New York Daily News,
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Rocco Parascandola*
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Mayor Adams bragged in 2019 about being a better police officer than his “cracker” colleagues in the NYPD, the Daily News has learned.
Adams, who was at the time gearing up to launch his campaign for mayor, went on the racially-charged diatribe while at a private event in Harlem on Dec. 13, 2019, a video exclusively obtained by The News shows. “Every day in the Police Department, I kicked those crackers’ a--,” Adams says in the video. “Man, I was unbelievable in the Police Department with 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement,” he continued, referring to a police advocacy group he co-founded in the 1990s.
Daily Mail (UK),
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Andrea Cavallier
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Federal workers in Portland went off on city commissioners over the 'intolerable' and 'dangerous' conditions of the downtown area outside federal buildings, where they describe having to 'step over discarded needles and people sleeping in doorways to get to work.'
On Wednesday, the City Council heard from two people who both live and work in downtown Portland who demanded that the situation be addressed, specifically, the massive homeless encampment outside federal buildings. 'Trash and human waste are everywhere,' Dar Crammond, director of the U.S. Geological Survey's Oregon Water Science Center, said at the meeting. 'Drug dealing is rife, and we often have to step over discarded needles and sleeping forms
Guardian [U.K.],
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Oliver Milman
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The Covid-19 pandemic has seen two pernicious trends emerge as to how Americans are getting around their country: public transit is struggling with a reduced number of paying customers, while there has been a sharp increase in car crash deaths. The shuttering of businesses, the rise of working from home and a fear of contracting the coronavirus saw public transport use plummet across the US–commuter rail alone reported a 79% decline in ridership in the year to September 2020. Despite a slight resurgence in 2021, trips taken on all modes of public transit are still around half of what they were before the pandemic, federal government figures show.
Daily Mail (UK),
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Snejana Farberov
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North Las Vegas police have released a dozen harrowing 911 calls from last week's deadly six-car pileup that killed nine people, including a family of seven with four children. 'There's bodies everywhere. Adults and children. Come fast,' one horrified onlooker told an emergency dispatcher shortly after the collision on Commerce Avenue in Las Vegas last Saturday. 'Oh my God. My God! Get down, it’s a kid, it’s a kid, Don’t look!' another 911 caller said in Spanish.(Snip)Police said the horror crash was caused by Gary Robinson, 59, a career criminal with a lengthy history of speeding charges, who blew through a red light at 100mph and smashed
New York Post,
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Emily Crane
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Conservative lawmakers in Iowa are pushing to have cameras installed in public school classrooms to allow parents to watch via livestreams—as the debate over critical race theory continues to rage. The lawmakers introduced the bill this week that would see cameras put in almost every K-12 classroom, with the exception of physical education and special needs classes. Teachers who fail to keep the camera recording, or obstruct its view, could be fined up to 5 percent of their weekly salary each time they are caught doing it, according to the bill.(Snip)Florida recently introduced a similar bill to have cameras and microphones installed in public school classrooms.
Daily Mail (UK),
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Elmira Tanatarova
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Chris Jewers
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More than 3,900 people are 'interested' in a Facebook event calling for Rotterdam residents to throw rotten eggs Jeff Bezos's newly built-superyacht, for which a historic Dutch bridge will be dismantled. The bill to allow the yacht to pass through being footed by the Amazon billionaire, with the £400million, 417ft (127 metre) Y721 set to be the biggest sailing yacht in the world when it is completed this year in the Netherlands, overtaking the current largest ocean-going passenger ship Sea Cloud.(Snip)'Rotterdam was built from the rubble by the people of Rotterdam, and we don't just take that apart for the pha**us symbol of a megalomaniac billionaire.
Daily Mail (UK),
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Morgan Phillips
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Vice President Kamala Harris said Wednesday that it was Congress's fault President Biden could not fulfill his promise on immigration reform. In an interview with Noticias Telemundo, Biden's 'root causes' immigration czar was asked: 'Elections are in a couple months' time. I'm sure you are aware the border is going to be an issue, also President Biden promised immigration reform he hasn't been able to deliver. Why would you say Latinos should vote for the Democrats this November?' Harris sidestepped the question, instead saying that 'Congress is not acting' on immigration.(Snip)'The way our democracy works is you need a majority and sometimes in the Senate you need 60
Associated Press,
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Washington—A wandering chicken was caught sneaking around a security area at the Pentagon, a local animal welfare organization said.
The loose hen was found early Monday morning near the U.S. Department of Defense headquarters, the Animal Welfare League of Arlington, Virginia, wrote on social media. "Apparently, the answer to 'why did the chicken cross the road' is to get to the Pentagon," the group posted.(Snip)The hen—which has brown feathers and a red comb and wattles—is a Rhode Island Red. Jones described the bird as “sweet” and “nervous” but said she has allowed some people to pet her. She's now known as Henny Penny,
Richmond Times-Dispatch [VA],
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Mark Bowes
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The former director of financial aid at Reynolds Community College was indicted by a federal grand jury Tuesday on charges of orchestrating a scheme spanning eight years that defrauded Virginia and the U.S. Department of Education of $379,608 in federal and state student loan funds. Keisha Lashawn Pope, 47, is accused of using her access to Reynolds’ financial aid systems to boost the financial aid eligibility for several co-conspirators—her son, her former fiancé, her goddaughter and a cousin—who were not eligible for aid at the college, authorities said. The 10-count indictment alleges that Pope had kickback agreements in place with the co-conspirators to receive roughly
New York Daily News,
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Ellen Moynihan *
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A slain young Central Park carriage driver took one final horse-drawn ride to his Brooklyn funeral. The body of stabbing victim Anthony D’Onofrio, just 22, arrived in a horse-drawn hearse Thursday outside St. Finbar Catholic Church for a sad farewell only five days after the fatal attack outside a problem-plagued Brooklyn bar.(Snip)According to friends, D’Onofrio—a well-known second-generation member of the city’s carriage horse community since he was age 8—was in the wrong place at the wrong time when he was targeted in the 10-man melee Saturday outside Catrinas Mexican Grill.(Snip)Cops arrested murder suspect Kevin Cuatlacuati, 19,
Daily Mail (UK),
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Emily Craig
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A new super-mutant HIV strain that makes infected individuals ill twice as fast as current versions of the virus has been detected in the Netherlands. The new mutant—called the VB variant—has infected at least 109 people, according to a study by Oxford University.
The strain damages the immune system and weakens a person's ability to fight everyday infections and disease faster than previous versions of the virus. It means those who catch this strain could develop AIDS more quickly. The VB variant also has a viral load between 3.5 and 5.5 times higher than the current strain, meaning infected people are more likely to transmit the virus
New York Post,
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Caitlin Sutherland
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A secretive liberal dark-money juggernaut spent more than a billion dollars in 2020 to help President Biden win the White House, take the US Senate and hold the US House of Representatives. This group, Arabella Advisors, isn’t a household name, but if there is a liberal cause that you’ve heard of, Arabella is likely funding it. And now the group is turning its attention to the Supreme Court.(Snip)With its base of billionaire donors including Bill and Melinda Gates, Pierre Omidyar and Hansjörg Wyss, the Arabella network doles out money to hundreds of stand-alone organizations across the country, as well as the liberal pop-up groups they establish
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It's a strange double standard. Free market American employers are at liberty to require employees to take regular gene therapy injections, or to be fired. So why can't employers make them drink alcohol, or check out their breasts and crotch if that's what they want to do?