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Trump spent months painting New York City as a lawless disaster waiting to happen under Zohran Mamdani. The numbers just told a very different story.

Mayor Mamdani and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch announced Thursday that New York City has recorded the safest first six months of any year in its recorded history, with shootings and murders falling to all-time lows.

Overall crime dropped 5.8 percent between January 1 and June 30. Murders saw the steepest decline of any category, falling 24.7 percent from last year. The NYPD logged the fewest shooting incidents, shooting victims, and murders for the first half of any year since the department began tracking crime data in 1994.

The progress stretched across all five boroughs. The Bronx led the city with a 12 percent drop in overall crime. Robbery fell 11.9 percent, burglary dropped 15.8 percent, and car thefts declined 9.7 percent. The city hit those numbers while managing the NBA Finals, nearby World Cup matches, and a Knicks ticker-tape parade.

Mamdani said the data reflects what New Yorkers are actually feeling on their streets and subways, and that each number represents "a life untouched by violence." Tisch credited the officers on the ground, saying the historic results came from the men and women of the NYPD carrying out the strategy every day.

While Trump and his allies keep insisting that American cities need federal crackdowns, masked agents, and troops in the streets, New York just proved the opposite. Safety came from leadership, not fear. And it came under the mayor MAGA swore would destroy the city.

The Onion is turning Alex Jones' own conspiracy empire into a weapon for justice.

The satirical news site announced it will send $100,000 to the families of Sandy Hook victims, money Jones was ordered to pay years ago and never did. A court told him to hand over more than $1 billion for falsely calling the 2012 shooting a hoax. Instead, he declared bankruptcy and hid behind lawyers.

Now The Onion is stepping in where Jones failed. The money will come from sales of merchandise combining the Infowars and Onion logos in rainbow colors, a detail seemingly designed to make Jones' skin crawl.

"Don't give comedy writers a grudge for 18 months," Onion CEO Ben Collins warned.

The Onion is also launching a full Infowars parody site that mocks everything Jones built his empire on, from unhinged conspiracy theories to snake-oil supplements, including a fake "pro oxygen" pill that supposedly replaces breathing.

At its peak, Jones' operation pulled in more than $50 million a year while his followers harassed grieving Sandy Hook parents with death threats. Today, according to an attorney for the families, "all he's been left with is an iPhone and a fancy microphone."

The families' lawyer says every dime Jones makes for the rest of his life will be claimed by the people he tormented. And the families themselves, who once wanted Infowars destroyed forever, now say watching it become a force for good is even better.

Trump is livid that no one showed up to his flopped Great American State Fair, and now his own team is panicking that his massive July 4th rally is about to be an even bigger humiliation.

Multiple White House sources told CNN they are seriously worried that Saturday's rally on the National Mall will be a dud after the fair's remarkably low turnout. One official admitted that large groups of people who reserved tickets probably won't even show up, leaving Trump staring at empty seats on the country's 250th anniversary.

The conditions could not be worse. The rally is outdoors, temperatures are forecast to hit a stifling 100 degrees, attendees are banned from bringing coolers, and the fireworks display isn't scheduled to start until 11 p.m.

"I do not understand why we are doing this so late," one White House official told CNN. "I'm really not sure who thought this was a good idea."

The fair itself has been a rolling disaster, plagued by technical failures, lame programming, weather delays, and brutal reviews. Trump has raged behind closed doors and publicly lied about the visibly empty grounds.

Even his own allies are turning on each other. One person close to the White House compared the event to Trump's own Fyre Festival, noting the only difference is that people actually went to the Fyre Festival.

"The mistake here was not driving attendance," they admitted. "It was an 'if you build it, they will come' mentality that failed."

Trump spent millions of taxpayer dollars building a monument to himself on the National Mall, and America answered by staying home.

The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday to protect birthright citizenship, rejecting Donald Trump's executive order that sought to strip citizenship from children born to undocumented or temporary immigrant parents on American soil.

The decision comes on the final day of a term that had repeatedly bent toward Trump's expansive claims of presidential power, making this rare check on his authority all the more significant.

The justices reaffirmed what the 14th Amendment has guaranteed for more than 150 years, that anyone born in the United States is an American citizen, regardless of their parents' immigration status. No executive order, no presidential decree, can erase that.

Trump's order, signed in January 2025, represented one of the most brazen attempts in modern history to unilaterally rewrite the Constitution. For nearly two years, families lived with the fear that their newborns could be rendered stateless by the stroke of a pen.

That fear is over. The Court drew a clear line: the Constitution belongs to the American people, not to whoever happens to be sitting in the Oval Office.

In a term defined by Trump testing the outer limits of his power, the justices just reminded him there are still limits.

A French politician just told Americans exactly what they needed to hear after days of mockery aimed at Europe over its lack of air conditioning.

Audrey Pulvar, the deputy mayor of Paris for international relations, responded to the jokes by laying out a much bigger truth. The United States, she said, bears significant responsibility for the climate crisis fueling these deadly heatwaves in the first place.

"As the second largest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions in the world, you bear a significant amount of responsibility for global warming and the consequences we, in France, are experiencing," Pulvar wrote. "Your cities, which are 90 percent air conditioned, are not unrelated to this."

The numbers back her up. The United States produces roughly 13 percent of the world's CO2 emissions, while the 27 countries of the European Union combined produce just six percent. Last year, US coal consumption jumped 10 percent even as the world tries to pull back from fossil fuels.

The heatwave she was responding to was not a small thing. The World Health Organization linked it to more than 1,300 excess deaths across Europe, with temperatures soaring to 44 degrees Celsius in parts of France. Scientists have said the extreme heat would have been virtually impossible without human caused climate change.

Pulvar did not just push back on a joke. She pointed straight at the source of the problem and refused to let it slide.

Trump's Justice Department went 0 for 11 on Monday after a Republican-appointed federal judge in New Hampshire tossed out its lawsuit demanding access to the state's full, unredacted voter registration list.

The DOJ has been on a nationwide legal blitz, suing 30 states and Washington, D.C., demanding the private personal data of every registered voter in America. They claimed federal law required states to hand it over. Court after court has said the same thing: no, it doesn't.

Judge Joseph Laplante, a George W. Bush appointee, ruled that the DOJ's demand didn't even comply with the law it cited as justification. He dismissed the case outright.

The losses are stacking up fast. A federal judge tossed DOJ's Pennsylvania lawsuit just days earlier. Maryland was dismissed the week before. And last week, a three-judge federal appeals panel shot down DOJ's case against Michigan, ruling that the law Trump's team relied on gives them no such authority.

Eleven cases. Eleven losses. Not a single court in America has sided with the Trump DOJ on this.

What they're really after is a master list of every voter in the country, complete with sensitive personal information, with no privacy protections attached. Every court that has looked at this has seen it for what it is.

The courts are holding the line. And Trump's voter suppression machine keeps walking into walls.

A new AARP poll just rocked Ohio's race for governor, and the numbers are not what Republicans expected. Democrat Amy Acton is ahead of Vivek Ramaswamy, 47% to 44%, in a state that has voted red for governor for over a decade.

Acton is dominating with voters under 50, beating Ramaswamy by 24 points in that group and pulling independents by nearly two to one. Her base is unified behind her while Ramaswamy is struggling to even consolidate his own party.

The favorability numbers are just as brutal for him. Acton sits at a net positive rating while Ramaswamy is underwater, with independents rejecting him more than two to one. The billionaire who built his national brand on swagger cannot win over the voters who will decide this race.

Even where Ramaswamy holds an edge, the ground is shifting under him. Voters 50 and older say affordability, Social Security, and health care costs will decide their vote in November, and all Ramaswamy has offered is culture war noise.

Ohio was supposed to be an easy hold for Republicans. Instead, a former public health director has Ramaswamy on defense in his own backyard, and the panic inside his campaign is starting to show.