A miliary veteran has hit the ground running in terms of helping other heroes. John Barnett, a U.S. Navy veteran and retired New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) police officer, has set out to run a marathon in all 50 U.S. states to raise awareness for local nonprofit Paws of War, which helps rescue and train service dogs for veterans. …
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Federal inmate caught running black market machine gun trade behind bars, authorities say
A federal inmate released from a Louisiana prison last week is back behind bars after prosecutors in New York say police caught him running a black market gun trade through a phone smuggled into his cell. Hayden Espinosa, 24, allegedly moderated a Telegram group named “3D Amendment,” a hub for 3D printing and trading guns and gun modifications, including auto …
Read More »Fiscal hawks slam ‘worst’ 2024 earmarks from both parties totaling $22B in spending
Government watchdog group Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) released the fiscal year 2024 edition of their “Pig Book” on Wednesday, chronicling what they considered the worst pork barrel spending offenders of the year. At the announcement, held just off Capitol Hill, several anti-earmark lawmakers also offered reaction and analysis to CAGW President Tom Schatz’s proverbial lowlights of government spending. Rep. …
Read More »Elderly woman struck by stray bullet outside her Brooklyn apartment
An 84-year-old woman was hospitalized on Monday evening after being struck by a stray bullet just outside her home. The victim, Althea Lawson, was sitting on her walker outside her Flatbush Gardens development at Brooklyn and Foster Avenues around 6:45 p.m. when she was struck by the bullet in her left arm, according to the NYPD. Enid Lawson, the woman’s …
Read More »Anti-Israel protesters light flares by NYC exhibit for Oct. 7 music festival victims: 'Long Live the Intifada'
Anti-Israel demonstrators were observed Monday night outside the Nova Music Festival Exhibition in New York City that memorializes the victims of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack. Protesters clashed with police during the rally outside the exhibit during what the protesters called a “citywide day of rage for Gaza,” video of the incident shows. The two sides were seen at one point …
Read More »Two plead guilty after fentanyl found in NYC day care led to fatal poisoning of child, sickened three others
Two of the four defendants charged in connection with the fatal overdose death of a 1-year-old boy, and poisoning of three other children at a Bronx, New York, day care last fall have pleaded guilty to criminal charges ahead of their trials. Damian Williams, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced Monday that 35-year-old Felix Herrera …
Read More »New docs show Bragg spent $1M on attorneys to address House probe of Trump case amid city budget cuts
EXCLUSIVE: Findings from more than 100 pages of documents gleaned through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request revealed that the prosecutor in NY v. Trump spent $1 million to respond to congressional oversight of his prosecution at a time New York City officials were demanding across-the-board budget cuts. Documents procured through litigation by the Oversight Project, a good-government transparency …
Read More »Should Trump have confidence in his lawyers? Legal experts weigh in
As attorneys for former President Donald Trump work behind the scenes on an appeal following his conviction in the New York v. Trump trial, legal observers speculated to Fox News Digital about whether the presumptive Republican nominee is confident in his legal team ahead of his sentencing hearing – scheduled just four days before the Republican National Convention. While under …
Read More »Jewish banker seen punching person at 'Pride' event mobbed by antisemitic 'Queers for Palestine' group: source
Brooklyn cellphone video appears to show a man punching a woman in the face on a sidewalk on the outskirts of a “Pride” event, sending her tumbling onto the pavement before he cuts off down a side street, exchanging swear words with onlookers – but there’s more to the story than a 10-second viral clip of the chaos shows, according …
Read More »Bowling alley beatdown leaves man, 21, critical after stabbing
A late evening at a trendy New York City bowling alley devolved into chaos after a group of suspects beat and stabbed a 21-year-old patron over an unknown dispute. The bowler was repeatedly kicked and punched in the face and body in the altercation at The Gutter on Essex Street on the Lower East Side around 1:40 a.m. Monday, an …
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