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New Yorkers slam wealthy writer's shoplifting confession on 'microlooting' podcast

A New Yorker staff writer who owns a $2.5 million Brooklyn brownstone went on a New York Times opinion podcast and casually described the "several" times she stole lemons from Whole Foods, then told listeners she "didn't feel bad about…
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Chip Roy says Jeffries' call for 'maximum warfare' reveals Democrats' hostility toward voters

Rep. Chip Roy told Fox News on Wednesday that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries had effectively admitted his party is waging a campaign against the American public, after Jeffries declared an "era of maximum warfare" and called on Democrats to…
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Citadel fires back at Mamdani over penthouse tax video, warns $6 billion NYC project may not happen

Ken Griffin's hedge fund just told New York City's mayor, in blunt terms, what happens when you single out the people writing the checks. A companywide email from Citadel's chief operating officer called Mayor Zohran Mamdani's viral video about Griffin's…
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Elderly California woman dies after venomous snake bites her three times in Mendocino County

A 78-year-old woman from Redwood Valley, California, is dead after a venomous snake bit her three times while she walked through a rural area of Mendocino County on April 8. Her family rushed her to a hospital, but she was…
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Democrat lawmaker demands DOJ reject any Ghislaine Maxwell pardon

Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi fired off a letter to the Department of Justice on Wednesday opposing any clemency for convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, a move that lands as Maxwell's own attorney publicly boasts that a presidential pardon is within reach.…
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Iran's parliament speaker abandons negotiating team as IRGC interference fractures Tehran's diplomacy

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has reportedly walked away from his country's negotiating team in Islamabad, Pakistan, where Tehran and Washington have been locked in high-stakes talks aimed at ending the Iran war. The departure, attributed to interference by…
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Federal grand jury indicts Southern Poverty Law Center on 11 fraud counts tied to payments to extremist groups

A federal grand jury in Alabama indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center on 11 criminal counts Tuesday, charging the storied nonprofit with defrauding donors through a concealed program that funneled roughly $3 million to members of the Ku Klux Klan…
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Washington, D.C., metro area leads the nation in job losses as federal workforce shrinks

The Washington, D.C., metropolitan area shed roughly 103,900 jobs between January 2025 and January 2026, the largest year-over-year employment drop of any metro region in the country, Bureau of Labor Statistics figures released Tuesday show. The 3.1 percent decline dwarfs…
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Illegal immigrant who stole Kristi Noem's purse at D.C. restaurant draws three-year prison sentence

A 50-year-old Chilean national living illegally in the United States was sentenced Wednesday to three years in federal prison for swiping then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's Gucci handbag, and for a broader string of thefts targeting women at Washington, D.C.…
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Virginia circuit court blocks certification of redistricting referendum, declaring vote unconstitutional

A Virginia circuit court judge blocked certification of the state's redistricting referendum on Wednesday, ruling that both the vote and the underlying amendment process were unconstitutional, a decision that throws a major wrench into Democratic plans to redraw the commonwealth's…
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