NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Power is being restored to Co-op City Saturday after the outage led to the death of an elderly resident . Police said the 73-year-old woman collapsed and died after her portable oxygen tank ran out while she climbed the stairs to her apartment on the 19th floor. READ MORE: Woman Collapses, Dies While Climbing Stairs To 19th-Floor Apartment During Power Outage In Co-Op City The elevator was out of service after a transformer caught fire Friday morning. Thousands who live in buildings one through eight were left without electricity. Authorities said they hoped to restore electricity, water and heat by Saturday morning. ...
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CPAC speaker Alex Berenson: What to know about former NY Times reporter, COVID-19 lockdown critic
close Video What do conservatives want to hear the most from Trump at CPAC? Former Oklahoma GOP House Speaker T.W. Shannon and former Clinton adviser Richard Goodstein weigh in. Author and former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson is among the featured speakers to give a talk at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference ( CPAC ) in Orlando, Fla . Berenson, 48, made national headlines last year for his criticism of the strict lockdown policies that came in response to the COVID-19 pandemic . More recently, he has focused his criticism on Big Tech’s censorship and cancel culture – which he has compared to the blacklisting of "Communist sympathizers in Hollywood in the 1950s." Former NYT reporter Alex Berenson. (FOX) "The left seems frantic to stop any debate – about how to handle COVID, global warming , whether ‘trans’ women should be allowed to compete in women’s sports ," Berenson wrote in an op-ed earlier this month. "Worse, it is no longer content to try to shout down views it does not like. It wants to punish the people who hold them." BARI WEISS: WOKE CULTURE IS DOMINATING OUT LIVES -- HERE ARE 10 WAYS TO FIGHT BACK Berenson worked at The Times from 1999 until 2010, becoming a full-time novelist. He also published nonfiction, including a controversial 2019 book that argued against the legalization of marijuana . Berenson said his critique of lockdowns and cancel culture has begun to negatively impact his work as a writer. He noted that 12 of his previous novels were best-sellers and received attention from mainstream news outlets. But he has "not received a single review aside from a couple of trade publications" for his upcoming novel, "The Power Couple." At CPAC, Berenson is expected to speak on what happens when you don’t toe the party line and how anyone can be a target of cancel culture – not just conservatives. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS ...
Alex Berenson: Cancel culture beyond Orwellian — this is why I won’t give in to it
close Video Concha: The New York Times is 'lionizing cancel culture' Fox News contributor Joe Concha reacts to The New York Times being accused of celebrating cancel culture for spotlighting a video of a teenaged girl using a racial slur, in which, led to her being forced to withdraw from college. Even George Orwell couldn’t have imagined it: in the country where free speech first became a constitutional right, left-wing journalists and frightened media companies are desperately censoring people with views they consider unpleasant. So far this month, New York Times columnists have called for a federal "reality czar" and asked cable companies to keep viewers from seeing Fox News as easily as CNN or MSNBC. A Times reporter was forced to resign for using a racial slur – though both he and the paper’s top editor, who is African American, said he had used it without malign intent. Video The Times then refused to run a column about the controversy by one of its own writers. Meanwhile, Disney fired an actress who had posted pro-Trump statements on social media, including an admittedly ugly comparison of the treatment of Republicans now to Jews in Nazi Germany. And Facebook canceled Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Instagram account, which had 800,000 followers, for promoting "misinformation" about vaccines. So far this month . JOHN CRIBB: IS PRESIDENTS DAY NEXT ON CANCEL CULTURE'S HITLIST? The left seems frantic to stop any debate – about how to handle COVID, global warming, whether "trans" women should be allowed to compete in women’s sports. Worse, it is no longer content to try to shout down views it does not like. It wants to punish the people who hold them. Video When this strategy was used against Communist sympathizers in Hollywood in the 1950s, it was called blacklisting. Today, blacklisting is considered a stain on American history. "Hundreds of the entertainment industry’s most ...
CIA Documents Stir Debate Over Alleged Clinton Plan To Link Trump To Russia
The director of national intelligence declassified two CIA documents this week regarding Hillary Clinton’s alleged role in approving a plan to link Donald Trump to Russia’s election meddling in 2016. John Brennan, the former CIA director, wrote in notes in late July 2016 that U.S. intelligence intercepted Russian analysis that asserted that Clinton had approved the plan. The intelligence underlying the documents remains classified, making it difficult to discern how the intelligence was collected and what it said about Clinton. A flurry of election-related developments occurred in late July 2016, including the release of emails hacked from the DNC and the FBI’s opening of Crossfire Hurricane. CIA documents declassified this week have stirred a partisan debate over whether Hillary Clinton authorized a plan in July 2016 to link Donald Trump to Russian hackers during the presidential campaign. John Ratcliffe, the director of national intelligence, approved the release of the documents on Tuesday as part of a broader effort to declassify information related to the CIA and FBI’s intelligence-gathering activities against Trump in 2016. One of the documents contains handwritten notes that former CIA Director John Brennan wrote following a briefing in late July 2016 for President Obama regarding Russia’s election meddling. Brennan wrote that U.S. intelligence obtained insight into Russian intelligence analysis which asserted that Hillary Clinton had approved a campaign plan to “stir up a scandal” against Trump “by tying him to Putin and the Russians’ hacking of the Democratic National Committee.” Late July 2016, when Clinton allegedly approved the plan, saw a flurry of activity both in terms of Russia’s meddling in the presidential campaign and investigations into Trump’s possible links to the Kremlin. The FBI opened its counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign on July 31, 2016. Christopher Steele, a former British spy ...
Gregg Jarrett: Cuomo sex harassment allegations – could the governor face criminal charges?
close Video Cuomo faces accusation after passing strictest sexual harassment laws New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is accused of hypocrisy over sexual harassment claim; reaction and analysis from ‘Outnumbered’ co-host Emily Compagno. A former aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo has come forward to accuse him of persistent sexual harassment and unwanted physical touching. Her description, if true, could be grounds for criminal charges against Cuomo. At the very least, it merits a criminal investigation by prosecutors. In a 1,700-word essay published on the website Medium, Lindsey Boylan details disturbing incidents of physical contact by Cuomo without her consent. The former deputy secretary for economic development and special adviser to the governor describes how Cuomo "would go out of his way to touch me on my lower back, arms and legs." On one occasion when she attempted to leave his office Boylan writes, "He stepped in front of me and kissed me on the lips. ... I was in shock, but I kept walking," she explained. GOV. CUOMO ACCUSED OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT BY FORMER AIDE After that incident, Boylen said that her fear of Cuomo worsened, and she avoided all contact with him. "I came to work nauseous every day," she said. Eventually, she became so anguished that quit her job to stop what she called the "governor’s abuse of power to sexually harass me, just as he had done with so many other women." Gov. Cuomo’s office has denied the accusations, issuing a statement that reads, "Ms.Boylan’s claims of inappropriate behavior are quite simply false." The use of the term "inappropriate" is subject to varying interpretations and is curious, if not suspect. Video What if Boylan’s claims are true? Does Cuomo’s alleged conduct constitute crimes? Under New York law, indecent contact crimes involve groping someone’s intimate parts without consent. State penal code section 130.52 defines it as "forcibly ...
