The Hub in the Bronx is still overrun with addicts despite city cleanup pledge
“The Broadway of the Bronx” is a drug-infested wasteland where hordes of evicted drug addicts buy drugs and shoot up guns in broad daylight, despite city officials' long-standing pledges to end the filth. , are overdosing. The paper spent several days in “The Hub” (the commercial area surrounding Roberto Clemente Plaza, between Melrose and Mott […]
Democrats pledge to work through Christmas on funding to rebuff Trump’s demands
Senate Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray (D-Wash.) said Friday she will be in Washington “until Christmas” to counter President-elect Trump's demands to remove a negotiated provision from the government funding bill through 2025. He said he was prepared to stay. Murray, the top Senate Democrat, accused billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, one of Trump's top advisers, […]
DC food workers pledge to make Trump officials unwelcome, echoing confrontations in first term
As the Trump campaign prepares to settle down in the nation's capital for a second term, Washington, D.C.-area restaurants can't stay out of politics once again. Food workers in the Beltway are prepared to deny service and cause other inconveniences to members of the incoming Trump administration, but this is not the first time the […]
Massachusetts faces spike in migrant sex crimes as Boston, state pledge resistance to Trump deportations
Massachusetts has seen a surge in illegal immigrants arrested for sex crimes in recent months, as the state and the city of Boston pledge to resist President-elect Donald Trump's mass deportation plan. Since August, ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officials have arrested 26 undocumented immigrants in the Boston area on suspicion of sex crimes […]
Michigan city council drops Pledge of Allegiance recitation
A Michigan city council has decided to no longer recite the Pledge of Allegiance during its meetings after one member suggested it was taking too long. Last week, the issue was discussed at an organizational meeting of the Ypsilanti City Council, a city of about 20,000 people and home to Eastern Michigan University. The meeting […]
Trump-supporting sheriffs pledge to assist with mass deportations
In contrast to Democratic officials across the country who have pledged to protect illegal aliens, several sheriffs have come forward to offer support for mass deportations after President-elect Donald Trump takes office next month. For Butler County, Ohio, Sheriff Richard Jones, this kind of support is nothing new. In fact, Mr. Jones, a 71-year-old Republican […]
FLASHBACK: MSNBC’s Jen Psaki gushed that Biden’s pledge to not pardon Hunter showed true character
MSNBC host and former White House press secretary Jen Psaki previously claimed in June that President Biden would not pardon her son because he believes in the U.S. justice system. “His decision not to pardon his son is one of principle and does not in any way suppress or preclude what his son has gone […]
Mayor Adams ‘breaking’ 2021 campaign pledge by ‘underpaying’ city medics: NYC pol
Brooklyn's Paul is calling on Mayor Eric Adams to keep his 2021 campaign promise by increasing the salaries of city doctors to be on par with other paramedics. Rep. Justin Brannan, a Bay Ridge-based Democrat running for next year's comptroller election, said the Adams administration has decided that emergency medical technicians and paramedics are not […]
Mayor Adams’ key ‘City of Yes’ initiative inches closer — with $5B pledge, NYC Council concessions
New York may soon become the “City of Jesus.” The City Council narrowly voted to pass Mayor Eric Adams' controversial sweeping plan to build tens of thousands of homes across the Big Apple with a $5 billion funding pledge from Hizzoner and some concessions. It was approved. On Thursday, after hours of delays, a pair […]
RFK Jr. poses with Big Mac and a Coke on Trump Force One — amid pledge to make America healthy
Immediately after this combo meal, he intends to make America healthy again. Former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was seen timidly posing with a McDonald's Big Mac and a Coca-Cola aboard Trump Force One. The food choice, a favorite of President-elect Donald Trump, seems at odds with RFK Jr.'s push to overhaul the U.S. […]