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House Republican Whip Tom Emmer on Monday fired back at accusations from the White House that the GOP is working to “defund” the military amid debate behind the scenes about defense spending levels.Republicans are feuding whether cuts to defense spending are necessary for the new 118th Congress under the leadership of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Part of the reported deal between McCarthy and the GOP defectors that were refusing to back his speakership bid was that discretionary spending for fiscal year (FY) 2024 would be capped at the FY 2022 levels for the next 10 years.In addition, incoming House Judiciary…

Assemblywoman Inez Dickens has had it with a soft-on-crime, tough-on-cops politician in her Harlem district — and is willing to give up her Albany post if she can oust the councilwoman, who has likened the NYPD to a white supremacist “gang.” Dickens this week will announce a bid against hard-left Democratic socialist Councilwoman Kristin Richardson Jordan in the June Democratic primary election. Dickens, 73, who is a former councilwoman, is a centrist Democrat who supports tightening the state’s controversial cashless bail law. She presents a clear contrast with Richardson Jordan, 36, who has called the NYPD “the biggest gang in New York…

Satellite monitoring detected 218.4 square km of forest cover destroyed in Brazil’s share of the world’s biggest rainforest last month.Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon rose 150 percent in December from the previous year, according to government figures, presenting a final bleak report for far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro in his last month in office. Satellite monitoring detected 218.4 square kilometres (84.3 square miles) of forest cover destroyed in Brazil’s share of the world’s biggest rainforest last month, according to the national space agency’s DETER surveillance programme. The area was up more than 150 percent from the 87.2 square kilometres (33.7…

A version of this story appears in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. CNN  —  President Joe Biden’s immigration policy is confusing and full of contradictions. Make some sense of these developments: Biden … made his first visit to the border as president on Sunday, but failed to see any migrants … is expanding former President Donald Trump’s border policy, known as Title 42, even though Biden says he doesn’t like it … asked courts to end that Trump-era policy, but seemingly had no workable plan for when they nearly did…

Looks like luck has run out for New York’s “Teflon Con.” Charles Wold — who earned the moniker for repeatedly dodging jail time despite years of arrests for stealing from city businesses — was sentenced to prison on Monday. Wold, 59, was hit with two-to-four-years behind bars after pleading to six new burglaries, the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office said. “This defendant is a serial burglar who has shown that he will continue to invade other people’s property if he remains at large, necessitating this prison sentence,” said Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez, whose prosecutors had asked for a sentence of nine…

Money talks! ​​Transit workers are splitting from their union brethren by speaking up for Gov. Kathy Hochul’s embattled pick to lead the state’s highest court ​– ​just months before their contract ends with the Hochul-controlled MTA. “Nothing has been communicated to me with any kind of specifics about why he’s anti union,” John Samuelsen, president of the Transport Workers Union of America, told The Post Monday ahead of an expected confirmation hearing next week by the state Senate Judiciary Committee on Hector LaSalle’s nomination to be New York’s top judge. “Let’s send him to a hearing – a fair hearing…

Hello, handsome! The WB was a teenager’s dream network before it became The CW in 2006, giving fans a ton of eye candy to look at on all of its hit series. From Summerland and Supernatural to What I Like About You and Charmed, The WB was all about bringing the hottest actors to the forefront, and fans won’t soon forget the hunky men that used to grace their TV screens on the channel. Joshua Jackson, who played Pacey Witter on Dawson’s Creek for six seasons, is well-aware that fans are still interested in what happened to his character after…

DENVER — Gov. Jared Polis said Colorado will no longer bus asylum-seekers to New York City and Chicago after the mayors of both cities demanded a halt to the policy.Polis sent an unspecified number of migrants to both cities and other locations in Colorado last week because, he said, they were just passing through on their way to those destinations, and Denver city officials were overwhelmed by the 3,900 migrants who had already arrived in the past month.It has already cost Denver more than $2.5 million to shelter and feed the migrants seeking asylum from violence, hunger and unemployment in…

The Telbizov family escaped their war-torn country in August 2022 and have been living in Kelowna, B.C., ever since. “We love Canada and we are happy to be here and it’s a safe space for our children,” said Alexandra Telbizova. “It’s important to us.”But now the Ukrainian family of six, including four children ranging in age from four to 13, is struggling to make ends meet.“I worked two months but right now, I don’t have a full-time job. I’m looking for another job,” said Anatolii Telbizov.Telbizov, who has a plumbing and construction background, is taking any job he can. His…

By Brooke Kruger Global News Posted January 9, 2023 6:16 pm Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Saskatoon Police Service Guns and Gangs Unit arrested a man on Jan. 5 wanted on a Canada-wide warrant for sex trafficking-related offences. Twenty-two-year-old Mahad Farrah, of Montreal, was arrested in the 1200 block of Avenue C North after investigators conducted a vehicle stop.Saskatoon’s Human Trafficking Unit is working to have him transported back to Ontario to face his charges. Journalistic standards Report an error Source: Global News