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Dem governor reveals CCP official with deep ties to her office 'no longer' in role amid former aide's arrest

New York’s Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul announced on Wednesday that she spoke with the State Department and “conveyed [her] desire” to have a Chinese diplomat that she and her office have met with repeatedly since 2019 “expelled” from his post in New York after he was referenced dozens of times in an indictment against her...

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Masked anti-Israel protesters at Columbia University demonstrate as students check in for first day of classes

Masked anti-Israel protesters are demonstrating on Tuesday outside of one of the entrances to Columbia University, chanting, “Free Palestine!” and holding signs urging the Ivy League school to “divest from death” as students are trying to get to their first day of classes. The demonstrations come after a series of protests rocked the New York...

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Cuomo to testify on COVID orders, nursing home deaths as spox predicts a ‘master class in gaslighting’

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo will sit for a hearing Sept. 10 before the congressional subcommittee tasked with probing the coronavirus pandemic, the panel announced Tuesday. Cuomo, one of the most visible governors during the height of the pandemic, was lambasted for implementing stringent social and economic restrictions throughout the Empire State. He also...

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Former aide to Democratic NY governor arrested in federal case

New York police arrested a former aide to Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday, weeks after the FBI raided the aide’s Long Island home. Authorities arrested both Linda Sun, 40, and her husband, Chris Hu, 41, in Tuesday’s action. Sun is charged with violating and conspiring to violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act, visa fraud, alien...

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Bank manager suggested rat poison after hiring hitman in murder-for-hire plot against brother-in-law

A New York bank manager sentenced last week to 9.5 years behind bars for a foiled murder-for-hire scheme against her brother-in-law allegedly told the would-be hitman that “rat poison can do a great job.” Reshma Massarone, a 40-year-old branch manager at Mid-Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union, plotted to kill her sister’s husband over Facebook Messenger...

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Trump asks federal court to take over Bragg case weeks before sentencing

Lawyers representing former President Donald Trump are now asking a federal court to seize his New York criminal trial from the state, arguing he has become a victim of “Constitutional violations” in proceedings that conflicted with the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on presidential immunity. The attorneys wrote in a filing Thursday that the “ongoing proceedings...

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Owner of $1.8M New York vacation rental avoids jail time after sisters die in fire from shoddy home work

A Hamptons luxury homeowner whose shoddy electrical work caused the Long Island, New York, house fire that killed two Maryland sisters will not serve any jail time after striking a plea deal with prosecutors. Jillian Wiener, 21, and her 19-year-old sister Lindsay were vacationing with their terminally ill father at Peter Miller’s $1.8 million Sag...