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New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Friday said that the migrant "crisis" that the Big Apple is facing will cost the city at least $1 billion by the end of the fiscal year — as he declared a state of emergency and again appealed for federal aid and for other states to help. "My fellow New Yorkers, we are in a crisis situation," the Democratic mayor said on Friday.

Another bus carrying illegal migrants stepped off the bus in Washington, D.C., Thursday morning, not far from Vice President Kamala Harris' residence. Additionally, two more migrant buses arrived in New York City at Manhattan's Port Authority transportation hub Thursday. Seven buses arrived in New York on Wednesday.

Harry Styles showed support for Texan gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke, who was in attendance at the show.O’Rourke will challenge incumbent Republican governor Greg Abbott for the role when voters head to the polls on Tuesday November 8, after winning the Democratic nomination for governor back in March.O’Rourke was spotted in the crowd at Styles’ show on Sunday night (October 2), hours after he’d hosted a rally in South Austin with Willie Nelson. The show was one of six that Styles played at Austin’s Moody Center as part of his ‘Love on Tour’ dates.After learning that O’Rourke was in the audience, Styles placed a “Beto for Texas” sticker on his guitar, pointing to it.

Harry Styles and Beto O'Rourke posed together backstage after the singer endorsed the Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate during his concert on Sunday night. O'Rourke, 50, took to Twitter to share a photo of the two that was taken after the 28-year-old British pop star performed at the Moody Center in Austin, Texas.

Thania Garcia Harry Styles had one special Texan fan in the audience during his nearly sold-out mini-residency at Austin’s Moody Center: Democratic Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke. Styles appeared on stage that night flashing a “Beto for Texas” sticker on his guitar and, at one point in the show, he gestured to the logo while the venue’s big screens zoomed in on the endorsement and suddenly switched to reveal O’Rourke in the pit, smiling among the cheering audience. O’Rourke, who is running for governor against Republican Greg Abbott in the Nov. 8 general election, uploaded footage of the interaction on his Instagram stories with other clips of him high-fiving and taking photos with fans.

challenged to a debate last week. The governors’ feud escalated recently when DeSantis used part of his state’s $12 million budget allocated for relocating “unauthorized aliens” to fly 50 refugees into Martha’s Vineyard, a Democratic jurisdiction.

NewsNation will broadcast three of the most high profile election race debates this fall – the race for Texas Governor, and the Senate races in Pennsylvania and Georgia.The Texas debate – featuring incumbent, Republican Governor Greg Abbott and Democratic candidate Beto O’Rourke, will be broadcast live from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in Edinburgh, Texas. NewsNation will air the debate at 8-9 p.m. ET/7-8 p.m.

ruling, Meachum said the PFLAG families have demonstrated a likelihood that they will suffer “probably, imminent, and irreparable injury” if the state Department of Family and Protective Services is allowed to continue with its investigations into transgender youth receiving doctor-recommended medical care and their parents.Some of that harm includes potentially having transgender youth taken out of their parents’ custody and placed into foster care, as well as the parents potentially facing criminal charges and penalties. Meachum also found that DFPS did not begin investigating gender-affirming care as child abuse until after Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order directing the agency to investigate parents who have allowed their children to receive transition-related care, including puberty blockers, which delay the onset of secondary sex characteristics.Abbott based that order on an opinion issued by Attorney General Ken Paxton (R), who stated that that all the forms of surgical and hormonal interventions for transgender youth constitute “abuse,” and violate minors’ fundamental right to procreation by subjecting them to treatments that can potentially cause sterilization.Although DFPS began investigating several families with transgender children following Abbott’s directive, the Texas Supreme Court later found, in a partial victory for a group of transgender plaintiffs and advocates, that the governor had overstepped his authority.

@GovRonDeSantis did wasn't a "stunt."It was kidnapping, and Human Trafficking.These are federal crimes. The sentence is five years – per victim.As a Cuban American, I find it especially repulsive to see so many in my community celebrating Desantis relocating immigrants, Venezuelans, out of state.

The morning after Florida governor Ron DeSantis and Texas governor Greg Abbott sent migrants in their states to Martha’s Vineyard and Washington, D.C., respectively, as a political stunt, “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough got heated on air, calling their actions “really grotesque” and saying it’s “political human trafficking.”Acknowledging the growing crisis on the United States’ southern border – co-host Willie Geist emphasized that we’re going to soon cross two million border encounters, “an all-time record by a long shot” – Scarborough agreed that it “needs to be fixed,” but “we don’t fix it by using the migrants as political pawns and dropping them off just so you can own the libs.”“You don’t own the libs with human lives, dropping them off in a place that wasn’t prepared, didn’t know they were coming!” he said. “You don’t own the libs by dropping them off in the middle of a street on Massachusetts Ave. in Washington, D.C., so you can say, ‘Hey, we owned the libs! We dropped these babies.

California Governor Gavin Newsom is calling for an investigation into whether federal laws were broken in the actions by Texas and Florida to send migrants to other states, the most recent being Gov. Ron DeSantis’ who sent two planes to Martha’s Vineyard, MA.

In his latest political stunt to draw attention to an influx of illegal immigrants crossing the Mexican border into his state, Texas governor Greg Abbott sent two busloads of Venezuelan migrants to Washington, D.C.’s Naval Observatory Thursday morning, just outside Vice President Kamala Harris’ home. In what appears to be an organized plan between “Fox & Friends” and the buses’ arrival around 6:45 a.m. local time, Fox News reporter Griff Jenkins was on the scene to interview the non-English-speaking migrants as they exited the bus.

EXCLUSIVE: First Lady Jill Biden will visit Los Angeles on Friday with an itinerary that includes a fundraiser hosted by writer-producer and Friends co-creator Marta Kauffman.

statement in response to his mother’s death.A statement from His Majesty The King: pic.twitter.com/AnBiyZCher“The death of my beloved Mother, Her Majesty The Queen is a moment of the greatest sadness for me and all members of my family,” he wrote. “I know her loss will be deeply felt throughout the country, the Realms and the Commonwealth, and by countless people around the world.”Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy took quickly to Twitter to express condolences.“It is with deep sadness that we learned of the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II,” he wrote.

launched a T-shirt that reads “Maren Morris: Lunatic Country Music Person,” followed by the phone number for the Trans Lifeline hotline. All sales proceeds are to be split between the Trans Lifeline and GLAAD’s Transgender Media Program.

When a stream of Democratic candidates trek to Los Angeles this month in likely their final effort to raise money before the midterms, they will be met by Hollywood supporters who are less deflated than they once were about the party’s prospects in November: Call them cautious, if maybe a bit more optimistic.

Gavin Newsom has a unique way of courting California voters.

Megan Thee Stallion is letting her home state know exactly what she thinks following the Supreme Court’s ruling to overturn . Two days after the Supreme Court's decision, the GRAMMY winner called out Texas' 2021 abortion ban while performing her Saturday set at the Glastonbury Festival. «Now, y'all know it wouldn't be me if I didn't take a second to call out these stupid ass men,» the 27-year-old said. «I mean, God damn.

Uvalde massacre at Robb Elementary School where 19 children and two teachers were shot and killed has been condemned in a scathing front page op-ed in Sunday’s San Antonio Express-News.“In a position to meaningfully change our broken political discourse around gun safety, as mass shootings ravage our nation, Abbott has, time and again, opted to not only maintain but enhance a failed status quo,” the Express-News editorial board wrote in its Sunday column, titled “A Powerful Man Does Nothing.” Abbott has remained firm in his opposition to gun safety legislation in the wake of the massacre, only pledging in a press conference that there “will be laws in multiple different subject areas,” while declaring in a pre-recorded message played at the National Rifle Association’s annual convention that gun control laws in other states “have not stopped madmen from carrying out evil acts on innocent people in peaceful communities.” We again dedicate our entire Sunday opinion section to Uvalde, starting with our full-page editorial about Greg Abbott's response. A powerful man does nothing.

Stevie Nicks has shared an emotional statement on gun control, calling on lawmakers to “make it really hard” for people to buy guns.Nicks is the latest musician to speak out after last week’s mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. On Tuesday, May 24, an 18-year-old gunman opened fire at Robb Elementary School, which teaches children aged seven to 10. Texas Governor Greg Abbott confirmed that the suspect was later shot dead by responding law enforcement officials.“My hope for this country is that the lawmakers just find a way to make buying an assault rifle — more difficult,” Nicks’ length statement began.

The Supreme Court blocked a Texas social media law that prohibited major platforms like Facebook and YouTube from restricting content based on viewpoint.

Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden on Sunday visited Robb Elementary School, the site of the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, last week that resulted in the deaths of 19 children and two adults. Mr. Biden and the first lady laid flowers at the front of the school, and Jill Biden touched the photograph of each student at a memorial set up in front of the school. Protesters who called for Texas Gov.

Midnight Cowboy actor continued. “These beings had been bullied, and they take out their disturbances, their grief, their horror on innocent souls.

Harry Styles has pledged over $1million (£791K) to a gun safety support fund in the US.Together with Live Nation, Styles pledged the money to the ‘Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund’ in the US following the Uvalde school shooting earlier this week.On Tuesday (May 24), an 18-year-old gunman opened fire at Robb Elementary School, which teaches children aged seven to 10. Texas Governor Greg Abbott confirmed that the suspect was later shot dead by responding law enforcement officials.19 children and two teachers were killed in the attack.

Jack White has called for greater gun control in the US following the Uvalde school shooting this week.On Tuesday (May 24), an 18-year-old gunman opened fire at Robb Elementary School, which teaches children aged seven to 10. Texas Governor Greg Abbott confirmed that the suspect was later shot dead by responding law enforcement officials.19 children and two teachers were killed in the attack.

Texas native Jamie Foxx joined the chorus of voices wondering how something like the school massacre in Uvalde could happen in the United States of America. The comedian, who himself was recently involved in subduing a man who attacked Dave Chappelle onstage, posted 16 Uvalde victims’ photos and wrote:

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorDonald Trump’s media company plans to launch a subscription-streaming service stocked with a range of right-wing content — including “shows that embrace the Second Amendment” and “Trump-specific programming” — a Netflix-style offering squarely pitched at his MAGA followers.The new programming focus for Trump’s prospective subscription VOD service was outlined Friday in a regulatory filing by Digital World Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) that intends to merge with Trump Media & Technology Group.Trump’s company earlier this year launched Truth Social, a rival social networking service very similar to Twitter (from which the twice-impeached former president was banned following the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorFollowing Don McLean, Larry Gatlin and Larry Stewart, right-wing country singer Lee Greenwood announced that he is pulling out of the concert scheduled to take place at the NRA rally in Houston over Memorial Day weekend. His departure effectively leaves the concert without a headliner.In a statement, Greenwood said: “As a father, I join the rest of America in being absolutely heartbroken by the horrific event that transpired this week in Texas.