Ted Cruz Managed to Win One Brooklyn Precinct By Getting Just a Single Vote
Andy Cush · 04/21/16 08:10AM
Poor, sweet, sagging Ted Cruz. The man who can barely get members of his own party to listen to him when he speaks in New York got thoroughly trounced by Donald Trump and John Kasich on Tuesday. Cruz’s showing was so bad in one part of Brooklyn that he only netted one single vote. Oh, wait—hold on just a second—it looks like Cruz actually won that precinct.
200 Days and a Wakeup
Sam Biddle · 04/21/16 07:52AMCity Freezes Contracts with Volunteer Orthodox Security Force Implicated in NYPD Corruption Probe
Brendan O'Connor · 04/21/16 07:38AM
The ongoing federal investigation into corruption in the NYPD expanded this week, as the chief financial officer of an Orthodox volunteer security force was arrested Sunday. He is accused of bribing officers in the NYPD’s Licensing Division to exchange for handgun permits. The mayor’s office has frozen two City Council grants, totaling $35,000, allocated to the organization.
Ghost of Tupac Summoned to Remind Us Trump Has Always Been a Dick
Hudson Hongo · 04/20/16 11:45PMBritish LGBT Tourists Warned About Visiting North Carolina and Mississippi
Hudson Hongo · 04/20/16 10:45PMFormer New Orleans Cops Plead Guilty to Shooting Fleeing Katrina Survivors
Hudson Hongo · 04/20/16 08:45PMDonald Trump's Jet Grounded Over Lapsed $5 Registration
Hudson Hongo · 04/20/16 06:54PMReince Priebus Is in So Much Pain Right Now
Brendan O'Connor · 04/20/16 05:20PMPity Reince Priebus, who needs to sit down for interviews and lie, through clenched teeth, about how much fun he is having watch his beloved Republican Party shatter around him, shards of glass pricking his eyeballs and getting stuck under his fingernails.
Donald Trump's Staffers Really Better Like Working For Donald Trump
Jordan Sargent · 04/20/16 04:55PMNew York Attorney General Will Investigate NYC Board of Elections Over Yesterday's Primary
Andy Cush · 04/20/16 04:46PMCanada to Legalize It
Hamilton Nolan · 04/20/16 04:20PMChilly but civilized American neighbor Canada announced today that it plans to legalize weed by this time next year.
Here's a Full-Page Ad in Today's Wall Street Journal Denying Genocide
Sam Biddle · 04/20/16 04:13PMLimp Bizkit's Secret 4/20 Show This Evening, 4/20, at Sunoco Station on Wayne Ave in Dayton, Ohio, Explained
Ashley Feinberg · 04/20/16 03:20PM
It’s not completely outside of the realm of possibility that Limp Bizkit, a screaming band of white working man messiahs, would put on a show at a random gas station as a 4/20 gag. Unfortunately for thousands of confused internet users, though, Limp Bizkit will not be playing at the Sunoco Station in Dayton, Ohio this evening. Unless that’s what they want you to think.
It Is Now Mathematically Impossible for Anyone Other Than Donald Trump to Clinch the GOP Nomination Before the Convention
Brendan O'Connor · 04/20/16 03:05PMTwo NYPD Officers Charged With Assaulting Man Who Unwittingly Helped Cop Killer
Andy Cush · 04/20/16 02:29PM
Prosecutors have indicted two NYPD officers on assault charges for allegedly beating Karim Baker, a U.S. Postal Service worker. Baker claims he faced harassment from cops after unwittingly giving directions to Ismaaiyl Brinsley, the man who shot and killed Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu last year.
Department of Justice Opens Investigation into Tax Avoidance Exposed by Panama Papers Leak
Brendan O'Connor · 04/20/16 02:15PMWhat Does Having an Alleged Affair With Sheldon Silver Get You?
Brendan O'Connor · 04/20/16 01:30PM
Last week, a judge unsealed court documents that outlined federal prosecutors’ allegations that former State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, one of the three most powerful men in New York until his conviction on corruption charges last year, carried on at least two extramarital affairs during his time as an elected official. In the filings, the women are anonymized, but they have since been identified as Patricia Lynch, a lobbyist, and Janele Hyer-Spencer, a former assemblywoman and state employee.