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The New York Police Department’s chief of patrol told Fox News on Wednesday its investigative unit has identified and is further investigating details about outside “infiltrators” on Columbia University’s campus that many believe are responsible for the violent turn in the demonstrations. After a group of protesters burglarized Hamilton Hall, police engaged in an operation to detain those who were …

A man was stabbed Wednesday outside a New York City hotel being used to house migrants, authorities said. The 23-year-old victim sustained a flesh wound to the back of the neck outside The Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown Manhattan, the New York Police Department told Fox News Digital. The hotel has been converted into a migrant shelter for newly-arrived asylum seekers. …

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s Theater of the Absurd entered its third week, still without any evidence of crimes committed by the accused. Playwright Samuel Beckett would be proud.The Trump hush money trial is like “Waiting for Godot” —a chaotic and nonsensical plot of absurdist fiction.The titular Godot, of course, never arrives.It is an apt metaphor for Bragg’s case against …

Former President Trump railed against the anti-Israel chaos on Columbia University’s campus, calling the school’s president “weak” for not squelching the unrest when it first arose. “New York was under siege last night,” Trump said Wednesday during a rally in Waukesha, Wisconsin. “She waited so long. She was so weak. She was so afraid. She was so bad,” Trump continued, …

A Columbia University professor tells Fox News Digital that the anti-Israel demonstrations unfolding on the Ivy League campus at the end of the day are no longer about the Jewish State or Palestinians, but about “whether mob violence can bring our great university to a halt.” Law professor Joshua Mitts spoke Tuesday after a group of agitators invaded Columbia University’s …

The majestic Empire State Building, now the Grand Old Lady of the New York City skyline, opened amid great civic fanfare just 14 months after construction on it began on this day in history, May 1, 1931. The skyscraper “must long remain one of the outstanding glories of a great city,” President Herbert Hoover said, flipping a ceremonial switch in …

New York City Mayor Eric Adams lauded the NYPD on Wednesday after officers swept through anti-American and anti-Israel mobs at two major college campuses overnight, locking up hundreds of agitators. He then ripped into the “despicable” academic environment that allowed the groups to fester. He singled out an incident when NYPD officers tore down a Palestinian flag that protesters had …

Donald Trump’s hush money trial was back in action yesterday, and there was news right out of the box. Judge Juan Merchan, to absolutely no one’s surprise, ruled that Trump had violated his gag order – and fined him $9,000. Now that’s just pocket change for him, but the larger point is that Merchan ruled against the former president on …

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., blasted the United Nations on social media platform X for failing to condemn Hamas for months after Oct. 7 while voicing concerns about how the U.S. has treated anti-Israel agitators. “UN: Unwilling to condemn Hamas who killed, raped, mutilated and tortured more than 1,000 Israeli babies, children, women, and elderly,” Fetterman wrote, adding “Also UN:” followed …

The New York City Police Department released footage Tuesday night of its raid inside a Columbia University building after being given permission to take it back from anti-Israel agitators. Hamilton Hall, which was overtaken late Monday night, was cleared at around 11 p.m. Tuesday after a nearly two-hour operation by NYPD officers, most of whom were in riot gear. The …