NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s “bodega cats” are beloved fixtures in the Big Apple —

He’s been saying it for almost 40 years…
A clip of a 1980s Donald Trump talking to Oprah Winfrey went viral this week for its relevance to President Trump’s recent actions on tariffs.
In the clip, Trump tells the talk show host that he’d “make our allies pay their fair share” if he had any control over the matter.
“We’re a debtor nation. Something is going to happen over the next number of years with this country because you can’t keep losing $200 billion, and yet we let Japan come in and dump everything right into our markets — it’s not free trade,” Trump said. “If you go to Japan right now and try to sell something, it’s impossible. They don’t have laws against it; they just make it impossible.”

Former Vice President Mike Pence will receive the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for his refusal to go along with President Donald Trump’s efforts to remain in office after losing the 2020 election, Kennedy’s family announced Thursday. The award recognizes Pence “for putting his life and career on the line to ensure the constitutional transfer of presidential power on Jan. 6, 2021,” the JFK Library Foundation said. Trump pressured Pence to reject election results from swing states where the Republican president falsely claimed the vote was marred by fraud. Pence refused, saying he lacked such authority.

President Donald Trump’s expansive new tariffs flips on its head a decades-long global trend of lower trade barriers and is likely, economists say, to raise prices for Americans by thousands of dollars each year while sharply slowing the U.S. economy. The White House is gambling that other countries will also suffer enough pain that they will open up their economies to more American exports, leading to negotiations that would reduce the tariffs imposed Wednesday. Or, the White House hopes, more companies — both American and foreign — will reverse their moves toward global supply chains and bring more production to the United States to avoid higher import taxes. A key question remains: How will Americans react?

Zvika Klein, the editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post, has broken his silence following the shocking revelation that he is a suspect in the Qatargate affair. Reflecting on the turn of events, Klein expressed disbelief over what he has endured. “This week, I was arrested,” he recounts in a personal column. “I was placed under house arrest. In an instant, I went from a public servant to a suspect. Not even in my worst nightmares could I have imagined this.”

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday that Elon Musk would likely leave his administration in “a few mon

Survivors who were once held by Hamas, along with the relatives of those still being held in Gaza, testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday. They pleaded with U.S. lawmakers to take decisive and immediate steps to free the remaining 59 hostages still in captivity.
The powerful session took place in Washington, D.C., and was led by Sens. Dave McCormick, a Republican from Pennsylvania, and Jacky Rosen, a Democrat from Nevada. Several other senators, including Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), and Tim Kaine (D-Va.), also took part in the hearing, which featured heart-wrenching testimony from those directly affected.

Wall Street took a dramatic downturn just one day after what former President Trump dubbed “Liberation Day,” as financial markets responded sharply to his sweeping new tariff strategy.
Stocks plummeted on Thursday, following Trump’s announcement of a large-scale tariff rollout designed to match what he described as unfair trade practices by other nations—a move that investors fear could spark a full-blown global trade war.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped a staggering 1,679 points, equivalent to a 4% slide, marking its worst single-day performance since the onset of the COVID-19 crisis in 2020.

A group of Columbia University students locked themselves to a campus gate in protest over the arrest and possible deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, a leading figure in the Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) movement, according to a report from Fox News Digital.
The demonstration took place Wednesday outside the university’s St. Paul’s Chapel. Those protesting demanded that Columbia disclose the identity of the individual who allegedly tipped off immigration authorities about Khalil.
The Columbia Palestine Solidarity Committee posted on X: “We will not leave until our demand is met.”