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Harvey Weinstein reignited his feud with Gwyneth Paltrow in a new interview from prison, claiming the Oscar winner “owes her career” to him and accusing her of betrayal.Weinstein rehashed the allegations made by Paltrow and alleged the actress stabbed him in the back by coming forward. The Miramax Films co-founder spoke about Paltrow and the allegations against him in his first interview from prison. Weinstein has been behind bars since his 2020 rape conviction. Despite the conviction being overturned in 2024, he remains in prison serving a 16-year sentence for a separate sexual assault conviction.”I don’t know what drove [Paltrow] to do what she did,” he told The Hollywood Reporter. “To make such a big deal over nothing. I walked out of a nice meeting with her and said, ‘How about a massage?’ And she just went, ‘No, I don’t think so.’ I got the message. I never put my hands on her.”GWYNETH PALTROW ADMITS TO ‘COMPLICATED RELATIONSHIP’ WITH HARVEY WEINSTEIN”She told Brad Pitt. Brad Pitt came to me and said, ‘Don’t do anything like that with my girl.’ I said, ‘Don’t worry, Brad. I got it.’ But then Gwyneth goes on Howard Stern and The New York Times and makes a big deal about it all. She knows that nothing happened. But this person who was a friend, who owes her career to me, just stabs me in the back. She wanted to be part of the crowd. I won’t forgive her for that.”Paltrow came forward during the investigation into Weinstein by multiple media outlets in 2017 after the start of the #MeToo movement. She alleged that Weinstein had summoned her to his hotel room after casting her in “Emma.” According to Paltrow, Weinstein placed his hands on her and suggested a massage.She was 22 years old at the time. “Emma” has largely been considered the start of Paltrow’s successful acting career, followed by other Weinstein films including “The Pallbearer,” “Sliding Doors” and “Shakespeare in Love.”Paltrow recalled Pitt’s confrontation with Weinstein during an appearance on The Howard Stern Show in 2018. At the 1995 Broadway opening of “Hamlet,” Pitt allegedly told Weinstein, “If you ever make her feel uncomfortable again, I’ll kill you.””It was the equivalent of throwing him against the wall, energetically,” Paltrow said. “It was so fantastic because what he did was, he leveraged his fame and power to protect me at a time when I didn’t have fame or power yet.”HARVEY WEINSTEIN RAPE CONVICTION OVERTURNED BY NY APPEALS COURTPaltrow isn’t the only celebrity Weinstein called out by name. He also took aim at Rosanna Arquette and Angelina Jolie. He claimed the three actresses “exaggerated” their claims against him.According to Weinstein, he wouldn’t have tried to punish any women who refused his alleged sexual advances.”Absolutely not. I may be a tough guy, but I’m not deranged,” he told the outlet. “Just the threat of Harvey was enough — maybe more than enough. But it didn’t go to the point of blackballing anybody.””If the camera’s on, I’m just going to say Rosanna Arquette, Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie — they just exaggerated,” he continued. “They wanted to be part of the club. And they destroyed me.”Fox News Digital reached out to representatives for Paltrow, Jolie and Arquette for comment.LIKE WHAT YOU’RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSJolie claimed Weinstein made an unwanted pass at her while she was working on the film “Playing by Heart.” The “Girl, Interrupted” star was 21 years old at the time and said she played down the alleged assault at the time because she was able to escape.”It was beyond a pass, it was something I had to escape,” she told The Guardian in 2021. “I stayed away and warned people about him. I remember telling Jonny, my first husband, who was great about it, to spread the word to other guys — don’t let girls go alone with him. I was asked to do ‘The Aviator,’ but I said no because he was involved. I never associated or worked with him again.”Arquette has also claimed she had to reject unwanted advances from Weinstein and believed it affected her career. In the early 1990s, Arquette was allegedly summoned to Weinstein’s hotel room at the Beverly Hills Hotel, where he was waiting for her in a bathrobe. She claimed the now-disgraced movie mogul attempted to put her hand on his genitals.”I was fortunate because I was not raped,” she told The Times in 2026. “But, boy, was it going there, and I paid a price for saying no, and later I paid a price for telling the truth.”CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTERWeinstein also defended himself against a previous claim made by filmmaker Peter Jackson. The “Lord of the Rings” director said Weinstein told him not to work with Ashley Judd or Mira Sorvino.”Peter Jackson is the worst,” Weinstein told THR. “For him, it’s personal. He still resented me over what happened with [Miramax and] ‘Lord of the Rings.’ So as soon as he sees I’m down, he says that I ordered him not to work with Ashley Judd or Mira Sorvino. It’s a complete f—–g lie. If he says it again, I’ll sue him too.”Weinstein pivoted to his own version of events, arguing he actively supported both Judd and Sorvino’s careers rather than sabotaging them.”The truth is, I fought on my last breath to cast Ashley Judd in ‘Good Will Hunting.’ I fought like a bastard to get her cast,” Weinstein alleged. “But Gus and Matt insisted on Minnie Driver, and that was the end of that.””And when Mira Sorvino’s husband needed a part in a TV show, I got another actor removed and put him in,” he claimed. “The truth is, to retaliate against these women I would have needed the cooperation of the agencies.”Fox News Digital reached out to representatives for Judd, Sorvino and Jackson for comment.

The National Basketball Association has intervened to cancel the Atlanta Hawks’ planned “Magic City Monday” game promotion of a local strip club.
Set for March 16, the event was to be an effort to celebrate local nude dancing venue Magic City with wings, musical performances and podcasts, the Blaze reported.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver announced on Monday the league was canceling the event.
After the initial announcement about the promotion, San Antonio Spurs player Luke Kornet lodged his opposition, asking the league “to protect women, not denigrate them.”
Said Silver, “When we became aware of the Atlanta Hawks’ scheduled promotion, we reached out to Hawks leadership to better understand their plans and rationale. While we appreciate the team’s perspective and their desire to move forward, we have heard significant concerns from a broad array of league stakeholders, including fans, partners, and employees.”
“I believe canceling this promotion is the right decision for the broader NBA community,” the commissioner concluded.

Over half of Americans use the technology that’s prompting the phenomenon.

TheStreet aims to feature only the best products and services. If you buy something via one of our links, we may earn a commission.Why we love this dealYour house is calling for a spring refresh in the form of new furniture. To thoroughly enjoy the warm weather ahead, you can create a full-fledged beverage station in your kitchen with everything you need to craft cold and refreshing drinks at home. All you need to make this happen is a sturdy accent cabinet for the foundation. One of Walmart’s current Flash deals not only fits the bill and looks stylish, but best of all, it’s on sale for under $100. Updated weekly, the Flash deals at Walmart offer some of the best savings across the web, making them a go-to when searching for discounts on big-ticket items. This week, one of our favorite deals is on the Hommpa Rattan Sideboard Buffet Cabinet, which is 44% off right now. Normally retailing for $170, this limited-time sale brings the price of the handsome and modern storage cabinet down to just $96. Not only is this selection perfect for a coffee bar, but it would also be great for displaying Easter decor in the living room, hiding away clutter in the bedroom, or serving as a convenient catch-all by the entryway.Hommpa Rattan Sideboard Buffet Cabinet, $96 (was $170) at Walmart

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AP Shills For Big Pharma Antidepressants With ‘Bewildering’ Hit Piece

Check this out… The Trump FDA’s top drug regulator, Dr. Tracy Beth Hoeg, is working to hire a researcher and friend who strongly believes the agency should add new warnings about antidepressants and pregnancy risks. 

So what does the Associated Press do? They pen a hit piece, smearing Hoeg, her associate, and suggesting that peer reviewed studies over the risks are ‘unproven.’ 

This is how the medical arm of the blob works, and Paul Thacker of the DisInformation Chronicle is calling them out… 

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Associated Press Cannot Explain Bewildering Reporting on FDA’s Tracy Hoeg and Antidepressant Risks

By Paul D. Thacker

Cruising through X last week a weird story caught my eye: it reported that The Food and Drug Administration’s top drug regulator, Dr. Tracy Beth Hoeg, was trying to hire a “friend” who wants the FDA to add warnings to antidepressants about “unproven pregnancy risks.” The story makes several claims that are bewildering and appear to be fabricated. I sent several questions to AP’s global health editor Jonathan Fahey, but he did not respond to repeated requests to explain the article’s puzzling errors.

AP reporter Matthew Perrone later blocked me on X. I’ve pasted my email to Fahey at the bottom of this article.

The person AP’s Matthew Perrone identifies as a “friend” of FDA’s Hoeg is Dr. Adam Urato, chief of maternal-fetal medicine at Metro West Medical Center in Massachusetts.

One passage in the AP story stood out to me:

Within the agency, Hoeg’s close relationship with Urato is viewed as a clear conflict of interest that, under normal FDA standards, would result in her recusing herself from any work on the petition. But Hoeg is actively working to speed up the agency’s review of her friend’s proposal, according to the people familiar with the situation.

I have never seen the term “friend” defined as a “conflict of interest” by any federal agency. Nor have I run across “friend” defined as a “conflict of interest” in the peer-reviewed scientific literature. It’s a conflict of interest that doesn’t seem to exist.

And I happen to know quite a bit about conflicts of interest in science, because I’m an expert on the matter.

While I was a Senate staffer, I wrote a law on conflicts of interest called the Physicians Payments Sunshine Act. The bill I wrote was later passed into law and you can now go look up doctors on the government’s Open Payments website to see who is giving them money. I’m sure AP reporters use this website all the time. During my time in the Senate, I also helped to reform conflicts of interest at the National Institutes of Health. This took thousands of hours, untold numbers of meetings, and years of work to complete.

When I left the Senate and joined the Safra Ethics Center at Harvard, I was celebrated as the “Father of Sunshine” for this work to reform conflicts of interest in medicine.

Confused by the AP’s confusing reporting, I contacted Health and Human Services (HHS) and FDA, sending them almost the exact same questions that I sent to AP’s Jonathan Fahey.

“Being a friend is not a violation of ethics or conflicts of interests’ laws,” wrote HHS spokesman Andrew Nixon, in an email. Several senior FDA officials told me that HHS doesn’t even have a legal definition for what a “friend” is and no government conflict of interest form asks people to identify who their friends are.

“It’s a hit piece from industry against Dr. Hoeg, who is doing an amazing job at the FDA,” said one FDA official.

Hoeg did not respond to requests for comment, but during a phone call, Urato told me the AP story was filled with fake facts. The FDA has not offered him a full-time job as AP reported, and if they did, he couldn’t take it as he has a full-time clinical practice with hundreds of patients. FDA has expressed interest in offering him a limited, part-time position as an “advisor,” but nothing has been formalized.

He’s known Hoeg for only a couple years, and met her once when he went to DC to testify in favor of a labelling change for antidepressants that warns pregnant women about the documented risks for fetuses.

“This whole thing is being made up, and it’s an absurdity,” Urato said. “I’m not close friends with her as we’ve only discussed work. But If I say I’m not friends with her, then it’s like saying I’m her enemy.”

In his practice, Urato treats depressed women who are on antidepressants and always advises them of the research that has found risks for these drugs to developing fetuses. To ensure all women are warned, he has started a petition that asks the FDA to place a formal warning on the label for antidepressants. READ PETITION HERE.

“There’s 12 MRI studies in humans that show brain alterations found in offspring who were exposed in utero to antidepressants, and the corporate media has ignored this,” Urato says.

The AP falsely states in their story that Urato is making up “unproven pregnancy risks” but Nature Communications published a peer-reviewed study last May that found these exact risks that AP denies. The children of pregnant mothers on antidepressants later exhibited higher anxiety and depression symptoms than unexposed kids. Kids exposed to antidepressants while in utero were also found to have different brain activity when shown photos of fearful faces.

“These findings have potential implications for the clinical use of [antidepressants] during human pregnancy and for designing interventions that protect fetal brain development,” the authors concluded. The study appears in Urato’s petition along with dozens of other peer-reviewed studies.

“What a woman should do varies from patient to patient,” Urato told me. “But the first thing is to inform them. We know that cancer drugs are toxic, but we don’t ignore that and hide it from patients for fear they won’t get treated for cancer.”

Urato says he doesn’t know if the FDA will act on his petition, despite the evidence. “What the FDA will do with that, I don’t know.” However, Urato has had success with a prior FDA petition.

Urato partnered with Public Citizen in 2019 to petition the FDA to withdraw the drug Makena, because it had been approved to stop premature births without adequate data showing it helped pregnant women. The FDA later agreed with the petition and withdrew Makena from the market in 2023.

Oddly enough, AP’s Matthew Perrone covered Urato’s success at getting the FDA to remove Makena from the market, which you can read here: “FDA forces unproven premature birth drug Makena off market.”

“This is all a distraction,” Urato told me. “It’s so stupid. Of course we need to warn women.”

FULL DISCLOSURE: While working in the Senate, I was invited to give the keynote address at a conference on conflicts of interest in medicine and research hosted at Tufts University. Administrators later withdrew my invitation, causing one of the organizers to resign and creating a minor scandal that made news in the Boston Globe.

“It’s too bad a reform perspective has been removed from the program,” the Senate Committee’s spokeswoman told the Globe.

Some days later, I got a call from a physician who said Tufts organizers chose him to give the keynote speech in my place. I remember him being irate that Tufts had silenced me. He told me he wanted to know exactly what I was going to say, as he was going to give my exact same talk. He then took notes as I explained my speech. I may have also sent him my slide deck, but I can’t remember as this conversation took place in 2009.

I do remember laughing during the conversation at the thought that Tufts administrators were going to hear exactly what I was going to say, although it was coming from the mouth of someone they deemed more acceptable.

When I called Urato for this story, I thought it was the first time we had ever communicated. However, he reminded me during our conversation that he was the physician who called me all those years back, angry that Tufts had cancelled my keynote address. And he was the person who gave my talk at Tufts about the importance of conflicts of interest in medicine. Urato sent me this article in the Tufts newspaper to show this was the case.

I have no clue if AP or other reporters believe this makes Urato and I “friends” but feel free to discuss in the comments below.

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Below is the email I sent to AP asking them to explain their bewildering article.

Hello Jonathan,

I’m working on a story about this AP article that claims FDA’s Tracy Hoeg is bringing a “friend” to FDA and that this is an FDA conflict of interest. That story is here https://apnews.com/article/hoeg-urato-fda-drugs-antidepressants-pregnancy-warnings-a2a48cd2285f5b33aef2d390b5b60d0c

While I was a Senate staffer, I wrote a law on COI called the Physicians Payments Sunshine Act that many reporters now use through the government’s Open Payments website. I also helped to reform NIH COI regs. I also wrote an award winning series for the BMJ on FDA COVID vaccine approvals by digging through FDA COI disclosures.

The AP alleges in this passage, which I’ve put in italics:

Within the agency, Hoeg’s close relationship with Urato is viewed as a clear conflict of interest that, under normal FDA standards, would result in her recusing herself from any work on the petition. But Hoeg is actively working to speed up the agency’s review of her friend’s proposal, according to the people familiar with the situation.

I have never seen the term “friend” defined as a COI for any federal agency. Nor have I run across this claim in the peer-reviewed literature. I also don’t know what “friend” means as I spoke to Adam Urato and he said he’s met Hoeg only a few times and it was only over professional matters.

Senior FDA officials have contacted me and explained that the FDA General Counsel has no legal definition of “friend” and no record of “friend” appearing in any COI policies. I have a couple questions, please.

1. Can you provide me with any evidence FDA/HHS has a legal definition for the term “friend”?

2. Can you provide me with an FDA/HHS policy that lists the term “friend” as a conflict of interest, as AP reports?

3. AP states that Urato wants FDA to add new warnings to antidepressants about “unproven pregnancy risks.” Nature communications published a study about the pregnancy risks to fetuses and SSRI use last May. Can you explain to readers why AP thinks this study is false? Has it been retracted? This is one of many studies showing effects to fetuses from SSRI use.

Again, we need a response by COB today.

Thank you for your time,

Paul

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Tue, 03/10/2026 – 17:55

Los Angeles International Airport bosses have approved a steep fee increase on rideshare companies dropping passengers off for travel.

Leon Rose tried to address the bench in the summer. It didn’t work. He got a redo at the trade deadline. Yet … the search for answers continues.

A man sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole for breaking into a San Francisco apartment and sexually assaulting a sleeping woman has been granted parole after serving just over a decade behind bars.Roberto Antonio Detrinidad was granted release following a Jan. 6, 2026 suitability hearing before the California Board of Parole Hearings. Unless further action is taken, Detrinidad could be released from San Quentin State Prison as early as May.Details of the hearing, including Detrinidad’s admissions and the panel’s reasoning, are outlined in a transcript obtained by San Francisco Public Safety News.VIOLENT REPEAT OFFENDER ACCUSED IN CHARLOTTE KNIFE ATTACK WAS FREE DESPITE DECADE-LONG RAP SHEETDetrinidad was convicted in connection with an August 2013 attack in which a woman woke up in her Sacramento Street apartment to a man sexually assaulting her after he broke into the building in the middle of the night.At trial, Detrinidad claimed the encounter was consensual. But according to the hearing transcript, he admitted he lied.”This was like my Super Bowl of crime that night,” Detrinidad told commissioners. “This was gonna be the thing that made me finally feel like a man.”Court records show the victim had recently moved to San Francisco and returned home around 4 a.m. after bartending when she noticed a man pacing outside who appeared “jittery.” She later went to bed and woke up during the assault.VICTIM FEARS FOR OTHERS AFTER CALIFORNIA PAROLE BOARD APPROVES RELEASE OF CONVICTED CHILD PREDATORInvestigators later linked Detrinidad to the crime through DNA recovered from bedding, according to records. He was arrested in September 2014 following a database match.A jury convicted him of assault with intent to commit a sexual offense during the commission of a residential burglary, and he was sentenced to life with the possibility of parole. An appeal challenging the conviction was later rejected.At the January parole hearing, San Francisco prosecutor Andrew Clark described the crime as a “horrific life crime,” according to the transcript obtained by San Francisco Public Safety News.”He targeted her and he broke into her house with the intent to rape her and did rape her,” Clark told the panel. “That sexual violence is of great concern to us at the district attorney’s office here in San Francisco.”According to the hearing record, prosecutors raised concerns about whether Detrinidad had completed meaningful sex-offender treatment programming specifically addressing sexual violence and relapse prevention before being deemed suitable for release.The victim attended prior parole hearings and previously told commissioners she feared his release.VIOLENT REPEAT OFFENDER ACCUSED OF KILLING TEACHER AS 911 CALL REVEALED HER FINAL MOMENTS: REPORT”I lost my sense of security. I don’t know if that’s something that I’m ever going to get back,” she said at an earlier hearing, according to records. “I don’t believe that he’s remorseful and I don’t think he’s going to stop.”She did not attend the January hearing.After deliberating for roughly 20 minutes, Presiding Commissioner Michael Ruff announced the panel’s decision.CHILD PREDATOR DUBBED ‘MONSTER PARENTS FEAR MOST’ CLEARED FOR RELEASE THROUGH CALIFORNIA PAROLE PROGRAM”The panel has concluded that the mitigating factors outweigh the aggravating factors and find that Mr. Detrinidad does not pose an unreasonable risk to public safety and is therefore eligible for parole,” Ruff said, according to the transcript.Fox News Digital reached out to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office about whether the governor plans to intervene.”The Governor has not yet received this case for review, and we cannot comment further on pending cases,” a spokesperson said.CALIFORNIA SERIAL CHILD RAPIST GRANTED PAROLE ADMITTED HAVING PEDOPHILIC FANTASIES AS RECENTLY AS 2021The office emphasized the limits of Newsom’s authority.”Under state law, the Governor may only reverse a parole grant in murder cases. In cases involving non-murder offenses, the Governor’s only option is to refer the decision back to the Board of Parole Hearings (BPH) for review by the commissioners sitting en banc,” the spokesperson said.The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) echoed that the governor has not yet received the case and cannot comment further while it is pending.CHILD PREDATOR CLEARED FOR PAROLE ARRESTED AFTER SURPRISE WARRANT DROPS HOURS BEFORE PRISON RELEASEOn background, CDCR said the Board of Parole Hearings is an independent body that determines whether incarcerated individuals serving life sentences pose an unreasonable risk to public safety.The department noted parole is granted in fewer than 12% of scheduled hearings. According to CDCR data, more than 97% of individuals released after a parole hearing have not been convicted of another crime within three years. Less than 3% were convicted of any new misdemeanor or felony during that period, and less than 1% were convicted of a new felony offense against a person.CDCR also said recidivism declines sharply with age and that individuals over 60 have some of the lowest reoffending rates in the correctional system.REPEAT OFFENDER ON PAROLE FOR MURDER TIED TO BRUTAL JAIL ASSAULT, ESCAPE HOURS AFTER ROBBERYFormer Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert, who previously prosecuted high-profile violent crime cases including David Funston, sharply criticized the parole decision.”She was home asleep in her bed in San Francisco — in the safety of her own house. Roberto Detrinidad broke into her apartment and sexually assaulted her. He admitted he chose her at random after seeing her through a window and believing he could ‘get away with it,’” Schubert posted on X. GOT A TIP?”Now the California parole board has decided he’s ready to be released.”Schubert pointed to what she described as troubling details from the parole hearing.FOLLOW US ON X”According to his own parole hearing, Detrinidad had not completed meaningful sex-offender programming for years, and the District Attorney warned the panel that he still lacked concrete relapse-prevention treatment focused on sexual violence,” she said.”Let that sink in: A man serving life for breaking into a stranger’s home and sexually assaulting her while she slept is being released even though the core risk factor — sexual violence — had barely been addressed.”GET BREAKING NEWS BY EMAIL”Victims deserve better than this.”She added, “Why is California releasing violent sex offenders before they’ve even completed serious treatment for the crimes that put them in prison?”CLICK HERE FOR MORE US NEWSThe decision has also drawn criticism from Republican leaders in the state.Corrin Rankin, a California Republican leader, told Fox News Digital:”California Democrats have spent years weakening consequences for serious offenders and putting ideology ahead of public safety. Republicans believe the basic job of government is to protect law-abiding people, keep violent criminals behind bars, and stand with victims instead of making excuses for the system that failed them.”Fox News Digital reached out to the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office for comment, but did not immediately receive a response. 

Dr. Phil McGraw called out New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s wife, Rama Duwaji, on his podcast, “The Real Story,” Monday, following reports that her social media presence included liking posts critics say were celebrating the Oct. 7 massacre.McGraw argued that being the spouse of the mayor of America’s largest city “comes with a certain level of responsibility and scrutiny,” and accused those who liked posts celebrating the Oct. 7 attacks of “standing with terror.””For most Americans, it’s nobody’s business who you share your bed with. But that changes when you’re married to one of the most powerful politicians in America. I’m talking about New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his wife, Rama Duwaji,” he said. “Being the spouse of the mayor of the largest city in America comes with a certain level of responsibility and scrutiny, and right now, Dawaji, deserves, just a lot of that scrutiny.”MAMDANI SPARKS VIRAL OUTRAGE OVER DINNER PHOTO WITH MAHMOUD KHALIL INSIDE GRACIE MANSION: ‘DISGRACEFUL’Duwaji, a Houston-born illustrator who identifies as Syrian and married Mamdani in early 2025, liked several posts in the immediate aftermath of the Oct. 7 attack that were critical of Israel, Jewish Insider first reported. Duwaji also liked a February 2024 Instagram post claiming The New York Times’ investigation into sexual violence during the Oct. 7 attack was “fabricated,” according to The Free Press.”She liked one post claiming the October 7th mass rape was a hoax and another showing Hamas militants breaking into Israel with tanks,” McGraw alleged. “In case anyone has forgotten, on October 7th, Hamas terrorists murdered over 1,200 people and took more than 250 hostages. “It doesn’t matter how strongly someone supports the Palestinian cause. Anyone who likes what happened on October 7th is not standing for human rights. They’re standing with terror,” he added.NYC MAYOR MAMDANI’S WIFE LIKED POSTS CELEBRATING OCT 7 TERROR ATTACKS BUT GETS SOFT TREATMENT FROM THE PRESSAs noted by McGraw, Mamdani defended his wife when confronted about the report, saying, “My wife is the love of my life, and she’s also a private person who has held no formal position on my campaign or in my city hall.””I, however, was elected to represent all 8.5 million people in the city, and I believe that it’s my responsibility, because of that role, to answer any questions about my thoughts and my policies and my decisions,” Mamdani added.”Mayor Mamdani has been clear and consistent: Hamas is a terrorist organization, October 7 was a horrific war crime, and he has condemned that violence unequivocally,” a City Hall spokesperson told Jewish Insider.IRANIAN-AMERICAN JOURNALIST CALLS OUT MAMDANI OVER RESPONSE TO US-ISRAEL STRIKESMcGraw maintained that once Duwaji became the first lady of the United States’ largest city, her actions that were once private no longer were, and her words began to carry more weight.”When you’re the spouse of the mayor of the largest city in America, and you’re supporting the murder of hundreds of innocent Jews, trust me, that’s not private, that’s public,” he said. “Mayor Mamdani, hear this clearly: When terror is excused. Silence isn’t neutrality. It’s complicity.”Fox News Digital has reached out to Mamdani for comment.Fox News Digital’s Andrew Mark Miller contributed to this report.

The US Central Command on Tuesday released unclassified footage of US Military strikes on the Iranian navy in the Strait of Hormuz.
The footage showed an Iranian submarine and smaller vessels being blown up.
“U.S. forces are degrading the Iranian regime’s ability to project power at sea and harass international shipping,” CENCOM said.
“For years, Iranian forces have threatened freedom of navigation in waters essential to American, regional and global security and prosperity,” CENTCOM added.
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Earlier Tuesday President Trump warned Iran not to put any mines in the Strait of Hormuz.
“If Iran has put out any mines in the Hormuz Strait, and we have no reports of them doing so, we want them removed, IMMEDIATELY!” Trump said on Truth Social.
“If for any reason mines were placed, and they are not removed forthwith, the Military consequences to Iran will be at a level never seen before. If, on the other hand, they remove what may have been placed, it will be a giant step in the right direction!” Trump said.
“Additionally, we are using the same Technology and Missile capabilities deployed against Drug Traffickers to permanently eliminate any boat or ship attempting to mine the Hormuz Strait. They will be dealt with quickly and violently. BEWARE!” he added.

Later Tuesday, President Trump boasted that the US Military destroyed 10 inactive mine-laying boats in the Strait of Hormuz.
“I am pleased to report that within the last few hours, we have hit, and completely destroyed, 10 inactive mine laying boats and/or ships, with more to follow! President DONALD J. TRUMP,” Trump said.

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