Michael Avenatti, the lawyer who started the ball rolling on what looks like Stormy Daniels’ shakedown of Donald Trump, has sent up a flare from prison via X to say he now wants to “help” the former president and has been in touch with his defense team. Avenatti wants to be sprung from prison […]
With jury selection having been wrapped up last week, the first criminal trial of a former president of the United States got underway Monday morning at just about 9:30, when Judge Juan Merchan took the bench. Opening statements in Donald Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan were expected to take a little over an hour, with […]
Will Donald Trump testify at his New York City at the Hush Trump bookkeeping trial? Testimony is underway in the trial of former President Trump, who is charged with a bookkeeping issue of misreporting payments in 2017 as legal fees instead of campaign expenses. His overarching crime, by the Manhattan district attorney’s lights, is […]
Warning that Columbia University in New York has turned into a cauldron of anti-Semitism, a rabbi has urged Jewish students there to go home and stay there for their safety. Rabbi Elie Buechler, director of the Orthodox Union-Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus at Columbia/Barnard, issued the warning Sunday in a chat with 290 students, according […]
New York City’s storefronts aren’t as alluring as they once were. The brutal statistics coming out are bad (but wholly predictable) news. As of 2024, 11.2 percent of the city’s storefronts are sitting vacant. This is up from 6 percent in 2019. That doesn’t seem like a huge number, but that 5.2 percentage point increase […]
One lost little girl in New York City mistook actress Mariska Hargitay for an NYPD officer earlier this month. According to People, which cited a witness it did not name, the incident took place April 10 near the Anne Loftus Playground in Fort Tryon Park in Manhattan. Unaware that she was walking into filming for […]
The man who set himself on fire on Friday outside of the Manhattan courthouse where former President Donald Trump is on trial has died, leaving behind a manifesto explaining his actions. Max Azzarello, 37, died Friday night about nine hours after he doused himself and then set himself ablaze in a small park across the […]
The guy who set himself on fire outside of the Manhattan courthouse where Donald Trump is on trial has been identified as 37-year-old Maxwell Azzarello of Florida. He was pronounced dead of his injuries this morning, so he clearly won’t be answering any of the many questions that linger after this bizarre event. His family […]
Like reading a news story about a person getting scurvy, hearing about a modern metropolis getting beset by rat-borne illnesses almost seems like getting thrown back in time to the Dark Ages. But, no, this time it was not a problem afflicting an impoverished medieval village, but rather one of the largest cities in the […]
The Donald Trump trial took a pause on Friday when a man set himself on fire near the courthouse over a cryptocurrency beef. After the police and medical personnel rushed to the scene, the trial resumed and a jury was seated to begin the case in earnest on Monday. In the words of a […]
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