A Brooklyn man was arrested for allegedly randomly punching a woman in New York City, one of a string of similar recent attacks that led to viral warnings on TikTok. Skiboky Stora, 40, was arraigned after being accused of hitting a 25-year-old woman in the head, injuring the left side of her face on March 25. He was arrested Wednesday …
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Former President Donald Trump attended the wake of slain NYPD officer Jonathan Diller on Thursday afternoon at a Massapequa Park funeral home, while calling for law and order. “Such a sad, sad event. Such a horrible thing. And it’s happening all too often and we’re just not going to let it happen,” Trump said. “We need law and order,” he …
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Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy has raised “about $240,000” for the family of fallen New York Police Department officer Jonathan Diller and vowed to match additional contributions. Diller, 31, was shot and killed after a routine traffic stop in Queens Monday night turned into a shootout with a suspect. Officer Diller left behind a young widow, Stephanie, and a one …
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A New York City Council member — who last year demanded “justice” for an “erratic” homeless man who died while being subdued by subway passengers he was threatening — is being cast as a hypocrite for questioning why ordinary citizens have seemingly ignored a recent string of violent attacks against women in the Big Apple. “Where are the men calling …
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Guy Rivera, the 34-year-old suspected of fatally shooting NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller during a traffic stop on Monday, is being charged with murder in connection with the officer’s death and attempted murder for allegedly turning the gun on his partner. Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced Thursday that the ex-con recidivist would face charges of first- and second-degree murder, first- …
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New York’s Metro Transportation Authority (MTA) voted to impose a first-in-the-nation traffic congestion pricing program on Wednesday. The MTA will now charge $15 for vehicles driving in certain areas of the city. The move, which passed on an 11-1 vote, outraged Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., who argues the new policy is nothing more than a “cash grab.” “Today’s vote was …
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New York City officials are defending a pilot program that hands out prepaid debit cards to illegal immigrants. The mayor, deputy mayors and other officials have defended the city’s trial run of the program, saying that the prepaid cards are intended for use purchasing essential supplies and not frivolous handouts. “There is no free money. These are not ATM cards. …
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Donald Trump won a huge legal victory with hours to spare – but you wouldn’t know it from much of the coverage. A striking number of anchors and pundits, especially on MSNBC, reported Trump’s appeals court victory when it broke on Monday, but soon were describing it as a bad ruling and lamented the fact that once again he seemed …
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New Yorkers were heard shouting atone of the two men arrested in the fatal shooting of NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller during his perp walk on Wednesday. Lindy Jones, the 41-year-old driver of the vehicle stopped by Diller and his partner for illegally parking at a bus stop, faces criminal possession of a weapon and defacing a firearm charges, the department …
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Famed American artist and sculptor Richard Serra, known for turning curving walls of rusting steel and other malleable materials into large-scale pieces of outdoor artwork that are now dotted across the world, died Tuesday at his home in Long Island, New York. He was 85. Considered one of his generation’s most preeminent sculptors, the San Francisco native originally studied painting …
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