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  • 1 week ago | nysun.com | Luke Funk

    Senator Schumer wants the Department of Justice to investigate whether the suspect in the arson attack on Pennsylvania governor’s mansion should face federal hate crime charges in addition to the attempted murder and other charges he already faces. In a letter to Attorney General Bondi Thursday, the Senate Democrat urged the DOJ and the FBI to determine if Mr. Shapiro was targeted in part because of his religious identity.

  • 1 week ago | nysun.com | Luke Funk

    Enforcement cameras don’t deter all drivers with a need for speed. One driver dubbed a “super speeder” has paid more than $46,000 in fines after being caught speeding through New York City school zones hundreds of times. The driver of the black 2023 Audi has been ticketed 70 times alone from the same Brooklyn intersection. After being caught 563 times in 2024, an average of one ticket every 16 hours, the same car has received another 177 tickets so far in 2025.

  • 1 week ago | nysun.com | Luke Funk

    With gold prices at historical highs, South American cartels are now making more money off illegal mining than trafficking cocaine. Prices for gold, which is viewed as a safe haven asset and also a hedge against inflation, have been skyrocketing. Gold was trading at $3,300 per ounce on Thursday morning, just off a record high.

  • 1 week ago | nysun.com | Luke Funk

    A bill advancing in the Texas legislature would prevent the State Fair of Texas from prohibiting firearms. SB 1065 would allow licensed carry holders to bring firearms into the fair and other places because it prohibits lessees of publicly owned property from restricting Second Amendment rights. The fair hosts nearly 2.4 million visitors a year on land owned by the city of Dallas. It banned guns after a shooting at the event in 2023 left three people injured.

  • 1 week ago | nysun.com | Luke Funk

    Move over big game smuggling, the new prize is small exotic ants for pricey ant farms. Four suspects have pleaded guilty of trying to smuggle the insects out of Kenya for sale to collectors in Europe and Asia. The Kenya Wildlife Service says they cracked a landmark case involving the illegal trafficking and biopiracy of live ants including the ecologically significant messor cephalotes, also known as Giant African Harvester Ants, that are native to the country.

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