New York Post,
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Ben Feuerherd
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Two activists who torched an NYPD homeless outreach van on a Greenwich Village street in 2020 were each sentenced to six months in prison on Friday—as a federal judge chided the well-educated, radical duo for the “aberrant act.” The firebugs, Elaine Carberry, 38, and Corey Smith, 26, will also have to serve six months in home confinement when they’re sprung from federal prison and pay more than $72,000 in restitution, Judge Lewis Liman ordered. At the sentencing Friday morning, Liman credited both Smith and Carberry as being active members in New York’s LGBTQ community and said he believed they are committed to social justice—but added their crime
Daily Mail (UK),
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Janon Fisher
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The accused New York City shoplifters that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defended as struggling families forced into a life of crime due to lack of federal support are actually repeat offenders who have lengthy rap sheets.(Snip)Among the dozen arrested, Weston Coot, 38, of Grand Concourse, had been convicted of assault after he glassed a man in the face in a Hell's Kitchen bar fight in 2009. It was his second felony arrest. He has eight arrests in his rap sheet.
Tanya Thomas, 43, has 26 priors, including prostitution and robbery. Euniya Morales, 34, of Claremont Village, has been arrested 22 times, including for assault. Annieza Saulmarshall, 39, of Highbridge,
Agence France-Presse & Daily Mail (UK),
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Ronny Reyes
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The teacher wife of a US Navy nuclear engineer pleaded guilty Friday to taking part in a plot to sell submarine secrets to a foreign country, just four days after her husband admitted his crimes and told prosecutors he'd help them nail her. Former private school teacher Diana Toebbe, 46, admitted taking part in her husband Jonathan Toebbe's plan to sell information on US nuclear submarines to an unidentified foreign buyer, suspected to be in France. The plea deal she struck means she will serve a maximum of 36 months in prison, far shorter than the 12-and-a-half to 17 years her spouse faces, and the maximum life term
Daily Mail (UK),
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Geoff Earle
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A Georgian-American businessman is renewing his own Hillary Clinton 'spy' allegation–charging in a new legal filing that former Clinton lawyer Jeannie Rhee 'infiltrated' Robert Mueller's team and penned the infamous 'golden showers' passage in the Mueller Report.
Giorgi Rtskhiladze was identified in a tantalizing footnote deep inside the Mueller report that connected him to the infamous and never-substantiated golden showers episode purported to involve Donald Trump–an inclusion that the businessman says ruined his reputation and cost him hundreds of millions of dollars. Now, after a federal judge dismissed his 2021 lawsuit, he has asked the court to reopen the case–and this time he is focusing
Daily Mail (UK),
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Mansur Shaheen
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Katelyn Caralle
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Surgeon General Dr Vivek Murthy has tested positive for COVID-19, he announced in an 11 tweet Twitter thread Friday. His wife, Alice, and five year old son are infected as well. The news comes days after he revealed that his four year old daughter had contracted the virus.
'Update: my 5 year old son, my wife Alice, and I have all tested positive for COVID-19.(Snip)Biden's top health official wrote a seperate, eight tweet thread, about his daughters infection earlier this week, where he clamored for regulators to approve Covid vaccines for young children.
Washington Times,
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Bill Gertz
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Beijing’s expanding military poses a “significant threat” to the United States and the Pentagon is not ready for a conflict with China, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office. “Today, China has transformed what was an obsolete military into one that can challenge the U.S. military across the spectrum of conventional and unconventional capabilities,” the GAO said in a report made public this week. Key weaknesses identified by the congressional watchdog agency include military readiness shortfalls, force mobility problems and supply chain issues needed for new F-35 warplanes.(Snip)Other problems identified by GAO include vulnerabilities in weapons systems that can be exploited by Chinese cyberattacks,
Daily Mail (UK),
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Janon Fisher
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez lashed out at the NYPD and her colleagues in Congress over the arrests of 12 shoplifters for stealing diapers and baby formula in the Bronx, saying the removal of the child tax credit by the federal government was to blame for the crime. The shoplifters stole $1,800 worth of diapers, baby wipes, laundry detergent and other household goods which are easy to resell on the streets. 'It's much easier to frame people who steal baby formula and medicine as monsters to be jailed than acknowledge our politics and economic priorities create conditions where people steal baby formula to survive,' she posted in response to a police department tweet,
Washington Times,
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Stephen Dinan
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Afghan evacuees made it to U.S. soil without being checked through all the government’s security databases, an inspector general reported Thursday in a devastating investigation that confirms critics’ worst fears about the program. After rerunning some of the names, officials spotted at least 50 Afghans with “potentially significant security concerns” who made it the U.S. despite the Biden administration’s assurances to the contrary. Making matters worse, the government appears to have lost track of most of them inside the U.S., the Defense Department’s inspector general said. It looked at a sampling of 31 security risk evacuees identified as of Sept. 17 and found only three could be located.
New York Post,
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Isabel Vincent
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The beleaguered Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation has been kicked off Amazon’s charity platform for its failure to disclose where tens of millions in donations it received nearly two years ago have ended up. AmazonSmile, which gives a portion of eligible purchases on the online shopping site to charities, said it “had to temporarily suspend” the group today, an Amazon spokesperson told The Post. “States have rules for nonprofits, and organizations participating in AmazonSmile need to meet those rules,” the spokesperson said. “Unfortunately this organization fell out of compliance with the rules in several states, so we’ve had to temporarily suspend them from the program until
Washington Times,
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Jeff Mordock
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An Obama-era Treasury Department official on Thursday accused President Biden of being “dishonest” about the causes of surging inflation that has vexed consumers. Steven Rattner, who served as counsel to the Treasury secretary, said In a New York Times op-ed that Mr. Biden’s insistence on blaming the supply chain crisis for rising inflation is “both simplistic and misleading.” “Blaming inflation on supply lines is like complaining about your sweater keeping you too warm after you’ve added several logs to the fireplace,” Mr. Rattner said.(Snip)Instead, Mr. Rattner said “vast amounts of government rescue aid,” underspending during the COVID-19 pandemic and the rise in private-sector resignations
New York Post,
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Tina Moore
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Tamar Lapin
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A self-described “professional booster” with 96 arrests on her record was nabbed again this week for allegedly stealing from an Upper East Side Target—and then released at her arraignment on Thursday, The Post has learned. Michelle Mckelley, 42, allegedly boasted about her “hustle” at the store on Third Avenue near East 70th Street, telling cops, “I haven’t got caught in a long time,” after her latest bust Wednesday, prosecutors said in Manhattan Criminal Court. “I’m a professional booster. Y’all are stopping my hustle,” the serial shoplifter allegedly told officers.(Snip)The brazen “booster” has one felony conviction, two misdemeanor convictions and has failed to show up to court
Agence France-Presse & Daily Mail (UK),
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Jimmy Mccloskey
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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has admitted soaring US inflation is 'not acceptable'—then insisted the American economy would be even worse were it not for the very spending by the Biden administration that has been blamed for soaring prices. Speaking to AFP, Yellen said of the rise in cost of living—which hit 7.5 per cent last month: 'Inflation is clearly a great concern to Americans, and it really needs to be addressed. 'Certainly it's not acceptable to stay at current levels.' Her words were in marked contrast to Joe Biden's, who has repeatedly insisted that surging inflation figures are 'elevated,' and a temporary phenomenon. Yellen—who is America's first female
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There they be, the faces of New America. Maybe they could replace Andrew Jackson on the $20. The same idiot government that freely hands out money to criminals, then wastes even more money trying to get a small fraction of it back, also wants to monitor all of our financial transactions, as if any good could come of that (even setting aside any concerns about personal privacy).