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NJ Transit Cuts World Cup Train Fare After Backlash Over $150 Ticket Price After getting roasted over its $150 World Cup train fare, NJ Transit is backing off, lowering the roundtrip ticket to $105 for rides between Penn Station and MetLife Stadium, according to Bloomberg. The agency had defended the original price as necessary to handle massive game-day crowds, with roughly 40,000 extra riders expected per match. That explanation didn’t land well, considering the same trip usually costs about $13. Bloomberg writes that Mikie Sherrill pushed for a cheaper option and told the...

Swalwell Admitted To Fang-Banging 'Rusty Thumbs' Amid FBI Investigation Into Illegal Donations: Docs The FBI spent months trying to turn a suspected Chinese intelligence operative into a confidential informant, then shut the effort down and opened a criminal investigation into the California congressman she had been sleeping with. FBI files declassified by President Donald Trump and released by the White House Government Transparency Task Force detail the decade-old relationship between former Rep. Eric Swalwell and Christine Fang, known as Fang Fang (FBI codename 'Rusty Thumbs'), who the bureau assessed was likely...

“Freedom has more often been lost in small steps by progressive incrementalism, than it has been by catastrophic upheavals such as violence or war.” — James Madison (1751-1836) Last week, the US Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which covers Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, ruled that the problem of undocumented immigrants in the […]