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Cardi B calls out ‘blue check Republicans’ on silence over Daunte Wright killing
Cardi B minced no words in calling out Republicans for their silence regarding the police killing of Daunte Wright and Caron Nazario’s near-fatal encounter with police in West Virginia. In a profanity laced one-minute video clip, the Grammy Award-winning hip-hop superstar went on a tangent about the police-involved killing of a 20-year-old unarmed Black man in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, and the disturbing incident where West Virginia police officers stalked, menaced and pepper-sprayed a Black uniformed Army lieutenant. The “Bodak Yellow” lyricist griped about the GOP reactions — or lack there...
New York Daily News
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Becoming Eleanor Roosevelt and the role NYC played
“Eleanor in the Village: Eleanor Roosevelt’s Search for Freedom and Identity in New York’s Greenwich Village,” by Jan Jarboe Russell; Scribner (240 pages, $28) ——— Eleanor Roosevelt’s greatest invention was herself. Born into a society family at the height of the Victorian age, she was expected to be polite, subservient, and silent. Initially, she was. Until she decided to be blunt, independent and heard. “If women could believe they were free, they could behave as if they were free,” she said. “Then they would be free.” “Eleanor in the Village: Eleanor Roosevelt’s Search for Freedom and Ident...
New York Daily News
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London Trails Paris And New York For Property Prices
Research by Astons, the international experts on real estate, residency and citizenship has revealed that London trails New York, Beijing and Paris when it comes to property prices surrounding famous landmarks. Q1 2021 hedge fund letters, conferences and more Property Prices Surrounding Famous LandmarksAstons analysed property prices surrounding 11 famous landmarks across the global property market to find which attracted the highest price tag where a bricks and mortar investment is concerned. The research shows that France, or more specifically Paris, ranks top with the average apartment-size...
ValueWalk
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Balancing Act: Let’s stop dragging out Melania Trump’s nudes every time we want to defend a first lady
A teeny, tiny mini-scandal erupted when Jill Biden wore fishnet stockings on Easter Sunday, which is actually good news. (Yay for a return to an administration so bereft of glaring misdeeds that we’ve once again stooped to petty clothing critiques!) “Madonna called and wants her trashy look back, Doc,” conservative commentator Wayne Dupree tweeted, echoing the tenor of most of the lame barbs. (She’s too old to pull off that look; she holds a position too dignified; it’s Easter for Pete’s sake, etc.) Fine. Given Biden’s track record of tirelessly advocating for young people and persevering thro...
Chicago Tribune
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Ghislaine Maxwell says it’s not her fault her Brooklyn jail cell is filthy
NEW YORK – Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers have fired back at claims that she’s letting her jail cell become filthy, and argue that the entire Brooklyn facility where she’s being held is a disgusting cesspool. The letter filed Thursday in Manhattan Federal Court is the latest in an increasingly hostile dispute over the conditions of the British socialite’s confinement at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Sunset Park. Prosecutors and Maxwell’s legal team don’t even agree whether she frequently flushes the toilet. “At times the stench in Ms. Maxwell’s isolation cell has been overwhelming due to o...
New York Daily News
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NYC doormen fired for not coming to aid of Asian American woman attacked outside luxury building
NEW YORK — Two New York City doormen were fired Tuesday for failing to come to the aid of a Filipina woman who was brutally attacked in front of their eyes by a homeless ex-convict who also spewed racial insults at her. The Brodsky Organization announced the dismissals a week after video of the attack surfaced. It shows the woman struggling to fend off her attacker while the doormen move quietly to close the front entrance to their luxury building. The men, both members of the 32BJ SEIU union, were initially suspended in the aftermath of the assault, one of a string of hate crimes in New York ...
New York Daily News
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Armie Hammer out of Broadway show ‘The Minutes’
NEW YORK — Beleaguered actor Armie Hammer will not be in “The Minutes” when it comes to Broadway in 2022. “I have loved every single second of working on ‘The Minutes’ with the family I made from Steppenwolf. But right now I need to focus on myself and my health for the sake of my family,” Hammer said in a statement published by Deadline. “Consequently, I will not be returning to Broadway with the production.” Hammer was in the original 2017 Steppenwolf Theatre production of “The Minutes” in Chicago. The show was in previews on Broadway when the pandemic struck. The 34-year-old actor has been ...
New York Daily News
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NYPD searched woman's Queens home twice but failed to find body in floor-to-ceiling debris
NEW YORK — A 45-minute search by NYPD cadaver dogs failed to find a missing Queens woman entombed beneath her home’s floor-to-ceiling trash — likely due to the stench inside. The police canines arrived for the second of two fruitless October visits to the hoarder’s garbage-packed home, one day after cops rescued 10 pets from the debris without spotting the remains of Emmy-winning set designer Evelyn Sakash, police said Thursday. Sakash, 66, was finally found Tuesday by her sister after six months lost amid the avalanche of trash piled throughout her College Point home. The initial visit came a...
New York Daily News
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Queens hoarder missing for months found dead in home under pile of debris, officials say
NEW YORK — A 66-year-old woman with a hoarding habit was found dead under a pile of debris inside her Queens home after family and friends spent months searching for her, officials said Wednesday. Evelyn Sakash was discovered dead under a pile of rubbish in her kitchen about 4:30 p.m. Tuesday after a cleaner had been called in to fix up her home on 123rd Street in College Point, officials said. Sakash, who friends described as an award-winning production and scenic designer, was last seen leaving her home on Sept. 30 at 8:30 p.m. Family and friends soon reported her missing, noting her car was...
New York Daily News
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New York state legalizes recreational marijuana
New York (AFP) - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed legislation legalizing recreational marijuana on Wednesday, with a large chunk of tax revenues from sales set to go to minority communities. New York joins 14 other US states and the District of Columbia in permitting cannabis after lawmakers in both state chambers, where Cuomo's Democratic Party holds strong majorities, backed the bill on Tuesday. "For too long the prohibition of cannabis disproportionately targeted communities of color with harsh prison sentences," Cuomo said in a statement late Tuesday. "This landmark legislation provid...
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