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Virginia Democrat Delegate Kathy Tran proposed a measure last week that would not only allow abortion throughout all nine months of pregnancy in the state, but would also permit a woman to decide whether she wants to “abort” her baby as she is dilating and about to give birth.

Hannah Sudlow, founder and executive director of Evelyn’s Treehouse, posted on Facebook Wednesday that news of states such as New York – that passed legislation allowing abortion up until the time of birth – “compelled” her to share her own story.

Presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is proposing a new “wealth tax” on Americans with more than $50 million in assets, along with a significant increase in funding for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), in an effort to curb income and wealth inequality in America.

National pro-life leader Lila Rose described New York State’s new law that allows abortions up until the day of birth as “barbaric and inhumane,” and “no different than infanticide.”

One World Trade Center was illuminated with pink lighting to celebrate New York’s new law designating abortion a “fundamental right.”

Democrat-led states were eager to show just how permissive they are in allowing the most abortions, without restriction, on the 46th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.

The Catholic bishops of New York State issued a statement Friday decrying new legislation proposing “abortion expansion” to a state whose abortion rate is already double the national average.

New York’s Reproductive Health Act (RHA) will make access to abortion a “fundamental right,” while expanding coverage to include late-term abortions.

New York’s state of mind was decidedly less buoyant than expected in December.

While most attention is placed on high profile potential candidates like Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) or Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), as well as former U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) and former Vice President Joe Biden, a number of other lesser-known Democrats are also looking at White House bids.

The trial of disgraced Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein has been scheduled for May 6, according to newly-obtained court documents.

Additionally, the bill eliminates any concept that an unborn baby is a “person.” The legislation ends criminal penalties for self-abortion and – in the case of an unborn baby who is the victim of a homicide – defines “person” as “a human being who has been born and is alive.”

Democrat New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo vowed on Tuesday evening to govern with a left-wing agenda in his third term, raising suspicions that the governor is boosting his national profile to prepare for a presidential run in 2020.

Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) says the Republicans in the House and Senate, as well as President Trump, ought to tie $25 billion in border wall funding to Sen. Chuck Schumer’s infrastructure plan. 

Mass deportations effectively deter the violent El Salvadoran MS-13 gang from expanding across the United States, an investigation reveals. 

A New York state Democratic senator sponsoring a bill that would require potential gun owners to submit to social media background checks told a Republican aide over Twitter on Tuesday to “kill” herself.

A federal court has ruled that New York’s ban on nunchaku violates Second Amendment rights under the Constitution.

New York State Senator Kevin Parker, a member of the Democratic Party, told a woman on Twitter to kill herself, Tuesday.

Charter Communications agreed to a record $174.2 million settlement with New York state on Tuesday in which the state claimed that the company defrauded consumers by delivering slower than average Internet speeds. 

Amazon is reportedly in a “grassroots battle” with critics of its HQ2 financial incentives in New York City and Arlington, Virginia.

A truck driver rescued two dogs on Wednesday after a motorist flung the animals from a vehicle barreling down an upstate New York highway, police said Friday.

A small newspaper in Western New York apologized for making a big mistake in a headline about actress Julia Roberts.

Incoming New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) vows to launch a widespread probe into President Trump, members of his family, and “anyone” close to him suspected of breaking the law.

Several Bloomberg L.P. executives are expected to be arrested on Tuesday after an investigation into fraud from within the company concludes.

Pedro Jimenez, a 63-year-old crew member of the top-rated Starz series Power, was reportedly killed after being hit by a car early Monday morning. 

A 22-year-old Google employee was found dead in the company’s New York City office, Friday, according to a report.

All clear given after CNN’s office in New York City was evacuated due to a bomb threat Thursday evening.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called press secretary Sarah Sanders a liar in a tweet to Sanders’ dad, former Gov. Mike Huckabee.

The number of measles-related deaths fell 80 percent between 2000 and 2017 and it had been hoped that measles might eventually be entirely eliminated. But the number of reported cases of measles surged by more than 30 percent from 2016 to 2017.

Bill Bratton, the former police chief who brought crime under control in New York, has urged British leaders to get a grip on knife crime with a return to “bobbies on the beat”.

Christmas came a little early for shoppers at one Long Island, New York, Walmart: a “Secret Santa” paid off every outstanding layaway item on file at the store.

A New York labor union published a report, Wednesday, calling out Amazon’s “deadly and dehumanizing” working conditions and accusing it of working towards “world market domination.”

Hip-hop mogul Jay-Z filed a lawsuit against the American Arbitration Association in a bid to prevent the organization from judging a trademark case, claiming the committee isn’t comprised of enough African-Americans.

A Pakistani born American citizen pled guilty on Monday to charges of defrauding numerous financial institutions in a bitcoin scheme designed to fund the Islamic State (ISIS.)

A vehicle struck a group of pedestrians in downtown Manhattan Monday evening, killing one and injuring at least five people, say reports.

On Friday, Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) reacted to a report from the federal government on climate change and called on the United States to address the matter, saying, “we must make it urgent.”