14+ hour, 42+ min ago (695+ words) The Big Apple firefighter's union is steaming mad over the sudden discovery of 68 boxes of Ground Zero health data following the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks " files they were told never existed. The recently surfaced boxes contain thousands of pages of information on possible toxins at the Lower Manhattan site that union members said could be used to add new ailments to the list of covered 9/11-related illnesses. Some 343 FDNY firefighters lost their lives at the World Trade Center site on 9/11 with hundreds more having lost their lives since from health-related maladies. "They should have used that evidence and those tests to prepare for the long term health care of the people that were down there," Andrew Ansbro, president of the FDNY United Firefighters Association said at a press conference Monday. "The decision they made was to just hide it. "Here we…...

22+ hour, 28+ min ago (749+ words) A crucial new "About this account" feature on X just exposed dozens of anti-Israel "MAGA" accounts as originating outside the United States. Starting Friday, Elon Musk's social media company has been slowly rolling out the feature that lets users see where other accounts are based." That several influential anti-Israel accounts aren't what they seem upends the idea that President Trump's supporters are turning against Israel, or even embracing antisemitism." Concern about right-wing antisemitism has been growing ever since podcaster Tucker Carlson began attacking Israel last year, and devoting his platform to interviews with right-wing radicals and even a Holocaust revisionist." Poll numbers have continued to show that Trump supporters, like conservatives generally, back a strong US-Israel relationship, and approve of Trump's attack on Iran's nuclear sites, as well as his diplomatic success in freeing Israeli hostages. But a rise in…...

13+ hour, 11+ min ago (573+ words) House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries insisted Monday that he didn't coordinate with Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on the New York City Democratic Socialists of America's decision not to endorse his primary challenger." "No. We're focused on making sure that the mayor-elect is successful in terms of delivering upon both his affordability agenda as well as his public safety agenda," Jeffries (D-Brooklyn) said, when asked if he struck a possible deal with Mamdani, a DSA member. The Queens assemblyman just last week urged his fellow NYC DSA comrades in a closed-door meeting not to back Brooklyn City Councilman Chi Oss, who was seeking the group's endorsement for his campaign against the top House Democrat. A key group within the DSA's local chapter later narrowly voted against endorsing Oss's Dem primary challenge. A source told The Post that Mamdani's camp had tried to…...

17+ hour, 48+ min ago (575+ words) CNN commentator Scott Jennings forcefully rejected journalist Kara Swisher's argument that the censorship of The Post's reporting on Hunter Biden laptop was mere "politics," telling her in a tense on-air exchange that the 2020 suppression campaign amounted to "one of the biggest lies told to the American people." Jennings appeared on Swisher's "On With Kara Swisher" podcast Friday, where Swisher insisted that Twitter and Facebook's throttling of The Post's reporting, combined with the letter from 51 former intelligence officials framing the story as possible Russian disinformation, was simply part of the political rough-and-tumble. "They were making their case, just like you would say Trump just did with whatever issue he had," Swisher told him. Jennings balked, saying: "Well, I don't agree that it is a simple matter of "making your case'." "When you use your government title and you use your intelligence…...

12+ hour, 50+ min ago (591+ words) Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Fla.) and three co-defendants stand "charged with stealing federal COVID funds" to enrich themselves, fund her House campaign and buy bling like a 3.14-carat diamond ring, reports the Washington Examiner's Byron York. Conservative: Your COVID Dollars at ... Work? Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Fla.) and three co-defendants stand "charged with stealing federal COVID funds" to enrich themselves, fund her House campaign and buy bling like a 3.14-carat diamond ring, reports the Washington Examiner's Byron York. Florida's Division of Emergency Management erroneously overpaid her her health-care biz an extra $5 million as part of a federal COVID program " and Cherfilus-McCormick & Co. failed to report the mistake, they then used the dough for personal purposes and straw donations to her campaign, and lied to the IRS about it. Ah, those days when the feds were "shoveling billions out the door in the…...

13+ hour, 37+ min ago (542+ words) He's governing by committee. Two New York City Democratic Socialists of America leaders scored plum roles on Zohran Mamdani's transition team " as the mayor-elect Monday named a who's who of progressive advocates and veterans of Bill de Blasio's administration to staff its committees. The 400 comrades tapped by Mamdani to help his transition into City Hall include the local DSA's co-chairs Gustavo Gordillo and Grace Mausser, who recently bragged that the mayoral election's outcome counted as a "mandate" for their shared socialist agenda. "We're looking to actually build a very different City Hall," Mamdani, a DSA member, said during a press conference in East Harlem announcing his 17 transition team committees. Gordillo will serve on the economic development and workforce development committee, while Mausser was named to the committee on small businesses and Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprise. The committees largely follow…...

14+ hour, 53+ min ago (285+ words) It's outrageous that Saturday night's 40-car "street takeover" in Queens devolved into arson and assaults on residents who dared intervene, but it's also horrific that a 911 dispatcher told callers that the vehicular melee was a "quality of life" non-emergency, so they needed to call 311 . As all New Yorkers know, 311 is where complaints go to die. It took cops 45 minutes to reach the quiet Malba neighborhood, while a dozen thugs physically brutalized a local couple and others torched a private security car with a Molotov cocktail. Street takeovers, or "sideshows," are a nationwide trend " fueled by social media and movies like the Fast & Furious franchise " where bozos invade wide intersections with stolen whips and perform dangerous, rubber-burning "drift" maneuvers. Instagram and TikTok are filled with videos of idiots peeling out, pulling "donuts" and losing control, knocking into spectators or smashing into…...

13+ hour, 47+ min ago (585+ words) Rep. Dan Goldman is again taking aim at ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo's handling of the COVID outbreak " just as the congressman preps for an expected primary from an ally of Zohran Mamdani. Goldman (D-Manhattan/Brooklyn) has asked the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention whether the Cuomo administration's controversial March 25, 2020, directive requiring nursing homes to admit recovering COVID-infected patients complied with or violated federal guidelines. "I am requesting clarification on whether this order was consistent with federal public health guidelines at the time," Goldman wrote in his Friday letter to acting CDC Director James O'Neil, a copy of which was obtained by The Post. "This directive put many residents at risk of increased harm. "Although reversed six weeks later, over 15,000 New York nursing home residents died of COVID-19 during the early pandemic." That directive, Goldman penned in his letter, also…...

23+ hour, 39+ min ago (826+ words) In January, both ends of City Hall will be under new leadership. The voters chose Zohran Mamdani as the city's next chief executive. He will run the mayor's side of the oldest functioning City Hall in the country. The members of the City Council, however, will elect a new speaker, who will lead the city's legislature from the building's opposite wing. Ahead of that January vote, the neck-and-neck frontrunners are Julie Menin, an Upper East Side establishment Democrat considered a relative moderate, and the progressive Crystal Hudson of Brooklyn, the mayor-elect's ideological fellow-traveler." While not nearly as prominent as the mayor, the speaker holds significant power over the direction of the city government. She or he decides which of the hundreds of bills pending in the Council come before the body for a vote. The speaker also appoints the chairs…...

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