NEW ROCHELLE, New York — The New York Democrat running to unseat Rep. Jamaal Bowman has an unusual double advantage against the incumbent: local political clout and the backing of a national pro-Israel group.
And it’s Westchester County Executive George Latimer’s ties at home — even more so than his position on the war in Gaza — that could deny the Squad member a third term.
Latimer has picked up endorsements from fellow local leaders week after week — including the mayor and three City Council members in Yonkers, where Bowman lives. And while just 10 percent of Bowman’s campaign contributions come from his neighbors, more than half of Latimer’s donations come from within the district.
Latimer may not have any national name recognition compared to Bowman — who has built his reputation in Congress as a left-wing agitator for sweeping change nationwide — but he enjoys a different kind of celebrity. He’s the Cher of Westchester County, known as just “George” to many in the suburban enclave north of New York City thanks to his 35 years in state and local government.
Donald Trump has hit back at billionaire Illinois governor JB Pritzker, who branded him a ‘felon’ in an interview earlier this week as the pair’s war of words escalates
Donald Trump has unleashed a scathing attack on governor JB Pritzker on Sunday, calling him “rotund,” “sloppy” and “pathetic” after the Illinois governor labeled the ex-president a “felon” earlier in the week.
The billionaire Democrat, who holds the title of America’s wealthiest elected official, makes no effort to conceal his contempt for the 77-year-old presumptive Republican presidential nominee. Nineteen minutes after Trump’s conviction on all 34 felony counts in his criminal hush money trial last month, Pritzker denounced the former president as a racist, homophobe, and a con artist.
Pritzker, 59, is a loyal supporter of president Joe Biden and is driven to “fight to keep him in the White House,” thereby keeping Trump at bay, he wrote on X on Friday.
JB Pritzker called Trump a ‘felon’ on Wednesday(Joel Angel Juarez/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock)
“I can’t mince words when it comes to talking about who Donald Trump is,” Pritzker told The New York Times on Wednesday. “It’s important, I think, for people to really refocus on the idea that: Do they really want a president who is a felon who faces jail time?”
Trump didn’t waste any time hitting back as their feud escalated, taking several low blows at Pritzker’s physical appearance, business achievements, and political acumen, reports the Mirror.
“Sloppy J.B. Pritzker, the Rotund Governor from the once great State of Illinois, who makes Chris Christie look like a male model,” Trump wrote, while also throwing shade at the Republican ex-governor of New Jersey in a fiery Truth Social tirade on Sunday.
Despite Pritzker’s estimated $3.5 billion fortune, as reported by Forbes, the former president alleged that his family “wanted him out of the business” – the global hotel chain, Hyatt – before he doubled down on his “pathetic” business acumen.
After Trump’s initial barrage of insults about his business ventures, he proceeded to criticize the senior Democrat’s politics. The incumbent has been a longtime financial supporter of the Democratic Party and has served since 2019 as the 43rd governor of Illinois.
JB Pritzker was the latest Democrat in Donald Trump’s crosshairs(AFP via Getty Images)
However, the ex-president accused Pritzker of presiding “over the destruction and disintegration of Illinois at levels never seen before in any State,” he claimed.
Trump concluded: “Crime is rampant and people are, sadly, fleeing Illinois. Unless a change is made at the Governor’s level, Illinois can never be Great Again!”
Pritzker has long been critical of Trump’s inflammatory language and staunch conservative stance on women’s rights.
“It’s President Biden who is fighting to restore reproductive rights or Trump who bragged about overturning Roe v. Wade,” Pritzker stated last month at The Democratic National Convention.
Flashback to November and he also accused Trump of using descriptions mirroring those of Nazis in the 1930s.
“The rhetoric that’s being used by Trump, by some of the Maga extremists, is rhetoric that was used in the 1930s in Germany [and] I am very concerned about the direction of the country if we see policies like what Donald Trump is espousing come to light,” he expressed on MSNBC’s Inside with Jen Psaki.
“And I’m deeply concerned about his predilection for revenge and what that will mean for groups of people that didn’t support him in the 2024 election if he gets elected.”
The best antidote to the left’s caricatures of him as a fascist and a buffoon are calm, coherent and factual responses. Bottom line: He needs to act and sound more like a president than a challenger,” New York Post columnist Michael Goodwin advised.
In recent years, Elon Musk appears to have gone from lightly flirting with politics to having a full-blown love affair with growing his influence in Washington.
As the presidential election inches closer and the billionaire businessman continues teasing the idea of a Trump endorsement, it’s becoming clear that Musk has a lot at stake depending on who next leads the country.
While Musk hasn’t publicly endorsed any candidate, Business Insider previously reported he bonded with fellow billionaires over a shared distrust of Democrats and privately discussed how best to defeat them in this year’s election.
According to a recent report from The Wall Street Journal, Musk has also talked with the Trump campaign about taking on a potential advisory role if the former president returns to the White House.
“Age is just a number, the adage goes. For Donald Trump, that number just got bigger,” writes national political “reporter” Marianne LeVine, who adds that Trump’s age “has also drawn notice from some voters and experts on aging.”
Oh, experts you say? The Post and other media lapdogs love nothing more than laundering their opinions through self-styled “experts,” as we all saw with the Covid panic, Democrats’ republic-destroying lawfare, “cooling” inflation, forever wars, and more — including now apparently presidential fitness and “aging.” As for what the voters notices, let’s just say it diverges from the headline.
On Sunday, former President Trump targeted Illinois Democratic governor J.B. Pritzker, who has been considered a rising star in the Democratic Party but who has presided over the state while natives flee.
Pritzker was inaugurated as governor of the state in January 2019; between July 2021 and July 2022, over 142,000 people left Illinois. The only state that had a faster rate of population decline during that same time period was New York.
“Sloppy J.B. Pritzker, the Rotund Governor from the once great State of Illinois, who makes Chris Christie look like a male model, and whose family wanted him out of the business because he was so pathetic at helping them run it, has presided over the destruction and disintegration of Illinois at levels never seen before in any State. Crime is rampant and people are, sadly, fleeing Illinois. Unless a change is made at the Governor’s level, Illinois can never be Great Again,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Detroit — Former President Donald Trump warned of increases in illegal immigration, weakened global policy and a struggling economy under another Biden term as he courted both Black voters at a Detroit church and conservative stalwarts at a convention at Huntington Place.
The former president dinged the leader of United Auto Workers, Shawn Fain, as doing an “absolutely terrible job” and warned of environmentally-friendly emissions limits implemented under Biden.
“We can’t let these people destroy our country like this,” Trump said. “They’re going crazy.”
Christian approaches to political engagement often fall into one of two camps: ‘distinctive’ or ‘engaged’.
The ‘distinctives’ tend to be pessimistic about politics and say that the Church should stick to its priorities of evangelism and discipleship for eternity, rather than wasting energy in social action and politics in the present. But the Bible nowhere presents the Christian with such an either/or choice. Instead, it calls the Christian both to teach the gospel and love their neighbour.
The creation mandate of Genesis 1.26–28 to look after the earth still stands alongside Jesus’ great commission to his followers in Matthew 28.19 to make disciples of all nations. Paul commands the Galatian church to do good to all people, beginning with those in the Church. And when Paul summarises the purpose of the Bible in 2 Timothy 3.15–16, he writes that it is to make us wise for salvation in Christ Jesus and to equip the Christian for every good work. All this stewarding the earth, loving neighbour, doing good to all people cannot avoid involvement in politics.
LOS ANGELES – President Biden on Saturday night said he expects the winner of this year’s presidential election will likely have the chance to fill two vacancies on the Supreme Court – a decision he warned would be “one of the scariest parts” if his Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump, is successful in his bid for a second term.
Biden made the remarks at a fundraiser that his campaign said raised a record $28 million. The event featured Hollywood stars like George Clooney and Julia Roberts, as well as former President Barack Obama.
Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel moderated a conversation with Biden and Obama, and the two presidents talked about the impact that Trump had on issues like abortion rights by naming conservative justices to the Supreme Court.
A recent paper published by Harvard and Montana Technological University which speculates that an unidentified, technologically advanced population could possibly be living secretly among humans on Earth seems to be more of a “thought experiment” than an attempt to prove it so, a UFO expert said.
The team that wrote the paper hypothesized that sightings of UFOs, or UAP, unidentified anomalous phenomena, “may reflect activities of intelligent beings concealed in stealth here on Earth … and/or even walking among us.”
The beings could be disguising themselves as humans to blend in, and may have come from Earth’s future or might have descended from intelligent dinosaurs, the researchers said.
Summary and Key Points: In 2015, the French Rubis-class nuclear-powered attack submarine, Saphir, demonstrated its capabilities by “sinking” the USS Theodore Roosevelt, a U.S. Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, during a joint military drill in the North Atlantic.
-The Saphir, initially part of the friendly forces, switched to the adversarial team and managed to infiltrate the carrier’s defensive screen undetected.
-The Rubis-class, introduced in the early 1980s, is noted for its compact nuclear reactor and advanced weaponry, including torpedoes and Exocet missiles. Despite initial noise issues, the Rubis-class has undergone significant modernization to enhance its stealth and combat effectiveness.
BEIJING (AP) — A military history buff in China appears to have made an alarming discovery after picking up four discarded books for less than $1 at a neighborhood recycling station: They were confidential military documents.
The country’s Ministry of State Security told the story in a social media post on Thursday, praising the retired man for calling a hotline to report the incident. It identified him only by his family name, Zhang, and did not say what the documents were about.
“Mr. Zhang thought to himself that he had ‘bought’ the country’s military secrets and brought them home,” the post reads, “but if someone with ulterior motives were to buy them, the consequences would be unimaginable!”
The Doomsday Clock is still at 90 seconds to midnight, just as it was last year.
Experts just unveiled the Doomsday Clock for 2024 based on the threats faced around the world this year, and they’ve decided not to move it closer to midnight.
That means it is still at 90 seconds to midnight, as it was last year – which is the closest it has ever been to 12 o’clock since the clock was devised in 1947.
The symbolic clock is meant to show how close we are to a human-made global catastrophe, and midnight represents complete calamity.
Sweaty cows may not sound like the most exciting company, but in a warming world, researchers can’t get enough of them.
When cattle are too hot, they tend to stop eating, said Raluca Mateescu, University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) professor in the department of animal science. This affects the cattle’s health and growth and threatens the longevity of the food supply coming from that herd.
Climate change is making it more difficult to raise cattle — growth and reproduction are affected by heat — so it’s critical to breed cattle better adapted to a hotter and longer summer. Cows eliminate about 85% of their body heat via sweat, she said.
The FBI’s Dallas Division is asking for the public’s assistance to identify an unknown bank robber responsible for a bank robbery on June 6.
At approximately 2:10 p.m. on Thursday, June 6, the suspect robbed the First Convenience Bank branch located inside the Walmart on Anderson Boulevard in Fort Worth.
The robbery suspect had a small child seated in a shopping cart as he presented a note to the teller demanding cash. After obtaining the money, the suspect fled the location while carrying the child.
The robber is described as a white male, 35 to 45 years old, 5’7″ to 5’9″ with a thin build. He wore a baseball hat, black sunglasses, a multi-color “fishing shirt,” khaki-colored cargo shorts and “Hey Dude” shoes.
Nevada ranked the second highest auto insurance rates in the country, according to Insurify.
A federal appeals court on Wednesday heard arguments over whether car insurance should pay out benefits to a woman who caught a sexually transmitted disease from a policyholder in his insured vehicle.
In GEICO General Insurance Co.v. M.O., a Missouri woman, the titular M.O., claims that her partner, Martin Brauner, negligently infected her with human papillomavirus (HPV) after they had sex in his 2014 Hyundai Genesis. She claims Brauner was aware he had HPV but neglected to inform her before they had unprotected sex, resulting in “past and future medical expenses” and “mental and physical pain and suffering,” court documents state.
In certain instances, an individual can gain possession of your property if they meet specific requirements. The legal term for this is “adverse possession.”
As squatting incidents run rampant through certain communities across the country, Fox News Digital investigated how individuals can gain possession of private property under certain requirements, commonly known in the legal realm as “adverse possession.”
The mayor-elect of a small municipality near the crime-plagued Mexican resort city of Acapulco was assassinated early Monday, local prosecutors said — the latest in a series of attacks targeting politicians.
Salvador Villalba Flores — who was to take office in October in Copala, a town of about 4,000 residents about 80 miles southeast of Acapulco — was shot dead while traveling on a highway, prosecutors in Guerrero state said in a statement.
Prosecutors said that they had launched an investigation into the murder, but declined to provide further details.
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating after a Southwest Airlines flight reportedly plunged to “within 400ft” of the Pacific Ocean during a flight.
A memo distributed to Southwest pilots, obtained by Bloomberg, said that the Boeing 737 Max 8 plunged at a rate of 4,000ft a minute off the coast of Hawaii, coming within hundreds of feet of the ocean before climbing to safety.
News of the incident comes as investigators said a Southwest-operated Boeing 737 Max 8 sustained significant damage after it did a “Dutch roll” during a flight from Phoenix to Oakland in May.
A construction crew began to demolish the three-story southeast Florida school building where an expelled student fatally shot 17 victims six years ago, a Thursday livestream from The Associated Press (AP) showed.
The video showed the hydraulic pincers of a claw excavator beginning by tearing into the top-floor classroom of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School building in Parkland, northern Broward County, where Nikolas Cruz, then 19, fatally shot the 14 students and three staff Feb. 14, 2018. Some victims’ families watched the demolition.
An illegal alien from El Salvador has been arrested on charges of raping and murdering a Maryland mother of five.
Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez, 23, crossed the U.S. southern border illegally in February 2023, according to Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler. Six months later, in August 2023, Hernandez is suspected of attacking, raping, and killing Rachel Morin while she exercised on the MA & PA Heritage Trail in Bel Air, Maryland, about 30 miles northeast of Baltimore.
“We are 1,800 miles away from the southern border and the American citizens are not safe because of failed immigration policies,” Gahler said during a press conference Saturday, directing this remark specifically to “1600 Pennsylvania Ave and to every member of both chambers of Congress.”
“This is the second time, in just two years, that an innocent Harford County woman has lost her life to a criminal in our country illegally,” the sheriff said.
The convergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance cloud computing is dramatically reshaping the landscape of scientific research and discovery. Scientific breakthroughs that once took years to achieve are emerging in weeks, presenting new and powerful solutions to address complex global challenges.
However, the accelerating rate of innovation also raises critical strategic questions for government and public policy institutions and whether they are prepared for the surge, suggests a new report.
AI’s emerging impact in the laboratory has made one thing clear: The scientific and research community is at the cusp of a new era when AI-propelled science will move at unprecedented speed and likely reshape priorities for government agencies responsible for agriculture, environmental protection, health, national security and other domains.
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT/Gray News) – A man facing charges in the abduction of two Louisiana children and killing one says he’s admitted to his crimes to authorities and deserves death.
Daniel Callihan is being charged with capital murder and sexual battery, a day after he was arrested for abducting two girls from Louisiana and bringing them across state lines into Mississippi.
An alleged accomplice in Thursday’s killings, Victoria Cox, was also arrested, according to Mississippi police.
Callihan was led out of Jackson police headquarters on Friday and answered questions from reporters while he was being taken to a police car.
Police say a man has been arrested in connection to the death of an 11-year-old boy during a sleepover where he reportedly participated in a dangerous TikTok challenge, according to his family.
Tommy-lee Gracie Billington lost consciousness after inhaling toxic substances and was transported to a hospital, where he later died in March.
‘It is beyond me why anyone would even try this. It’s so dangerous.’
Three months later, Lancashire Police announced that they had arrested a 25-year-old man on from Lancaster suspicion of a slew of charges.
Billington was believed to have died as a result of participating in a TikTok challenge known as “chroming” during which children are encouraged to inhale toxic chemicals in order to create a high comparable to drunkenness. The chemicals used include solvents, aerosols, paint, or cleaning products.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Almost all U.S. hospitals were hurt financially by the cyberattack on United Health Group’s Change Healthcare unit earlier this year, according to a survey from the American Hospital Association (AHA).
The AHA said that 94% of hospitals reported damage to cash flow and more than half reported significant or serious financial damage due to Change’s inability to process claims.
“While this event had disparate impacts on providers, all communities felt the effects in some way,” the AHA wrote in a letter to leadership of the U.S. Senate Finance and House Energy and Commerce committees.
The association, which represents almost 5,000 hospitals and healthcare systems in the United States, sent the letter on Monday ahead of Wednesday’s Congressional hearings on cybersecurity vulnerabilities in the healthcare sector.
A teenage neo-Nazi, who began plotting a suicide bomb attack on his local synagogue during lockdown, vowing to “make Jews scared again”, has been jailed for eight years.
Mason Reynolds, 19, who was described as a “violent anti-Semite”, built up an extensive collection of terrorist material and developed plans to target the Jewish community in his home town of Brighton.
When he was arrested, he was found with diagrams for a synagogue in Hove and had even identified one entrance that he believed would be “good for surprise attack”.
Residents of a flood-hit neighbourhood in Chile are living in fear of their homes collapsing at any moment because of a sinkhole caused by heavy rain.
Terrifying footage shows the building complex in Viña del Mar at risk of giving in as it stands precariously above a massive cavity caused by the storms blighting Chile over the past week.
Pictures show the damage caused by the sinkhole as sand swept through people’s homes and car parks.