By Zachary Stieber Journalism watchdog Project Veritas can depose New York Times employees in what could become a landmark case for defamation, a New York Supreme Court judge ruled this week. New York Supreme Court Justice Charles Wood on March 20 ruled against the paper’s request to dismiss a lawsuit from Project Veritas over stories that the watchdog says defamed it. […]
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Announces Resignation Over Harassment Allegations
By Jack Phillips New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, announced Tuesday he will resign effective in 14 days after allegations of sexual harassment that were detailed in a state attorney general’s report last week. Cuomo’s resignation came as the New York Assembly started deliberations Monday on an impeachment inquiry into his conduct and as top […]
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Ghislaine Maxwell’s Sex Crimes Trial in New York Delayed Until Fall
By Reuters NEW YORK—A U.S. judge on Monday granted Ghislaine Maxwell’s request to delay her trial on charges she procured teenage girls for the late financier Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse, and said the trial will begin in the fall. U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan in Manhattan said a “short” postponement of the scheduled July 12 trial was […]
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New York Legislature Begins to Repeal Gov. Cuomo’s Pandemic Orders
By Ivan Pentchoukov New York’s Democrat-led legislature repealed several of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s pandemic directives on April 28. The state’s Assembly and Senate voted to repeal parts of a series of executive orders Cuomo issued over the course of the pandemic of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as the novel coronavirus. The repealed provisions include the […]
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Significant Winter Snowstorm to Hit East Coast, New York, Boston
By Jack Phillips A strong snowstorm will hit the mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States starting on Sunday and lasting until Tuesday—with tens of millions of Americans coming in the path of the weather system. “Heavy snow and a wintry mix will produce hazardous travel from portions of the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley to the Mid-Atlantic, including […]
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New York Stock Exchange Reverses Course Again, Will Delist 3 Chinese Telecom Firms After All
By Reuters The New York Stock Exchange said on Jan. 6 that it will delist three Chinese telecom companies beginning on Jan. 11, in another U-turn a day after U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin told the NYSE chief he disagreed with its earlier decision to reverse the delistings. The latest move marks the third about-turn, amid confusion […]
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New York Democratic Party Chief Warns Ocasio-Cortez Not to Challenge Schumer
By Jack Phillips The head of New York state’s Democratic Party said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) should not challenge Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.). “I think it would be a primary driven by ambition more than by need,” the party’s head, Jay Jacobs, told the New York Post on Dec. 26. There have been unconfirmed reports for months suggesting Ocasio-Cortez—a self-described democratic […]
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Report: More than 300,000 People Have Fled New York City Due to Coronavirus, Crime
By Katherine Rodriguez More than 300,000 people have fled New York City over the past eight months because of rising crime rates and the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report from the New York Post. Residents filed 295,103 change of address requests between March 1 and October 31, the report revealed, citing data collected from the U.S. Postal Service under […]
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Twitter lifts New York Post’s suspension over Hunter Biden report
By Joseph A. Wulfsohn | Fox News ‘We’re baaaaaaack’ the paper celebrated on its newly-unlocked account. Twitter lifted its suspension of the New York Post’s main account Friday, ending a weeks-long standoff after the social media giant punished the newspaper for tweeting its explosive report about Hunter Biden. Big Tech faced significant backlash after Twitter and Facebook attempted to suppress the Post report, […]
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Twitter’s Un-American Censorship of the New York Post
By DAVID HARSANYI Some of the most powerful gatekeepers of political speech are simply shutting down inconvenient stories while journalists stand by and cheer. You can imagine, then, the seismic outrage that would be generated if Twitter or Facebook banned a URL of a major news organization offering a story that hurt Donald Trump. Yet less […]
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Facebook and Twitter reducing distribution of New York Post Hunter Biden story
By Audrey Conklin, Paul Conner, Nick Givas FOXBusiness Facebook and Twitter limited the distribution of a story in the New York Post about a purported email between Hunter Biden and an adviser to a Ukrainian energy company. The 2015 email indicates that Vadym Pozharskyi, an adviser to Burisma, thanked Biden for “giving an opportunity” to meet former Vice President Joe Biden. The […]
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Trump calls New York Times report that he avoid paying taxes ‘totally made up’
By Andrew O’Reilly | Fox News ‘Everything was wrong, they are so bad,’ Trump said. President Trump lambasted a New York Times report that said he paid no federal income taxes for 10 of the past 15 years, calling the story “fake news” and arguing that he paid large amounts of federal and state taxes. “It’s fake news, it’s totally made […]
