The Coast Guard seized almost 510,000 pounds of cocaine in fiscal year 2025 — marking the largest amount of the drug snatched in the service’s entire history. The increase in cocaine confiscation comes as the Coast Guard has launched several key initiatives in recent months as part of President Donald Trump’s larger effort to crack down on drug cartels. TRUMP’S STRIKE ON CARTEL VESSEL OFF VENEZUELA SENDS WARNING...

Former New York State Assembly member Michael Blake has mounted a bid to unseat pro-Israel Democratic Rep. Ritchie Torres in New York’s 15th Congressional District. “I am running for Congress because the people of The Bronx deserve better than Ritchie Torres,” Blake, a former vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, declared in social media posts. “I am ready to fight for you and lower your cost of...

Just hours after railing against the Democratic Party establishment in his victory speech, New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani hired an all-female transition team full of veterans from the former administrations of Michael Bloomberg, Eric Adams, Bill de Blasio and Joe Biden.  Among those transition team members is Lina Khan, the former Federal Trade Commission chairperson under Joe Biden. When Lina Khan was chair, the FTC faced accusations...