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An Arizona county sheriff said Saturday that he’s frustrated with Gov. Doug Ducey sending large shipping containers to the border in an effort to construct a makeshift border wall. With the containers reaching within 6 miles of Santa Cruz County, Sheriff David Hathaway told FOX 10 Phoenix he’ll arrest anyone who tries to place them in the county, which he referred to as “illegal dumping.” “The area where they’re placing the containers is entirely on federal land, on national forest land,” the sheriff told the station. “It’s not state land, it’s not private land, and the federal government has said this [is]…

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Brooklyn Republican Lester Chang insists he has the proof to show he met residency requirements ahead of last month’s stunning election win over longtime Assemblyman Peter Abbate, Jr. (D-Dyker Heights). “I am personally offended that anyone would challenge my honor and integrity,” Chang said Saturday at a rally in Sunset Park, where he was joined by other Republican pols and supporters. Chang was speaking for the first time since state Assembly Democrats announced their effort to block him from taking over the 49th District seat in southern Brooklyn. Peter Abbate, Jr. lost to Lester Chang by roughly one percentage point. He…

The victim, in his 20s, was discovered outside King’s College Hospital in Denmark Hill, where he was given emergency treatment but died a short time laterA man has died after being found collapsed outside a hospital by passing police officers. A murder probe was launched today after the victim, aged in his 20s, died as a result of stab wounds in south London. He was discovered outside King’s College Hospital in Denmark Hill, where he was given emergency treatment but died a short time later. He had been driven to the hospital – which is a major trauma centre in…

New York City Mayor Eric Adams harshly criticized the release of a man who allegedly beat someone with a baseball bat on Nov. 29 after his girlfriend paid the $7,500 bail on Wednesday.Adams made the comments on CNN’s “Smerconish” on Saturday morning, stating that bail laws in place benefit the suspect, and not the victim.”Every time we do our job as law enforcement and city administrators, we’re seeing this revolving door of catch, release and repeat system that’s really playing out all across the country. I say this over and over again. When are we going to pass laws that…

CNN  —  Attorneys representing the brother of Hae Min Lee, the teenager whose 1999 killing was investigated on the hit podcast “Serial,” requested a redo of the hearing in which a judge vacated the murder conviction of Adnan Syed. Syed had been accused of killing the teen and served more than 20 years in prison before his release in September. The judge’s decision to vacate the conviction came nearly eight years after the podcast dug into the case and raised questions about the conviction and Syed’s legal representation. Court documents filed in the Maryland Court of Special Appeals on Friday,…

Have you seen this creep? A 71-year-old woman suffered a fractured left elbow after being assaulted in Midtown this week. The ugly episode occurred Tuesday around 5:50 p.m., police said. The senior citizen was walking in front of the Moxy NYC Times Square Hotel on Seventh Avenue, near Herald Square when the suspect bumped into her — and then assaulted her, cops said. “He said, ‘Get out of my way!’, picked her up and then slammed her to the ground,” an NYPD spokeswoman said. The brazen bad guy — described as a man in his 30s with a dark complexion…

President Dina Boluarte names her Cabinet days after former President Pedro Castillo was removed by Congress.Peru’s new President Dina Boluarte has named her Cabinet following the removal of former President Pedro Castillo in a step that has triggered protests. Boluarte tapped on Saturday former deputy finance minister Alex Contreras as economy minister and chemical engineer Oscar Vera as energy and mines minister. She also named former state prosecutor Pedro Angulo as prime minister and diplomat Ana Cecilia Cervantes as foreign minister. Boluarte was hastily sworn in as Peru’s first female president on Wednesday just hours after Castillo, who faced a series…

Despite temperatures dropping below zero, 340 people have been without gas supply for a week in what the energy regular called an “extremely difficult situation” Energy regulator Ofgem has said it is “extremely concerned” after almost 200 vulnerable people have been left without gas amid the freezing cold temperatures. Residents in the Stannington area of Sheffield have been without gas heating and cooking appliances for more than a week after a water main burst last Friday, forcing huge amounts of water into the gas network. Despite temperatures dipping below zero, on Saturday morning 340 people had been without gas supply…

Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen says he doesn’t find the complaints from APPEA “convincing in the slightest” regarding the government’s coal and gas caps. The government is set to meet in Parliament this week to put through a deal that will see gas prices capped at $12 a kilojoule and coal prices capped at $125 a tonne.APPEA Chief Executive Samantha McCulloch spoke out against the government’s coal and gas caps, saying it will do the opposite of what is needed and destroy investor confidence. Mr Bowen said he doesn’t think the argument will “hold any water”. “This argument…