NYC Teachers Union Sues Mayor Over Planned Budget Cuts; Deputy AG Warns of Threats of Terrorism

New York City’s teachers union sued Mayor Eric Adams on Dec. 21 to block his plan to cut $550 million from the city’s public schools. Adams has argued that slashing city spending is necessary to offset the rising costs of New York’s illegal immigrant crisis.

Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said on Dec. 21 that the FBI has investigated more than 1,800 reports or tips of terrorism threats related to the Israel–Hamas war. The FBI is concerned about individual bad actors that could carry out an attack on their own—and foreign terrorists that could potentially have slipped across the southern border.

House Republicans have released new records that they say show President Joe Biden was complicit in his son Hunter Biden's global influence-peddling scheme. Joe Biden allegedly exchanged emails with Eric Schwerin—a business associate of Hunter Biden—over 300 times during his term as vice president.