A teenage anti-Israel agitator who police say defaced aWorld War Imemorial in New York City earlier this week has been arrested and charged, the NYPD says. The 16-year-old boy is accused of defacing the 107th United States Infantry monument, located along Central Park on the Upper East Side, by spray-painting “Gaza” in red across the base of the structure. NYPD …
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Former President Trump’s criminal trial will resume Friday after Judge Juan Merchan, for the second time, denied his defense attorney’s request for a mistrial following salacious testimony from Stormy Daniels. Daniels, who claims to have had a sexual encounter with Trump in 2006, took the stand for cross-examination Thursday morning after hours of questioning Tuesday that even the judge called …
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The unprecedented criminal trial of former President Trump resumes Thursday morning with continued cross-examination of adult film actress Stormy Daniels after the 2024 presumptive presidential nominee and his attorneys were denied in their motion for a mistrial amid her salacious and “unnecessary” testimony.Trump’s defense team is reportedly planning a longer route to dissect the wild card witness. Trump has pleadednot …
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Judge Juan Merchan on Thursday denied a request for a mistrial and a modification of the gag order by Trump defense attorneys, who argued that the former president should be able to defend himself against Stormy Daniels’ salacious and “prejudicial” testimony. Trump defense attorney Todd Blanche first requested a mistrial on Tuesday after Daniels’ first day on the stand but …
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New York City is facing a lawsuit from a gay male employee who argues that the city’s policy of only providing in vitro fertilization coverage to women is discriminatory. The Thursday lawsuit was filed by former assistant district attorney Corey Briskin and his husband, who say they had to put off plans for IVF due to the lack of financial …
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Trump defense attorneys on Thursday said Stormy Daniels’ story about an alleged sexual encounter with the former president keeps changing because the affair never happened. Defense attorney for former President Trump Susan Necheles led the continued cross-examination of Daniels on Thursday, after her hourslong testimony on Tuesday that prompted the Trump team to motion for a mistrial, calling it “unnecessary” …
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Rep. Anthony D’Esposito, R-N.Y., penned a letter to Columbia President Minouche Shafik on Wednesday, asking for a list of graduating students from his district so that he can organize for them “the graduation ceremony they deserve” after the Ivy League school canceled its main commencement ceremony. D’Esposito said he finds it “appalling that Columbia University students have been deprived of …
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A union representing custodians at Columbia University says it is gearing up to sue the Ivy League school for its response to the anti-Israel protests, in which its members allegedly were targeted by “spoiled” and “bratty” agitators who temporarily took over a campus building. TWU International President John Samuelsen told ‘Fox & Friends’ on Thursday that his rank and file …
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Former President Trump announced Thursday morning that his defense team in the NY v. Trump case has filed a motion to appeal the “unconstitutional gag order” that was imposed on the 45th president, restricting what he can publicly say about the case. “I just want to let you know that we’ve just filed a major motion in the appellate division …
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The chancellor of New York City Public Schools on Wednesday told lawmakers on Capitol Hill that there have been 281 antisemitic and Islamophobic incidents within his school system since Hamas launched its attack on Israel on Oct. 7, but one case troubles him the most. David Banks made the admission to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education …
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