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New York City doled out more than $2.6 billion in cash assistance to city residents in 2025, a Fox News Digital review of city records showed. The money reached a record 864,999 people, a 30-year high not matched since before former Mayor Rudy Giuliani instituted major welfare reform in the early 2000s. The $2.6 billion figure represents a 71% increase from 2022's $1.57 billion, data showed. When coupled with payments from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the city paid out more than $7 billion in welfare to residents in 2024, according to a Fox News analysis of data from
Mamdani desperately seeking legal loophole
to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu when Israel
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to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu when Israel
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he’s desperately seeking a legal loophole to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for alleged war crimes when he visits in NYC in September.
The Pro-Palestine, Israel-hating, socialist pol said in an interview published Saturday that it’s unclear whether he has the authority to order the NYPD to arrest Netanyahu during the prime minister’s expected trip to the Big Apple for the U.N. General Assembly – but is in an “active conversation” with the city’s Law Department about the matter.
“I believe that Prime Minister Netanyahu belongs in The Hague,” Mamdani bluntly told The New York Times, referring to the United Nation’s International Court of Justice.
DOJ says it is no longer illegal for federal
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The Justice Department this week determined in an opinion that a federal law banning TikTok from government devices no longer applies to the social video app after the United States created its own version with non-Chinese investors.
The deal for a U.S. TikTok was reached in January and is funded by the software giant Oracle, the Emirati investment firm MGX, and the California-based private equity fund Silver Lake. TikTok’s former operations head, Adam Presser, is its CEO.
The new version was created after Congress passed a law in 2022 that banned TikTok from federal devices over national security concerns.
British runner Josh Kerr on Saturday broke the men's world record for fastest mile, defeating a 27-year-old record.
Kerr broke the record at a Diamond League meet in London where he defeated Moroccan legend Hicham El Guerrouj’s mark of 3 minutes, 43.13 seconds, setting a new record with 3 minutes, 42.66 seconds, according to the Associated Press.
“It was just me, my shoes and the track,” Kerr told the BBC. “I was absolutely deaf in that last 110 meters."
Airlines are warning that changes to existing practices around Daylight Saving Time (DST) would have a major impact on the industry and that changes would need to be implemented over time to account for challenges it would create for scheduling. Airlines for America (A4A), a trade group that represents leading air carriers in the U.S., released a statement this week which warned that changes to DST "would have considerable implications for aviation, including passenger disruption, crew and aircraft positioning, and domestic and international connectivity issues."
"Airlines operate expansive interconnected domestic and global networks that are reliant on stability and predictability. Any changes would need an implementation timeline that reflects these global
A House task force chairman says companies helping foreign nationals travel to the United States to give birth so their children obtain U.S. citizenship could be engaging in a criminal conspiracy.
Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, who chairs the House Oversight Committee’s Task Force on Defending Constitutional Rights and Exposing Institutional Abuses, told Fox News Digital that his panel has subpoenaed several so-called "birth tourism companies" as it investigates firms advertising services to help foreign nationals travel to the United States to give birth"Right now, under current law, birth tourism is illegal. You cannot come into the United States for the purpose of giving birth," Gill said.
A terror group from Egypt told the FBI it was responsible for downing TWA Flight 800 and killing all 230 people aboard, according to newly surfaced FBI records featured in a new documentary marking the 30th anniversary of the tragedy.
An explosive claim buried in a trove of newly obtained Freedom of Information Act documents is reviving decades-old questions about whether a missile or bomb brought down the Boeing 747-100 off Long Island on July 17, 1996.
Among the records obtained by the transparency nonprofit Judicial Watch is a New York teletype dated two days after the crash, case file 265A-NY-259028: “FBI headquarters received faxes
President Trump pointed out Canada’s forestry mismanagement and failure to follow through with their previous promises of investment have led to catastrophic wildfires now producing smoke streams making U.S. Northern cities and states live under dangerous conditions.
Prime Minister Mark Carney was asked about the U.S. government position, and he immediately hit back by saying the cause of Canada’s wildfires is ‘climate change’ and President Trump’s unwillingness to support the Paris Climate Treaty has created the problem that Canada is now dealing with.
In short, according to the official policy of the Canadian government, their wildfires are caused by Trump’s refusal to accept global “climate change” policies. WATCH:
Last night’s Maine Democratic Senate debate to replace Graham Platner was a train wreck. Don't believe me? Feel free to check out this excellent rundown by my colleague, Nick Arama.
Keep in mind that this not only looked like a train wreck, but it comes with the realization that this crop of misfit toys has only surfaced after the Democrats' previous muse, an accused rapist with a Nazi tattoo and an unhealthy fascination with portapotties, was forced out of the race.
Among the new group was one candidate, Ashley Webb, who believes some of the best qualifications for serving in the Senate are writing songs and books.
Olive Garden guards its unlimited pasta with a photo ID that many American voters are never asked to show at the polls.
The comparison took off after Olive Garden addressed its Never-Ending Pasta Pass in a July 16 post on X. The chain wrote that the pass belongs only to the customer named on it, cannot be handed to anyone else, and requires a valid photo ID when the holder orders. White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller seized on the rule. “We’ve reached a point in society where access to fettuccine at Olive Garden is vastly more secure than deciding who is Commander-in-Chief of the country,” Miller said
United Airlines Is Offering Free Flight
Changes for Customers Angry Over Trump's
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United Airlines is offering free flight changes to customers who don’t want to fly into Florida’s newly renamed airport, honoring President Trump, according to an internal memo. The guidance issued by the airline appears aimed at customers who are offended by the renaming of Palm Beach International Airport to President Donald J. Trump International Airport, and wish to travel to another airport for that reason alone. "If a customer does not want to fly to the airport, use your empowerment to offer acceptable alternatives such as Fort Lauderdale Airport (FLL) or Miami International Airport (MIA)," the memo reads.
United Airlines denied how the memo was interpreted,
Trump says US being 'invaded by filthy
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The US-Canada relationship was already tense, and the wildfires aren't helping.(snip)
Now, Trump is threatening more tariffs - this time in response to wildfire smoke that is drifting from blazes burning in northern Ontario into the US.
Carney has not yet responded to the latest from Trump, but he did say yesterday that he believed fighting climate change is the responsibility of all countries, including the US.
Meanwhile, Ontario Premier Doug Ford noted earlier today that Canada has helped the US fight wildfires in California, and that it would welcome similar help in return.
When Joe Biden announced that he had written a memoir of his four years as president, the reaction on the blogosphere was mockery.
Even his most ardent defenders now admit that the guy was barely functional as president, that he was kept under lock and key by White House staff for most of four years, and that the mainstream press was in on the cover-up. [snip] Well, thanks to our contacts in the publishing world and the Dementia Society of America, we were able to obtain an exclusive copy of the original manuscript of “Promise Me, America” that Biden submitted
Iranian Regime's Insatiable Drive to Wipe
Out Jews, Christians, Minorities: World
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Out Jews, Christians, Minorities: World
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The Islamic Republic of Iran, since its 1979 Islamic Revolution, has operated as a terrorist state, using the IRGC and proxies such as Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis to advance its aims.
No diplomatic deal or agreement has ever permanently halted these activities: the regime views such pacts as temporary opportunities for enrichment and rearmament.
One rarely sees robust UN condemnations or widespread mainstream media outrage when Iranian attacks and plots against synagogues are carried out or disrupted.
Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is trying to win over Michigan voters by telling them his family's ties to the state go back to the 1800s. (snip) El-Sayed's parents came from Egypt, and this family is actually his stepmother's family, whom El-Sayed lived with while he was in college. So, no, his family's roots do not go back to the 1800s. (snip) "America is inherently racist, capitalistic, and an evil colonizer. Anyway, my family's been here for hundreds of years." That's what El-Sayed is saying.
The season of triangulation is upon us. First, presidential aspirant Rahm Emanuel tried to establish a compromise position on Israel to stave off the Democratic Party’s anti-Zionist bull rush. Now that the bull rush is on, Hakeem Jeffries—who will be speaker of the House if Democrats win enough seats in November—is trying a similar tactic.
Yesterday, more than 100 House Democrats voted to end aid to Israel. The battle appears lost—unsurprising, since the battle was almost entirely one-sided. So now Jeffries is negotiating the terms of his surrender, and those terms are similar to the ones Emanuel tried to sell to the same party.
Via Jewish Insider, Jeffries outlined some familiar principles.
Let’s see: Gulf War III is back in full swing, Mitch McConnell has become Schrodinger’s senator, but the biggest stories in America right now are a buffalo trying out to be an NFL placekicker, and Taco Bell deciding that a life-imitating-art menu is the best life after all. Too bad about the Whirled Cup soccer thing, but losing to . . . Belgium? Maybe we can appeal to the Whirled Court. Oh, wait. . .
Abe Greenwald’s July 15 newsletter discussed a bizarre scene in which Rep. Ro Khanna, an anti-Israel demagogue testing a run for president, was repeatedly badgered by left-wing podcasters to say that Palestinians have a right to kill Israelis, which they did on October 7.
The Dropsite podcasters were precisely the sort of company Khanna has been keeping lately—anti-Zionists obsessed with violence. As Abe wrote:
“Khanna came face to face with the lunacy of the mob that he’s been trying to please with tweets, speeches, stunts. And he let [Jeremy] Scahill down by refusing to speak the monstrous words that would have admitted him into the esteemed ranks of the radicals.
The United States military began conducting its seventh consecutive night of missile strikes Friday on Iran now that a ceasefire between the two countries has officially ended.
Fighting in the region resumed this week after negotiations failed to end the conflict, which was in a state of nominal ceasefire for months. In June, the countries signed a memorandum of understanding extending the ceasefire by 60 days.
"CENTCOM launched a round of strikes against Iran at 3 p.m. ET today for the seventh consecutive night," United States Central Command said on X. "The strikes are designed to continue degrading Iranian military capabilities at the Commander in Chief's direction."
Our Violent Left [Updated]
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Left-wing violence has become almost a daily fact of our political life. And I am not talking about the extreme left, I am talking about the left that represents the center of gravity in the Democratic Party.
Congressman Adam Smith illustrates the point in the tweet embedded below. Smith, the ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, is a former supporter of Israel who voted with 102 Democratic colleagues to cut off military aid to that country. Smith says he cast his vote to send a message to Prime Minister Netanyahu’s government, with which he is “frustrated.”
But this is perhaps the more salient point:
I am deeply concerned
Democratic strategist James Carville blasts
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major news networks for not carrying Trump speech replies
Democratic strategist James Carville criticized several major news outlets Friday for not airing President Donald Trump's primetime speech on Thursday, stating they missed an opportunity to show the president acting "loonier than a tune."
The strategist was referring to the president's speech, in which he presented new evidence detailing multiple security breaches in elections he said were concealed by a self-proclaimed "shadow government" and the Biden administration.
Mainstream media networks, ABC, CNN and NBC, all declined to show the speech on its news programs and opted to stream it online and show clips of it with commentary during their regular live programming.
Venezuela had plans to manipulate voting
machines, raising alarm in U.S. intel
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machines, raising alarm in U.S. intel
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From 2004 to 2020, the U.S. intelligence community monitored plans by the Venezuelan leadership to electronically manipulate their country’s own voting machines, including the use of substituting false votes, in order to secure victory for the ruling socialists.
President Donald Trump, who declassified intelligence information on those plans and released them to the public on Thursday, says the Venezuelan capabilities are evidence that American voting systems need to be better secured.
The Venezuelan plots specifically raised alarm bells in the United States because Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez collaborated with Smartmatic, a voting machine company that in 2005 acquired the U.S.-based Sequoia Voting Systems, to develop them.
Denmark to Ban Burkas in Schools and Universities
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The garment worn by some Muslim women is already banned in public places in the Scandinavian country, but the move would now expand the order into classrooms across Denmark.
In Denmark, the term ‘parallel societies’ refers to residential areas where more than half of inhabitants are from an immigrant background.
The ban on full-face coverings was introduced in Denmark in 2018, with those found to break the rule forced to pay a £1,300 fine.
Despite Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s move to extend the ‘burka ban’ to schools and universities, critics have argued that the use of the face coverings are not widespread in classrooms.
We all know that Attorney General James Uthmeier isn't playing around in Florida. When some locality decides it's going to infringe on gun rights and thumb its nose at the state's preemption law, he's quick to let them know they need to adjust their attitude or they're going to need their attorneys And in his latest fight, it sure didn't take long.
Uthmeier warned Winter Garden that it lacked the authority to declare a park as a gun-free zone. Cam wrote about that Thursday morning. Now, the signs are gone. I sincerely doubt it was an oversight. Someone somewhere decided to put that sign up,