4+ week, 1+ day ago (587+ words) The reporter is best known for her August interview with Huckabee that enraged the former governor. A CBS News correspondent behind a controversial interview with the American ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, is reportedly considering legal action after she was laid off on Wednesday. As sweeping layoffs roiled CBS News, Debora Patta claims in her lawsuit that she had been told by company representatives that she was safe. After she got the bad news, she found out that she was being let go instead of a Rome-based correspondent, Chris Livesay, who was originally supposed to be let go but asked to be reassigned as an Israel correspondent." Ms. Patta interviewed Mr. Huckabee in August and asked him about the humanitarian situation in Gaza and about whether he is "deeply troubled by images of starving children." At the end of the…...

21+ hour, 41+ min ago (447+ words) Few major outlets are spared from inclusion on a list of "repeat offenders" on a new White House web page Almost no mainstream news media outlet is spared from appearing on a new "Hall of Shame" appearing since Friday on the White House website. Prominent on a list of "repeat offenders" that "don"t just get it wrong " they do it over and over again" are the New York Times, Washington Post, Associated Press, CNN, Politico, Axios, Los Angeles Times, and three of the four major networks: ABC, NBC and CBS. Less politically oriented outlets such as People Magazine and USA Today are included among the 22 named news sources, as are a pair of British outlets " BBC and The Independent. Absent from the list is President Trump"s preferred broadcaster, Fox News. The inaugural issue of the web page focuses…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago (686+ words) The former judge says he is considering filing a fraud and corruption complaint with the New York attorney general's office. A Miss Universe judge who quit the scandal-plagued beauty pageant " claiming it is rigged " is now threatening to file a formal complaint with the attorney general of New York citing fraud, corruption, abuse of power, and other issues. The Lebanese-French composer Omar Harfouch announced this week that he was resigning in an Instagram post to his more than one million followers. He claims that a secret vote was held to pre-select 30 finalists out of the 136 contestants. Mr. Harfouch said that he could not pretend to legitimize the vote during the televised competition. "Some of the countries eliminated through this process could be at war, discriminated against, or geopolitically sensitive," Mr. Harfouch stated. "Viewers would assume the jury made these decisions,…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago (382+ words) The congresswoman says she is running against "America's worst governor.' Congresswoman Elise Stefanik is announcing her long-expected run for governor of New York, days after voters at New York City elected a democratic socialist to be their next mayor." In a post on X on Friday morning, Ms. Stefanik called New York's governor, Kathy Hochul, the "worst governor in America." "Under her failed leadership, New York is the most unaffordable state in the nation with the highest taxes, highest energy, utilities, rent, and grocery bills," the New York congresswoman said. "When New Yorkers were looking for leadership from our Governor, she bent the knee to the raging Defund the Police, Tax Hiking Communist causing catastrophe for New York families." Ms. Hochul responded to Ms. Stefanik's announcement, writing on X, "Elise Stefanik is running to deliver New York for Donald Trump…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago (1133+ words) Any predictions that he would be moderate were tossed aside when he started his speech by quoting five-time Socialist Party of America presidential candidate, Eugene Debs. " And so it begins," President Trump posted to Truth Social on Tuesday night, as the new mayor-elect of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, took to the stage to give his victory speech at the Paramount Theater in downtown Brooklyn. Mr. Trump may be the master of the political troll, but Mr. Mamdani proved Tuesday night that he can give as good as he gets. The 34-year-old democratic socialist, who won with just over 50 percent of the vote, peppered his speech with attacks not only on Mr. Trump but also on his main challenger, Governor Andrew Cuomo, and on the "big money and small ideas" of the Democratic establishment. Mr. Mamdani framed his win as…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago (653+ words) This was nothing more than fan fic from a bunch of half mad and mostly drunk politicos trapped in the same place," a Cuomo spokesman tells the Sun of Governor Cuomo running for Congress. The Cuomo camp is denying reports that former New York governor and failed mayoral candidate, Andrew Cuomo, is eying a run for Representative Jerry Nadler"s soon-to-be-vacant seat in Congress " but another political scion is likely to jump in the race this week. President John F. Kennedy"s grandson, Jack Schlossberg, set up an exploratory committee in September and is expected to announce his congressional run as soon as this week. "It"s happening," a source told Politico, adding that the 32-year-old Schlossberg has already hired staff and is consulting with Democratic leaders. Speculation about Mr. Cuomo eying another political comeback reached a fever pitch over the…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago (788+ words) The fired MSNBC host suggests it would be the "most perfect fairy tale." The fired MSNBC host, Joy Reid, is facing a firestorm of criticism after she speculated that Vice President Vance might leave his wife, Usha, for Charlie Kirk"s widow, Erika, in order to upgrade to what she called "a white queen." Ms. Reid appeared on the "I"ve Had It podcast, co-hosted by Jennifer Welch, who has been cast as liberals" answer to podcaster Joe Rogan." "They can"t have the successor to MAGA be the guy with the brown Hindu wife, Ms. Reid claimed. "They"re also Christian nationalists. That ain"t going to work. That"s why he"s throwing his wife under the bus. Poor Usha. Or she"s in on it. Ms. Welch then made a derogatory reference to a close hug between…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago (666+ words) Will Mamdani's leftist agenda and Tisch's law-and-order coalesce or clash? The NYPD Commissioner, Jessica Tisch, will remain in her role to "deliver genuine public safety" as Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is set to take charge of New York City, marking an unusual alliance between a precision policing practitioner and a historically anti-cop democratic socialist with strikingly different philosophies on public safety." In an internal NYPD-wide email sent Wednesday, Ms. Tisch announced that she agreed to continue in her role as Commissioner in Mr. Mamdani's administration after sharing "several"conversations with him." "Do the mayor-elect and I agree on everything? No, we don't. But in speaking with him, it's clear that we share broad and crucial priorities: The importance of public safety, the need to continue driving down crime and the need to maintain stability and order across the department," Ms. Tisch…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago (738+ words) The former Harvard president steps down from OpenAI and other boards after emails show he sought romantic advice from the convicted sex offender. A former president of Harvard University, Larry Summers, continues to suffer fallout from his relationship with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, with the prominent economist resigning from yet another corporate board position following the release of email correspondence between the two men. Mr. Summers, who served as Treasury Secretary under the Clinton administration and was President Obama's director of the National Economic Council, announced on Wednesday his departure from the board of directors at the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company, OpenAI. "In line with my announcement to step away from my public commitments, I have also decided to resign from the board of OpenAI," Mr. Summers stated. "I am grateful for the opportunity to have served, excited about…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago (693+ words) The self-described democratic socialist is set to become a star of the Democratic Party as he pushes his left-wing agenda. New York state assemblyman Zohran Mamdani will become the mayor of New York City in January after running a seemingly impossible campaign for Gracie Mansion. The left-wing Millennial " who is calling for extensive tax hikes on the wealthiest New Yorkers " defeated Governor Andrew Cuomo, who ran as an independent, and Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa." Mr. Mamdani won four of the city's five boroughs " all except Staten Island " with either a majority or a plurality of the vote. Decision Desk HQ predicted that Mr. Mamdani had won the race just 30 minutes after polls closed on Tuesday. CNN and NBC News projected the same outcome shortly thereafter." According to an exit poll from CNN, Mr. Mamdani struggled with non-college educated and Jewish…...