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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s government is now considering providing government subsidies to private-sector grocery stores that suffer revenue losses because of government-sponsored grocery stores. Photo courtesy of the Office of the Mayor of the City of New York. Recently, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced that he was making good on his campaign promise to bring down food costs by opening state-sponsored grocery stores that would sell goods at below cost. The stores will also not be required to pay taxes or rent. By establishing these state-sponsored stores, Mamdani is not reducing food costs. He is reducing…
Iran vowed a “devastating” military response Friday as the United States enters a new phase of economic warfare against Tehran, with the Trump administration preparing the “toughest sanctions in history” as part of an escalating campaign Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says will “collapse” the Iranian regime. President Donald Trump made clear Friday that Washington’s shift toward economic pressure does not take further military action off the table, while again pointing to Iran’s battered armed forces, economic deterioration, and the U.S. blockade around the Strait of Hormuz as evidence of the mounting pressure on Tehran. “No, not at all,” Trump told…
On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) said that Democratic leadership needs to denounce the DSA’s agenda and “the Democratic Party needs to step up and speak out.” Moskowitz stated, [relevant remarks begin around 2:00] “If you look at the amount of members that are coming to the House that are DSA, it’s 5%. They are not the Democratic Party. But I think the Democratic Party needs to step up and speak out.” Later, co-host Brian Kilmeade asked, “[W]ould you love to see Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) just say, look, there’s no…
A federal appeals court on Friday ruled that President Trump did not have the authority to appoint Acting US Attorney for the Northern District of New York, John Sarcone. A three-judge panel in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 vote, said John Sarcone was unlawfully appointed when he subpoenaed New York Attorney General Letitia James. The three-judge panel included: Judge Guido Calabresi (Clinton), Judge Michael Park (Trump), and Judge Maria Kahn (Biden). Earlier this year, a federal judge disqualified the Trump-appointed US Attorney for the Northern District of New York overseeing investigations into New York Attorney General Letitia James. US…
Thursday on MS NOW’s “The Briefing,” Michigan Democratic Senate Candidate Abdul El-Sayed accused his Republican opponent Mike Rogers of being afraid of “pissing off Daddy Trump.” El-Sayed said, “It’s funny Mike Rogers is now trying to make a play, he says, for Democrats. I’ve been talking to Democrats for 15 months, and ever since February, when they kicked off this ridiculous war, it is one of the only things that I hear from Democrats. Why is it that a guy who said that he wanted no new wars, that he was gonna ‘America First’ us, that he’s now, it seems,…
The Pentagon moved Friday to fire three senior employees at the taxpayer-supported military newspaper Stars and Stripes, accusing them of “insubordination” amid an escalating battle over the publication’s direction. Publisher Max Lederer, Editor-in-Chief Erik Slavin, and Middle East reporter Lara Korte were each served with separation notices and given five days to appeal, according to CBS News. The stunning shake-up comes as the Trump administration works to overhaul the military publication, drag it into the 21st century, and eliminate the “woke distractions” that have infected institutions across the federal government. Slavin and Korte claimed they were targeted over interviews they…
A South Korean court sentenced a Chinese citizen identified in reports as 37-year-old Jeon Mo to 20 years in prison on Wednesday for engaging in a hacking theft scheme targeting prominent wealthy South Koreans, including a member of the superstar boy band BTS. The criminal enterprise, the court found, targeted wealthy individuals who were in prison, active in the military, or otherwise lacking regular access to their accounts, breaking into them and redirecting financial assets to accounts unrelated to the victims that the criminals controlled. Jungkook, the BTS member identified as a target of the crimes, was fulfilling his mandatory…
Disgraced former Rep. Eric Swalwell’s (D-CA) term will be finished out by progressive state lawmaker Aisha Wahab, the first Afghan-American to be elected to the U.S. Congress. Wahab, who also became the first Afghan-American elected official in the U.S. when she won a Hayward City Council seat in 2018, beat fellow Democrat Melissa Hernandez in a Tuesday evening special election that was called on Thursday by the Associated Press (AP). With 95 percent of the votes counted for California’s Fourteenth Congressional District, Wahab came out on top with 53.1 percent over Hernandez’s 46.9 percent. The candidates competed in a special…
Multiple patients went into cardiac arrest after a ‘pharmacy error’ led to a dangerous drug mix-up. Two patients are paralyzed, and one is on a ventilator at Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown Hospital after they were given the wrong medication prior to surgery. The four patients were reportedly given potassium instead of an anesthetic. The dangerous mix-up happened at the hospital’s in-house pharmacy. Too much potassium administered too quickly can stop a person’s heart, CBS reported. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigations is now involved in the case. The hospital said they were “sorry” for injecting the patients with too much potassium.…
LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry and six others, including Elton John, have been ordered to pay an initial 9.5 million pounds ($13 million) to the publisher of Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper following their failed invasion of privacy case. In a judgment Friday, Justice Matthew Nicklin said Friday in a written statement that the payment will have to made by Aug. 28. The payment is at the upper end of expectations. The claimants lost a High Court case in London last month during which they had alleged malpractice, such as the illegal hacking of phones, on the part of Associated Newspapers. The publisher has said…