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What's going on with Sunset Garden in Ridgewood? Depends on whether you ask the NYC Parks Department's community gardens program, the gardeners themselves, or avid New York Post readers.

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Newark Mayor Ras Baraka (D) was arrested by federal officials Friday during a protest at a newly opened immigration detention facility in his city, officials said.

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Yay Mumm’s day gifts!!! #mumm #napa #mummwinery

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Sunday 5/11: 19th Annual Mothers Day Golden Gate Bridge Walk for Peace

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A growing number of cases — including a 2-year-old kept in U.S. custody after her mother was deported to Venezuela — reignites fears of child separation policies.

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The number of military personnel killed or wounded in the broader U.S. campaign against the Houthis is being withheld from the American public. interc.pt/433BMdR

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NEW: The Trump administration is moving to cancel $1 billion in school mental health grants, saying they reflect the priorities of the previous administration.

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Trump news at a glance: children targeted in immigration crackdown

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Amazon said Tuesday it will not display the cost of U.S. tariffs on products after the White House blasted the reported move and President Donald Trump called Jeff Bezos to complain.

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President Donald Trump on Monday evening signed executive orders targeting so-called sanctuary cities by threatening to revoke federal funding and providing legal services and national security assets to law enforcement, reports @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social. buff.ly/3sSjZNt

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Costco has seen an increase in customer traffic over the same time period.

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ICE raid reportedly detains more than a dozen day laborers outside Home Depot

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Nearly half of Americans are now exposed to potentially dangerous levels of air pollution, per a new report.

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Reverend Munther Isaac, a Palestinian pastor in Bethlehem, says that while Pope Francis was widely respected and beloved by many around the world, he was particularly appreciated by people living in the “context of oppression.” 🟠 LIVE updates: aje.io/8iahwb

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'What we are seeing is truly extraordinary in terms of very huge momentum of air strikes and artillery bombardments that have been seen over the course of the past 24 hours', reports Al Jazeera's Tareq Azzom from Gaza. 🟥 Read report: aje.io/hhhb0j

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Random assault leaves man ‘bleeding heavily’ on Castro corner: Video

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“Toxic propaganda.” Gaza’s Government Media Office has warned Palestinians against a “malicious campaign” suggesting they can evacuate the Strip via Israel’s Ramon Airport and relocate to other countries around the world. 🔴 LIVE updates ⤵️

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Donald Trump's "border czar" Tom Homan refused to deny that people can be grabbed off the street and deported without a hearing during a chilling interview on Sunday morning.

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The Trump administration plans to pull another $1 billion in federal grants and contracts for health research from Harvard University amid an escalating, high-stakes battle between the government and the university over institutional oversight and independence, according to The Wall Street Journal.

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🤮 Bloomberg: US "peace plan" suggests easing sanctions on Russia and leaving occupied territories to Moscow

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“On Tuesday alone, DOGE removed around $962 million in previously claimed cuts and altered hundreds of others to boost individual items’ purported “savings” values.”

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The Moms for Liberty campaign of hate started with a lie. It was echoed in right wing media and financed by right-wing national groups. Then Deerfield fought back. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

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NEW: If Kilmar Abrego Garcia manages to return to the U.S. from El Salvador, he will be detained and removed from the country, the DOJ said www.axios.com/2025/04/15/k...

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Video. At least 5 people were arrested after students occupied a building at the University of Amsterdam, while clashes with police also took place nearby.

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The U.S. is paying El Salvador $6 million to house hundreds of immigrants deported from the United States in an immense and brutal prison there. Experts are questioning the legality of this payment amid alleged gross human rights violations buff.ly/gcMhb6R

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"Our country is being run by a small group of people who have an enormous amount of money — and they dominate our politics. It's almost as if bribery has become utterly legalized," says director @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social. His latest project, "The Dark Money Game," debuts on HBO and Max this week.

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Hundreds of scholars have had their visas revoked and dozens have been detained. What’s exceptional about Öztürk’s case is that her detention was caught on camera. What’s scariest, immigration lawyers say, is how little is known about all the others.

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Why are so many world leaders silent on Gaza? | Fiona Katauskas

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A 14-year-old American boy and his two friends were gunned down by Israeli soldiers Sunday night. Their largely American village in the West Bank is wondering why Trump and the U.S. government have said so little about the killing of one of its citizens.

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Supreme Court slows Trump's mass deportations, but doesn't stop them

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The presence of Añemó and the wisdom of the Awá led me to question the outdated idea that only humans can be subjects of rights.

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Around 25 Mt Baker Roofing workers were detained by federal immigration enforcement officers during a raid on the Bellingham business this morning. This is a developing story.

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The bodies of eight Red Crescent medics and other Palestinian rescue workers who came under fire more than a week ago have been recovered from a grave in the sand in the south of the Gaza Strip, UN officials said reut.rs/41TTbGD

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The race for an open seat in the Wisconsin Supreme Court “is now a proxy battle for whether the American government at every level can be bought by oligarchs,” Ben Wikler, the chair of the Wisconsin Democratic Party, said.

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If any random man in a mask can say he’s the police now, all it means is more women and children foreign and non foreign alike are going to be kidnapped in broad daylight and no one will stop them - we all get that right

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The reason that the US is locking up tourists for weeks in hellish detention centers rather than letting them book tickets back home is because the detention centers are owned by corporations. They are charging the taxpayers fortunes to cage these people, and making bonanzas off their suffering.

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ICE is detaining American citizens now. Even if they don’t deport us to Gitmo, it’s a bit inconvenient if we go out to get some apples and spend a night in jail instead.

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. The FCC is investigating Disney for checks notes… DEI programs. The same people screaming about “big government overreach” are now using the government to punish companies for hiring diverse talent. Totally normal not hypocritical at all. #MakeItMakeSense #DEI #Disney .

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1/6 Six weeks after demanding answers from DHS Secretary Noem, I still haven’t received a response. ICE is detaining and deporting people—without telling the public who, or why. That’s unacceptable.

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Federal agents have been filmed wearing masks while making arrests in public. When is it legal for police and the public to conceal their faces in an age of digital facial recognition and doxxing?

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London Metropolitan Police Detective Chief Inspector Dean Purvis said an officer had been removed from the case over “conscious or unconscious bias.” “I’m not the queen who cried wolf,” Grannell said. “I didn’t make up this notion of homophobia." In the @sfgate.com: www.sfgate.com/local/articl...

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Vote me Governor of California, and I swear to God that unlike the sniveling, cowardly, complicit Dems, I WILL NOT comply with any unconstitutional order. The Feds will have to go through the full force of the state’s legal apparatus to touch a single hair on the head of a California resident.

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Breaking: RFK Jr. has forced out PETER MARKS, the nation’s top vaccine regulator. In his resignation letter, obtained by the Post, Marks said he was willing to work with RFK Jr on his vaccine concerns — but said Kennedy wishes “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”

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Nearly every Republican in the Senate voted to overturn a Biden Admin rule that limited bank overdraft fees to $5. This rule, initially established by the now gutted CFPB, was expected to save consumers $5 billion annually. The GOP is the party of junk fees.

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