lake America.”Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) said in an interview hours after Trump’s announcement that she plans to introduce a bill Monday that would nullify the name change. The one-page bill is titled the “Hands Off Our Great Lakes Act.”“People do not understand how intertwined our two countries are,” Dingell said “And this is insane, this naming Lake Ontario ‘Lake America.’”The name change is Trump’s latest escalation in a rapidly spiraling trade war between the U.S. and Canada. The White House imposed 50 percent tariffs…

Washington did not disclose whether any sensitive information was stolen; Beijing has rejected the allegations The US has accused Chinese hackers it described as “state-backed” of breaking into NASA, the Federal Reserve, and other sensitive government networks, just weeks before Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected in Washington for talks with President Donald Trump.Beijing rejected the allegations. The Chinese Embassy in Washington said China “opposes and combats all forms of cyberattacks” and urged the US to “stop using cybersecurity issues to smear or discredit China.”The Justice Department and FBI announced on Wednesday that they seized three internet domains linked to…

Carney’s boasting to the globalist set includes his threats to cut off or tax Alberta oil that goes to the US from Canada.Yesterday, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, a province that is voting to leave Canada, explained why this is such a bad idea for Canada.She delivered this speech this week and exposed how disastrous Carney’s threats would be to Canada.Premier Danielle Smith: Mr. Speaker, although I understand the need to respond strongly to these tariffs, I cannot think of a more disastrous policy decision than cutting off or taxing Alberta’s oil to the United States. Doing so would absolutely devastate…

A Florida sheriff dismissed growing concerns over Flock cameras in his community as ignorance, asserting that the AI-powered automated license plate readers (ALPRs) are essential to help solve crimes, and compared efforts to “deFlock” the community to cities who want to defund the police. St. Johns County Sheriff Robert Hardwick spoke with The 904 Now on August 14 about the emergence of Flock cameras, which are said to act only as automatic license plate readers, in his jurisdiction that reportedly has roughly 180 in operation. Maps show some exits having four in one small area alone. “Across the great state of…

The Cameron County Sheriff’s Office released the ICE officer who is wanted in Minnesota for an officer-involved shooting incident. The release came after Texas Governor Greg Abbott did not sign the rendition extradition requested by Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. The South Texas sheriff’s office released ICE officer Christian Castro early Thursday morning, the Associated Press reported. A small gathering of reporters and onlookers stood witness as Castro walked out of the jail, waved, and drove away in an SUV shortly before sunrise. His release from the Cameron County jail comes one day after a U.S. District Court judge in Brownsville…

ALBANY, New York — The Big Apple’s largest municipal workers union helped sink the New York State AFL-CIO’s endorsement of Democratic House candidate Brad Lander.The union’s president, Henry Garrido, said in an interview Thursday that Lander’s audit of New York City’s Health Insurance Stabilization Fund as city comptroller was a factor in the opposition to his endorsement. The report, which recommended the fund’s dissolution, angered the union.“Our members were really upset about that,” Garrido said.Lander has also been at odds with the union after the group backed moving retirees to a Medicare Advantage Plan, which the then-comptroller opposed.Lauren Hitt, a…