Eric Adams defends Biden's record, says Republicans are the ones soft on crime

Ryan King

March 19, 02:15 PM March 19, 02:21 PM

New York City Mayor Eric Adams swooped to President Joe Biden's defense amid criticisms from Republicans on crime.

Seeking to neutralize the narrative that Republicans are strong on crime, Adams countered that the GOP has not always been supportive of increased funding for law enforcement and urged Democrats to begin fortifying their messaging on the matter.

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"They gave the appearance that Democrats are soft on crime. No, soft on crime is the Republicans who refused to put money in his crime bills to make sure that we gave the resources to our police department," Adams said during the debut of MSNBC's Inside with Jen Psaki.

Adams, a former police officer, has made combating crime a top priority of his administration. He encouraged Biden and the Democrats to drive home the message that Democrats are tough on crime.

Recently, Democrats were rocked by the defeat of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot in her reelection bid, making her the first incumbent to do so since 1989. Many analysts pegged crime as one of the major factors that contributed to her loss.

As the 2024 cycle heats up, Republicans sought to put Biden on the spot with a bill to overturn a Council of the District of Columbia crime reform that rolled back sentencing and other penalties on crime. Congress has the power to overturn district law via resolution. Biden ultimately opted not to veto the measure, and the city council moved to withdraw the legislation.

Biden's move on the crime bill, approval of the Willow Project mass oil drilling venture, and recent actions on immigration have widely been viewed as a lurch to the center ahead of an expected 2024 reelection bid.

"I think President Biden is a blue-collar president. Like I like to believe I'm a blue-collar mayor," Adams added. "He's a plain-talking producer. He has produced, and it's unfortunate the noise is getting in the way of what he has to do ... He needs to keep doing what he's doing."

Host Jen Psaki served as Biden's White House press secretary from January 2021 until May 2022. Sunday's show marked the formal debut of her new show, Inside with Jen Psaki, on MSNBC.

Former Trump CFO Allen Weisselberg testifies that he got raise after Trump children discovered tax scheme

Misty Severi

November 18, 07:41 PM November 18, 07:41 PM

When Eric and Donald Trump Jr. discovered that former Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg was cheating on his taxes, he was not disciplined, Weisselberg testified Friday.

In fact, Eric Trump approved a $200,000 raise for Weisselberg after he claimed he was no longer participating in the illegal activity and needed more money to make up for it, the former Trump executive testified during his third and final day of testimony in the Trump Organization criminal trial in New York City.

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“I told them since the practice was no longer going on, I would need some additional income to pay for those expenses,” Weisselberg said, according to NBC News.

Weisselberg said he was granted untaxed corporate perks by the Trump Organization, including large tuition payments for his grandchildren at a distinguished Manhattan private school, a luxury vehicle, and an upscale apartment in New York City.

Weisselberg, 75, said the brothers discovered his untaxed bonuses in 2017 during an internal review and after former President Donald Trump was already in the White House. The former CFO said when Donald Trump entered the White House, he stopped communicating with the organization.

“Once he was in the White House, we had very little communication about things going on in the company,” Weisselberg testified.

Weisselberg, the prosecution’s star witness, was indicted by a New York grand jury on June 30 of last year. He pleaded guilty this August and agreed to testify against his employer in exchange for a five-month jail sentence and five years of probation. Had he been convicted at trial, he could have faced a sentence of five to 15 years in prison.

He will also be required to face the yearslong sentence if he fails to testify truthfully or if he fails to repay the nearly $2 million he owes in taxes.

Although Weisselberg's testimony has concluded, the trial will continue on Monday and Tuesday of next week, but it will pause for the remainder of the week for the Thanksgiving holiday.

Guitar smashed by Kurt Cobain expected to fetch up to $400,000 at auction

Luke Gentile

November 12, 06:30 AM November 12, 06:30 AM

A guitar smashed by the late music legend Kurt Cobain is expected to fetch up to $400,000 as it hits the auction block this weekend.

The guitar is set to headline Julien's Auctions' annual "Icons & Idols: Rock 'N' Roll" auction in New York City.

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It is a 1973 Fender Mustang, which Cobain played twice in 1989. In the second performance in Wilkinsburg, PA, Cobain smashed it during Nirvana's performance of "Blew."

Considered by many as an iconic piece of grunge history, the instrument has an estimated worth of $200,000 to $400,000.

"Kurt just … enjoyed breaking guitars," Martin Nolan, the executive director of Julien's Auctions, said. "He loved that showmanship. That was part of his shtick when he was on stage performing. He got great joy from doing that. This guitar was the guitar that he broke that particular night in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania."

"It’s just one of the incredible items we have at the Hard Rock Cafe this week," he added.

Other items featured in the auction include glasses worn by John Lennon, a beehive topper belonging to Amy Winehouse, and a grand piano played by Bob Dylan.

Russian Consulate vandalized in New York City

Misty Severi

September 30, 05:49 PM September 30, 05:49 PM

The Russian Consulate in New York Town was vandalized right away with purple spray paint, New York Police Section officials confirmed Friday.

Authorities are investigating the vandalism as a doable "bias" assault immediately after obtaining a 911 phone about the incident at around 1:30 a.m. Officers responding to the scene uncovered that the facade of the Consulate Typical of the Russian Federation in New York on Manhattan's Higher East Side had been lined in purple paint, an NYPD spokesman advised Insider.

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Two people in black apparel and black masks were captured on surveillance footage vandalizing the building, in accordance to the spokesman. The two folks ended up clutching a backpack. No arrests have been created so significantly.

No group has claimed duty for the vandalism, which transpired hours soon after Russian President Vladimir Putin annexed areas of Ukraine as portion of the conflict in the neighboring nation. U.S. and Ukrainian officers have turned down the annexation buy.

“The United States — I want to be really crystal clear about this — the United States will in no way, never, under no circumstances figure out Russia’s claims on Ukraine’s sovereign territory," President Joe Biden reported Friday. "The so-named referenda was a sham, an absolute sham. The results ended up made in Moscow."

Russia's embassy in Washington, D.C., was a repeated goal of protests at the starting of the conflict in Ukraine. Protesters pained the phrase “murder" in significant purple letters on a driveway outdoors of the embassy soon soon after Russian forces invaded in February.

In March, protesters placed a indicator in front of the embassy that "renamed" the street "President Zelensky Way" following Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. An impression of the Ukrainian flag was projected onto the Russian Embassy in April, according to the Hill.

Proud Boys doc from Jan. 5 reveals strategy for 'street-degree violence' to guidance Trump

Jack Birle

September 19, 10:57 AM September 19, 10:57 AM

A doc from the Very pleased Boys dated Jan. 5, 2021, exhibits the in depth plans for a rally in New York Metropolis that was scheduled for Jan. 10, 2021.

The comprehensive plans in the document, which was obtained by the Guardian, display the group advocating against violence by its customers but also directing users to police circumstances of violence all through the planned "NYC MAGA MARCH."

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The document was composed by Randy Ireland, who is shown on the doc as the president of the Proud Boys' New York chapter.

"No Violence is to be Initiated by any Happy Boy at any time! Only if a violent act is fully commited in opposition to a Proud Boy or any attendee of the celebration are Proud Boys to interact," the doc states under the "principles of engagement" portion.

Inspite of the calls for no violence, the protocol outlined in the doc does make apparent users would be expected to answer to any violence with action.

"If any violence does spout off, all Happy Boys are anticipated to reply instantly — only so much as to reduce and end that menace to them or others," the doc says.

The doc also tends to make crystal clear that "normies," or nonmembers of the Happy Boys, and women of all ages were being not to be provided in any of the groups throughout the arranged protest.

The members who had been established to show up at the protest had been set to be divided into 7 "tactical groups" of 5 to eight males. The team had also made take note of "vulnerable regions" and stability danger levels.

The doc was dated 1 working day prior to the Capitol Riot on Jan. 6, 2021, where different users of the Proud Boys group acted with violence. Court docket filings state that a member of the Happy Boys was seconds away from Senate Greater part Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) at a single point for the duration of the riot.

5 members of the Proud Boys were being billed by the Justice Section with "seditious conspiracy" in June for their job in the Capitol Riot.

NYC Mayor Eric Adams says Abbott broke promise to coordinate on migrants

Jack Birle

September 18, 12:22 PM September 18, 12:22 PM

New York City Mayor Eric Adams says Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has failed to stay up to his vow to coordinate with him on migrants currently being despatched to his town.

Adams mentioned his calls for coordination had been ignored in spite of effectively producing call with the Texas governor's business office and securing a guarantee to get the job done jointly.

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"We've reached out and said that, let's coordinate and work jointly so we can deal with this disaster with each other. They refused to do so," Adams instructed Jonathan Karl on ABC's This Week Sunday.

When Karl pressed Adams on no matter if he experienced been capable to discuss with Abbott's business office on the cell phone, the mayor said he experienced but that no coordination resulted from the conversation.

"They took the call and stated that they would coordinate — I’m talking about Gov. Abbott. They would coordinate, and they did not coordinate at all, for the reason that I don’t believe it was politically expedient for them to coordinate. It was far more to do this, basically, political gamesmanship that you're seeing now," Adams said.

Abbott has earlier invited Adams to the southern border to exhibit him the predicament relating to migrants and border crossings. Adams reportedly sent some of his officers to the border previously this thirty day period but did not travel himself.

Abbott has been transporting migrants to various cities that pleasure by themselves as "sanctuary cities," which includes Washington, D.C., Chicago, and New York Town. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has not too long ago joined Abbott's pattern and sent two planes of migrants to Martha's Winery, Massachusetts.

Mega Millions $1.28 billion golden ticket offered in Illinois

Misty Severi

July 30, 10:20 AM July 30, 10:20 AM

The winning ticket of the $1.28 billion lottery jackpot was offered at a gas station in Des Plaines, Illinois, lottery officials announced Saturday.

The profitable numbers, which had been 13, 36, 45, 57, and 67, with the gold Mega Ball remaining 14, ended up marketed to just 1 person around the Speedy Cafe Speedway fuel station, the lottery said Saturday early morning. The location that sells the successful ticket also gets a monetary prize.

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"Congratulations to the Illinois Lottery for selling the profitable ticket for the $1.337 billion Mega Tens of millions jackpot," Ohio Lottery Director Pat McDonald stated following Friday night's drawing. "We are thrilled to have witnessed a single of the most important jackpot wins in Mega Thousands and thousands background. We’re eager to find out who gained and seem ahead to congratulating the winner quickly! Improved however, this fascinating jackpot operate has experienced a major good impact on the revenues for good brings about lifted by our member lotteries."

The winner of the billion-dollar prize now faces a alternative. Winners are authorized to declare a income prize, approximated at $747 million for Friday's jackpot, or to accumulate the full $1.28 billion before taxes more than the span of 29 years.

20-6 individuals won a $1 million prize by matching 5 of the winning balls to the jackpot. Six winners will get $2 million immediately after having the five balls and the 2x multiplier, in accordance to the lottery's web page.

The odds of successful the lottery are 1 in 302.5 million, and the odds of winning the reduced $1 million prize are approximately 1 in 12.6 million, according to Fox Business enterprise. The name of the winner of the jackpot was not declared.

The subsequent jackpot is established for $20 million, the same prize volume as the last lottery winner on April 15. The Mega Thousands and thousands lottery is performed in 45 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Rudy Giuliani recovering from heart stent operation

Misty Severi

July 09, 01:21 AM July 09, 01:33 AM

Former New York Town Mayor Rudy Giuliani is recovering from a heart stent operation before this week, in accordance to his son, Andrew Giuliani.

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The previous mayor, who experienced been campaigning on behalf of his son, was hospitalized at Mount Sinai Clinic in New York Town just after going through shortness of breath and sweating on the campaign trail, Andrew Giuliani confirmed while filling in on his father's radio demonstrate Tuesday. Rudy Giuliani was identified with two clogged arteries and underwent medical procedures to remove equally clogs, the previous mayor verified in a tweet, although he did not explain to his loved ones of his signs or symptoms until after Andrew Giuliani dropped the race to become the Republican nominee for New York governor to Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY).

“It demonstrates how a lot he enjoys this metropolis, state, and nation,” Andrew Giuliani stated on the radio present, in accordance to the New York Put up. “He’s previously prepared to get back again on the campaign path. He has to take it quick a little little bit.”

Andrew Giuliani stated his father, who is "rough as nails," felt distress for many weeks but remained on the campaign path anyway.

The matter of Rudy Giuliani's wellness arose all over again on Friday immediately after former President Donald Trump mistakenly claimed his previous attorney was viewing his speech in Las Vegas from a healthcare facility home owing to his heart issues. An attorney for Rudy Giuliani rebutted the assert, saying the previous mayor was “out of the clinic & doing rather fantastic,” in accordance to a tweet from NBC reporter Vaughn Hillyard.

Problems mounted regarding Rudy Giuliani's wellbeing and safety in latest weeks when an worker at ShopRite on Staten Island slapped the former Trump attorney on the again.

“All of a sudden, I sense this ‘bam!’ on my again,” Rudy Giuliani stated. “I really do not know if they aided me not tumble down, but I just about fell down — but I didn’t."

The male accused of slapping Rudy Giuliani was at first billed with next-degree assault, but the cost was later on downgraded to a misdemeanor.

NYC and DC operate out of monkeypox vaccines

Misty Severi

June 27, 09:43 PM June 27, 09:43 PM

New York Metropolis and Washington, D.C., ran out of vaccines for monkeypox shortly after the metropolitan areas executed an on line portal patients could use to agenda their shots.

Both metropolitan areas designed a constrained quantity of the two-dose Jynneos smallpox vaccine readily available but only opened appointments for individuals regarded as to have been at higher possibility, which includes bisexual and homosexual adult males, transgender women, nonbinary men and women, intercourse workers, or staff at sites with a substantial sex price no matter of gender or orientation.

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“When supplemental doses grow to be accessible, the vaccination scheduling portal will reopen. Stay tuned to D.C. Health’s social platforms for updates,” the district well being office tweeted Monday.

New York Town started its vaccinations efforts on Thursday, but all slots were stuffed a few hrs later on, according to the Hill. The district followed fit Monday, and also promptly had all appointments loaded, but extra that additional information and facts on foreseeable future appointments ought to be readily available Wednesday. The most latest knowledge on the virus discovered that the United States has experienced additional than 200 situations of monkeypox, together with 37 verified cases in New York state and 16 verified scenarios in Washington. Far more than 4,000 cases have been verified in 48 nations around the world.

The monkeypox virus was in the beginning identified in monkeys in Africa, and it started spreading to individuals in Africa in the 1970s, with the to start with case documented in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in accordance to the Earth Health and fitness Business. Symptoms are ordinarily explained as a considerably less critical circumstance of smallpox and incorporate pimples or blisterlike rashes that show up on the encounter, within the mouth, or on the palms, toes, chest, or genitals. Other signs involve muscle mass aches, tiredness, swollen lymph nodes, and back soreness, the firm explained.

Two smallpox vaccines have been authorized to address monkeypox in the U.S.: Jynneos and ACAM2000. The White Residence explained it expected 300,000 much more vaccines would be created obtainable around the up coming handful of weeks.

In spite of the rise in world wide instances of monkeypox, the WHO described past week that it is not deemed a global wellbeing unexpected emergency.

“We need to have all countries to remain vigilant and improve their capacities to avoid onward transmission of monkeypox,” WHO Director-Standard Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus explained. “It is most likely that numerous countries will have skipped options to discover cases, like situations in the local community devoid of any latest journey.”

City exodus that started in the course of pandemic displays no indications of slowing down

Sarah Westwood

June 20, 09:42 AM June 20, 09:42 AM

Many persons are however fleeing large metropolitan areas that begun dropping populace in the course of the coronavirus pandemic as lingering effects of the virus have ongoing to scramble migration developments.

The significant motion of men and women from metropolitan locations to the suburbs and outside of for the duration of the lockdowns of 2020 has had significantly-achieving and effectively-documented outcomes.

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Organizations shuttered, lawlessness in metropolitan areas proliferated, and property values in suburbs around the country skyrocketed as persons sought escape from cramped city residences and a lot more burdensome restrictions.

But even as everyday living returns to usual in most of the country and numerous enterprises open up their workplace doors to personnel who put in months placing in their hours more than Zoom, facts propose quite a few of the 1000's of men and women who remaining towns considering the fact that 2020 have not returned.

“Some of the speediest-increasing metropolitan areas before the pandemic grew at a considerably slower charge right after it begun,” the Census Bureau mentioned in a report last thirty day period.

San Francisco, for example, noticed the quickest inhabitants decrease of all cities in 2021, in accordance to census details.

But it was not even among the top 15 fastest-declining towns in conditions of populace in 2019, before the pandemic began.

New York Town was similarly ravaged by inhabitants losses, leaping to the fifth fastest-declining city in terms of populace very last calendar year.

In Manhattan, 6.9% of the population reportedly fled in between spring 2020 and summertime 2021.

Taken jointly, the metropolitan area of New York, Newark, and Jersey Metropolis lost extra than 385,000 people today in 2021.

New York City’s inhabitants reduction in 2021 was just about 6 occasions the size of its population loss in 2019, in accordance to census facts.

The availability of remote work, the persistence of pandemic-related limits, and the increase of criminal offense and inflation have all contributed to a stream of people getting residences outside their cities even after the top of the pandemic in 2020.

“In several circumstances, there was a shift from greater, much more populous counties to medium and smaller sized types,” the Census Bureau observed about developments noticed in 2021.

Washington, D.C., dropped far more people in 2021 than it had in the preceding two many years, in accordance to the D.C. Plan Center.

When the inhabitants in substantially of the region declined following the pandemic, nearby Frederick County, Maryland, and Stafford County, Virginia, experienced potent populace progress.

In spite of the fall in city populations, rents have remained higher in several cities.

The mounting price of living overall as very well as the rising issues youthful individuals and households are going through in getting their initially houses are serving to to continue to keep rents large, in accordance to Fidelity Investments.

'Singing 17 songs': Tried Reagan assassin encourages live performance in NYC

Julia Johnson

June 06, 06:00 AM June 06, 06:00 AM

The would-be assassin of previous President Ronald Reagan, John Hinckley Jr., shared a tweet Friday promoting his live performance in New York City.

"I will be singing 17 tracks at my display in Brooklyn, NY. on July 8. All originals," he wrote.

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Hinckley first announced the gig in April. "Big news!! I will be accomplishing on July 8 at the Market Lodge in Brooklyn, NY," he tweeted. "Get your tickets even though you can."

On Wednesday, U.S. District Court docket Judge Paul Friedman granted Hinckley unconditional release from any current restrictions, to start on June 15.

According to Friedman, he is “no longer a risk to himself or other individuals."

"A massive thank you to all people who assisted me get my unconditional launch. What a prolonged odd vacation it has been," Hinckley tweeted soon after the ruling. "Now it is time to rock and roll."