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Yes — federal reporting and court records show at least some current or former ICE employees have been charged with sexual crimes, including allegations of rape and sexual abuse; notable examples incl...
David Gentile is the founder and former CEO of GPB Capital, convicted in August 2024 of leading a multi‑year scheme that prosecutors say raised about $1.6 billion and defrauded more than 10,000 invest...
David Gentile is the founder and former CEO of GPB Capital Holdings, a New York-based private-equity and investment-advisory firm founded in 2013; federal authorities say the company raised roughly $1...
Recent fact-checking shows the clip of Muslims praying in a Brooklyn street is authentic footage of a public prayer — not an AI fabrication — but its timing and the viral claim that it was a Fajr (5 a...
Public street prayers have been documented in specific Brooklyn pockets where Muslim communities either use temporarily car-free "open streets" to expand Friday (Jumu'ah) gatherings or where congregan...
Video and photo posts showing Muslim people praying in Brooklyn streets are plausible and consistent with known prayer times and local mosque activity: multiple prayer-timing services list a Fajr (pre...
Aber Kawas is a Palestinian‑American community organizer and activist based in New York City who has worked with Arab and Muslim communities since about 2010 and has held leadership roles at groups in...
Weird Al Yankovic joined Portugal. The Man onstage in Brooklyn on December 2, 2025 to perform “Live in the Moment” and then a cover of Rage Against the Machine’s “Killing in the Name,” a move document...
Coverage so far shows newly released documents from the Jeffrey Epstein estate include a 2013 email from a Democratic consulting firm seeking Epstein’s attendance at a dinner tied to Hakeem Jeffries’ ...
Weird Al Yankovic joined Portugal. The Man and Jorma Taccone onstage in Brooklyn to sing a cover of Rage Against the Machine’s "Killing in the Name," a non-parodic, energetic performance that multiple...
Zohran Mamdani has been arrested on at least two documented occasions tied to public protests: once in August 2021 during an eviction-moratorium demonstration and again in October 2023 during a blocka...
The most prominent U.S. conspiracy theories about child-trafficking tunnels claim secret underground networks are used to imprison, sell, or ritually abuse children and that elites or institutions are...
Jeffrey Epstein was born in 1953 in Brooklyn to Pauline “Paula” (Stolofsky) and Seymour George Epstein; his mother worked as a school aide and was described as a homemaker, while his father worked in ...
Jeffrey Epstein was born January 20, 1953, in Brooklyn and built a career that included teaching at a Manhattan prep school in the 1970s and later work in finance, before his first high‑profile crimin...
Donald Trump’s parents were Fred C. Trump (commonly styled Fred Trump or Fred Trump Sr.) and Mary Anne MacLeod Trump; Fred was a New York real‑estate developer who built a residential-construction bus...
Aber Kawas is a Palestinian‑American community organizer and advocacy specialist who has worked with Arab and Muslim organizations in New York and who, according to multiple reports, received endorsem...
Jimmy Kimmel Live! averaged roughly 1.7–1.9 million viewers in mid‑2025 quarters, behind Stephen Colbert’s Late Show (about 2.4 million) but ahead of or competitive with Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show in...
Jimmy Kimmel Live!’s 2025 ratings show versus 2024 averages, driven largely by a late‑September rebound and a strong Brooklyn week, but the picture is uneven when comparing discrete quarters and metri...
Available reporting shows multiple high-profile cases of street assaults where victims were women of various races, and some incidents drew attention because attackers apparently targeted white women ...
Available reporting identifies Aber Kawas as a Palestinian-American from Brooklyn and says her father was deported when she was 16; multiple profiles describe her as an Arab/Muslim community organizer...