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Every state has its own set of strange laws still technically on the books that may surprise you, including New York. When it comes to strange laws in a state, many have little evidence to back them, with origins unknown, while others are ones you can still find in written law. Strange laws are often head-scratchers in terms of trying to figure out why the law was created in the first place. BIZARRE MINNESOTA LAWS, INCLUDING PENALTIES FOR DRIVING A FILTHY CAR, THAT WILL SHOCK YOUBelow are a few examples of strange laws in New York.If you’re spending the day in one of New York’s parks enjoying the sunshine and fresh air, for example, be mindful of others when tossing a ball around, as throwing a ball at someone is illegal in the state.Of course, accidents happen, but intentionally hitting someone with a ball could result in penalties.BIZARRE MICHIGAN LAWS THAT WOULD PUZZLE JUST ABOUT ANYONE, INCLUDING CONSEQUENCES FOR SEDUCING UNMARRIED WOMENThis is according to New York Penal Law § 245.05 of the Consolidated Laws of New York.”A person is held up to ridicule or contempt by voluntarily submitting to indignities such as the throwing of balls or other articles at his head or body,” the law states. In 2014, then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill that made taking a selfie with tigers illegal. This animal law may seem quite strange, but its origins actually came from a surge in people using photos with animals like tigers as profile photos on dating apps like Tinder and OKCupid, according to the New York Times. “Instead it is an important piece of consumer and animal protection legislation and will ban a practice that should have already been illegal in New York,” said the law’s sponsor, Assembly member Linda B. Rosenthal, in a press release, per Syracuse.com. “I guess some young men in New York will have to find another game, because big cat selfies, along with direct contact with big cats, is now prohibited,” she also said.The penalty for posing with a tiger could cost $500 for a first-time offender and $1,000 for a second, according to the source.BIZARRE LAWS IN WASHINGTON, SUCH AS BEING CHARGED WITH RECKLESS DRIVING IF HUGGING BEHIND THE WHEELA law preventing the sale of dog or cat fur in New York comes out of Agriculture and Markets Article 26, Section 379. This law regards the “prohibition of the selling of fur, hair, skin or flesh of a dog or cat.”Breaking this law comes with a hefty fine of up to $1,000 for an individual and up to $5,000 for a corporation violating this for the first time. Anyone who breaks the law again could face a $25,000 fine.During a stroll through New York City, honking will likely fill your ears. Therefore, many are surprised to find that a fine could come from excessive honking. Laws against honking date back to 1936, when “prolonged and unreasonable blowing of a horn” was deemed unlawful as part of the city’s noise code, the New York Times reported. 50 BIZARRE LAWS THAT HAVE EXISTED OR STILL EXIST IN AMERICAAccording to New York City’s website, loud noises including those from “an idling engine, loud music or horn honking” can all be reported to police. “Horn honking is only allowed as a warning of danger,” the city’s website states. “Officers from the New York Police Department (NYPD) will respond within 8 hours when they are not handling emergencies. They will be able to take action if the noise is still happening when they arrive. If you make multiple complaints within 8 hours, police may only respond once,” the website says.With so many driving through the city’s congested streets, catching people for horn honking is tough to do. Beyond the NYPD responding to noise complaints, a ticket could come as the result of a noise camera catching the sound. Noise cameras in NYC record sounds louder than 85 decibels, according to the New York Times. This could include excessive honking, a loud exhaust or a vehicle playing loud music along the streets. Fines for illegally honking could cost between $800 and $2,500, according to Fox 5 New York. There are plans to install at least five more cameras per borough by Sept. 30, 2025, ABC7 New York reported, in addition to the seven that were up at the time of reporting in December 2023.



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With two weeks to go until Election Day on November 5, a new poll in swing state Nevada indicates a margin-of-error race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump.According to the survey by AARP, Trump edged Harris 49%-47% in a head-to-head match up for the state’s highly coveted six electoral votes. The Republican presidential nominee holds an even slimmer 47%-46% one-point margin over the Democratic Party standard-bearer in a full ballot with third-party candidates. The survey is the latest of likely voters to indicate a coin-toss race in Nevada.As he runs to win back the White House, Trump aims to become the first GOP presidential nominee to carry Nevada since then-President George W. Bush in his 2004 re-election victory. Trump narrowly lost the Silver State in both his 2016 White House victory and in his 2020 re-election loss to President Biden.CHECK OUT THE LATEST FOX NEWS 2024 ELECTION POWER RANKINGSThe AARP survey, conducted Oct. 8-15 and released on Tuesday, indicates the former president holding a narrow advantage among independent voters. It also points to a large gender gap, with Trump up 18 points among men, while Harris leads women by 15 points.Recent polls in Nevada and across the nation indicate an erosion of support for Democrats among Latino voters, and according to the AARP poll, Trump enjoys a slight lower-single digit edge over Harris among those voters.HARRIS AND CHENEY TEAM UP FOR A BATTLEGROUND BLITZ Of note, the survey doesn’t point to a large education divide.”There is only a small educational attainment gap, with Harris up 6-points with voters with college degrees, and Trump up 5 among those without degrees,” the survey’s release highlights.The poll indicates Trump with a seven-point lead among voters 50+, and a four-point advantage among those age 65 and older.”With the presidential and senate races so close, appealing to high-turnout older voters should be a major priority for all the campaigns,” AARP Nevada State Director Maria Moore emphasized. “If candidates want to win in Nevada, they should focus on the issues that matter to older voters, from protecting Social Security to supporting family caregivers and bringing down the costs of necessities like food and housing.”  Nevada is one of seven swing states whose razor-thin margins decided Biden’s 2020 election victory over Trump and are likely to determine if Harris or Trump wins the 2024 White House race.The Silver State is not only a presidential battleground – it’s also home to a crucial Senate race that is one of a handful that will decide if the GOP wins back the chamber’s majority.According to the poll, Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen holds a five-point 49%-44% advantage over Republican challenger Sam Brown.The AARP poll was conducted by the bipartisan polling team of Fabrizio Ward (Republican) & Impact Research (Democrat). The firms interviewed 1,368 likely voters in Nevada. The survey’s overall sampling error is plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.



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Vice President Kamala Harris’ senior campaign spokesperson, Ian Sams, remained silent when pressed on whether he still believes in his previous sharp critiques of Harris campaign surrogate, Liz Cheney, who Sams described in 2013 as a “warlord” and blamed in 2019 for “lead[ing] us into Iraq.” “Liz Cheney helped lead us into Iraq from a special State Department Middle East post her dad’s administration created for her,” Sams criticized Cheney on Twitter, now X, in 2019.”Liz Cheney brings the crazy today,” he said in a separate 2013 social media post, which linked to a Wall Street Journal op-ed that Cheney wrote at the time. Meanwhile, that same year, Sams shared an article from Salon.com, which referred to Cheney as an “aspiring warlord.”CNN ANCHOR CALLS OUT HARRIS CAMPAIGN AFTER SPOKESMAN KNOCKS TRUMP’S ‘MENTAL ACUITY’ FOR TURNING DOWN INTERVIEWFox News Digital uncovered several social media posts by Sams critiquing Cheney, who, in more recent days, has praised the former GOP Wyoming congresswoman following her endorsement of his boss.Just over the weekend, Sams touted the fact that Cheney would be stumping for Harris in the battleground state of Wisconsin. A few days before that, he was defending Cheney from attacks by former President Donald Trump. “Congresswoman Cheney is a patriot,” Sams told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell last month. “I think, in the last five years, we’ve seen over-and-over again, her put country over party. Or as John McCain would say, ‘To put country first.'” Sams added during the interview that he thinks Harris “really respects … true conservatives,” like Cheney.CAMPAIGN ADVISER DENIES HARRIS IS LOSING SUPPORT WITH MEN, BLAMES TRUMP FOR BORDERBesides praising the congresswoman and her endorsement of Harris, Sams has also highlighted the fact that Harris was endorsed by a large cohort of former President George W. Bush officials, including those who worked on national security. It was Bush’s administration that invaded Iraq in 2003.Fox News Digital reached out to Cheney for comment but did not receive a response by publication time.”A broken clock is right twice a day, and a Kamala Harris spokesman is right once in his life,” the Trump campaign said in a statement Monday, highlighting Sams’ 2019 post about Cheney “lead[ing] us into Iraq from a special State Department Middle East post” that he claimed Cheney’s father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, created for her. However, despite Sams’ claim that Cheney’s father “created” a state department position exclusively for her, the position existed before she was ever hired.”Ian Sams wrote the truth about Kamala Harris’ surrogate (and likely future Defense Secretary),” the Trump campaign statement concluded.



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A teen in Washington state is in custody after authorities say a domestic violence incident inside a home left five family members shot dead and a sixth wounded on Monday.Deputies responded around 5 a.m. to reports of a shooting at a home in Fall City and immediately took one teen into custody while another injured teenager was taken to a Seattle hospital, King County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Mike Mellis said at a media briefing Monday afternoon.Deputies entered the home and discovered the bodies of two adults and three juveniles.”Once bodies were discovered, clearly we understand that this is a hugely significant crime scene,” he said.KILLER MOM SUSAN SMITH THINKS PAROLE IS NOW UNLIKELY AFTER SHE WAS CAUGHT TRYING TO PROFIT OFF CASE: REPORTA teen girl who was shot twice had escaped and ran to neighbors for help. She was taken to Harborview Medical Center, where medical officials said she was in “satisfactory condition,” FOX13 Seattle reported.”I only saw the children in the driveway yesterday afternoon,” neighbor Lynne Trowern told the outlet. “I’m shocked. I kept bursting into tears.”A former neighbor told FOX13 that the children were all polite and were homeschooled. Others described how the children used to help their parents and neighbors with home projects and how the family used to walk around the lake nearly every day.SUSPECT ACCUSED OF KILLING NEWLYWED NURSE HAD BEEN ‘DELIBERATELY CRUEL’: REPORTMellis said the shooting appeared to involve members of a family, though investigators didn’t yet know how they were related.King County Councilmember Sarah Perry said in a statement that her “heart aches for the lives lost,” saying that “five family members, out of seven, were tragically killed.””Early this morning, we learned about a terrible situation in the Lake Alice neighborhood of Fall City, in which five family members, out of seven, were tragically killed,” she wrote.King County Sheriff Patti Cole-Tindall told reporters that the shooting left her “very sad, very disturbed.””I know that my team will do an excellent job by investigating this, and we will determine the facts related to this incident, but that could take several days, weeks, months,” Cole-Tindall said.



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Journalist Maria Shriver admitted during a town hall event for Vice President Kamala Harris in Michigan that only questions that had been “predetermined” would be allowed to be asked.When asked by a member of the audience during the Monday event if voters would be able to ask questions to the presidential candidate directly, Shriver admitted that those in attendance would have to settle for her asking questions that “might be in your head.””You’re not, unfortunately. We have some predetermined questions, and hopefully, I’ll be able to ask some of the questions that might be in your head. I hope so,” Shriver told the audience.FOX NEWS POWER RANKINGS: VOTER OUTREACH, BALLOT EFFICIENCY AND A LITTLE HOUSEKEEPINGThe Michigan event also featured a long-time adversary of former President Donald Trump, former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, who has hit the trail for the vice president in hopes of winning over Republican moderates who are still skeptical of the former president.The former Republican lawmaker joined Harris for a three-state battleground tour Monday, according to The Associated Press, telling voters in Wisconsin that the vice president was the candidate people from both parties could trust.”We might not agree on every issue,” she said at an event near Milwaukee. “But she is somebody you can trust.”TRUMP MYSTERY MAKES ELECTION OUTCOME EVEN MURKIERNevertheless, some critics piled on Harris for holding a town hall, which typically features a more open question and answer session, with mostly predetermined questions.”They’re not even hiding it anymore,” Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung wrote in a social media post along with a video of the exchange.Harris has faced accusations of avoiding interviews and questions throughout the campaign, though the Democratic candidate has looked to put those issues to bed during a string of high-profile media appearances, including interviews with Fox News and CBS’ “60 Minutes” and appearances on popular radio shows and podcasts such as “The Breakfast Club” and “Call Her Daddy.”The Harris campaign did not immediately respond to a Fox News Digital request for comment.Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.



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