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New York (AFP) – The World Cup carnival arrived in New York on Saturday, but it was drowned out by the city’s elation after the hometown Knicks broke a 53-year curse to win the NBA Finals. The 2026 World Cup debut of five-time winners Brazil, who ground out an uninspiring 1-1 draw against Morocco, was overshadowed by the Knicks’ 94-90 victory over the San Antonio Spurs. New York erupted in celebration in the aftermath, with fans letting off fireworks and a cacophony of cheers and car horns reverberating around the city. “Knicks in five!” chanted crowds after the hometown basketball…
Radical left-wing actress Jane Fonda will headline a so-called “free speech” event to counter President Donald Trump’s UFC Freedom 250 event on June 14. The actress, known as “Hanoi Jane” for supporting America’s communist enemies in the 1970s, is hosting her “Rise Up, Sing Out” event in New York City on the same day as Trump’s big UFC event planned for Washington D.C. “This is our documentary moment,” Fonda told Reuters. “History is going to write about this, and I don’t want to be on the side of people who said, ‘Oh my God, things are so bad, what am…
James Boyard, the chief of staff of the Haitian Defense Ministry, has been kidnapped along with his family amid escalating gang violence, media reports claimed on Saturday.Boyard, a respected security expert and author, serves as chief of staff to Haiti’s newly appointed defense minister, Mario Andresol, and as inspector general of the national police.Local media reported that unidentified armed men snatched Boyard on Thursday in Bourdon, one of the few areas of the capital, Port-au-Prince, still considered relatively safe, though most of the city is controlled by gangs. A person familiar with the situation confirmed the kidnapping to AP.Police sources…
A federal judge has extended a block on the Trump administration’s “anti-weaponization fund” for citizens who claimed former President Joe Biden’s (D) administration targeted them. U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema made the extension on Friday, Just the News reported. “Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told Congress earlier this month that the Trump administration was ending plans for the fund due to bipartisan backlash,” the outlet said. “Attorneys for the federal government argued that, in the face of the administration’s decision to terminate the plans, the lawsuits against it are moot,” noting Brinkema argued the mootness point did not “go anywhere.” The judge had…
The protests come as a petition for stricter controls cleared the threshold for submission to parliament and the EU Migration Pact took effect Thousands of anti-migration protesters marched in Rome on Saturday in support of a citizens’ initiative calling for stricter migration controls.The demonstration was organized by the Remigration and Reconquest Committee, which promotes a popular bill offering financial incentives for foreigners to leave Italy and encouraging descendants of Italians living abroad to return to the country.A petition by the committee has collected more than 130,000 signatures, well above the 50,000 required for a citizens’ initiative to be formally submitted…
Swiss voters head to the polls Sunday to decide the fate of an anti-mass immigration proposal designed to cap the country’s population, with critics fearing a successful vote could provoke the equivalent of a Swiss “Brexit” as a next step. AFP reports voting booths will open for just a few hours Sunday morning before closing at noon (1000 GMT), most of the votes having been cast in advance by post. The first results are expected by mid-afternoon. The report details the “No to a Switzerland with 10 million!” initiative, put forward by the populist Swiss People’s Party (SVP) – which has the…
Two children were robbed while running a lemonade stand on Wednesday afternoon in a Boston neighborhood, and the incident has shaken community members. Police responded to the scene in South Boston where the young brother and sister were with their father and told officers what happened, Fox News reported Thursday. Two suspects had allegedly passed the children’s stand multiple times, then walked up to them and asked if they took Apple Pay. “Before the young entrepreneurs could answer, one suspect grabbed a box containing $50 in cash. One of the suspects displayed a black firearm in his waistband before the…
Some of the recent legal challenges to the use of surveillance by the Department of Homeland Security upon Americans have resulted in the revelation of truly terrifying behavior by the government, in direct defiance of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. We now know that the federal government spies on innocent Americans without suspicion and without warrants. The spying seems to fall into several categories. The National Security Agency, which is in the Department of Defense, employs about 60,000 domestic spies. These are the folks who want us to believe that they go through the trouble of making applications to…
A leading pro-life organization sent a letter to Republican senators on Wednesday, urging them to pass a measure defunding abortion giant Planned Parenthood again before previous defunding provision expires of July 4, America’s 250th anniversary. The letter from Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America to GOP lawmakers comes after the passage of the second reconciliation bill — which did not contain another defunding measure — and as President Donald Trump pushes Republicans to pass a third reconciliation package. “Last year, on the Fourth of July, you helped accomplish something historic — the first ever defunding of Big Abortion businesses of their…
Ukraine must respect the rights of its ethnic Hungarian minority if it wants to join the EU, Hungary’s new prime minister, Peter Magyar, has said.An estimated 80,000 Hungarians live in Ukraine, mostly in the western Zakarpattia Region. Their status has long been a point of contention between the neighboring countries, especially during the premiership of Magyar’s predecessor, Viktor Orban, who repeatedly blocked Kiev’s efforts to move closer to the EU.On Friday, the two countries signed what Magyar described as a historic agreement on the education, linguistic, cultural, and political rights of ethnic Hungarians in Ukraine. He said Kiev committed to…