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A woman was pushed to the ground by a stranger who called her a “stupid Asian b—h” near Herald Square, cops said Tuesday while releasing photos of the suspected bigot. The hateful creep approached the 56-year-old victim from behind at West 33rd Street and Sixth Avenue around 3:15 p.m. Dec. 31 and shoved her “without any prior conversation or provocation,” according to police. “Stupid Asian b—h,” the attacker muttered. “Do you want another one?” The maniac then fled in an unknown direction, cops said. The woman suffered a minor injury to her arm but refused medical attention. The attacker was…

Charles Scharf, chief executive officer of Wells Fargo & Co., listens during a House Financial Services Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, March 10, 2020.Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesWells Fargo is stepping back from the multi-trillion dollar market for U.S. mortgages amid regulatory pressure and the impact of higher interest rates.Instead of its previous goal of reaching as many Americans as possible, the company will now offer home loans to existing bank and wealth management customers and borrowers in minority communities, CNBC has learned.The dual factors of a lending market that has collapsed since the Federal…

CNN  —  A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order blocking the enforcement of portions of a New Jersey gun law that restricted concealed carry in certain places. “The Court finds that the challenged provisions have chilled Plaintiffs’ reasonable exercise of their Second Amendment right,” District Judge Renee Marie Bumb wrote in an opinion Monday. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat, signed the new restrictions into law in recent weeks as part of his administration’s response to the Supreme Court’s Bruen decision. Among other changes, the legislation lists multiple sensitive places where concealed carry is forbidden, with some…

Students at Harvard Medical School can learn about how to provide healthcare to infants who are supposedly LGBTQIA+, according to a course catalog description.In the course “Caring for Patients with Diverse Sexual Orientations, Gender Identities, and Sex Development,” which is regularly available at the school, students are offered the opportunity to work with “patients [who] identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex or asexual,” as first reported by The College Fix.”Clinical exposure and education will focus on serving gender and sexual minority people across the lifespan, from infants to older adults,” the course description says.HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL STUDY CLAIMS…

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CNN  —  A lawyer for Donald Trump on Tuesday was grilled about the former president’s recent inflammatory statements against a rape accuser during a court hearing in which Trump is trying to fend off a defamation lawsuit brought by the accuser for his earlier White House-era smears against her. Trump attorney Alina Habba told the Washington, DC, Court of Appeals – which has been asked to weigh in on a legal dispute that has emerged from a 2019 defamation lawsuit brought by E. Jean Carroll – it would not be appropriate for her to address Trump’s recent anti-Carroll remarks. She…

The sun is out in Florence and the city is full of editors, stylists, and buyers, in town for the Pitti Uomo fair and its headliner, guest designer Martine Rose. Pitti always brings a mix of different styles, from traditional suiting to edgier streetwear pieces. Hats are key, no matter the uniform, as are a fashionable set of shades. Scroll through the best street-style photos from this season’s fair here, as photographed by Acielle Tanbetova. Source: Vogue

CNN  —  Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who gained national recognition as White House press secretary in the Trump administration, was sworn in Tuesday as Arkansas’ 47th governor. She becomes the state’s first female governor and assumes a seat her father, Mike Huckabee, once held. “I did not seek this office to be the first anything, but I ran to make Arkansas first in everything,” Sanders said from the steps of the Arkansas State Capitol. She focused her inaugural address on her vision for making education reform the hallmark of her administration and becoming “Arkansas’ education governor.” She said she wants to…

There are calls for the minimum age of criminal responsibility to be raised from 10 to 14 in Queensland.The current minimum age of criminal responsibility is 10 years old nationwide.The Northern Territory is set to increase it to 12 years old later this year, and the ACT is expected to lift it to 14 by 2027. Source: Sky News

Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to spur the construction of 800,000 units of affordable housing in and around New York City — and especially on Long Island — by letting state officials overrule the development decisions of local governments. In her State of the State speech Tuesday, Hochul also said she favored mandating that neighborhoods within half a mile of MTA subway and railroad stations be rezoned if they don’t already allow multifamily housing in two- to four-story buildings. Hochul set a three-year goal of increasing the housing stock in downstate communities by 3% each over three years, compared to 1%…