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A 27-year-old man was arrested Thursday after New York City police said officers were hurt when they were pelted with snow and ice during a massive snowball fight in Washington Square Park this week. The New York Police Department said in a brief social media post the man was arrested for “assaulting our officers.” A spokesperson for the department said it did not immediately have additional information, including what the man was charged with. Information on whether the man had an attorney was not available following his arrest. The arrest came after Monday's snowball fight, which appeared to be organized by social media content producers, caused a chaotic scene as a large crowd amassed at the popular park to wing snowballs at each other during a winter storm. Police said officers arrived at the park after a 911 call about a disorderly group there. A video shows two officers getting bombarded by snowballs as a rowdy crowd yells and films with their phones. The officers shoved at least two people to the ground as they paced a walkway in the park while getting hit from all directions by snowballs. The department said multiple officers were hit in the face with snowballs, and a spokesperson for the union has said two police officers were treated at a nearby hospital for face, head and neck injuries. Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a Democrat, played down the fracas as a “snowball fight that got out of hand” and suggested he did not think criminal charges were warranted. The city's police department has pursued the matter, releasing images of four people it said it was searching for. Jessica Tisch, the police commissioner, has called the snowball fight “disgraceful” and “criminal.”

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A massive post-blizzard snowball fight in New York that ended in police officers being pelted is creating a frosty dispute between Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his own police department. Mamdani has downplayed the fracas in Washington Square Park as kids simply having some fun. The New York Police Department and its leader, Jessica Tisch, are taking it more seriously. The department is searching for four people — and has begun circulating pictures of them — after it said officers were hurt by hurled snow and ice at Monday's event, which was organized by social media content producers. Mamdani, meanwhile, suggested he doesn't believe criminal charges are warranted. “I’ve said time and time again that, having seen these videos, to me it was a snowball fight that got out of hand and it should be treated accordingly,” he told reporters Wednesday when asked if anyone should be prosecuted. Tisch denounced the incident as “disgraceful” and “criminal.” The union representing patrol officers quickly seized on the incident as evidence that respect for officers has declined under the new mayor. “This was not just a ‘snowball fight.’ This was an assault,” the Police Benevolent Association said in a statement. It was unclear whether the episode could snowball into a larger political headache for Mamdani, who came into office under scrutiny from all sides because of his past criticisms of the police department. Monday’s snowball fight drew a big crowd to Washington Square Park as a massive storm blanketed the Northeast, causing a chaotic scene as young people chucked snowballs around one of the city’s landmark parks. As many parents know, snowball fights, by their nature, often end in tears or fights. People can get carried away. Not everyone wants a face full of snow. At one point, videos posted on social media showed, two officers who entered the park began to get pelted with snowballs from seemingly all directions, covering them in snow as they paced a walkway. The officers pushed at least two people to the ground as snowballs flew by and attendees filmed with their phones. One officer’s face appeared to be reddened and he could be seen rubbing his eye. Additional videos showed people throwing snowballs at other officers who were on the street just outside the park. The police department later released a statement saying multiple officers were struck in the face with snowballs. A spokesperson for the union said two police officers were treated at a nearby hospital for face, head and neck injuries. The reactions over this week’s snowball fight were similar to those that followed a 2019 episode during a heat wave, when boisterous young people engaged in water fights were recorded on video tossing water at police officers. Those dousings also prompted outrage from police leaders — who decried it as an inexcusable sign of disrespect, and even suggested that officers willing to walk away from that kind of horseplay should consider another line of work. Tuesday evening, the police department released images of four people it’s searching for in connection with the incident while asking the public for help identifying them. The pictures were released just hours after Mamdani downplayed the dustup at an unrelated news conference earlier in the day. Mamdani on Wednesday said he has been in touch with Tisch and that he appreciated the work she is doing but sidestepped questions about their opposing positions on the snowball fight. During his campaign, Mamdani, a progressive Democrat, apologized for language he'd previously used to describe the police department, once referring it to it in a social media post as “racist, anti-queer & a major threat to public safety.” And he upset some of his supporters on the left when he retained Tisch, an establishment moderate, as police commissioner, signaling that he was pursuing a measured approach to law enforcement.

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Bill and Hillary Clinton are slated to testify this week in a House investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, part of a deal with Republicans after it became clear that Congress — with the help of some Democrats — was on track to hold them in contempt if they refused to cooperate. For the battle-hardened couple, it amounts to one more Washington brawl. And like so many of the battles that came before, this one is another mix of questionable judgment, sexual impropriety, money and power.

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Today, Josh recaps President Trump’s State of the Union address, breaking down the biggest highlights from Tuesday night and evaluating what the president got right. He also discusses where Democrats, in his view, once again fell short — particularly their reaction to several of the guests in attendance. Josh asks why many Democrats chose not to stand during moments he believes were meant to unite the country rather than divide it, and what that response says about the current political climate. Later, Josh is joined by FCC Chairman Brendan Carr to discuss why the agency has been in the news recently and to clarify where critics in the media and on the Left may be getting it wrong when it comes to the FCC’s role in regulating the broadcast industry.

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The Trump administration has hit Iran with a new round of sanctions. The newly imposed sanctions are aimed at people and companies accused of enabling Iran’s ballistic missile program, drone production, and illicit oil sales. They come as the Trump administration presses Iran to make a deal ahead of nuclear talks scheduled for Thursday in Geneva, and as the U.S. builds up its largest military presence in the region in decades.

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