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The Big Apple’s self-imposed “sanctuary city” status is handcuffing the NYPD from clamping down on a violent crew of young Tren de Aragua members that is terrorizing Manhattan, sources tell The Post. Cops already grappling with the Empire State’s lenient criminal justice laws also have to contend with the immigrant-friendly designation that largely bars police from city-funded migrant shelters tha...

A Tren de Aragua gang member has been busted after allegedly trying to recruit middle school students, according to cops — and experts warn that it’s a sign the brutal Venezuelan gang has already infiltrated American schools. Jorgenys Robertson Cova, 32, who has multiple arrests for theft since crossing the border illegally two years ago, is suspected of trying to make contact with students at Jan...

The Chicago Police Department won’t launch recruit classes for at least two months — fueling complaints that Mayor Brandon Johnson is reneging on his promise to exempt public safety agencies from a citywide hiring freeze. And at an emergency Cabinet meeting Tuesday, Chief Operating Officer John Roberson ordered other department heads to identify personnel cuts — beyond reductions already made — an...

A brutal crew of baby-faced Tren de Aragua migrant gangbangers at a city-funded Manhattan shelter are pulling off armed robberies in Times Square — and they’re getting away with it, officials and sources said. Nearly two dozen young migrant thugs, some as young as 11 years old, are part of a dangerous asylum-seeking brat pack that has graduated from purse snatchings to gunpoint heists targeting Ne...

When it comes to choosing where to operate a business, location is often the most important criterion. But if you ask chef Peter Hemsley of upscale seafood restaurant Aphotic, it is beyond that in San Francisco. Just 19 months ago, the chef opened Aphotic in a cavernous, inky black space near the intersection of Folsom and Third streets in SoMa. By the end of the year, it will be closed. Hemsley i...

A pink-haired DEI trainer has slammed Oregon's forestry department for hiring on the basic of merit rather than identity. Megan Donecker filed a complaint about her former boss Mike Shaw and moaned about him telling her that he sought the 'candidates most qualified for the job.' DEI advocates like Donecker say hiring should be done through an 'intersectional lens' whereby applications from people...

Ladies and gentlemen, grab your popcorn because the green energy saga out of Schleswig-Holstein has everything: incompetence, mindless virtue-signaling, and an eco-friendly ferry that apparently doubles as a wind sail. Spoiler alert: It doesn’t end well. Here’s the tragicomedy: Once upon a time in the quiet German countryside, there was a diesel-powered ferry, the Missunde II. For two decades, thi...

The convenience store 7-Eleven will close over 400 stores nationwide, the company has announced. According to CNN, Seven & I Holdings, the chain’s Japan-based parent company, announced the closures in their earnings report on Thursday. Under the proposed measures, 444 locations of 7-Eleven will be shut down due to a fall in sales, high inflation, and a decrease in cigarette purchases. “The Nor...

They need more room at the inn. New York City’s use of hotels as emergency shelters to house migrants will continue for the foreseeable future, The Post has learned, as the Department of Homeless Services is seeking a contract with hotels to provide a total of 14,000 rooms to shelter migrants at least through next year. The city projects that spending on housing for migrants over the past two year...

The Seattle City Council voted 6-1 Tuesday afternoon to approve a proposal thatincreases hiring bonuses for lateral police officers to $50,000. Council president Sara Nelson, who sponsored the increase, said the city's current recruitment efforts were not bringing in enough qualified applicants. “If we want to have a safer city, it is our duty to adequately staff the police department,"Nelson said...

Dolton Mayor Tiffany Henyard is suing several village trustees, the Dolton Park District, the elected clerk and the village administrator following a controversial meeting held on Monday. Henyard, along with two trustees, Stanley Brown and Andrew Holmes, filed the lawsuit on Tuesday, naming Village Clerk Alison Key, trustees Tammie Brown, Brittney Norwood, Jason House, Kiana Belcher, Village Admin...

News Tiffany Henyard, the controversial supervisor and mayor of Dalton, Illinois, faced a public embarrassment during a township meeting when she was served legal papers. The meeting was initially canceled due to safety concerns but was later held by Henyard alone, raising eyebrows as she casually dismissed the lawsuit with, "I get sued all the time." Henyard has been at the center of over 40 laws...

After a Texas woman was tied up, robbed at gunpoint and pistol-whipped in her Dallas home in late September, multiple Venezuelan men have been arrested and charged in connection with the incident. The robbery occurred around 10 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 21, after the woman returned from dinner to her home in Bluffview, a neighborhood in Dallas where the average home price is more than $880,000, acco...

Thornton Township Supervisor Tiffany Henyard was the only one to show up for a scheduled meeting of the board of trustees Tuesday night—with others saying they are worried for their own safety. The most notable difference at the Tuesday night meeting was that everyone entering the township building in South Holland had to go through security. It is because of lack of security that the trustees opt...

An Afghan national allowed into the US shortly after the Harris-Biden administration’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan was charged Tuesday with plotting an ISIS-inspired Election Day terror attack. Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, was living in Oklahoma City on a Special Immigrant Visa as he took steps to stockpile AK-47 rifles and ammunition to carry out an attack on US soil “in the name of ISIS,” ac...

At a chaotic Dolton board meeting, Mayor Tiffany Henard vetoed several actions passed by trustees, only to face intense backlash from the community. Henard, arriving late, attempted to override seven agenda items, including budget reductions and lease terminations for costly police vehicles. Residents responded by turning their backs on her and singing as she spoke, while some chanted for her to l...

Dolton Mayor Tiffany Henyard tried to make appointments to posts including police chief that were recently blocked by a judge, and was mocked and ridiculed by residents during her short visit to a trustee-called meeting Monday night. Henyard arrived an hour after the trustees meeting began and tried to give her report, but residents in the audience kept shouting her down.

Dolton Mayor Tiffany Henyard made a late appearance at the Dolton Village Board meeting on Monday night. That meeting was held at the park district building since Village Hall cannot legally accommodate the crowds at a typical meeting. But Henyard tried to hold a separate board meeting at Village Hall anyway. She had to abruptly cancel it after not enough trustees were there. Henyard then drove a...

The Philadelphia-based indie rock band Spirit of the Beehive is reeling after their tour van was stolen not once, but twice during their Seattle stop, along with much of their equipment and merchandise. The band, currently on tour, woke up in Seattle to discover that their fully padlocked and booted van and trailer were stolen overnight. Despite finding the trailer later in the day, nearly all of...

Last Friday, a women's field hockey game ended abruptly due to a nearby shooting. Saint Louis and La Salle were facing off at Howarth Field at Temple University in Philadelphia. La Salle, another Philly school, is playing its home games at the field this year. With 10:45 left in the game, gunshots rang out across the block, leading to just about everyone at the complex being forced to take cover.

Las Vegas police say they have closed their investigation into an allegation of sexual assault against community activist Andrew Holmes and no charges have been filed. It follows a bombshell accusation – and lawsuit – by a former aide to Dolton mayor Tiffany Henyard who accused Holmes of sexual assault while on a taxpayer-funded trip to Las Vegas in May of 2023. Holmes is a village trustee in sout...

Community leader, Marty Jackson, being arrested alongside other individuals in a significant multi-state trafficking investigation. Jackson, known for her activism and leadership within Seattle’s Boys and Girls Clubs, is now facing serious legal challenges. The case highlights a contrast between her community work and the charges against her involving laundering money connected to a fentanyl distr...

The crime Shanice Amanda Dyer committed as a 17-year-old was as horrific as it was seemingly random. She was a documented member of a Crips street gang faction in South L.A., according to appellate records from the case, and she wanted to help retaliate for killings by a rival group in August 2019. The targets the gang chose at random were an expectant father, Alfredo Carrera, and his close friend...

San Francisco’s crackdown on homeless encampments has seen arrests of unhoused people skyrocket, as the lowest tent count in months was recorded in the Tenderloin, new data obtained by The Standard show. As of Monday, police had arrested 215 homeless people during encampment clearings since Aug. 1, when the city intensified its enforcement of anti-camping laws, according to the mayor’s office.

Fighting and threats erupted at Village Hall in Sauk Village this week—tied to a financial probe in the south suburb. The tension was all captured on video Tuesday night. Village Clerk Marva Campbell-Pruitt and Mayor Derrick Burgess got into a heated exchange right in the middle of a board of trustees meeting. "It just went north," said Sauk Village Trustee Diane Sapp. "I wouldn't say it went sout...