“Everything old is new again.” Whether it was Mark Twain or Winston Churchill or Jonathan Swift who popularized the adage, it’s a pithy truth that is lost on Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and his merry band of prosecutors. On day two of their farcical case against Donald Trump, they seemed ecstatic to elicit from their first witness that an …
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Anti-Israel campus protesters make demand of administrators, vow to stay put until universities meet it
Students at a growing number of U.S. colleges and universities are forming anti-Israel protest encampments with a unified demand that their schools stop doing business with Israel. Inspired by ongoing protests and the arrests last week of more than 100 students at Columbia University in New York City, seen at the epicenter of the ongoing demonstrations, students from Massachusetts to …
Read More »Homeowners score victory against squatters in New York after landlord handcuffed in $1M home heist
The “optics” of a homeowner handcuffed after changing the locks on a squatter in her Queens home worth $1 million pushed New York lawmakers to enact a harsh new law to protect property owners, a real estate attorney told Fox News Digital. A portion of New York’s 2024 state budget agreement, signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul Monday, specifically …
Read More »NYU requested NYPD to gain control of ‘disorderly’ anti-Israel protest: ‘Did not need to lead to this’
After an anti-Israel protest escalated at New York University on Monday – requiring city police presence – the university released a statement explaining while it supports students’ rights to protest, safety remains its priority. This comes after the New York City Police Department arrested numerous people following a request from NYU for police to clear Gould Plaza of people refusing …
Read More »NYU students stage walkout following violent anti-Israel protests
A group called the NYU Palestine Solidarity Coalition led New York University students to walk out of classes Tuesday following violent anti-Israel protests that unfolded there last night. Students and others gathered in Washington Square Park in Manhattan “to reflect, debrief [and] strategize,” the group said. Anti-Israel protests at New York University’s campus turned violent Monday night when demonstrators hurled …
Read More »In Trump trial, Manhattan DA Bragg's hocus-pocus case exposed on first day
Hocus-pocus is a meaningless distraction or illusion that is intended to fool.That neatly summarizes District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case against Donald Trump.The DA hopes to snooker a Manhattan jury into convicting the former president with a bag of legal tricks. In most courtrooms, the chicanery would never work.But in this Trump-hating venue the defendant’s jury of purported peers are likely …
Read More »Israeli consulate in New York ‘deeply troubled’ by ‘rise in anti-Semitic incidents’ at Columbia, NYU
The Israeli consulate in New York City tells Fox News Digital Tuesday that it is “deeply troubled” by the “recent rise in anti-Semitic incidents” unfolding at schools such as Columbia and New York University. The Consulate General of Israel in New Yorksaid “Such acts contravene free speech principles and have no place in academia.” “We are deeply troubled and strongly …
Read More »NYC riots: Anti-Israel agitators hurl bottles at NYPD, form human chain amid mass arrests
Anti-Israel protests at New York University’s (NYU) campusturned violent Monday nightwhen demonstrators hurled bottles at police officers who were sent to the scene to disperse a large unruly crowd, officials said. NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry posted a video to X taken from a live news feed showing several airborne bottles being flung at police. The NYPD inserted …
Read More »Trump trial to resume with gag order arguments, testimony from ex-National Enquirer publisher
Judge Juan Merchan is expected to hear arguments Tuesday on whether former President Trump violated the gag order imposed upon him in his criminal trial. The former president and presumptive Republican presidential nominee will be back in court Tuesday with his attorneys at 9:30 a.m. as Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and prosecutors allege he violated the gag order in …
Read More »NY prosecutors reveal 'another crime' Trump allegedly tried to conceal with falsified business records
New York prosecutors on Tuesday revealed the other crime they allege that former President Trump was trying to conceal when he allegedly falsified his business records. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg charged Trump with 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. For prosecutors to secure a criminal conviction, they must convince the jury that Trump committed the …
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