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California Gov. Gavin Newsom has announced that automakers are offering a $3,500 instant rebate for state residents buying or leasing their first new zero-emission electric vehicle as part of a $271 million incentive program. Customers buying or leasing a used ZEV are eligible for a $1,750 rebate. “California is once again leading with bold, decisive action and expanding access to the benefits of zero-emission vehicles with the launch of the MyFirstEV program,” Lauren Sanchez, chair of the California Air Resources Board, said in Gov. Newsom’s press release. “This program means more than just new technology for California families –

Peter Stein, the so-called “Boss of the Beach,” now collecting a $570,000 pension after careers with the Department of Education and Parks Department, is just the poster boy for corrupt abuse of New York public-employees benefits — and union leaders’ complete lack of shame at these absurdities is damning. And that it’s (mostly) completely legal doesn’t make it any less corrupt.[snip] He’s one of 62 new retirees who scored pensions of at least $200,000 last year, per data on the Empire Center’s SeeThroughNY website; 490 got six-figure payouts. And the total pension payout to retired city workers was about $6.2 billion — including more than $52.7 million in “back pay.”

Cambridge University is England’s second-best university, but it’s now bottom of the class. As the case of Jason Arday confirms, no one does dumb like the smart people. In 2023, Cambridge made Arday a professor. He became the professorial chair of sociology and education. These fields produce politicized gibberish and call it scientific research. [snip] Enter Jason Arday. The son of Ghanaian immigrants. An autist, epileptic and dyslexic. Arday could not read or write until he was 18. But in 2021 he was already teaching at Glasgow University. His specialty was detecting bat squeaks of racism in education policy.

Texas Attorney General and Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton will have to take his fight over the "gun-free" state fair to the Texas Supreme Court after an appellate court upheld the ban on Thursday. Paxton, along with several individual plaintiffs, filed suit after the State Fair of Texas announced in 2024 that the lawful carrying of firearms would no longer be allowed. The move came after a shooting during the fair in 2023, one that was committed by someone who couldn't legally carry a gun. The lawsuit contended that the State Fair of Texas and the City of Dallas,

Kayleigh McEnany spent the darkest days of the COVID-19 pandemic just steps from Dr. Anthony Fauci while serving as White House press secretary during President Donald Trump's first term. Now, after digging into Fauci's newly revealed diaries, she says the American people got played. "I was in the Situation Room with Dr. Fauci, I was in the Oval Office with Dr. Fauci, I had phone calls with Dr. Fauci. I spent a lot of time with this man,"[snip] while McEnany made her case publicly with real data behind her, Fauci was privately trashing the entire effort in his own diary.

To some people, the COVID era is just a mildly unpleasant memory, and they’re “over it.” I am not one of those people. The totalitarian pandemic regime that took over much of the country ruined countless lives, cost thousands their careers, and resulted in unimaginable learning loss in our children. In deep-blue places like California, COVID cultists like Gov. Gavin Newsom and LA County Department of Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer took the guidance from the CDC and former Chief Medical Advisor to the President Dr. Anthony Fauci and kept much of the state on lockdown for the better part of two years.

A Westchester County police bigwig and her ex-con hubbie chaperoned their gangbanger son to a botched hit on a rival in the Bronx – then she took over as the getaway driver, officials said Tuesday. Mount Vernon Deputy Police Commissioner Jennifer Lackard, 49, and her husband James Lackard drove their 20-year-old son Chase Lackard to Concourse on June 29 at around 11:57 a.m. and helped him plan a brazen hit right outside the Bronx Criminal Court, according to police and court records. Once there, the proud parents sat in the front of the family’s Chrysler Pacifica while their “Slutty Gang” member son opened fire with a semiautomatic out of the window

The Justice Department announced Tuesday that it has reached a $3.2 million settlement with OpenAI over allegations the company deliberately discriminated against American workers. Investigators found that OpenAI preferred temporary visa holders when filling certain high-paying technology positions. [snip] According to a DOJ press release, OpenAI failed to post some of these job openings on its public career website, even though that was its standard practice for other positions. The company also required applicants to submit paper applications by mail while allowing electronic applications for most other jobs.

The vibrant, east Asian immigrant enclave of Flushing may be New York’s medical fraud capital. A one-mile radius of the neighborhood boasts 77 Social Adult Daycares (SADCs), which bill Medicaid over $100 million a year, accounting for 14 percent of all daycare spending in the state, a Post investigation reveals. When The Post visited some of largest — which are private businesses that have claimed between $20 and 40 million from Medicaid over the last six years — many storefronts were shuttered, and those that were open had empty rooms with no patients.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is moving way past irony and taking things to an entirely new level: Lie-rony. Mamdani recently blew away political observers with his proposal to have government-backed grocery stores. New Yorkers will soon enjoy a 30 percent discount on their meat, seafood, milk, and bread — so long as they shop at a city-owned store. [snip]Now, we come to the hitch in Mamdani's program: You've got to present a government ID proving residency in order for the government to recognize your "human right" to grocery prices that are 30 percent below retail.

A heroic armed citizen tried to take out a gunman as he opened fire on an Idaho In-N-Out, according to heart-stopping video and witnesses. Harrowing footage shows a man with a handgun exchanging fire with the shooter outside the restaurant in Twin Falls, ID. Two people were killed and seven wounded. The gunman is believed to have killed himself, according to police.The actions of the good Samaritan may have saved lives by distracting the gunman long enough for diners and workers at the crowded burger joint to get away, according to Lane Koehn, who took the video from his car.

CEUTA, Spain (AP) — Spain announced it was installing a 500-meter-long (1,600-foot) containment barrier on the sea border between its North African territory of Ceuta and neighboring Morocco after between 50,000 and 60,000 migrants breached the frontier earlier this week. The death toll has climbed to 67, including some who drowned and others who were killed in a stampede to cross a breakwater barrier, the Spanish government said Saturday. A handful of exhausted migrants who swam to Ceuta’s urban Tarajal beach Saturday morning were met by soldiers who escorted them back across the border.