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On Wednesday, I traveled to the Pnyx, a hillside overlooking the towering columns of the Acropolis in Athens. There, I delivered a simple message: The West is at a crossroads. The decisions we make in the next decade will define the next century – and determine whether our civilization maintains its place at the head of the world, or resigns itself to a future of servitude and decline.

For thousands of years, the Parthenon has stood as a testament to the Western spirit, captivating the imagination of our civilization’s artists, philosophers, and statesmen. The American Founding Fathers were fascinated by classical antiquity: The most commonly cited author in the Federalist Papers was Plutarch, the Greek biographer of Greece and Rome’s greatest men. The legacy of ancient Greece is carved into the architecture of our capital city itself, immediately visible in the famous columns and domes of Washington, D.C.

We all know the familiar history. Athens gave us democracy. Plato and Aristotle gave us Western philosophy. The Greek city-states shaped our ideas of citizenship, law and republican government.

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But our debt to Greece runs deeper than any particular political system or theory.

Ancient Greece was the birthplace of all the essential qualities that would come to define the West: fierce individuality and relentless ambition; restless curiosity, creativity, and invention; an insatiable desire for adventure, glory, and exploration, straining to test the limits of what man can know and do.

What the West inherited from classical Greece is not just the ambition to explore the unknown; it is the conviction that the unknown can be known. 

The Greeks believed the world could be observed, measured, mapped and understood. That conviction became the foundation of Western science, medicine and philosophy. It prepared the fertile soil for Christianity to take root and flourish into European Christendom, and helped form a civilization with a distinctive understanding of truth, virtue, beauty, duty and the natural order – carrying a code that dictates how men ought to live, and objective standards and ideals to strive towards.

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The ancient Greeks organized their civic life around the pursuit of those ideals. They believed men should strive and compete for excellence in athletics, war, art, philosophy, statecraft and every other field of human endeavor. The classical Greek city was an arena for great men to test and prove themselves through perpetual contest and struggle – to be the best, the strongest, the most beautiful, straining to surpass all those that came before.

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These are the qualities that shaped the West, pushing its descendants to create and achieve things that others could not – distinguishing us from the many cultures of the world where stability and subsistence were the highest ends of life.

But today, too much of the West has come to feel ashamed of the very things that made us exceptional. Over time, we began to view our achievements as an embarrassment; our power and prosperity became a source of guilt. So we opened our borders, outsourced our once-great industries, and allowed our militaries to wither and decay. And with every passing year, we transferred more of our sovereignty to global bureaucracies beyond our control.

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Other nations were all too happy to fill the vacuum left by our weakness. They continued competing for territory, resources and influence, building up their own wealth and power in our stead.

Today, we find ourselves at an inflection point – not just in the United States, but across the whole of Western civilization.

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Under President Donald Trump, the United States has chosen to take back control of our national destiny: rebuilding our defense, reindustrializing our economy, and fighting to dominate the technologies and industries that will define the future.

It is our sincere hope that the rest of the West will choose the same path.

There are encouraging signs across Europe. Defense spending is rising. Manufacturing and industrial capacity are returning to the center of political debate. European nations are beginning to recognize that sovereignty, borders, and military power are not relics of an irrelevant past, but prerequisites for a decent future.

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We do not believe the transatlantic friendship should be zero-sum. Quite the opposite: our vision is of an alliance whose strength is greater than the sum of its parts. We are many nations, but one civilization – born in Athens, forged in Rome, baptized in Christendom. Together, we must build an alliance capable of confronting the threats of our age.

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To do so, we must rediscover the spirit of the men who built the Parthenon, and rekindle the fire that was first lit in Athens millennia ago.

Ancient Greece does not just offer a glimpse of our institutions in their earliest form; it shows us an image of ourselves.

It shows us that ours is the inheritance of great heroes, and that we should be proud – fiercely proud – of where we came from. The story of our civilization is the greatest story ever known to man. But we must fight to defend it. 

Together, the nations of the West can choose to reject decline, defend our shared heritage, and defeat the dangers of our time.

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A former Missouri probation and parole officer who later worked at a state correctional center allegedly killed his wife in front of some of his children, even making some of the youngsters help him abuse their mother.

Jonathan G. Houston, 44, was arrested after one of his children called 911 from a hotel and discreetly whispered to dispatchers that her father had "captured" her and her six siblings and had physically abused them for years, according to charging documents, KOMU reported.

Deputies responded to the report and found the children on Sunday at the Baymont Inn & Suites in Kingdom City.

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One of the children told the deputies that their father had strangled their mother while some of the children were present 10 months earlier, according to the documents. Another child, who also recalled witnessing the strangulation, said her father told her he planned to kill her mother, who was later identified by deputies as 37-year-old Aunika C. Houston.

During that attack, Houston was allegedly gripping his wife by the throat when he forced one child to pour hot water down the woman's legs and another child to cover her mouth to muffle her screams, the documents show.

Houston had locked his three youngest children in the bathroom and instructed the children in the room to play loud music, so others could not hear their mother's screams, according to court records, KOMU reported.

The man allegedly put his wife’s body in a trash bag and threw it into a dumpster on the hotel's property.

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The woman was never reported missing after the killing.

"Aunika Houston was originally from the State of California and is believed to have been residing in the Central Missouri area for the past several years. Her next of kin has been notified," the Callaway County Sheriff’s Office said in a press release.

Houston allegedly admitted to investigators that he killed his wife and had planned the killing in advance, according to the charging documents.

"There is no danger to the community. This seems to be an act of domestic violence and it's very unfortunate for everybody involved," Chief Deputy of the Callaway County Sheriff’s Office Curtis Hall told KOMU.

"At this point we’re 48 hours afterwards on a crime that we’re already 10 months behind on," Hall said. "We have to be mindful of what we can release and what we should release."

Houston was charged with first-degree murder and first-degree kidnapping. He is being held without bond.

His children were taken into protective custody, deputies said.

He is also being investigated in connection with an alleged sexual assault and assaults involving other victims, according to deputies.

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A group of anti-Israel protesters on Wednesday targeted New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, calling him a "traitor," accusing him of "genocide" and claiming he "cannot weaponize being brown anymore."

The crowd of more than 100 demonstrators marched from City Hall to Union Square, where a vigil was held to mark the anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terror attacks in Israel. The vigil was organized as an evening of mourning for those killed in the Oct. 7 attacks and the bloodshed that followed, including Israelis and Palestinians.

The anti-Israel crowd was just outside the barricades of the Israelis for Peace Vigil, beating on drums and attempting to drown out the speakers, according to City & State New York.

Mamdani was at the vigil and held a candle as protesters threw various insults at him, including accusations of genocide and "selling all your people out."

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"Zohran, what do you say? How many kids did you kill today?" the protesters shouted, according to the outlet.

"700,000 dead. Mamdani, your hands are red!" they also chanted.

"Traitor, traitor, come on out! You sold all your people out!" the group was also heard chanting.

The crowd also shouted: "Zohran, you can’t hide. We charge you with genocide!"

"We don’t care about where you’re from. You cannot talk about being Muslim anymore. You cannot weaponize being brown anymore. Identity politics can only get you so far," they said.

One protester also claimed to be a former intern for Mamdani, saying the mayor "was never working for the people."

Protesters also demanded that Mamdani take action against New York real-estate events that have marketed properties in Israeli settlements in the West Bank, which the demonstrators characterize as "stolen" Palestinian land, according to City & State New York.

"Mayor Mamdani, take a stand. Stop the sale of stolen land," the group chanted.

The protesters also called for abolishing the City University of New York's Board of Trustees, whose members are largely appointed by the mayor and governor. Protesters have previously accused the board of ignoring demands to divest investments linked to Israel and criticized its handling of anti-Israel demonstrations on campus.

Despite the protesters' accusations of genocide on Wednesday, Mamdani is a longtime critic of the Israeli government's actions in Gaza and has denounced its treatment of Palestinians in the aftermath of the 2023 attack.

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In a statement on Wednesday, Mamdani condemned Hamas’ attack as a "horrific war crime" while also characterizing Israel’s subsequent military operation as a genocide.

"The suffering did not begin nor end that day," he wrote. "It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians — including more than 21,000 children."

Israel has rejected accusations that it is committing genocide in Gaza, saying its military targets Hamas and other terrorist groups while seeking to minimize civilian casualties.

The mayor's statement sparked bipartisan backlash, with Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., calling it "egregious and insulting."

"There are 364 days of the year to focus on that. This is a day that should just be focused on what was by all agreement a horrific terror attack," Goldman, who is Jewish, told Politico. "What the mayor’s statement did today was to blame Israelis for the attack that they suffered three years ago. Regardless of what you actually think of the conflict and what’s happened either since or before, there’s no excuse for victim blaming."

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The Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023, involved more than 6,000 Hamas and related military operatives. The massive damage inflicted by these demons caused a countersurge of angels released by God. There were miraculous recoveries and narrow escapes in the wake of these attacks, as well as good-versus-evil events that continue to this day.

On September 30, 2026, Flydubai Flight FZ1073 (note the coincidence — three years after 10/7) was nearly destroyed by evil as co-pilot Hamam al Hamami, a reported radical extremist, repeatedly attacked the pilot, only to be sidelined himself by several passengers, including a plumber, a dentist (who saved the pilot’s life by treating his wounds) and two off-duty pilots who happened to be on board. The angels of Flight FZ1073 saved not only the pilot but the plane and its passengers. They are messengers from God.

Miracles are often an accumulation of meaningful coincidences guided by messengers. In my new book, "The Angels Among Us," I tell the story of an Israeli medic named Shlomi who, a few weeks before October 7, 2023, gets a question wrong on a paramedic test about the application of combat gauze to a high thigh wound. 

He studies his mistake until he becomes an expert on combat gauze. On January 11, 2024, the 55th Paratroopers Brigade is planning an incursion into Gaza in search of hostages. It is the 99th day of the war. Bezalel is an intelligence officer, drawing up a map with a photograph and a number on each building to help plan rescue operations. "I make a mistake in the number on one of the buildings. I give it the wrong number on the map in terms of the order… One officer peers at the sheet particularly closely. I have no idea at the moment about the role he will play in my survival."

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The officer figures out the right number for the building, and Bezalel corrects it on the map. "This particular building remains etched in his mind." Shlomi is supposed to go on vacation but has a premonition and stays with his troop, the 55th Paratroopers Brigade.

The next day, they conduct an infantry raid on the city of Khan Yunis in Gaza. Bezalel is inside a building, and as he passes near a window, an explosive is detonated outside. "There is shrapnel in my left leg, up at the beginning of the leg, and it damages the biggest blood vessel in my leg, the femoral artery, and there is no way to stop the blood, no tourniquet can help."

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Shlomi happens to be only five meters away from Bezalel. He successfully applies the combat gauze to save Bezalel’s life. He succeeds because he got the test question wrong and memorized the correct answer. The building they are in is the one that Bezalel mislabeled on the map of the area. The officer who comes to rescue Bezalel in the Humvee is the same one who corrected the number on the map. As a result, he gets there in time to save Bezalel’s life.

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Bezalel is taken by helicopter to Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, where a team of highly trained surgeons operates on his artery. Afterward, he fights for his life in the ICU, followed by a long rehab process. Bezalel encounters God’s messengers every step of the way.

Many other miracles have taken place in Gaza since the start of the October 7 war. I have discovered countless examples of physical and psychological recovery among severely wounded soldiers and civilians in hospitals in Israel, thanks to courage combined with advanced medical care. Perhaps most striking is the story of one soldier who reportedly had a bullet stopped by a book of Psalms he was carrying in his vest.

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A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration's attempts to fine migrants up to $1.8 million for failing to leave the country after receiving final deportation orders.

U.S. District Judge George O'Toole in Boston issued the ruling on Monday in response to a class-action lawsuit filed last year by two of the thousands of migrants who have received civil penalties from the Department of Homeland Security.

The judge granted preliminary relief to the plaintiffs, finding that the administration's process for imposing the fines violated federal law, and that migrants in the  "economically precarious position" of addressing the fines could be pushed into "insolvency."

"The plaintiffs live in an economically precarious position even without the imposition of the government’s exorbitant fines," he wrote.

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"They face the possible garnishment of their already modest wages, loss of any vehicles and homes, federal collections lawsuits and other adverse collateral consequences," O’Toole added. "If they were ultimately successful in this suit, there is no indication that simply requiring the government to vacate their fine notices would –– or even could, at that point –– make the plaintiffs whole or return the circumstances to the status quo."

O’Toole, an appointee of former President Bill Clinton, described how the plaintiffs worked for low salaries and had come to the U.S. to escape political violence.

"Nancy M. was fined over $1.8 million," O’Toole wrote, referring to one of the plaintiffs. "She is a laborer working over 60 hours a week with two jobs, and she reports feeling serious anxiety affecting her ability to sleep, eat and live a normal life."

The judge also found that the administration's fine notices violated the Administrative Procedure Act by failing to provide specific allegations explaining why an individual's conduct warranted a penalty.

Fox News Digital reached out to DHS for comment.

As recently as July, DHS said it had issued more than 103,000 fines to migrants totaling about $84 billion since President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January 2025.

DHS has defended the penalties, saying people who refuse to leave the country after receiving a final order of removal could face fines of $998 per day.

Although Congress authorized civil penalties under the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, no administration had attempted to impose the fines until Trump's first term.

Last year, the Trump administration began imposing fines of $998 per day for migrants who did not leave the country following a final order of deportation. The fines have been imposed retroactively for up to five years, with a maximum penalty of $1.8 million.

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In July 2025, DHS and the Department of Justice implemented changes aimed at streamlining the assessment of fines by scrapping a 30-day notice period and shortening the process for challenging penalties.

The plaintiffs successfully challenged that policy and what they described as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement policy of issuing fines using boilerplate forms without independently assessing whether a person's failure to leave was "willful" or "voluntary."

O’Toole also found that the administration had failed to comply with rulemaking processes in implementing its streamlined fine-imposition process because it did not offer the public a chance to first comment on the policy change.

Congressional lawmakers have attempted to challenge the administration’s fines against migrants through the Immigration and Nationality Act. Sens. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., and Dick Durbin, D-Ill., urged DHS and DOJ to pause the "improper application of certain civil penalties" in the law to "law-abiding immigrants."

Reuters contributed to this report.

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When my father, Shelby Steele, author, columnist, and senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, began publishing his essays on race in the late 1980s, my teenage self was often by his side when he gave speeches. After each speech, the same scene unfolded as a crowd of people gathered to the side of the podium, each wanting a word.

I remember one man in particular who hurried to reach my father first. He wore a corduroy sports coat with leather elbow patches. He said, "Dr. Steele, that was truly a remarkable speech. I want to thank you for saying the things you said up there."

My father thanked him, and the man lowered his voice and leaned in as if to share a conspiracy. "You know I can't say those things." My father leaned back and said, "Why not?" The man smiled, as if to say, come on, "I am a White man."

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My father had spent the past hour arguing for moving beyond the stifling limits of racial identity to the far greater possibilities within the American identity. The man agreed with every word, yet he could not bring himself to say them. He did not do so out of modesty but out of fear. To escape the charge of racism, he reduced himself to his race. The fear had done to him exactly what racism does. So, he stayed silent and let others like my father speak for him.

No charge in American life carries more destructive power than the accusation of racism. Once charged with this modern-day Scarlet Letter, how do you disprove it? Do you trot out your Black friends and have them testify to your innocence? Or do you look into your accuser’s eyes and say the words that no one believes: I am not a racist? You cannot disprove it — the accusation is the verdict.

This terror has reigned since the civil rights era, when the nation admitted to centuries of racial horror and rightfully vowed never to repeat it. Americans wanted to be better.

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For many, this terror came to overtake even the biblical sins. A man could be forgiven for greed, a lie, or even adultery, but not racism. Those sins of the Bible had a way back through confession, repentance, and forgiveness. Racism had none. There was no amount of confession that absolved it. There was only endless penance.

Some Americans went further. They believed that their nation's founding principles were stained with racism to the point that they no longer held any legitimacy or role in their redemptive efforts. They embraced the Marxism of liberation ideology, dividing us into White oppressors and oppressed people of color. And when they came to understand the full power of this White guilt terror, they molded it to their advantage.

Anyone who stood in their way also stood in the path of justice. The charge was racism if you were White. It was race traitor if you were Black.

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At first, this terror enforced our behavior from the outside, and then it began to seep into our minds.

On the nightly news, in newspaper headlines, or before our own eyes — we saw people or companies shamed as racist for not being diverse enough, for a word taken out of context, or for a donation to the wrong cause. Careers ended. Offenders were socially ostracized.

We saw all of this, and we began to police our own speech and thoughts out of fear of saying the wrong thing. We even learned how to apologetically preface anything we said that could be misconstrued. We told ourselves we were being decent. We were afraid.

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My father defines this terror as White guilt. I have heard many Whites declare, "I have no White guilt." Of course they don't.

One cannot feel actual guilt for what one has not done. White guilt is the collective guilt imposed on the White race for the sins of America's past. It is the terror of being seen as carrying on that racist legacy.

Real guilt ends. You make amends, and you are free. White guilt never ends, because there is nothing to atone for, only the burden of skin color to answer for.

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The history this terror rests on is real. My own family has ancestors who were born as the property of White men. They worked their entire lives without pay, and their lives held such little value that they could be beaten or even killed.

Even Christianity was distorted to support the idea that a White man had more value than a Black man. When the convulsions of the 1960s destroyed the moral legitimacy of the racial order of White supremacy, Whites suddenly found their lie of racial supremacy exposed, and they were without moral authority. An entire race condemned as guilty needed a way to prove it was innocent.

What eventually became known as the diversity industry showed no mercy with this power. It understood that this terror could be monetized.

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It was around 1970 that the word diversity began to gain prominence, and it became the societal measure of innocence. Its logic was unforgiving: the more people of color an institution had, the more innocent it became. Absolution was the point.

But absolution is a mirage. No one arrives. Paul Rossi, then a math teacher at Grace Church School in New York City, was relieved of his teaching duties after publicly challenging the school's approach to race and later left the school.

Rossi’s troubles began when he questioned his school's conditioning of students to view their whiteness as a perpetual apology.

In my documentary, "White Guilt," he describes a training session where the administration segregated the entire school into two racial groups. He was placed in the White room. The facilitator warned that they might feel some White feelings, and Paul asked, "What is a White feeling?"

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The trainings, he came to understand, were designed never to arrive. They endlessly expand what counts as racist and push justice beyond reach, into the future, into the keeping of experts. It was never meant to arrive. Widening the charge was how it sustained and grew its power.

Each flareup, from Trayvon Martin to Michael Brown, escalated the accusation that America is systemically racist. It reached its height during the summer of George Floyd, when a single video led to the reorganization of America and the West in corporate boardrooms, classrooms, and the arts. And still it was not enough. No amount of penance can satisfy an accuser whose power depends on your guilt. The formula only needed a new oppressed group and a new oppressor.

It is no wonder this terror has spread beyond race. Other protected classes saw the power to be had and recognized the formula that White guilt had established. The constant in this formula was the White oppressor. The variable was the oppressed, a role any approved minority could take up.

Yasser Arafat, the PLO, and other Palestinian organizations understood this early, courting Black revolutionaries as early as Arafat’s visit with Eldridge Cleaver and the Black Panthers in Algiers in the 1970s.

When the Hamas terror attacks of October 7, 2023, happened in Israel, the decades of groundwork paid off. The White guilt-Black power symbiosis became a White guilt-Palestinian one, and the slaughter of Jews was reframed as resistance before the bodies were counted.

This terror of White guilt has grown into the evil of our time. Far too many of us have surrendered to it out of convenience, and our institutions have grown weaker, our free speech has been constrained, and our children have become less educated.

Too often, we ask, "Who let it happen?" as if it were done to us. But too many Whites allowed themselves to be reduced to color in hopes that the charge of racism would pass over their heads. And some activists saw in it an easy source of power, defending racial discrimination in the name of justice.

The White guilt terror has grown into a great evil of today because we let it. The man who did it is not hard to find. He felt the fear, saw his Whiteness, and chose silence, and he is still there, smiling in a corduroy jacket.

He never needed permission to say what he believed.

He needed courage. So do we.

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A New York City Police Department detective was released from the hospital after he was stabbed multiple times during a robbery in the Bronx last week, according to officials.

Detective Jose Mercedes was wheeled out of Jacobi Medical Center in Morris Park on Monday before standing up in front of a group of clapping officers.

"Today, in another incredible feat of strength and determination, Detective Mercedes got up from his wheelchair and walked out of Jacobi Medical Center on his own two feet. Hundreds of members of the NYPD were there to cheer their brother on," Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said on X.

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"The entire department stands behind Detective Mercedes as he continues his recovery. And the greatest detectives in the world will relentlessly pursue those responsible for this crime," she added.

Mercedes was off-duty when two suspects on an e-bike attempted to snatch his gold chain as he was clearing out the trunk of his car in the Norwood neighborhood on Friday afternoon, according to officials.

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The detective attempted to fight back, but he was stabbed and slashed seven times during the struggle before the assailants fled. Authorities said the confrontation began when the men attempted to steal his gold chain.

Mercedes then pursued the fleeing attackers on foot for about two blocks before collapsing near East 206th Street and Rochambeau Avenue.

"Despite his serious injuries, Detective Mercedes chased after his attackers on foot," Tisch said.

Tisch and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani visited him in the hospital shortly after the attack.

"I visited the detective and his family at Jacobi Hospital with Police Commissioner Tisch," the mayor said on Friday. "I am hoping for his quick and complete recovery."

The two attackers remain at large, police said on Monday.

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