The New York Police Department is investigating the brutal attack of a Jewish man on his way to a Brooklyn shul as a hate crime.
The report comes after Flatbush Shomrim released video footage Friday on Twitter of two suspects in hoods and masks jumping the man and beating him for about 10 seconds before running away.
The NYPD’s Hate Crimes division reported on Twitter the assault happened at 5:30 a.m. ET on New York Avenue in Flatbush.

The family of a teen pulled alive from the rubble of last month’s Florida building disaster has filed a lawsuit claiming its condo association knew the highrise was “at grave risk of collapse.”
Relatives of 15-year-old Jonah Handler say in the suit filed Thursday that the condo association at Champlain Towers South in Surfside was aware of previous “widespread structural damage” at the building, as detailed in a damning 2018 engineer’s report, the Miami Herald reported. Handler’s mother died from the building collapse June 24.
The court papers allege that the condo association knew that the “building was structurally unsound, unsafe, and at grave risk of collapse” well before it fell.

By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld

The New York Police Department rolled out a “game truck” this month in an effort to connect with youth, particularly in low-income neighborhoods, where community relations with law enforcement have been strained thanks to generations of mistrust.
“This right here is going to be the game changer this summer,” Jeffrey Maddrey, the chief of community affairs for the department, said in a video introducing the vehicle. “We’re coming out to your block, [and] we’re coming out to your neighborhood. … Making sure our young people have a safe summer, a safe space, and just know that the NYPD is here to support them.”

A Miami firefighter working at the site of the Florida building collapse Thursday was among a crew of search workers who recovered the remains of his own daughter, officials said Friday.
The grieving father wrapped the 7-year-old victim of last week’s Champlain Towers collapse in his jacket and placed a small US flag on the gurney, according to WPLG-TV. The child’s uncle was also among the rescuers.
“It goes without saying that every night since this last Wednesday has been immensely difficult for everybody, and particularly the families that have been impacted,” Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said Friday.
“But last night was uniquely different,” Cava said. “These men and women are paying an enormous human toll each and every day.”

Losing a governor’s race and working now as a Georgia Democrat operative has been lucrative for Stacey Abrams, who once claimed to be in over $200,000 of IRS tax, student loan, and credit card debt after losing the 2018 gubernatorial race.
Abrams’ two homes purchased after her failed bid against Georgia GOP Gov. Brian Kemp – a race she never conceded, claiming election fraud – are worth a combined $1.4 million, according to public records reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has until Sept. 14 to keep voters on his side.
The recall election of the Democratic leader will be held on that date, according to a statement Thursday from Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis.
The election was widely expected to be later in the year. With public sentiment currently favoring the first-term governor, the Democratic-led legislature voted this week to speed the process. The majority of likely voters said in a May poll that they would oppose Newsom’s recall, according to the Public Policy Institute of California.
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Former President Donald Trump’s team has launched a new social media platform, billing it as an alternative to Big Tech sites.
Named GETTR, the app advertises its mission statement as “fighting cancel culture, promoting common sense, defending free speech, challenging social media monopolies, and creating a true marketplace of ideas,” Politico reported Thursday.
Trump’s former spokesman, Jason Miller, is leading the platform, described as similar to Twitter, Politico reported.
Miller, a spokesman for Trump’s 2020 campaign, hinted in March that Trump would re-enter the social media space with a new platform of his own that would “completely redefine the game.”

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a pair of Republican-backed Arizona voting restrictions do not run afoul of federal law, rejecting a Democratic challenge and dealing a blow to voting rights advocates.
The 6-3 decision, which fell along familiar ideological lines, comes as a raft of GOP-crafted voting limits are introduced and passed across the country, with Democrats and civil rights groups turning to courts to argue the new measures threaten to suppress the vote of racial minorities.
One Arizona policy at issue in Thursday’s case requires provisional ballots cast in the wrong precinct to be discarded. The second measure makes it illegal for most third parties to deliver ballots for others, a practice critics refer to as “ballot harvesting.”

The city’s bumbling Board of Elections said Wednesday that Eric Adams maintained his lead in the city’s Democratic mayoral primary — one day after officials threw the race into chaos with a botched count.
Preliminary results posted on the embattled election agency’s website showed Adams narrowly ahead of Kathryn Garcia, 358,521 votes (51.1 percent} to 343,766 (48.9 percent).
In an ironic twist, the percentages are identical to the ones reported Tuesday, when Garcia overtook Maya Wiley to vault into second place pending the counting of absentee ballots.
But the vote spread between Adams and Garcia shrank to 14,755 from 15,908.
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