Politics

“Strict Vegan” Adams Admits Eating Fish After Denial

The New York Daily News reports: That’s pretty fishy. Mayor Adams admitted late Monday that he eats fish every now and then after refusing to come clean about it for days and even deploying his press team to insist that he’s on a strict vegan diet. Adams, who has for years claimed adherence to a “plant-based” lifestyle, finally fessed up …

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SCOTUS Allows Alabama Redistricting To Stay In Place

CNN reports: The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, allowed a congressional map drawn by Alabama Republicans to remain in place Monday, freezing a lower court ruling that said the map likely violates the Voting Rights Act. The lower court had ordered a new map to be drawn, which could have led to Democrats gaining another seat in the House …

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REPORT: De Blasio To Set Up Committee For House Run

The New York Post reports: Former Mayor Bill de Blasio is planning to soon create an exploratory committee to consider a run for a congressional swing seat that is drawing plenty of national attention in this year’s midterm elections, The Post has learned. The new borders for the 11th Congressional District snake north to include de Blasio’s home in Park …

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“Vindicated” Cuomo Won’t Rule Out Another Run

Bloomberg News reports: Five months after he resigned over a swirl of sexual harassment allegations, New York’s former Governor Andrew Cuomo isn’t ruling out another run for public office. He insists it’s too soon to talk about it. Instead, he’s consumed by what he alleges are serious mistakes by New York State Attorney General Letitia James and the independent lawyers …

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Macron Visits Moscow In Bid To Avert Ukraine Invasion

Reuters reports: French President Emmanuel Macron flies to Moscow on Monday in bid to persuade Russian President Vladimir Putin to dial down tensions with Ukraine, where Western powers fear the Kremlin plans an invasion. Moscow gave the visit a guarded welcome, saying it would listen to Macron’s ideas, but played down expectations of a breakthrough. Russia has deployed more than …

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BOOK: How John McCain Impulsively Chose Sarah Palin

Axios reports: At the moment the late Sen. John McCain green-lit Sarah Palin as his presidential running mate in 2008, he told top advisers: “F— it. Let’s do it.” McCain balled up a fist and shook it as if rolling dice, N.Y. Times political reporter Jeremy W. Peters reveals in his forthcoming book, “Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and …

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Hungary Finances Campaign Of France’s Marine Le Pen

Bloomberg News reports: It would be a “good deal” for any bank in the European Union to extend a loan to French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, a senior official in Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government said. Cabinet Minister Gergely Gulyas’s comments followed a report by RTL media in France Wednesday that a Hungarian bank had provided a …

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Adams Apologizes For Calling White Cops “Crackers”

The New York Daily News reports: Mayor Adams bragged in 2019 about being a better cop than his “cracker” colleagues in the NYPD. “Every day in the Police Department, I kicked those crackers’ ass,” Adams says in the video. “Man, I was unbelievable with 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement,” he continued, referring to a police advocacy group he co-founded in …

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NC State Supreme Court Strikes Down US House Map

Raleigh’s NBC News affiliate reports: The North Carolina Supreme Court on Friday night voted to strike down new voting maps Republicans passed in November. The high court issued a 4-3 decision split along ideological lines. The voting maps passed in November strongly favored the GOP, with the party slated to win 10 or 11 of the 14 U.S. House seats …

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Mike Pence Calls Out Trump Lie In Speech To Federalist Society: “I Had No Right To Overturn Election” [VIDEO]

The Washington Post reports: “This week, our former president said I had the right to ‘overturn the election. President Trump is wrong,” Pence said Friday. “I had no right to overturn the election.” Pence dismissed Trump’s statement during a keynote speech given Friday during a conference hosted by the Federalist Society, an organization for conservative and libertarian lawyers, in Florida …

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GOP Sues After NY Gov Signs Redistricting Into Law

The New York Daily News reports: Gov. Hochul signed New York’s new congressional and legislative maps into law on Thursday, capping a chaotic process and two days of bitter feuding in Albany, where the ruling Democrats drew new district lines over Republican opposition. Hochul inked her signature to bills codifying the maps after lawmakers approved legislative redistricting earlier in the …

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Surfaced Videos Show Beating Of Black Man By Former Florida Cop Who Was Arrested In Capitol Riot [VIDEO]

The Orlando Sentinel reports: Videos of Apopka police officers pulling a Black man from his car before hitting and stunning him in his driveway in November 2019 resurfaced on social media this week, soon after the man filed a lawsuit against the city. The officer who used a Taser on the man and wrote his arrest report, Nathaniel Tuck, resigned …

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REPORT: Bill De Blasio Considering Run For US House

The New York Daily News reports: Bill de Blasio may have found his new calling. In recent days, the former mayor has told political allies and labor leaders that he’s mulling a run for Congress in light of the state legislature approving a new House district map, according to two people familiar with the matter. De Blasio, who announced a …

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Canada’s Conservative Party Votes To Oust Leader In Part Because He Backed Law Banning Ex-Gay Torture

The CBC reports: A majority of Conservative MPs today voted to remove Erin O’Toole as party leader, paving the way for another leadership race only 18 months after the party finished the last one. The result wasn’t particularly close: 73 of the 118 MPs on hand — the party’s caucus chair, Scott Reid, did not cast a ballot — voted …

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Federalist Society Bans Press From Speech By Gorsuch

The Associated Press reports: Justice Neil Gorsuch is speaking this weekend to the conservative legal group that boosted his Supreme Court candidacy, in a session at a Florida resort that is closed to news coverage. Gorsuch is billed as the banquet speaker Friday at the Florida chapter of the Federalist Society’s annual meeting, which is being held at the Walt …

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McConnell Opposes “Shortened Sentences” For Rioters

“Well, I can speak for myself. The election of 2020 was decided December the 14th of 2020 when the Electoral College certified the winner of the election. “What we saw here on January 6th was an effort to prevent the peaceful transfer of power from one administration to another, which had never happened before in our country. “165 people have …

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Bush Donated Max To Pro-Impeachment Republicans

Politico reports: Former President George W. Bush contributed to Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s (R-Alaska) reelection campaigns at the end of 2021, according to campaign finance reports filed Monday, backing up two of the most prominent Republicans who supported impeaching Donald Trump a year ago. Bush donated a maximum individual contribution of $5,800 to Cheney last October. …

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DA Drops Last Criminal Probe Against Andrew Cuomo

The New York Post reports: An upstate district attorney’s office is dropping its criminal investigation of sexual harassment allegations against Andrew Cuomo — shutting down the last of five criminal cases involving the disgraced ex-governor. But Oswego DA Gregory Oakes told The Post on Monday that while there’s not “sufficient legal basis” to bring charges based on allegations of unwanted …

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Justin Trudeau Tests Positive For COVID, Feels “Fine”

The New York Times reports: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada has tested positive for the coronavirus after an exposure last week. He said on Twitter that he was not feeling ill. He said later in an online news conference that two of his three children had also tested positive. Mr. Trudeau has been isolating since last Thursday, when he …

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Hogan: “Stakes Are Too High” For Another Trump Run

Fox News reports: Donald Trump’s presidency is one and done, according to a pair of Republican governors, who have said the 45th president is not the future of the GOP. The stakes are simply too high to risk another Trump presidency, Gov. Larry Hogan, R-Maryland, told Fox News on Sunday. “With America on the wrong path, the stakes are too …

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