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Eric Adams raps Kamala Harris over migrant crisis: ‘Too much in her portfolio’

Mayor Eric Adams appeared to lash out at Vice President Kamala Harris over the city’s $4.2 billion migrant crisis — marking the first time he’s explicitly faulted President Biden’s controversial “border czar.”

“There needs to be an individual who is dedicated to do the decompression strategy for the federal government. Someone should be at these entry points: El Paso, Brownsville, Texas, and others, too, to organize a real decompression strategy across the entire country,” Adams said during a City Hall news conference Tuesday.

“One person should, we should be looking at — it is often stated that as the role of the VP has too much in her portfolio to be focused on just doing that decompression strategy. If not, the decompression strategy can’t be New York City.”
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“It’s been frustrating to not have a point person on topic that’s senior enough to make adjustments in response to the crisis on the ground. The main contact has been [the Department of] Homeland Security,” the source said.

Mexico kidnapping victim Zindell Brown made chilling warning before fateful trip

Zindell Brown had been aware of the perils of traveling from South Carolina with Latavia “Tay” McGee and Eric James Williams so McGee, a mother of six, could undergo a tummy tuck procedure, his sister Zalandria Brown said.

“Zindell kept saying, ‘We shouldn’t go down,’” she said in a phone interview with the Associated Press.

Zalandria, who lives in Florence, SC, said his death has been “like a bad dream you wish you could wake up from.”

“To see a member of your family thrown in the back of a truck and dragged, it is just unbelievable,” she added.

Horrifying video posted to social media Friday showed men with assault rifles and body armor loading the four Americans into the bed of a white pickup in the crime-ridden city of Matamoros [Mexico].

One was alive and sitting up, while others appeared to be either dead or wounded. At least one appeared to lift his head from the pavement before being dragged to the vehicle.

The four Americans were found Tuesday in a wooden shack, guarded by a man who was arrested, in a rural area east of Matamoros, said the state’s chief prosecutor, Irving Barrios.

Ex-CDC chief: Fauci ‘sidelined’ me from COVID debate for backing lab leak theory

Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield told lawmakers Wednesday that Dr. Anthony Fauci “sidelined” him from internal debates about the origin of COVID-19 at the start of the pandemic, saying the former White House chief medical adviser did not appreciate Redfield’s support for the so-called “lab leak theory.”

“This was an a priori decision that there’s one point of view that we’re going to put out there, and anyone who doesn’t agree with it is going to be sidelined,” Redfield said at a hearing of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. “And as I say, I was only the CDC director, and I was sidelined.”

Redfield added that he was not aware that Fauci and then-National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins had convened a conference call on Feb. 1, 2020 to discuss the worldwide outbreak until internal emails were published by the Washington Post and Buzzfeed News in June 2021.
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“Because I had a different point of view,” Redfield responded. “And I was told that they had made a decision that they would keep this confidential until they came up with a single narrative — which I will argue is antithetical to science.”

I've been wondering for quite some time now if the people behind the Resident Evil franchise picked the surname Redfield for some of their characters on purpose.

Michelle Yeoh tweets, deletes ‘forbidden’ post about Oscars nominee Cate Blanchett

Michelle Yeoh narrowly avoided a slap on the wrist from the academy.

Yeoh, 60, was in hot water Tuesday for possibly violating the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “References to Other Nominees” rule after reportedly posting a photo of a Vogue article, which suggested Blanchett doesn’t need a third Oscar.

The “Everything Everywhere All at Once” actress posted the photo on her Instagram account mere hours before official Oscar voting ended and then promptly deleted it, according to the Daily Beast.

Yeoh and “Tár” star Blanchett, 53, are nominated in this year’s Best Actress category — and both are considered front-runners.

 Definitely not a smart move, Yeoh. I mean, you could still lose because of that.

21-year-old man arrested in shooting of two teens near NYC high school

Cops cuffed 21-year-old Ousmane Diallo, of Crown Heights, for allegedly opening fire on the students in Sunset Park around 2:30 p.m. The teens were inside a bodega across from PS 371 Lillian L. Rashkis High School when they were each shot in the shoulder.

The suspected gunman is believed to be a member of the Insane Gangsta Crips gang and is well-known to cops, law enforcement sources said.

In August, Diallo was arrested and charged with attempted murder, assault and other raps for a January 2022 shooting in Crown Heights. He was out on a $500,000 bond in that case, which is still open, according to online records.

 And then they start complaining about people calling NY justice system a revolving door...

Release of new video, audio in Tyre Nichols police murder probe
on hold amid legal challenge By Jesse O’Neill

A lawyer for one of the ex-cops charged with murdering Nichols had filed a motion seeking to block the release of the new evidence, and a Tennessee criminal court blocked the release of additional video, audio, or records Wednesday afternoon pending “further orders” by the court, according to records viewed by The Post.

The developments came a day after the city’s chief legal officer Jennifer Sink told city council members that an eighth police employee would have also been fired in connection with the Jan. 7 deadly beating of the unarmed black man, but he had retired during an internal probe.

Five of the six named officers who were fired in connection with Nichols’ death are facing second-degree murder, aggravated kidnapping, official misconduct and other charges after being caught on camera pummeling Nichols after a traffic stop that Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn Davis had labeled “very questionable.”

The officers were part of a controversial, since-dismantled street crimes unit.

Marine in Kabul airport blast says he was told not to shoot ISIS bomber

A Marine who survived the deadly bombing at Kabul’s airport during the 2021 US withdrawal from Afghanistan told lawmakers Wednesday he was told not to kill a suspected ISIS terrorist who he believes was responsible for later killing 13 of his fellow service members and countless Afghans.

Sgt. Tyler Vargas-Andrews recounted to the House Foreign Affairs Committee how his team deployed to Hamid Karzai International Airport on Aug. 26, 2021, and were tracking a man who intelligence officers believed was a suicide bomber “throughout the entirety” of the day leading up to the explosion.

“Intel guys confirmed the suicide bomber … described as clean-shaven, brown-dressed, black vest and traveling with an older companion,” he said. “I asked intel guys why he wasn’t apprehended sooner since we had a full description. I was told the asset could not be compromised.”

Vargas-Andrews recounted his experience during his opening remarks at the committee’s hearing examining the Biden administration’s handling of the final weeks of the 20-year US war in Afghanistan. The chaotic effort brought massive crowds to the airport with fewer than 6,000 US troops deployed to assist.

Vargas-Andrews told the committee that his team continually updated intelligence teams that day on the suspect’s actions, noting the men were an “anomaly in the crowd” and “both had obvious mannerisms that go along with who we believed him to be.”
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Vargas-Andrews said he requested permission to kill the suspected terrorist and his team leader got a sniper gun ready. But the Marines were told not to shoot because “leadership did not have the engagement authority for us.”