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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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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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NYC Council member Chi Ossé arrested while blocking police during Brooklyn eviction

New York City Council Member Chi Ossé was thrown to the ground and arrested by NYPD officers in Brooklyn on Wednesday after he physically blocked police carrying out a court-ordered eviction, according to video of the incident and a detailed…
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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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George W. Bush reflects on friendship with Michelle Obama and the Altoids moment that went viral

Former President George W. Bush sat down with Today to talk about an unlikely friendship, and a small gesture at a funeral that captured the country's attention. In a wide-ranging conversation, Bush described his bond with former First Lady Michelle…
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Trump expects Supreme Court loss on birthright citizenship, says court is "already packed" for Democrats

President Donald Trump took aim at Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices Wednesday morning, accusing them of handing Democrats repeated victories and predicting the court will rule against his administration in the birthright citizenship case, a decision he warned would "cost America…
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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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Federal judge orders release of Colorado firebombing suspect's family from ICE detention

A federal judge on Monday ordered ICE to release the six-member family of Mohamed Sabri Soliman, the Egyptian national facing 184 criminal charges for a firebomb attack in Boulder, Colorado, that killed an 82-year-old woman and injured eight others, from…
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