Two Trump cases converged in the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday, when Justice Brett Kavanaugh asked a penetrating question.What’s to stop a “creative prosecutor” from using a “vague statute” to prosecute a president, especially, a prosecutor from the “opposing party”? In the Age of Trump, the answer is nothing.That’s precisely what Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is doing to the …
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The start date for the $15 toll most drivers will be charged to enter Manhattan’s central business district will be June 30, transit officials said Friday. Under the so-called congestion pricing plan, the $15 fee will apply to most drivers who enter Manhattan south of 60th Street during daytime hours. Tolls will be higher for larger vehicles and lower for …
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Anti-Israel agitators at Columbia University filed a civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) on Thursday demanding an investigation of “discriminatory treatment of Palestinian students and their allies” after NYPD officers arrested over a hundred demonstrators this week. The group said the students had been “peacefully protesting Israel’s genocide.” “Columbia’s vicious crackdown on …
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The Columbia University student who discussed “murdering Zionists” was “banned from campus” Friday, according to a university spokesperson. Junior Khymani James expressed “regret” early Friday after he went viral online for previously suggesting people should be “grateful” he wasn’t “murdering Zionists,” whom he likened to “White supremacists” and “Nazis.” Without explicitly mentioning what they were, James copped to inflammatory comments …
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NEW YORK CITY – As Columbia University officials continue to negotiate with a group of anti-Israel agitators who set up tents on a lawn at the heart of campus, Jewish and Israeli students say the presence and the aggression of the protesters has them afraid to walk through the area after sundown. “I’ve had a friend who was beaten up,” …
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Wednesday confirmed that foreign students could potentially face deportation if they are suspended from their courses while on a student visa — just as anti-Israel protests have engulfed Columbia University and other American colleges. With anti-Israel protests taking place at Columbia and college campuses across the country, which have included antisemitic rhetoric and …
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An anti-Israel student group behind a fiery protest on the campus of Columbia University in New York City says it walked away from talks with school leaders until administrators pledge not to have them arrested or forcefully removed from their encampment on the Ivy League institution’s West Lawn. “Since good faith negotiations are impossible if one side threatens to use …
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Former U.S. Rep. George Santos has announced the end of his independent campaign to re-enter the House less than two months into his run. Santos was running to unseat Rep. Nick LaLota — a Republican who represents New York’s 1st Congressional District — after being expelled from Congress earlier this year. “I have decided to withdraw from my independent run …
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House Speaker Mike Johnson is calling Wednesday for Columbia University President Minouche Shafik to resign over her handling of anti-Israel demonstrations on campus, calling her “very weak” and “inept.” Johnson said during a radio interview with Hugh Hewitt that he is holding a press conference at Columbia University later today “with some of my colleagues from the HouseRepublicans from NewYork …
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Rep. Ilhan Omar’s, D-Minn., daughter Isra Hirsi claimed over the weekend that she and fellow anti-Israel protesters faced “physical harm” from opponents spraying “chemical weapons” while protesting at Columbia University. Columbia University has been engulfed in protests over Israel’s ongoing military operation in Gaza. Hirsi was suspended from Barnard College, one of Columbia’s undergraduate schools, and arrested by the NYPD …
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