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May 29, 2019 – House Democrats are jubilant over two court victories last week in their ongoing battle to get President Trump’s tax returns and ­decades of his personal and business banking records. But their glee won’t last long. The US Supreme Court is likely to overturn these federal district-court rulings. Trump will prevail, along

May 22, 2019 – Housing shortages are plunging New York City and Los Angeles into crisis. Affordable rental units are scarce, families are doubling up, shelters are jam-packed and tens of thousands are sleeping sprawled on the streets of these two cities. The wait-list for public housing is more than four years long in LA

May 15, 2019 – This week, representatives from Facebook, Google and Twitter will join with French President Emmanuel Macron, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and other world leaders to launch a chilling proposal to curb free speech across the Internet. Americans should be alarmed. European elites are fast extinguishing Internet freedom on the Continent.

May 8, 2019 – If you’re looking for work, this is the best job market in 50 years. The economy is soaring. But Democrats running for president are pitching plans that will destroy millions of jobs, doubling the number of people out of work. New Yorkers will be among the hardest hit. Consider Medicare for

May 1, 2019 – Presidential contender Joe Biden is under attack from fellow Democrats for how he treated Anita Hill in 1991, after she accused future Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas of harassment. #MeToo advocates are warning that Biden had better apologize if he wants the women’s vote in the primaries. Biden’s an expert panderer.

April 24, 2019 – Presidential contender Liz Warren’s strategy is to win the Democratic nomination by promising the most free stuff. On Monday, she upped the ante: She is offering a whopping $50,000 in student loan forgiveness for nearly everyone who borrowed for college or graduate school. That’s old-fashioned, Tammany Hall-style bribery — handing out

April 17, 2019 – President Trump scored a win on Friday, when a federal appeals court gave a temporary green light to his Remain-in-Mexico program. The idea is to keep asylum seekers south of the border until they get their day in court. It’s urgently needed to help border towns like McAllen, Texas, in the

April 13, 2019 – A killer germ is raging through some New York hospitals and nursing homes. But public health officials are deliberately keeping the public in the dark about it. New York state is ground zero for this germ, called Candida auris. Over half the nearly 600 cases nationwide are right here, mostly in

April 9, 2109 – House Democrats are demanding the Internal Revenue Service hand over President Trump’s tax returns. But neither Speaker Nancy Pelosi nor the other Dems making the demand are willing to disclose their own tax filings. Fat chance. Not in the House of Hypocrites. White House staff and the president’s lawyers are making