New York City’s new pied-à-terre tax just got a lot less tidy and a lot more expensive for a lot more people. The Department of Finance released a supplemental market-value roll showing more than 31,000 properties that may fall under the surcharge. That number blew past the administration’s short, catchy promise that this was a More

A 15-year-old girl was allegedly sexually assaulted and kidnapped from a park near Boise. Ada County deputies arrested a man they identify as Jose Alberto Lozano‑Flores. What turned heads — and rightly so — was the Department of Homeland Security’s blunt social‑media post calling him a “criminal illegal alien” and saying ICE is working with More

Content warning: this article discusses a violent boating death. The focus here is the detention hearing this week in McHenry County, where prosecutors laid out video, witness statements and blood‑alcohol test results and convinced a judge to keep the accused off the river — and off the street — pending trial. The accused, Richard M. More

The Democratic National Committee just got a reminder that computer scams are real — and so is sloppy money management. New attention has been focused on a mid‑2025 Federal Election Commission filing showing the DNC recorded a nearly $29,000 “misdisbursement” after someone emailed a staffer pretending to be DNC Chair Ken Martin. The party calls More

The Justice Department has just filed a new appeal asking the Supreme Court to step in on the E. Jean Carroll defamation verdict. The move asks the high court to allow the United States to substitute itself for President Trump under the Westfall Act. If the Court takes the case, it could wipe out the More

Dr. Anthony Fauci’s appearance before the Senate Homeland Security Committee did not end with bright lights and clear answers. Instead, the former NIAID director repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment and declined to answer questions. That refusal has already triggered promises of a contempt vote from Senator Rand Paul and a state-level probe from Florida Attorney More