14+ min ago (561+ words) Anti-ICE activists vowed Sunday to continue protesting federal immigration raids in the Big Apple " and refused to apologize for a violent clash with the NYPD at a Lower Manhattan demonstration. The proclamation came just one day after the protest against US Immigration & Customs Enforcement agents got out of hand, with cops caught in the middle " and protesters now vowing to keep doing it. "We do not apologize for standing up," city Public Advocate Jumaane Williams said at a press conference with members of the New York Immigration Coalition, one day after more than 150 protesters battled with cops outside an ICE deployment center. "We'll do it every single time," Williams vowed. Police said Sunday that "multiple individuals were taken into custody" at the out-of-control demonstration outside the US General Services Administration building on Centre Street before noon Saturday that saw police…...

16+ min ago (178+ words) Takeaways from the Jets" 27-24 victory over the Falcons. Take flight with the Jets 1. Give Chris Banjo a raise. Hiring Banjo as his special teams coordinator looks like one of the best moves Aaron Glenn has made since he was hired as Jets coach. The Jets special teams came up huge again Sunday and helped the Jets win their third game of the season. The Jets" first touchdown came after their punt coverage team recovered a muffed punt at the 2-yard line. Qwan"tez Stiggers recovered the ball and set up a Breece Hall touchdown. Then, Isaiah Williams had an 83-yard kickoff return that set up a Nick Folk field goal that tied the game at 17-17. Punter Austin McNamara was consistent all day, as he has been all season. Folk capped off the game with a 56-yard game-winning field goal. This…...

24+ min ago (434+ words) New Yorkers could face a messy commutes Tuesday as a Nor'easter blows in just in time for the morning rush hour " as the suburbs could get covered in up to 4 inches of snow. The storm is expected to blow into the Big Apple around 6 a.m., bringing a wintry mix of snow flurries and rain that will lead to slippery roads for commuters heading back into town after the holiday weekend. Snow is not expected to accumulate in the city, and will likely transition into rain alone by 9 a.m., according to FOX meteorologist Cody Braud. But the rain is forecast to persist throughout the day, and the roads will likely remain wet and slick well into the evening commute. The weather is expected to remain past midnight, but will be cleared out of the metro area by Wednesday morning. "NYC is likely to…...

27+ min ago (365+ words) A Wisconsin mother was left anguished after her three kids died in a Thanksgiving fire at their father's apartment " and said she'd have died before letting her kids perish in her care. "You can sit here and say all you want to, "I would have done this, this and this,' and in the situation it's completely different," said Jourdan Feasby, who lost her beloved children in the Kenosha blaze Thursday night. "But I will tell you that if I was in that situation, without a doubt, my kids would've been out or I would've been dead with them," she told CBS 58. Feasby's three kids, 10-year-old Rylee, 9-year-old Connor, and 7-year-old Alena, were killed after she dropped them at their father's place that morning so they could spend the holiday with him. But that night she received a call from her…...

35+ min ago (392+ words) More than a thousand mourners packed a Long Island funeral home Sunday to remember Emily Finn " many wearing pink to honor the bubbly teen killed in a senseless botched murder-suicide. On display inside the Raynor & D'Andrea Funeral Home in West Sayville were Emily's pink ballet slippers, a poster of the smiling teen with her flute from the high school marching band and reminders of the 18-year-old's many academic achievements before she was shot dead, allegedly by her ex-boyfriend. Her devastated mom, Cliantha, wore a pink sweater " part of the family's wish to display the girl's favorite color, which saw dozens of pink ribbons, bandanas, boots, jackets and bows at the funeral home. "She just had that special spark," said Heather, a friend of the slain teen. "She was so full of life, and she loved her family and her brother…...

46+ min ago (461+ words) A Jewish deli in Beverly Hills set the stage for a reunion worthy of a double take." ESPN and Sirius XM behemoth Stephen A. Smith caught up with former "First Take" co-star Skip Bayless at Nate'n Al's deli on Saturday night." Social media user George "Riley" Panagakis posted a selfie with the pair on X, capturing them sitting in a booth alongside Bayless' wife, Ernestine. For a duo that used to clash daily on national television, meet-ups between Smith and Bayless have become sparse " though they have slowly picked up in the last year. Smith made a guest appearance on Bayless' podcast in March, marking their first show together since 2016, when the latter departed ESPN for FS1." It was a bold decision for Smith, as Bayless was then entangled in sexual misconduct allegations emanating from a lawsuit filed by a former FS1 hairdresser,…...

48+ min ago (555+ words) A graduate assistant was removed from her position amid investigations into a contested discrimination report filed by a disgruntled student who repeatedly referenced the Bible in an essay response to an article about gender stereotypes " for a course taught by a transgender instructor. In her essay, which was supposed to cover "how people are perceived based on societal expectations of gender," University of Oklahoma student Samantha Fulnecky presented a Biblically-fueled tirade against the notion that there are multiple genders. The psychology course's professor, graduate student Mel Curth, who uses "she/they" pronouns, failed Fulnecky on the grounds that she neglected to address the prompt and relied more on "personal ideology" than "empirical evidence," according to a bombshell thread shared by the university's Turning Point USA chapter. In the essay, Fulnecky repeats ad nauseam that she doesn't take issue with gender…...

50+ min ago (476+ words) More Americans are wising up to the fact that higher education has become a raw deal for all too many young people. A new NBC News poll finds that a full 63% of voters believe a four-year college degree now isn't worth it, since many students graduate with "a large amount of debt" but no "specific job skills." That's up markedly from 2013, when a majority took the opposite view, as 53% called a degree "worth the cost because people have a better chance to get a good job and earn more money over their lifetime." That was the case for generations of Americans, who saw college as a key step to higher-paying jobs and a better life: "Upwardly mobile" was almost entirely synonymous with "college educated." But over the last few decades, the dynamic has shifted: Far too many college degrees guarantee…...

56+ min ago (417+ words) Exactly what Team Trump intends to do with (or to) Venezuela is far from clear, but it clearly wants the Maduro regime gone ASAP, and with excellent reason. Operation Southern Spear has sunk roughly two dozen drug-cartel boats in recent weeks, while the Pentagon has now built up the largest US military presence in the region in more than three decades " with Marines as well as Navy and Air Force assets deployed not just to US territory in the region, but in allied nations such as the Dominican Republic as well as Trinidad and Tobago. President Donald Trump even warned Saturday on Truth Social that airlines and criminals should "consider" Venezuelan airspace "closed," though he evidently hasn't ordered US forces to make that happen, since flights continued through at least Sunday afternoon. Critics fume that US forces can't know the…...

57+ min ago (554+ words) New York nurses leaders are blasting the city's hospital system for quietly rolling out artificial intelligence tools they claim are threatening their jobs " and patient safety. Hospital administrators and health care have already shelled out hundreds of millions of dollars to launch language models with little input from those on the frontlines, nurses said at a recent meeting of the "State of Nursing" Committee on Hospitals. "What do we do? What if the machines stop working? How do we go back to monitor that patient?" Nancy Hagans, president of the New York State Nurses Association, said at the Nov. 18 meeting. "A lot of time, the hospitals want to come out with everything, with those AI, but we're not part of the decision making," added Hagans, who has worked at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn for over 30 years. "And we need…...