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Zohran Mamdani Considers Controversial Lawyer for Top City Hall Role • Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is considering Ramzi Kassem for a senior City Hall position. • Kassem previously helped defend Ahmed al-Darbi, an al-Qaeda member convicted over the 2002 bombing of a French oil tanker off Yemen. • He also defended Mahmoud Khalil, a Syrian-born pro-Palestinian […]

Retired FBI Supervisory Agent James Gagliano breaks down the search for video footage of the suspect accused of killing two and injuring nine others at Brown University.

Vance: If you have fewer people, fewer illegal aliens trying to buy homes, that means American citizens are finally going to be able to afford a home again. It’s very, very simple economics

A mass shooting in which 15 people were killed during a Chanukah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach was “a terrorist attack inspired by Islamic State,” Australia’s federal police commissioner Krissy Barrett said Tuesday. The suspects were a father and son, aged 50 and 24, authorities have said. The older man was shot dead while his son was […]

CATSKILLS: A multi-vehicle MVA occurred in front of the Walgreens on Broadway in Monticello, involving a rollover. Catskills Hatzalah, the Monticello Fire Department, Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office, and Monticello Police responded to the scene. Injuries were reported.

Rainfall on Hormuz Island, located off Iran’s southern coast in the Persian Gulf, has turned the water deep red as iron-rich soil washes into the sea. The striking color is a natural phenomenon caused by high levels of iron oxide in the island’s soil, which becomes visible after heavy rain.

Vice President JD Vance on the economy: The average American family lost $3,000 of take home pay through the terrible inflation of the Biden administration…

Newly declassified emails reviewed by Fox News show FBI officials expressed concerns about probable cause ahead of the August 2022 search of President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence, while the Justice Department maintained the standard was met. According to the documents, FBI officials warned the information supporting the warrant was single-source, uncorroborated, and possibly dated, and […]

REPORTER: You guys were out for 2 months during the shutdown. Why has it taken until the end of the year to start addressing these healthcare bills? MIKE JOHNSON: We have been working steadily producing ideas trying to address this.

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is planning to elevate a deeply controversial attorney to one of the most powerful legal posts in New York City government, drawing alarm from critics who warn the move could further inflame tensions with Jews and reshape City Hall’s legal agenda. Ramzi Kassem, a CUNY law professor and member of Mamdani’s legal […]

Chile has become the latest country in Latin America to veer toward the right, electing a deeply conservative veteran politician who has long attracted comparisons to Donald Trump. The president-elect, José Antonio Kast, has expressed nostalgia for the 17-year military dictatorship of the late Gen. Augusto Pinochet, opposed the legalization of same-sex marriage and advocated in recent years […]

AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It’s in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.

The police chief in the nation’s capital pressured subordinates to manipulate department data to artificially lower the city’s crime rates, according to a report by a Republican-led congressional committee. The report, released Sunday by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, found that Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela Smith often threatened, punished and retaliated […]

Kosel Chazzan and Singer Eli Cohen singing tonight at the lighting of the third Chanukah candle at the Kosel.

Israel’s new Military Advocate General, Maj. Gen. Itai Ofir, has decided to close the criminal case against Col. (res.) Yoav Yarom over his role in a November 2024 incident in southern Lebanon that led to the deaths of IDF Sgt. Gur Kehati and civilian researcher Ze’ev Erlich. IDF prosecutors had previously announced they intended to […]

UPDATE – WILLIAMSBURG: The fire at 227 Keap Street is now under control. One patient is in critical condition after jumping from a window and was transported by Williamsburg Hatzolah to Bellevue Hospital. A name for Tehillim is not needed in this incident.  

WILLIAMSBURG: FDNY firefighters, along with Williamsburg Hatzolah and other emergency personnel, are operating at the scene of an apartment fire at 227 Keap Street near Marcy Avenue. Multiple injuries have been reported, including at least one patient who reportedly jumped from a window. Updates to follow.

The UN General Assembly yesterday adopted a resolution reaffirming the right of the “Palestinian people to self-determination”, with 164 countries voting in favor. Eight countries, including the United States and Israel, voted against the resolution, while nine countries abstained.

Rep. Randy Fine: We have to stop calling it ‘radical Islam,’ because the radicals are the ones who don’t want to kill us. Not all Muslims are terrorists, but many many are.