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Young illegal immigrants in big blue city get out of jail free after feral attacks

Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan prison gang whose name means Train of Aragua, is putting the loco in locomotive with a New York City robbery spree that sees its young members repeatedly stay out of jail.

Juvenile illegal immigrants in the gang have been attacking people in the Big Apple’s famed Times Square and other landmark locations but remain free due to the Empire State’s lenient laws on juvenile crime, according to the NYPD’s Detective Bureau Assistant Chief Jason Savino.

“It’s shocking to say the least, and we’ve seen a progression with this group,” Savino told “Fox & Friends” Tuesday morning.

The suspects, some as young as 11, are being housed in the former Roosevelt Hotel, which the city converted into a migrant shelter after an influx of border crossings thousands of miles away, the New York Post reported earlier this week.

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The suspected gang members have been postioning pictures and videos of their guns online, according to investigators.

“We know they have access to guns, evident by the fact that they’ve done gunpoint robberies, and they’ve been brazen enough to showcase pistols in and around their social media,” Savino told the paper. 

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The Roosevelt Hotel closed its doors on 45h Street in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic before reopening as a migrant shelter. Nearby, the Row NYC hotel is in a similar state. Outside both, loitering migrants have been photographed taking drugs and alcohol as a migrant-fueled “crime wave” overtook the city.

“This is the first formulated group that we found where this group of about 20 individuals that, in pack format, hang out every day, they post on social media, they boast about their crew,” Savino added. “You see little pockets in and around Times Square and in and around the shelters.”

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The 20 members of a subset of the gang, calling itself “Los Diablos de lat 42” in reference to New York’s 42nd Street, have been arrested in connection with 50 separate crimes, according to Savino.

“When they first came, they were actually encouraged not to commit crimes, so they stuck to pickpockets, then they graduated to snatches, soon after scooter crime,” Savino told Fox News. “Why? Because their original criminality did not have consequences.”

He blamed New York’s lenient treatment of juveniles and even adult criminal suspects for failing to deter the gang from getting worse. 

“The individuals that actually engage in that criminality become empowered,” he said. 

The worst attacks, he said, are called “wolfpack robberies,” when five or more suspects surround tourists and shake them down for their belongings. Some involve guns, while others involve knives.

Despite the uphill battle keeping juvenile suspects locked up, Savino said his team continues to make arrests and gather evidence.

“We’re labeled the greatest detectives in the world for good reason,” he told Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade. “They come back with that frustration. What do we do? We regroup. We build even better cases.”

Nearly 200,000 asylum-seeking migrants have arrived in the Big Apple over the past year, according to city officials. More than half are expected to have their claims denied, but until that happens, they are technically considered in the U.S. legally.

As migrants continue to pour across the southern border, the Tren de Aragua prison gang has expanded from its base in Venezuela into numerous U.S. cities, including New York and Chicago. The gang has also been linked to small town crimes, including in Aurora, Colorado, and Athens, Georgia, where the suspect in the murder of nursing student Laken Riley has been linked to suspected members.

The gang was blamed for an explosive rise in cellphone and purse robberies in New York City earlier this year.

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Now, members are growing more brazen, conducting gunpoint robberies, boasting on social media, and remaining out of jail as juvenile suspects are not held in custody, Savino told the Post.

Tren de Aragua, or TdA, began in a Venezuelan prison and spread through parts of South and Central America before entering the U.S.

The criminal organization has been known to recruit members from migrant shelters and recently has been accused of recruiting kids from Texas middle schools.

Bill Maher says what he will do if former President Trump wins the 2024 election

Liberal talk show host Bill Maher said he wasn’t worried that former President Trump would win the 2024 race or target him if he returned to the White House, saying he’s not letting himself panic about the election, this time around.

On his “Club Random” podcast on Sunday, Maher debated his guest, Dr. Phil McGraw, on a variety of topics, including illegal immigration, anti-Israel extremism on college campuses, and the current polarization in America. At one point, Dr. Phil addressed Maher’s strong feelings about the former president, asking the liberal host what he would do, “if Trump wins.”

“Nothing,” Maher replied. “Nothing. Going on with my show and making jokes at his expense every week.”

“And that’s why this is a great country. Because as crazy as he is, you know, he didn’t do anything about it the first time. So I’m just not going to lose my nervous system about it,” he continued.

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Maher immediately went on to clarify that he still believes the former president is capable of imprisoning his critics.

“Now, he could. He’s insane, so he could start sending people to Guantánamo Bay. I don’t put anything past this guy,” Maher continued. 

“He thinks they’re eating the cats and the dogs. But am I going to worry about it? First of all, I’m not going to worry about it, Phil, because he’s not going to win,” Maher argued.

Following the presidential debate in September, Maher confidently predicted that Trump’s election chances were “over” and Vice President Kamala Harris would win the November election. 

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“I’ve been known as a Trump alarmist, and now I’m saying I’m not even nervous,” he told Dr. Phil on the podcast.

“It’s going to be close. The polls will be dead even on Election Day,” he said.

Maher argued that Americans had become fatigued by the former president over the years and had reached a breaking point.

“We’re talking about a few hundred thousand people perhaps, but I think it’s going to be a little closer than that,” he said about the razor-thin race.

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Back in March, Maher said he would do “everything he can” to stop Trump from winning in November.

At the time, he was uncertain if President Biden or Trump would win the election. He quipped Trump would either “blow up the world or put me in Guantánamo Bay or whatever,” if re-elected, adding “but I just cannot worry about it constantly.”

With just over three weeks to go until Election Day, a trio of new national polls suggest Trump is erasing gains made by Harris the last couple of months since she replaced Biden atop the Democrats’ 2024 ticket.

Harris edged Trump 50%-48% among likely voters questioned in an ABC News/Ipsos poll, down from a six-point lead for the vice president last month.

The two candidates are deadlocked at 48%, according to a NBC News poll of registered voters nationwide, after Harris enjoyed a five-point advantage a month ago.

Additionally, a CBS News/YouGov nonprobability based survey of likely voters indicated Harris with a three-point edge over Trump, slightly down from a four-point advantage a month ago.

Aaron Rodgers to reportedly reunite with top NFL receiver as Jets pull off blockbuster trade

The New York Jets have made shocking moves in back-to-back weeks.

Following a loss to the Buffalo Bills, the Jets are reportedly finalizing a deal to acquire Las Vegas Raiders star Davante Adams and add to a wide receiving corps that already included Garrett Wilson and Mike Williams.

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ESPN and NFL Network reported the Raiders will receive a conditional third-round draft pick that could turn into a second-round draft pick.

Adams requested a trade from the Raiders earlier this month as his disgruntled demeanor became more apparent on game days. He sat out the last few games with Las Vegas due to a hamstring injury while the team went from Gardner Minshew as its starter quarterback to Aidan O’Connell.

Las Vegas acquired Adams from the Green Bay Packers before the start of the 2022 season, ending his time with Aaron Rodgers, who is now the Jets quarterback. He had a Pro Bowl season in his first year with the Raiders, leading the NFL in touchdown catches (14).

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But as the Raiders switched coaches, quarterbacks and offensive playbooks, Adams did his darndest to play to the best of his ability. In 2023, he had 103 catches for 1,144 yards and eight touchdown catches. He wasn’t selected to the Pro Bowl

This season, Adams has 18 catches for 209 yards and a touchdown.

Rodgers and Adams built up a great rapport in Green Bay. From 2017 to 2021, Adams was a Pro Bowler and made First Team All-Pro twice.

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New York will have more firepower for the offense.

Swing state election officials must certify results even if they suspect fraud, judge rules

A judge in a key battleground state has ruled that county election officials must certify results by the legal deadline even if they suspect fraud or mistakes.

Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney of Fulton County, Georgia, ruled that “no election superintendent (or member of a board of elections and registration) may refuse to certify or abstain from certifying election results under any circumstance.” 

The officials do have the right to investigate their concerns about the vote count and to review related documents, McBurney wrote, but “any delay in receiving such information is not a basis for refusing to certify the election results or abstaining from doing so.”

Election results must be certified by Georgia’s individual counties by 5 p.m. the Monday or Tuesday after the race.

The ruling was handed down the same day Peach State residents head to the polls for early in-person voting, which runs from Oct. 15 through Nov. 1.

The suit was filed by Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections member Julie Adams and backed by America First Policy Institute, a conservative group aligned with former President Donald Trump.

Adams had voted against certifying the presidential primary results in May. She then sued the Fulton County elections board, arguing she was not able to fulfill her duties as a superintendent after a documents request was denied, and that she was within her rights to not certify the results. 

Adams had requested further documentation related to the election, ahead of the certification deadline, to confirm accuracy of the results. Fellow county officials denied her request, however, arguing that certification was a mandatory facet of her role and that the request was outside her scope of duties.

Her other colleagues on the panel voted to certify the primary results.

In his ruling, McBurney wrote that nothing in Georgia law gives county election officials the authority to determine that fraud has occurred or what should be done about it.

Instead, he wrote, the law says a county election official’s “concerns about fraud or systemic error are to be noted and shared with the appropriate authorities but they are not a basis for a superintendent to decline to certify.”

Georgia, a swing state that President Biden won by less than 1% in 2020, is a hotbed for election lawsuits as Republican and Democratic officials battle over voter access and election security there and in other battlegrounds.

There are multiple lawsuits challenging a new measure passed by the State Board of Elections that would require county officials to hand-count ballots after they are tabulated by a machine on election night.

Trump lawyers request criminal case be moved to federal court after SCOTUS ruling

Lawyers for former President Donald Trump on Tuesday again requested that his New York criminal case be transferred to federal court, citing the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling and arguing that he cannot be prosecuted for official acts he performed as president. 

Trump’s lawyers first requested in August to shift New York v. Trump to federal court, but U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein rejected the request in September. 

Trump’s attorneys are arguing that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office “violated the Presidential immunity doctrine in grand jury proceedings, and again at trial, by relying on evidence of President Trump’s official acts during his first term in Office.” 

Trump lawyers argued that the “use of official-acts evidence in grand jury proceedings and at trial violated the Constitution and threatens the ability of all future Presidents to fulfill that role.”

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Bragg charged Trump with 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. Trump pleaded not guilty. 

A Manhattan jury found the former president guilty on all counts during an unprecedented six-week trial in New York City earlier this year. 

Trump’s attorneys have already moved to appeal the verdict. 

Trump attorney Todd Blanche said the verdict should be overturned, also citing the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity granting presidents limited immunity for official acts.

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In his arguments for dismissal, Blanche argued that Bragg offered official acts as evidence during the six-week-long unprecedented criminal trial. Blanche said that included official White House communications with staffers like Hope Hicks, Madeleine Westerhout and others. 

The Supreme Court ruled in Trump v. United States that a former president has substantial immunity from prosecution for official acts in office but not for unofficial acts. The high court said Trump is immune from criminal prosecution for “official acts” but left it to the lower court to determine exactly where the line between official and unofficial is.

Judge Juan Merchan will also now make a decision on Nov. 12 on Trump’s motion to vacate.

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Trump’s initial sentencing was set for July 11 — just days before the Republican National Convention, where he was set to be formally nominated as the 2024 GOP presidential nominee, but Merchan agreed to delay that until Sept. 18. 

Last month, Merchan granted Trump’s request to delay sentencing until after the presidential election. The sentencing is now scheduled for Nov. 26. 

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Pharmacy giant to close over one thousand locations across US as new CEO takes charge

Walgreens plans to close at least 1,200 stores over the next three years as the pharmacy giant seeks to reduce costs and turn around operations under a new leader. 

One of the largest drugstore chains in the country, Walgreens said it was targeting 900 to 1,000 stores primarily across the U.S. by the end of fiscal year 2027, which is part of the company’s “multi-year footprint optimization program.” About 500 stores are slated to close as early as fiscal year 2025.

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In June, the company had announced its intention to close a “significant” number of underperforming stores across the U.S. as it contended with profitability challenges and declining margins. But CEO Tim Wentworth, who took over in October 2023, didn’t give an estimate at the time of how many stores would be affected. He noted that a “meaningful percent” of the underperforming locations would shutter. 

Wentworth said in June that there is a “difficult operating environment, including persistent pressures on the U.S. consumer and the impact of recent marketplace dynamics which have eroded pharmacy margins.”

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In its latest earnings report on Tuesday, Wentworth said that the company’s fiscal fourth-quarter and full-year results “reflected our disciplined execution on cost management.” 

Walgreens reported revenue of $37.55 billion for the fiscal fourth quarter, up 6% from the same period a year ago and beating Wall Street estimates of $35.75 billion. 

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The company also reported a net loss of $3 billion, or $3.48 per share, for the quarter. 

Shares of Walgreens Boost Alliance rose more than 4% in premarket trading on Tuesday.

In fiscal 2025, Wentworth said Walgreens plans to focus “on stabilizing the retail pharmacy by optimizing our footprint, controlling operating costs, improving cash flow, and continuing to address reimbursement models to support dispensing margins and preserve patient access for the future.”