Election night victory speeches aren’t for policy, nor governing. But they aren’t meaningless. Through his words and demeanor Tuesday night, Eric Adams showed a radical change in tone at the top.
Taking the stage in downtown Brooklyn, the mayor-elect showed a mixture of joy in his personal accomplishment and awe of his new responsibilities, a combination that is hard to fake.
He wasn’t merely pleased; he was shell-shocked giddy. Adams got on his knees and broke into a broad smile. “I’m the mayor,” he said.
Nobody expects oratorical brilliance on election night, and Adams didn’t break the mold.
He was gracious to his supporters: “if they only knew the level of energy I get when I walk in your crowd,” he said. He spoke movingly of his mother — “Mommy” — and her example as a Queens housekeeper and cook.
Adams basked in his success — and said that he owed much of it to city and country. “It is the proof that this city can live up to its promise,” he said, that a poor son of a cleaner and a butcher could become mayor.
He offered himself as an inspiration to the “person cleaning bathrooms and the dishwasher in the kitchen,” the person in a homeless shelter or in a holding cell.
“America is the only country, we are the only country on the globe where ‘dream’ is attached to our name,” he said. “There is an American dream.”
Adams spoke of New York’s diversity. “It doesn’t matter if you are in Borough Park in the Hasidic community, if you’re in Flatbush in the Korean community, if you’re in Sunset Park in the Chinese community,” he said. “Today we . . . put on one jersey, team New York.”
Finally, he hit up Gotham’s better-off citizens. “We’re going to talk to the CEOs” and “ask them to offer paid internships to students from underserved communities.”
Compare Adams’s demeanor and words with those of his predecessor.
Eight years ago, Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio inherited record-high jobs numbers and a record-low crime level. Worth a grin, right?
Yet in his victory speech, de Blasio barely managed to crack a wan smile. He didn’t offer himself as a personal inspiration; he didn’t have any direct words of hope for people watching from homeless shelters.
Instead, de Blasio clung to the words of his lackluster campaign, abstract concepts seemingly cooked up by a bored grad student for a master’s thesis.
“The people of this city have chosen a progressive path,” he said woodenly, moving mechanically onto his already-stale “Tale of Two Cities” theme. “Progressive changes won’t happen overnight.”
De Blasio, too, had an “ask” for New York’s most fortunate: “we call on the wealthiest among us to pay just a little more in taxes.” Unlike Adams, he wasn’t thinking of life-transforming jobs but a bigger city budget.
Blas eight years ago offered bogeymen to slay: disasters that the city would have to overcome. But they were largely imagined. He had little to fret about besides “the growing inequality we see.” He warned that “there will be many obstacles that stand in our way” but couldn’t name any.
Adams doesn’t have to manufacture his urban monsters; he faces nothing but problems. “Midtown turned into a ghost town, and our parking lots became morgues,” Adams reminded New Yorkers Tuesday. “We saw the most vibrant city on earth reduced to silence.”
The incoming mayor’s “three-headed crisis” — “COVID, crime, and economic devastation” — is not a grad student’s bloodless thesis.
In fact, Adams’s only negative note was an allusion to the current officeholder. “You pay your taxes . . . and we have failed to provide those goods and services,” he said. “January 1 . . . that betrayal stops.”
Eight years ago, de Blasio made it clear that he would be accountable . . . for nothing. He chose the passive voice: “problems . . . will not be solved overnight.” He got that right.
NYC Mayor-elect Eric Adams with his supporters on Nov. 2, 2021.William C. Lopez/NYPOST
Adams embraces responsibility. “I will be the person in charge of that precinct,” he said of the NYPD. “I will be the mayor in charge of the entire Department of Education.”
Yes, he will, and in 57 days, we’ll see what he does with it.
Meanwhile, Adams is having fun. After his speech, the mayor-elect, sporting a glittery blue patterned jacket, hit up a private NoHo club, Zero Bond. Why not bring a little midnight glamour back to Gotham while you still have time? It’s more exciting than the Park Slope YMCA in the middle of a sleepy morning.
Nicole Gelinas is a contributing editor to the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal, from whose Web site this is adapted.
Sondland’s lawyer, Robert Luskin, told the news outlet that Sondland revealed to House committees he thought that a meeting between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky would only take place if the country agreed to investigate corruption allegations about his political rivals.
When a lawmaker asked Sondland if he believed this arrangement was a quid pro quo, Sondland said he believed so, but warned that he was not a lawyer, Luskin told the newspaper.
The Journal’s report follows text messages between Sondland and U.S. diplomat Bill Taylor that came out during the impeachment inquiry.
In the exchange, Taylor said “it’s crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign.”
“The president has been crystal clear no quid pro quo’s of any kind,” Sondland responded.
Taylor’s subsequent testimony resulted in scrutiny on Sondland and some lawmakers have called for him to return and answer more questions.
Taylor testimony was similar. He told the House investigators that a meeting between Trump and Zelensky as well as security assistance for Ukraine was conditioned on the country’s pursuit of investigations into whether Kiev interfered in the 2016 election and into unfounded corruption allegations against the Bidens.
Taylor also relayed that Sondland told a Ukrainian representative “the security assistance money would not come until President Zelensky committed to pursue the Burisma investigation.”
Luskin told The Journal that Sondland would probably return if he were asked to do so.
Trump has denied that there was a quid pro quo and blasted the impeachment inquiry as a “witch hunt.”
However, a rough transcript of the July call released by the White House reveals that the president did ask Zelensky to look into the former vice president. Trump has also publicly asked Ukraine and China to investigate the democratic presidential candidate.
La justicia suiza informó este domingo que investiga actualmente 81 casos sospechosos de blanqueo de capitales en el marco del proceso de atribución de los Mundiales de 2018 y 2022 por la FIFA a Rusia y Catar.
El pasado 17 de junio, el fiscal general de la Confederación Helvética, Michael Lauber, había anunciado que los bancos habían advertido de 53 casos sospechosos de blanqueo en el marco de esta investigación. Desde entonces, los investigadores reciben casi a diario denuncias de posibles nuevos casos.
“La oficina del Fiscal General (MPC) ha recibido a fecha de hoy la denuncia de 81 casos sospechosos a través de la Oficina de Comunicación en Materia de Blanqueo de Dinero (MROS). Todas las advertencias están relacionadas con la investigación del MPC sobre la atribución de las Copas del Mundo de 2018 y 2022”, indicó a la AFP un portavoz de la fiscalía, André Marty.
El portavoz no precisó el dinero bloqueado por la justicia en este caso. La ley antiblanqueo en vigor en Suiza obliga a los bancos a advertir al MROS de las cuentas sospechosas de servir a blanquear capitales, que son luego examinadas por el MROS y lo transmite luego el ministerio Público de la Confederación (MPC, fiscalía).
El 27 de mayo, el MPC abrió un proceso penal por sospechas de gestión desleal y de blanqueo de dinero relacionadas con el proceso de elección de la sedes de los próximos mundiales y se registró la sede de LA FIFA en Zúrich.
Además de esta investigación de la justicia suiza, su homologa estadounidense imputó a 14 dirigentes de la FIFA y socios comerciales del organismo rector del fútbol mundial por corrupción continuada desde los años 1990.
Las autoridades norteamericanas acusa a esos imputados de haber aceptado sobornos por un monto global de varios millones de dólares. Estos dos escándalos llevaron al presidente de la FIFA, el suizo Joseph Blatter a anunciar su dimisión, solo cuatro días después de ser reelegido para quinto mandato, aunque se mantiene en el cargo hasta la elección de un sucesor, algo que no ocurrirá antes de finales de 2015.
I’m reminded of a time, when I was in my early 30s, that I attended a yoga class with a friend who is a mother of three. When she went to introduce me to a group of moms she knew through her kids’ school, she said, “This is Lane, another mom from the neighborhood…” She paused and caught herself, and then said, “I mean, she’s a future mom from our neighborhood.”
Dr. Anthony Fauci clashed with Rep. Jim Jordan at a House subcommittee hearing on Friday over whether the government should crack down on protests to curb the spread of COVID-19.
“I’m not in a position to determine what the government can do in a forceful way,” Fauci said, adding, “You should stay away from crowds, no matter where the crowds are.”
Jordan repeatedly tried to corner Fauci into saying the government should limit protests, but Fauci refused, saying it was not his place to weigh in on what the government should or shouldn’t do.
“I don’t understand what you’re asking me, as a public-health official, to opine on who should get arrested or not,” Fauci said. “That’s not my position. You could ask me as much as you want, and I’m not going to answer it.”
Dr. Anthony Fauci and Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan got into a heated back-and-forth on Friday during a House subcommittee hearing on the novel coronavirus.
Jordan, one of President Donald Trump’s biggest attack dogs on Capitol Hill, repeatedly asked Fauci to weigh in on whether widespread protests helped to spread COVID-19.
Fauci said that in general, large crowds, particularly those including people who aren’t wearing masks, contribute to higher infection and transmission rates.
“Should government limit the protesting?” Jordan asked.
“I don’t think that’s relevant,” Fauci said, adding, “I’m not in a position to determine what the government can do in a forceful way.”
Jordan pressed Fauci, saying, “You make all kinds of recommendations.”
He said that state governments were limiting people attending church services and asked Fauci, “Is there a world where the Constitution says you can favor one First Amendment liberty, protesting, over another, practicing your faith?”
“I’m not favoring anybody over anybody,” Fauci said. “I’m just making a statement that’s a broad statement, that avoid crowds of any type, no matter where you are, because that leads to the acquisition and transmission. And I don’t judge one crowd versus another crowd. When you’re in a crowd, particularly if you’re not wearing a mask, that induces the spread.”
“I haven’t seen people during a church service go out and harm police officers or burn buildings, but we know that for 63 days, nine weeks, it’s been happening in Portland,” Jordan said, referring to the protests against racism and police brutality in the city since the death of George Floyd on Memorial Day. Many of the demonstrations devolved into violence after federal law-enforcement agents used tear gas, rubber bullets, and other materials to disperse protesters.
There’s “no limit to protests,” Jordan said, but “you can’t go to church on Sunday.”
“I don’t know how many times I can answer that,” Fauci responded. “I’m not going to opine on limiting anything.”
Jordan pushed back, telling Fauci he had “opined on a lot of things.”
“You should stay away from crowds, no matter where the crowds are,” Fauci said.
“Government has stopped people from going to work,” Jordan said, citing reports about two people who were arrested after reopening their gym. He added, “Do you see the inconsistency though, Dr. Fauci?”
Fauci said there was “no inconsistency.” Jordan replied, “You’re allowed to protest — millions of people on one day, in crowds, yelling, screaming — but you try to run your business, you get arrested?”
Fauci, who appeared to be getting increasingly frustrated, said: “I don’t understand what you’re asking me, as a public-health official, to opine on who should get arrested or not. That’s not my position. You could ask me as much as you want, and I’m not going to answer it.”
Jordan then claimed that Fauci had said protests increased the spread of the virus, but Fauci pushed back. “I said crowds,” he said. “I didn’t say specifically — I didn’t say protests.”
“So the protests don’t increase the spread of the virus?” Jordan said.
“I didn’t say that,” Fauci said. “You’re putting words in my mouth.”
He added: “I can tell you that crowds are known, particularly when you don’t have a mask, to increase the acquisition and transmission, no matter what the crowd is.”
The US’s coronavirus death toll this week surpassed 151,000, the highest of any country. When asked how other countries managed to bring their COVID-19 outbreaks under control, Fauci said that when the pandemic began, countries in Europe and Asia shut down 95% of their economies while the US shut down only 50%.
At the hearing, South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn displayed a graphic showing the spike in cases in the US compared with cases in Europe, drawing Trump’s ire.
“Somebody please tell Congressman Clyburn, who doesn’t have a clue, that the chart he put up indicating more CASES for the U.S. than Europe, is because we do MUCH MORE testing than any other country in the World,” Trump tweeted.
But multiple public-health officials and scientific experts have pointed out that while the US has rapidly expanded its testing and contact-tracing ability, that alone doesn’t account for the increase in new cases.
“That states are finding more cases relative to the amount of tests they are conducting provides the strongest rebuttal to the administration’s assertion that case numbers are rising because we’re getting better at finding cases through increased testing,” Jennifer Nuzzo, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, wrote in The Washington Post last month.
“They tell us the opposite — that each of these states needs to do even more testing to find infections — followed by more rigorous contact tracing and isolation.”
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, spoke with Fox News Digital about top voting issues for Iowans, the FBI investigation into former President Trump and reacts to Mitch McConnell’s recent statement that the GOP might not win Senate control.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell could soon be faced with a new wave of Republicans in the Senate who oppose his messaging, however he continues to offer support for those representing the GOP on the ballot amid “candidate quality” concerns.
On Thursday, when asked for his 2022 prediction at the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce luncheon, McConnell cited “candidate quality” as a reason why he believes Republicans will face difficulty in flipping the Senate in November and instead might only be able to flip control of the House.
“I think there’s probably a greater likelihood the House flips than the Senate,” said McConnell, who has led the GOP in the Senate since 2007. “Senate races are just different, they’re statewide. Candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome.”
Despite McConnell’s remarks, The Associated Press reported that the McConnell-controlled Senate Leadership Fund (SLF) purchased $28 million in advertising this week to boost Republican J.D. Vance in Ohio, a seat many Republicans thought to be safe for the GOP. The SLF also announced this month that it had invested more than $34 million into the Pennsylvania Senate race featuring Republican nominee Mehmet Oz, who will face off against John Fetterman, the state’s lieutenant governor and the Democratic Senate nominee, in the general election.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday that he believes the GOP will struggle to regain control of the Senate in the November midterm elections. (Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Other spending from the SLF includes a $141 million in fall advertising reservation for elections taking place in Alaska, Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. The spending on advertisements — which will begin airing on Sept. 6 — is more than double the $67 million SLF spent in 2020, setting a record-high for the PAC.
Prior to his remarks over the “quality” of Republican candidates running in Senate races, McConnell also issued support for GOP Senate candidates facing tough elections against Democrats, including Herschel Walker in Georgia and Adam Laxalt in Nevada — both of which received endorsements from former President Donald Trump.
Several GOP Senate candidates have expressed reservations about McConnell’s leadership for the party, with some insisting that he should no longer represent Republicans at the helm in the Senate.
During a podcast interview last September, Vance, who seeks to defeat Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, in the Senate race later this year, insisted it was time for “new blood” in the Senate and suggested that McConnell had shown at times that he was “out of touch” with Republican voters.
“I think McConnell has shown at times that he’s a little out of touch with the base,” he said. “I think that it’s time that we moved beyond the very old leadership class that’s dominated the Republican Party for a long time. We’ve got to do it. We’ve got to bring some new blood in. We’ve got to get people the base is really excited about.”
JD Vance, co-founder of Narya Capital Management LLC and U.S. Republican Senate candidate for Ohio, speaks during a campaign event in Huber Heights, Ohio, U.S., on Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022. (Gaelen Morse/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
In another interview, Vance claimed he is the “only person in the Ohio Senate race who’s actually been willing to criticize leadership” and that he “will continue to criticize leadership” when he believes “they’re wrong.”
Last month, Eric Schmitt, Missouri’s current attorney general and the Republican nominee for Senate in the state, called for “new leadership in the Senate” during a conversation with a reporter at a campaign event.
“Mitch McConnell was elected to the Senate in 1985. I think the party’s priorities changed pretty dramatically. And I don’t think he’s kept up with that. I think that most recently, evidenced by the disastrous infrastructure bill, I was vocal about not supporting this gun confiscation law, the red flag law. I don’t support that,” said Schmitt, who is seeking to replace outgoing GOP Sen. Roy Blunt.
“I’ve been endorsed by Senator Ted Cruz, Senator Mike Lee,” he added. “I’d love to see one of them run. I would support that. Mitch McConnell hasn’t endorsed me and I don’t endorse him for leadership in the Senate.”
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, also the GOP nominee for Senate in the state, speaks to reporters in front of the Supreme Court of the United States on Tuesday, April 26, 2022 in Washington, DC. ((Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images))
Blake Masters, the Trump-endorsed Republican nominee for Senate in Arizona, has also taken aim at McConnell in the past.
Earlier this year, Masters, who looks to defeat incumbent Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly in the state’s general election, weighed Senate GOP leadership replacements for McConnell, saying he’d support Sens. Josh Hawley of Missouri or Tom Cotton of Arkansas for the position. In addition, he also said he believes McConnell is “not good at” legislating.
“I’ll tell Mitch this to his face,” Masters said during a GOP primary debate in June. “He’s not bad at everything. He’s good at judges. He’s good at blocking Democrats. You know what he’s not good at? Legislating.”
Republican candidate for Senate Blake Masters speaks at a ‘Save America’ rally by former President Donald Trump in support of Arizona GOP candidates on July 22, 2022 in Prescott Valley, Arizona. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
Despite his comments about McConnell at the time, Masters predicted Friday that the GOP leader will receive another term as GOP leader and that no Republicans will challenge him.
“I think he’ll be in charge. And I’m not just going to be a senator that falls in line to whatever he says,” Masters said, according to The Associated Press. “I’ll hear him out. I’m happy to listen. But my vote doesn’t belong to Mitch McConnell. It doesn’t belong to Donald Trump.”
Fox News’ Andrea Vacchiano and The Associated Press contributed to this article.
Kyle Morris covers politics for Fox News. On Twitter: @RealKyleMorris.
As many states move toward reopening after a horrific April that saw nearly 60,000 deaths because of the coronavirus, a new report offers a stark warning: A group of experts has concluded the pandemic could last as long as two years, until 60% to 70% of the population is immune.
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump is scheduled to leave the White House on Friday for the first time in a month to travel to Camp David, one day after the expiration of federal social distancing guidelines.
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Dr. Deborah Birx, coordinator of the White House coronavirus task force, suggested social distancing could continue in some form through the summer as the White House quietly allowed official guidelines to expire. Meanwhile, a new report warns the pandemic could last up to two years, until the world hits the threshold for herd immunity.
Trump said Thursday he’s seen evidence suggesting the new virus originated in a Chinese virology lab. The president didn’t provide the evidence, but his top national intelligence official said the virus was not man-made or genetically modified, as scientists have concluded. The intelligence community “will continue to rigorously examine” the virus’ origin, the national intelligence director’s office said.
Some positive news today: If you’re a fan of “Parks and Recreation,” then you must catch the show’s quarantine special. It’ll make you laugh, cry and sing for Lil Sebastian.
“Elizabeth Warren would bring a whole new meaning to Commander in ‘Chief,’” Lowe wrote in the now-deleted post, in an apparent reference to the controversy over Warren’s claims of Native American heritage.
But many social media users – including fellow Hollywood actors — were not amused.
“What a raw blow!” “Star Wars” star Mark Hamill wrote.
“That’s not funny,” actor Vincent D’Onofrio added.
“Don’t. Jesus,” “Hot in Cleveland” star Valerie Bertinelli chimed in.
“Just when I was liking Rob Lowe after his moving comments about being his mom’s caretaker — he takes a page from Trump. Ick,” former NBC correspondent Soledad O’Brien wrote.
“Rob Lowe was just joking,” one user wrote. “Everybody is so sensitive these days. Just a bunch of snowflakes! #ElizabethWarren2020 is the person who lied about her race for votes.”
“Rob Lowe has no f—ing rights,” another commented. “he isn’t protected under the constitution. i said what i said.”
Another user retweeted the image of the State Bar of Texas registration card, on which Warren had identified herself as “American Indian.”
The senator recently apologized for claiming Native American ancestry on the 1986 card, hinting that other documents with a similar claim may exist.
Ultimately, Lowe decided it was best to remove the post.
“I deleted my Elizabeth Warren tweet,” he wrote. “It was a joke and some peeps got upset, and that’s never my intention. On the GOOD side: I just got to use the Oxford comma!”
People clash with police Saturday during a protest in St. Petersburg, Russia, against the jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
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People clash with police Saturday during a protest in St. Petersburg, Russia, against the jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
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Tens of thousands of Russians took to the streets in protest on Saturday to demand the release of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, braving the threat of mass arrests in what was expected to be one of the largest demonstrations against the Kremlin in years.
From the port city of Vladivostok in the east to the capital of Moscow seven time zones away in the west, protesters swept across the country in open defiance of warnings from Russian authorities that the demonstrations have been deemed illegal.
In Moscow, protesters gathered in Pushkin Square for what appeared to be the largest of the day’s protests. They were met by police trucks and city buses filled with riot officers, who blared messages from a public-address system telling demonstrators not to gather closely due to the risks of the coronavirus and warning them that the protest was unlawful. In all, Navalny supporters said that protests were planned across 90 cities, including the Siberian city of Yakutsk, where temperatures plunged to minus 60 Fahrenheit.
Police and protesters clashed in multiple cities and by 5 p.m. Moscow time more than 1,300 demonstrators across the country had been detained, according to OVD-Info, an activist group that monitors arrests at protests. Among those detained was Navalny’s wife, Yulia Navalnaya, who shared a photo of herself from inside what she said was a paddy wagon.
“They can’t put everybody in jail. There are many people and I don’t think that we have enough jails to put everyone in there,” said Maria Nechayeva, 27, an attorney at an IT company who was attending the protest in Moscow.
Mass demonstrations had been widely expected in the aftermath of Navalny’s arrest on Jan. 17 upon his return to Russia from Germany, where he spent the last five months recovering from a near-fatal poisoning. German doctors said that Navalny was poisoned with a variant of the Soviet-era nerve agent known as Novichok. Navalny has blamed the Kremlin for the poisoning — a charge Russian President Vladimir Putin has denied.
“We haven’t seen protest activity like that for many years,” said Angela Stent, a professor at Georgetown University and author of the book Putin’s World: Russia Against the West and with the Rest. “I think what this shows is that for whatever reason, the Kremlin is now making Navalny a much more popular figure than he was before.”
Russian authorities said Navalny was arrested for allegedly violating the terms of a suspended sentence dating to a 2014 embezzlement conviction. A Moscow court is due to rule next month on whether his 3 1/2-year sentence in the case will be converted into a prison sentence. Navalny has called the case, like others against him, politically motivated. Amnesty International has designated him a “prisoner of conscience.”
Yet even from jail, the 44-year-old opposition figure has continued to be a thorn in Putin’s side. After a judge ruled to remand him in custody for 30 days on Monday, Navalny posted a video on social media appealing to supporters to protest. “Don’t be afraid,” he said. “Take to the streets. Don’t do it for me, do it for yourselves and your future.”
On Tuesday, Navalny’s team released a scathing investigation accusing Putin of corruption and detailing the construction of a lavish palace on the Black Sea allegedly build for the Russian leader using a “slush fund.” The investigation, titled “Putin’s palace. History of world’s largest bribe,” has already been viewed more than 70 million times since its release on YouTube. The Kremlin has denied Putin has such a palace, calling the investigation “pure nonsense.”
In the lead-up to Saturday’s protests, Russian authorities from the Kremlin on down warned of potential crackdowns on demonstrators, with the Interior Ministry saying unauthorized demonstrations would be “immediately suppressed,” and Dmitry Peskov, a Kremlin spokesman, saying there would be “possible consequences related to noncompliance with the law. Prosecutors and police called the planned rallies illegal, and colleges threatened to expel students who attended them.
Amid the warnings, authorities moved to detain several key members of the opposition leader’s circle and charged them with breaking protest regulations. On Thursday, police in Moscow arrested Navalny’s press secretary, Kira Yarmysh, as well as Georgy Alburov, who helped produce the Putin investigation released earlier this week. Also arrested was Lyubov Sobol, an attorney for Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation. Yarmysh was ordered to spend nine days in jail, while Alburov was given a 10-day sentence. Sobol was released but ordered to pay a fine equivalent to roughly $3,300.
Efforts to stem the protests extended online, where videos in support of this weekend’s demonstrations have garnered hundreds of millions of views since Navalny’s arrest. The Russian media regulator Roskomnadzor — which has threatened to fine social media companies over protest-related content — said on Friday that TikTok had taken down 38% of posts calling on minors to participate in the demonstrations. Some 50% of flagged content was taken down from YouTube, while 17% was pulled from Instagram, according to Roskomnadzor. The agency said the posts amounted to calls to “participate in illegal actions.”
Undeterred by the official warnings and arrests, young Russians continued to film themselves preparing for the protests. In some, they voice support for Navalny. In others, they mock Putin.
It’s a reflection, said Stent, of the frustrations among an entire generation of Russians who have only known one leader in their lifetimes.
“If you look at some of the interviews,” she said, “with some of the young people out on the streets, they say, you know, ‘I’m 20 whatever years old, I’ve only known one leader, Putin, who’s been in power now for 21 years. You know, we want something different.’ ”
In a message of his own relayed by an attorney and posted to Instagram on Friday, Navalny took notice, thanking his followers for their support.
Said Navalny, “Respect to the schoolchildren who, according to my lawyer, ‘wreaked havoc on TikTok.’ “
Hillary Clinton was tight-lipped when The Post caught up to her Tuesday amid new allegations that her campaign paid for computer research to tie rival Donald Trump to Russia — and just two days before a major speech that could launch her on a renewed quest for the White House.
Clinton and daughter Chelsea Clinton spent about three hours inside a Queens restaurant that was closed to the public so they could be recorded on video for an unspecified project.
“There was a film crew,” a worker at Kusina Pinoy Bistro in Woodside told The Post after the two left.
“There was an area that was exclusive for them, a back room.”
The 2016 Democratic presidential candidate and her and ex-President Bill Clinton’s daughter were served four traditional Filipino dishes, including bamboo-shoot spring rolls, crispy pork with peanut sauce and sizzling chopped-tofu and chopped-pork dishes, the worker said.
Clinton waved to onlookers but ignored questions from The Post when she emerged from the eatery wearing a royal blue coat over a black pantsuit around 3:30 p.m.
According to a legal filing, Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign paid an internet company to “infiltrate” servers at Trump Tower and the White House in order to link Donald Trump to Russia.Paul Martinka
Earlier, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) vowed to investigate the latest revelations from Special Counsel John Durham’s “Russiagate” probe if Republicans win back control of the chamber in the November elections.
On Friday, Durham filed court papers in which he alleged that a Clinton campaign lawyer enlisted a tech executive to help “mine” Internet data from locations including Trump Tower and the White House “to establish ‘an inference’ and ‘narrative’ tying then-candidate Trump to Russia.”
In the wake of the bombshell filing, former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe revealed that he’d seen information about a Clinton campaign “plan to vilify Donald Trump [and] to falsely accuse him of ties to Russia,” and that officials including then-President Barack Obama and then-Vice President Joe Biden were briefed on the matter.
Chelsea Clinton spent hours with her mother inside the Queens restaurant, along with a film crew, according to a worker.Paul Martinka
Clinton, 74, is scheduled to deliver the keynote address Thursday at the state Democratic Committee’s Nominating Convention at the Sheraton New York Times Square hotel.
The speech will come about a month after Democratic pollster Doug Schoen and former Manhattan Borough President Andrew Stein wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that she was “already in an advantageous position to become the 2024 Democratic nominee.”
Last week, a source told CNBC, which was first to report on Clinton’s address, that she was “beloved by the mainstream members of the Democratic Party” and that “her popularity is likely higher than that of President Biden.”
The Clintons didn’t react to questions about the new allegations that her campaign paid for computer research to tie rival Donald Trump to Russia.Paul Martinka
But some New York Democrats told The Post that they disagreed with party Chairman Jay Jacobs’ decision to give Clinton the platform amid speculation she could run for president again.
“I do not think a resurrection of Hillary Clinton’s political ambitions is appropriate, nor do I think she’s helpful to the long-term future of the New York Democratic Party,” Assemblyman Phil Steck (D-Colonie) said.
“I think we need to show people we care more about Main Street than Wall Street and Hillary Clinton does not do that for the Democratic Party.”
Kusina Pinoy Bistro served the Clintons four traditional Filipino dishes while they were inside filming.Paul Martinka
Committee member Patrick Nelson, who represents a district around upstate Saratoga Springs, also said, “I wish the Democratic Party leadership would have chosen someone for keynote speaker who was more forward-looking and unifying.
“We have the youngest woman elected to Congress from New York — AOC,” Nelson said, referring to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who represents parts of The Bronx and Queens.
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