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Zohran Mamdani Paid Multiple Visits to Holocaust-Denying Sheikh Who Claimed Jewish Death Toll ‘Was Exaggerated’ and ‘Done By Zionists,’ Called for More ‘Study’

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New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani (D.) has developed a close relationship with an influential Muslim sheikh in Queens with a history of Holocaust denial, the Washington Free Beacon can reveal. Mamdani has met with Sheikh Fadhel Al-Sahlani, imam of the Al-Khoei Islamic Center in Jamaica, Queens, on at least three occasions since January 2025—despite

New Fed Chair Has Chance to Right-Size ‘Disaster’ of Bloated Staff

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Central banks in other countries manage with far fewer employees The nearly 25,000 employees of the Federal Reserve and its regional banks include officers serving in a special-purpose police force with its own fleet of vehicles like the one pictured here. (Free Beacon staff photo.) May 20, 2026 image/svg+xml A new chairman of the Federal

Graham Platner Disparaged Army Soldiers in Deleted Reddit Posts: ‘Full of Fat, Lazy Trash Who Would Rather Not Be in Uniform’

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Platner said the Army ‘attracts a lower standard of person’ and called military officers ‘gay’ Graham Platner (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner disparaged Army soldiers in since-deleted Reddit posts, calling the Army an “awful” organization “full of fat, lazy trash who would rather not be in uniform.” “The Army does things

Colorado Dem Uses State Capitol for Campaign Video in Apparent Violation of State Law

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Manny Rutinel, a Democrat running in a Colorado swing district, said he was “not campaigning” when he filmed a confrontation with his Republican opponent in the state capitol building, which is critical because Colorado law prohibits elected officials from using state resources, including their access to the capitol building, for campaign purposes. But Rutinel went

Michigan’s El-Sayed Endorsed ‘Reparations’ for ‘Indigenous Peoples’ in Deleted Tweet Attacking Thanksgiving

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‘Just a reminder this #Thanksgiving: This country was built on the systematic annihilation of Indigenous Peoples,’ Senate hopeful wrote Abdul El-Sayed (cropped, Bill Pugliano/Getty Images) Michigan’s left-wing Democratic Senate candidate, Abdul El-Sayed, called for reparations for Native Americans in a since-deleted social media post that criticized the holiday of Thanksgiving and said the United States

Graham Planter Smeared Murdered ‘American Sniper’ Chris Kyle in Podcast Rant, Claiming Navy SEAL Shot Innocent Civilians ‘To Get High Numbers’

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Platner aggressively disputed the idea that the SEALs he encountered in Iraq were ‘amazing heroes,’ saying ‘this is the exact opposite of my experience’ L: Chris Kyle (Flickr), R: Graham Platner (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner (D.) suggested that legendary “American Sniper” Chris Kyle shot innocent civilians in Iraq in order to