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NY Attorney General Vows To Protect Undocumented Immigrants During Planned ICE Raids
New York is among as many as 10 cities nationwide that are going to be the target of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids targeting illegal immigrants, which are expected to begin this weekend and the state's attorney general is vowing to protect those undocumented immigrants. The raids come weeks after President Donald Trump tweeted ICE’s plans to conduct them, forcing the commander-in-chief to postpone the operation due to the leaked information and public outcry. They have now been re-scheduled to begin on Sunday, July 14, though few details have been released. The raids, which w…
Police & Fire
CT Man Wanted For Murder Shot, Killed After Police Manhunt
A multi-state manhunt for a Connecticut resident wanted by police after a man was killed and his wife critically injured during a stabbing attack ended with the suspect being fatally shot during an altercation with law enforcement. Peter Alexander Bohning, 34, of Kent, Connecticut (shown in the photo here) was killed on Monday, June 24 in Gaines County, Texas, about 1,000 miles away from the random attack that occurred around 3:30 p.m. on Friday, June 21 in Nashville. A Gaines County deputy was stabbed in the altercation with Bohning and was hospitalized in El Paso with non-…
Politics
Here Are The Lineups For First Two Democratic Presidential Debates
The Democratic National Committee announced the names of presidential candidates who qualified for the first debates of the 2020 campaign, cutting the record wide field of 23 contenders down to the 20 spots. Candidates making the final cut on Thursday registered at least 1 percent support in three national polls, received campaign money from 65,000 donors, or both. The list appears at the end of this article. Debates will be spread over two nights in Miami later this month -- with 10 candidates appearing each night. Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren will share the stage with …
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Recall Issued For Raw Whole Poultry Products Produced Without Inspection
Check your freezers. Pasture Raised Foods, LLC, which was operating as Greener Pastures Chicken, a non-inspected poultry grower in Texas, is recalling an undetermined amount of frozen raw whole poultry products that never received a federal inspection. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announced the recall this week. The recalled products come in varying weight vacuum-sealed packages that contain a whole “Greener Pastures Chicken” with the head and feet removed. The items were produced between Nov. 29 last year through May 24. According to the USDA, t…
Lifestyle
Here's Where You Can Find Most, Least Sexy Accents Across US
You can pat yourself on the back and not hide in shame if "Y'all" is a word likely to come out of your mouth. In fact, Texan and southern drawls were voted as the most attractive accent in the nation in a new survey of 1.5 million social media followers of travel company Big 7. But if you come from "Lawnguyland," you might want to get to work on covering up what was voted as the "least sexy accent." In fact, that famous dialect came in dead last at No. 50 in the survey, finishing behind No. 49 New Joisey -- oops, New Jersey. Technically, two New York City boroughs - Brooklyn and Queens - …
Politics
Amid Measles Outbreak, Vaccination Bill Stalls In State Assembly
Despite a record-breaking measles outbreak legislation to eliminate religious vaccine exemptions has stalled, drawing hundreds to the New York State Capitol in Albany to rally against the bill. New York remains one of the hardest hit with the measles outbreak - namely in Rockland County - prompting state lawmakers to propose a bill that would bar parents from not vaccinating their children. That legislation has come under heavy scrutiny from parents and advocates who believe that vaccinations can have unintended consequences for children, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was at the for…
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681 Measles Cases In 22 States Breaks Record
The measles outbreak that has spread throughout the nation has reached the highest level in 25 years, officials announced this week. In total, there have been 681 measles cases reported in 22 states this year, according to health officials. Between Jan. 1 and Monday, April 21, the Centers for Disease Control said that there have been 626 individual cases confirmed, an increase of 71 in the past week. The CDC said that this is the second-highest number of cases reported since measles was eliminated in 2000, second only to 667 cases that were reported in 2014. In the coming weeks, health offi…
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90 New Measles Cases Reported This Week Nationally, CDC Says
The measles outbreak is on course to be the worst in decades with 90 more cases reported nationally in the past week - the largest jump of the year - according to new numbers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Between Jan. 1 and April 11 this year, there have been 555 individual cases of measles confirmed in 20 states, the second highest total reported in the country since measles was eliminated as an endemic disease in 2000. The World Health Organization reported this week that there were more than 110,000 measles cases worldwide in the first three months of 2019, an…
Lifestyle
These Hudson Valley Counties Have Highest Property Tax Rates In Nation, New Study Says
Homeowners in New York and Connecticut paid some of the highest property taxes in the country last year, according to a brand new report. ATTOM Data Solutions released its 2018 property tax analysis for more than 87 million homes, announcing that single-family homeowners last year paid a total of $304.6 billion, up from $293.4 billion in 2017. The average was $3,498 per home, according to the report, which made for an effective tax rate of 1.16 percent. According to ATTOM, the report analyzed property tax data collected from county tax assessor offices nationwide at the state, metro and cou…
Politics
Florida Senator Trolls Cuomo: NY's High Taxes, Policies Reason For Exodus To Sunshine State
U.S. Sen. Rick Scott of Florida is taking aim at New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo about Florida's lower taxes and sunny weather, and how Scott says the Empire State is contributing to his state's surge. Now that Florida has surpassed New York as the third most populated state (behind California and Texas), the newly elected Republican senator, Florida's former governor, just flexed some muscles in an appearance on Fox News and in an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal. On Fox News, Scott said he wrote a thank you note to Cuomo saying: "Thank you, Governor Cuomo. Please keep raising taxes." In his o…
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Recall Issued For Chicken Fried Rice Products
The USDA is urging consumers to check their freezers after announcing a recall of more than 30,000 pounds of a chicken fried rice product. Choice Canning Company Inc., a Pennsylvania-based company, announced that it is recalling 35,459 pounds of chicken fried rice products due to misbranding and undeclared allergens, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced this week. The products contain milk, a known allergen, which is not declared on the product label. The chicken fried rice products were produced on Feb. 13, and Feb. 19. The re…
Politics
Ocasio-Cortez Draws Bigger Crowd Than Any 2020 Dem Presidential Candidate At Texas Conference
It wasn’t any of the 2020 presidential hopefuls that took center stage at the South by Southwest conference in Texas, it was outspoken freshman Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The 2007 Yorktown High School graduate drew a larger crowd than the presidential hopefuls, as she discussed her Green New Deal and other talking points to a capacity crowd of thousands. During her one-hour talk, she touched on topics that include social and economic policy, reform ideas and what her first few whirlwind months in Congress. She also took former president Ronald Reagan to task for his treatment o…
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