New York Post,
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Selim Algar
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The Department of Education has allocated well over a quarter billion dollars to cover gaping school budget deficits tied to ongoing student enrollment declines, The Post has learned. The DOE will give city public schools a total of $323 million dollars this year to help them cover basic costs—including teacher salaries, according to a memo released last week.(Snip)“There are a lot of schools that have lost entire chunks of their enrollment,” said a DOE source. “That means a lot less money for the principal. So they are basically covering the salaries of teachers who they don’t necessarily need this year.” The memo states that 78 percent
Daily Mail (UK),
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Nikki Schwab
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President Joe Biden's administration has requested an additional $30 billion more in COVID funding to go toward the pandemic response.
Axios first reported the figure, which was brought up in a call between members of the Department of Health & Human Services and Congressional staff, adding that members of both political parties are skeptical of the amount with surging inflation and a ballooning national deficit. 'HHS's briefing today or this afternoon was a part of our regular conversations with Congress about various resources and needs including what is needed for COVID response,' White House press secretary Jen Psaki said when asked about the $30 billion figure at Tuesday's briefing.
Daily Mail (UK),
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An Alberta man arrested during a weapons-cache bust near the Canadian border is an 'incredibly good human being' and a single father of two, a friend says. Calgary resident Johnson Chichow Law, 39, was among 11 people charged Monday in the Village of Coutts, near the Montana border. Police seized multiple long guns, hundreds of bullets, and body armor during their investigation. Law, who was charged with mischief and possession of a weapon, looks after his two young daughters full-time and is a hard worker, a friend said.(Snip)The mayor described the individuals as outside agitators who came to town after the protest began.
New York Post,
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John Podhoretz
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P.J. O’Rourke, who has died at the age of 74, once hosted a small New Year’s party at his apartment in Washington. The year was 1990. He’d just returned from Germany, where he had covered the fall of the Berlin Wall. I expressed my sorrow that I hadn’t been there to see it. He went into his bedroom and returned with a small tin of mints. He’d emptied it—and he’d put a shard of the wall he’d pickaxed himself with his own hands inside it. “Happy New Year,” he said.(Snip)It isn’t an exaggeration to say that P.J. was, for a long time, the only cool conservative writer
New York Post,
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A shoplifter scuffled with a security guard at a Manhattan Duane Reade Tuesday morning—a brazen theft that unfolded right in front of The Post as it reported on an earlier armed heist at the same store.
The caught-on-camera fracas took place shortly after 10 a.m. at the drug store at 410 Park Ave. South, where security guard Augustine Nwando said he noticed a shopper try to leave the store without paying for a bag full of items. Nwando shouted at the suspect to stop, leading to a scuffle that spilled out onto the sidewalk between East 27th and East 28th streets—and immediately in front of
Associated Press,
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Washington—Federal safety regulators say they will retain power to approve Boeing 787 airliners for flight rather than return that authority to the aircraft maker, which hasn't been able to deliver any new Dreamliner planes since last May because of production flaws. The Federal Aviation Administration said it told Boeing of its decision Tuesday. The FAA said that once deliveries of 787s resume, it will perform final inspections and retain power to clear each new plane until it is confident that Boeing’s quality control and manufacturing “consistently produce 787s that meet FAA design standards.” It also said Boeing must have a plan for handling planes that need reworking.
New York Post,
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A Queens man with 167 arrests on his record was busted yet again this week for shoplifting from a Rite Aid on the Upper East Side, The Post has learned. Jamel Pringle, 39, was nabbed around 8:15 a.m. Monday for stealing 48 items worth close to $430 from the drug store on Second Avenue near East 96th Street, police and Manhattan prosecutors said Tuesday. As with most of his prior arrests, he was charged with petit larceny—a misdemeanor that is not bail-eligible under the state’s new criminal justice reform law.(Snip)Pringle’s criminal history is “extensive” and includes one felony conviction, 88 misdemeanor convictions and 39 failures
Associated Press,
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Fatima Hussein
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Washington—If there’s one thing that pains everyone trying to reach the IRS at tax time, it’s being stuck on endless hold. Well, not everyone. E. Martin Davidoff’s accounting firm spends upwards of $5,000 a year to a company that can zip him and others to the front of the line to get through to an IRS customer service representative. He says paying for enQ’s line-jumping service cuts out hours every day that he would otherwise spend waiting to talk to an agent. “It’s the epitome of American entrepreneurship,” says Davidoff, who heads the National Tax Controversy Practice for Prager Metis in New Jersey. Consumer advocates are less enamored
Daily Mail (UK),
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Chris Matthews
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Russia has started a 'hybrid war', it was feared tonight, as several key Ukrainian websites, including banks, government departments and the ministry of defence, were hit by a massive cyber attack.
Ukraine has been under constant attack from Russian and Kremlin-backed hackers since Moscow's 2014 annexation of Crimea. Cyber espionage, damage to databases and servers, disruption to power and communications and disinformation are all now routine weapons in the Russian armoury. Tonight, several major Ukrainian banks, including PrivatBank, Oschad and the State Savings Bank of Ukraine, experienced issues with transactions and mobile apps, along with other outages at the Ministry of defence and armed services websites.
New York Post,
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Amanda Woods
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A pair of robbers swiped paper towels from a Manhattan Duane Reade–one of them using a box cutter to threaten an employee who tried to intervene, authorities said. A man and woman snatched four packs of the towels from the shelves at the drug store on Park Avenue South near East 28th Street around 9:10 a.m. Jan. 27, cops said. When a 43-year-old worker confronted the duo, the male suspect pulled a box cutter on her and snarled, “If you keep recording, I will hurt you,” police said.(Snip)The incident came about two weeks before a shoplifter brutally attacked a female store employee who confronted
Daily Mail (UK),
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Emily Craig
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Lyme disease could become a thing of the past as scientists believe they may soon be able to stop ticks transmitting the bacterial infection. US experts have found a way of editing the genes of the spider-like creatures, which feed on blood. It opens the possibility to researchers being able to alter parts of a tick's DNA that helps them carry and transmit the disease-causing bacteria. And the discovery could pave the way for genetically-engineered ticks, which are unable to spread illness, to be released into the wild. A similar tactic has already been used on mosquitoes as part of trials to cut the spread of malaria
Daily Mail (UK) & Wires,
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Keith Griffith
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Wholesale inflation in the United States surged again last month, rising 9.7 percent from a year earlier in another sign that price pressures remain high at all levels of the economy. The producer price index for final demand, which measures inflation before it reaches consumers, jumped 1 percent last month after climbing just 0.4 percent in December, the Labor Department said on Tuesday.
Companies facing higher wholesale and raw materials costs have shown no hesitation to pass along the higher prices to consumers, and the latest data suggests that further increases are coming at the retail level. With consumer price increases hitting a 40-year high of 7.5 percent
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Various arrests over the years, was refused money while panhandling and suddenly became violent, stabbing people at random. Homeless people truly are an expensive luxury for any city.