December, 2019

The current system amounts to a giant giveaway for gentrifiers, Staten Island Councilman Joe Borelli told The Post. “People are just getting fed up with the loophole, and they’re demanding action,” the GOP politician added. The bipartisan coalition also includes Park Slope Democrat Brad Lander and Bay Ridge Democrat Justin Brannan.

They’re backing a resolution that calls on state lawmakers to change the tax law to require new homebuyers to pay property taxes on the market rate instead of the heavily discounted assessed value...

Wages for nonsupervisory employees — who make up 82% of the workforce — are rising at the fastest rate in more than a decade... Pay rates the bottom 25% of wage earners rose 4.5% in November from a year earlier, while wages for the top 25% of earners rose only 2.9%, per data from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. The bank also found that the rate of pay rises for low-skilled workers matched those for high-skilled workers last month for the first time since 2010.

According to the filing, the DOJ is seeking a one week delay, from Dec 30th to January 6th, in order to gather more material for a new sentencing memorandum. Due to Flynn’s non-cooperation, it is anticipated the DOJ will enhance the prior memo from December 2018 and ask for a more severe sentence...

Bauernfeind was made permanent CFO of Domino's back in October 2018, and also gained an executive director position on the company's board...

Maddow began using the dossier to smear Trump in March of 2017... An emboldened Maddow claimed that while the "baseline" dossier claim that Trump colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election had yet to be proven, "all the supporting details are checking out, even the really outrageous ones."... Based on the conclusions reached by both the FBI and DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz, Maddow was peddling conspiracy theories... "She seemed to be rooting for the document" ... Maddow ignored that the Mueller report debunked the dossier's key allegation a literal conspiracy theory... And while Wemple says these are legitimate points, Maddow's track record on the dossier is abysmal...

The settlement represents a chance at a fresh start, but Zernhelt said the compensation funds also allow the dioceses to get off easy. “I feel that it’s a shield for the church to get a discount on paying the victims,” he said...

Overall retail sales grew 3.4% year-over-year while online sales spiked 18.8% over the same period, the report said.

After realizing the cyber attack, Upbit transferred the funds from the hot wallets to the cold wallets, thus preventing the attack from reaching much more grave dimensions. Stating that they provide information to the necessary units about the incident, the South Korean company said that the transactions on the stock exchange were suspended for at least two weeks. Thus, Upbit became the eighth crypto money exchange in 2019, which suffered the wrath of hackers...

• Flamur 'Alex' Beqiri, 36, was shot up to ten times in hit outside £1.5m home
• He was as pronounced dead at the scene despite treatment from his neighbours
• No arrests made, detectives have launched 146th 2019 murder probe in London
• Flamur was named as one of Sweden's most wanted men by police in 2008
• He moved to UK in 2016 where he worked as a record label boss in south London
• His sister is Real Housewives of Cheshire star, model and ex-WAG Missé Beqiri

Rev Jonathan Fletcher, 77, was banned from preaching after it emerged that he had "spiritually abused" vulnerable adults at the London church where he used to minister, the Daily Telegraph revealed in June.

Now five alleged victims - all men who wish to remain anonymous - have come forwards to detail the spiritual, psychological and physical abuse they claim to have suffered. ..

"This is a message to Christians all over the world," says a masked man from the Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP), in the 56-second clip released the Amaq news agency, a platform for Islamic State propaganda.

"We killed them as revenge for the killing of our leaders, including Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and [IS spokesman] Abul-Hasan al-Muhajir."...

Though this is the first time the FBI has confirmed that it's actively investigating Maxwell, AG Bill Barr's insistence that the case would focus on those who enabled or abetted Epstein led many to suspect that Maxwell would be the next logical target.

That's because she has been accused in court filings of organizing a sex-trafficking ring that helped bring beautiful young girls to Epstein's expansive Manhattan townhouse...

• The DOJ and Betsey DeVos have spoken out against a Mississippi community college accused of threatening to arrest students for attempting to discuss marijuana legalization on campus.
• The school defended itself to Campus Reform, insisting that the allegations are “unproven.”

The reporter added that the clashes also resulted in killing a number of terrorists and injuring others, in addition to destroying their equipment and vehicles while the whole remnant groups fled away towards Ma’aret al-Nu’aman...

Sima Duvdevani, head of the Foriegn Ministry’s department for Israelis aboard, told Channel 12 that the smuggling trend is found in almost every European country and that large amounts of khat are involved... “Today, we understand that the Europeans aren’t so forgiving of the phenomenon,” she said. “We are talking about more lengthy prison sentences of three or four months, half a year.” Israelis have been jailed in Britain, France, Germany and other countries. One Israeli citizen has been sentenced to ten years in prison in Turkey, Duvdevani said...

The results showed extremely high-fidelity quantum teleportation of 91%. In addition, the team was able to demonstrate some other important functionality of their designs, such as entanglement swapping (required for quantum repeaters and quantum networks) and four-photon GHZ states (required in quantum computing and the quantum internet)...