Jeffrey Epstein Was a Sex Offender. The Powerful Welcomed Him Anyway
New York Times - Sun Jul 14, 2019
A strange thing happened when Jeffrey Epstein came back to New York City after being branded a sex offender: His reputation appeared to rise. More»
American Pastor 'Gave 50,000 Ugandans A "Miracle Cure" For HIV That Was Actually Industrial Strength BLEACH'
Daily Mail - Wed May 22, 2019
A pastor from New Jersey has been accused of giving up to 50,000 Ugandans a 'miracle cure' for malaria and HIV/Aids made from industrial strength bleach. More»
The Radium Girls, Whose Deaths Saved Thousands Of Workers' Lives
Buzzfeed - Wed May 1, 2019
During World War I, hundreds of young women went to work in clock factories, painting watch dials with luminous radium paint. More»
Michael Cohen Disbarred
The Hill - Tue Feb 26, 2019
Michael Cohen, President Trump's former personal attorney, has reportedly been disbarred. More»
Trump Lashes Out After His Foundation Shuts Down Over Claims of a 'Shocking Pattern' of 'Illegality'
Time - Tue Dec 18, 2018
President Donald Trump defended his embattled personal foundation after it agreed to shut down amid allegations the nonprofit misused funds on political and business purposes. More»
Cohen gets 3 years, says Trump's 'dirty deeds' led him to 'choose darkness'
NBC News - Tue Dec 11, 2018
An emotional Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former lawyer and fixer, was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison after pleading guilty to nine federal charges stemming from his failure to report millions of dollars in income and making secret payments to women who claimed they had affairs with Trump. More»
Federal Prosecutors Recommend Substantial Prison Sentence For Michael Cohen
Huffington Post - Fri Dec 7, 2018
Federal prosecutors and special counsel Robert Mueller's office filed court documents on Friday that revealed new details about the government's cooperation with Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, ahead of his sentencing next week. More»
Jewish Professor Finds Swastikas Spray-Painted in Office at Columbia
New York Times - Wed Nov 28, 2018
Two swastikas and an anti-Semitic slur were spray-painted Wednesday on the walls of a Jewish professor's office at Columbia University, the latest in a surge of anti-Semitic incidents in New York this year. More»
Arsonist sets fires at 7 Brooklyn synagogues and Jewish schools
Raw Story - Sat Nov 3, 2018
The New York Police Department received reports of fires at seven Hasidic Jewish institutions in a single neighborhood in Brooklyn - around the same time vandals spray-painted "Kill All Jews" inside a reform synagogue in the same borough. More»
Explosive Found Near Home Of George Soros
Huffington Post - Mon Oct 22, 2018
Law enforcement officials responded to an incident at the home of liberal billionaire George Soros on Monday evening, an officer with the Bedford, New York, police department told HuffPost. More»
Test results show 10 passengers on beleaguered Emirates jet had ... the flu?
New York Daily News - Wed Sep 5, 2018
Test results on 10 sickly passengers on the Emirates jet from Dubai that landed at Kennedy Airport came back positive for the flu, official said. More»
Michael Cohen Surrenders to the FBI
CNN - Mon Aug 20, 2018
Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty today to eight counts that include tax evasion and campaign finance violations. More»
New York Times tells Trump: Don't call reporters enemies of the people
BBC - Sat Jul 28, 2018
The publisher of the New York Times has urged President Donald Trump not to continue labelling reporters "enemies of the people", saying it could "lead to violence" against the media. More»
Mystery pooper at N.J. high school's track turned out to be superintendent
NJ.com - Wed May 2, 2018
The Kenilworth school superintendent charged Monday with defecating in public was caught in the act at the Holmdel High School football field and track after surveillance was set up due to human feces being found "on a daily basis," police said. More»
NJ Police Officers Suspended After Storming Domino's Over Undelivered Pizza
WNBC-TV - Wed Mar 28, 2018
A pair of New Jersey police officers were suspended after one of them was caught on camera pushing a manager at a Domino's against a wall because their pizza didn't get delivered on time. More»
Sam Nunberg on Mueller, His Media Spree, and His Message for Trump
New York Magazine - Mon Mar 5, 2018
At 11:30 on Monday night, Sam Nunberg returned a call from New York. More»
White House asks for Van Gogh loan - but Guggenheim offers gold toilet instead
The Guardian - Thu Jan 25, 2018
The Guggenheim Museum has reportedly turned down a White House request to borrow a Van Gogh painting, and has instead offered the Trump administration the use of a golden toilet. More»
Bomber Strikes Near Times Square, Disrupting City but Killing None
New York Times - Mon Dec 11, 2017
A would-be suicide attacker detonated a pipe bomb strapped to his body in the heart of Manhattan's busiest subway corridor on Monday, sending thousands of terrified commuters fleeing the smoke-choked passageways, and bringing the heart of Midtown to a standstill as hundreds of police officers converged on Times Square and the surrounding streets. More»
Manhattan DA let molester OB/GYN plead out, avoid prison while his lawyers wrote campaign checks
Think Progress - Fri Oct 20, 2017
Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance accepted over $3,000 in campaign funds from attorneys representing a gynecologist his office was prosecuting for alleged serial sexual assault of patients in 2015. More»
Connecticut Republican arrested for grabbing woman's genitals
Raw Story - Sat Jan 14, 2017
A local Republican politician in Connecticut was arrested for allegedly pinching a female employee's genitals, reports the Westport Daily Voice. More»
A Male Trump Supporter Punched A Woman Eating Dinner In The Face
Huffington Post - Mon Nov 14, 2016
A man punched a woman in the face at a popular French restaurant in Brooklyn after she expressed disappointment about the election of President-elect Donald Trump, according to reports from restaurant staff and witnesses. More»
New York election official is suspended after primary voting issues in Brooklyn due to her 'removing more than 100,000 active voters from registration roll'
Daily Mail - Fri Apr 22, 2016
A New York City Board of Elections official has been suspended after reports of voters being turned away and polling sites opening late in Brooklyn during Tuesday's presidential primary election. More»
Indian Point plant leak sparks concern over 'Chernobyl on the Hudson'
RT - Mon Feb 15, 2016
News of the tritium water leak at the Indian Point nuclear power plant has rekindled concerns about the 40-year-old plant among the local residents, public health experts and environmentalists. More»
'65,000% radioactivity spike': New York Gov. orders probe into water leak at Indian Point
RT - Sat Feb 6, 2016
In an "unacceptable" groundwater leak at the Indian Point nuclear power plant, three monitoring wells were discovered to contain "alarming levels of radioactivity," the Governor of New York said, ordering an immediate environmental probe into the issue. More»
Transformer Failure At Indian Point Nuclear Plant In New York Sends Smoke Into The Air
Huffington Post - Sat May 9, 2015
A transformer failure and fire at Indian Point Energy nuclear power plant in Buchanan, New York sent smoke into the air and prompted the plant operator to shut down the impacted unit on Saturday evening. More»
Guard Arrested After Rikers Island Inmate "Bakes to Death" in Hot Cell
NBC - Sun Dec 7, 2014
A jail guard has been arrested in connection with the February death of a homeless ex-Marine inside a 101-degree Fahrenheit jail cell in a special Rikers Island unit for mentally ill inmates, prosecutors said Monday. More»
Three 9/11 firefighters die of cancer in one day
AFP - Sat Sep 27, 2014
New York - Three New York firefighters who worked at the World Trade Center ruins after the September 11 attacks died within hours of each other from cancer, fire officials said Thursday. More»
Police Caught On Video Throwing Pregnant Woman To The Ground
Think Progress - Wed Sep 24, 2014
Sandra Amezquita, a pregnant woman shown on video being thrown, belly-down onto the street by a New York police officer says she fears that the incident could have damaged her baby. More»
20 Children Died in Newtown, Connecticut, School Massacre
ABC - Fri Dec 14, 2012
Twenty children died today when a heavily armed man invaded a Newtown, Connecticut elementary school and sprayed staff and students with bullets. More»
Deadly shooting near the Empire State Building
Yahoo News - Fri Aug 24, 2012
Eight people have been wounded, and at least two people are dead, after a shooting outside the Empire State Building in the Midtown area of Manhattan on Friday morning. More»