New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) on Wednesday stood by his tenant adviser as she faced sharp blowback for calling home ownership a “weapon of white supremacy” in resurfaced social media posts from 2019. Mamdani did not address the substance of Cea Weaver’s “white supremacy” posts, when questioned about them by reporters, but he...
Minneapolis City Council member Robin Wonsley (D) on Thursday rebuked the presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in Minnesota after a woman was shot and killed Wednesday. Renee Nicole Macklin Good was fatally shot by an ICE officer while in her car after another officer had attempted to open her car door. Local...
NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein is weighing a potential guilty plea to resolve a rape charge and avoid going to trial for a third time in New York, his lawyer and a judge said Thursday, even as the disgraced movie mogul insisted he “never assaulted anyone.” For now, at least, Weinstein is on course...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) ripped President Trump in his last annual address as governor, touting the Golden State as an alternative “blueprint” for the rest of the country. “The federal government, respectfully, it's unrecognizable, protecting the powerful at the expense of the vulnerable. Their credo seems to be about fear: fear of the future,...
Rep. Steny Hoyer (Md.), who has served as a top Democratic leader for more than two decades, warned Thursday that America is moving down a dark road, away from the democratic traditions that have made it unique and onto a path toward self-destruction. In a speech on the House floor to announce his retirement after...
The House on Thursday failed to override President Trump’s vetoes of two previously uncontroversial bills concerning a Colorado water project and expanding lands of a tribe in Florida. The move showcases House Republicans’ loyalty to the president and support for his political battles, as the vetoes had been seen as instances of Trump acting on...
Vice President Vance called the War Powers Act “fundamentally fake” and unconstitutional, ridiculing the law passed in 1973 shortly after senators on Capitol Hill voted to advance a bipartisan measure to block President Trump from using military force against Venezuela. “Second of all, as the president, I believe himself, has already said every president, Democrat...
Republican Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) justified voting with Democrats to advance a bipartisan resolution on the War Powers Act to block President Trump from using military force against Venezuela. “With regard to Venezuela, my read of the Constitution is that if the President feels the need to put boots on the ground there in the...
Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner slammed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Thursday, rejecting its presence in local communities after an officer fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis the day before. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) have denied initial Department of Homeland Security (DHS) statements alleging the officer's shots were...
The House on Thursday passed three appropriations bills with broad bipartisan support, moving lawmakers closer to avoiding an end-of-month shutdown. The bills would fund the Department of Justice, Department of Commerce, key science agencies and other related entities; the Department of Energy and water development; and the Department of Interior, Environmental Protection Agency and other related...
Vice President Vance lashed out at the news media during a White House press briefing on Thursday over its coverage of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer shooting and killing a woman in Minnesota. “The way that the media by and large has covered this story has been an absolute disgrace, and it puts...
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent who fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday was previously injured in June while attempting to arrest an undocumented immigrant, according to officials. The agent was apprehending an individual during a traffic stop in Bloomington, Minn,. earlier this year, when the person attempted to flee, a Department...
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Thursday took a swing at President Trump's moves in Venezuela, comparing the administration's latest actions to imperialism. “You’re talking about old-fashioned imperialism. And all that that is, throughout the history of the world — England, Spain, Portugal, way back when — powerful nations went into poor, undeveloped areas, and just...
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) on Thursday pushed the Trump administration to work with his state on an investigation into the fatal shooting of a woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer. “Yesterday, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension — the BCA — spent the day yesterday attempting to get that accountability,” Walz...
Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a warning to Minnesotans protesting the federal immigration crackdown in the state, telling them not to “cross that red line.” "MINNESOTA: Peacefully protesting is a sacred American right protected by the First Amendment," Bondi wrote in a post on the social media platform X. "Obstructing, impeding, or attacking federal law...
Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-Texas) on Wednesday said if Americans obey orders from federal officers, "you get to keep your life," hours after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer shot and killed a Minnesota woman. "The bottom line is this: When a federal officer gives you instructions, you abide by them and you get to...
Top Democrats on Capitol Hill are demanding a series of investigations into Wednesday’s fatal shooting of a woman by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, saying the tragedy was the direct result of a bellicose campaign by the Trump administration to menace blue cities under the guise of law enforcement. “The killing of Renee Nicole...
House Homeland Security Committee Democrats are demanding the panel’s Republican majority call Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem before Congress after the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shooting that killed a Minneapolis woman Wednesday. Noem has defended the killing of Renee Nicole Macklin Good, saying the officer was justified in shooting her because he feared for his...
We arrested an illegitimate leader and removed him from his country and have no intent to try to build democracy. You don’t secure freedom by negotiating oil first and rights later.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem reiterated her stance that the woman fatally shot by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis on Wednesday was committing an act of “domestic terrorism.” Noem said at a press conference Thursday that the woman, 37-year-old Renee Nicole Macklin Good, was part of a group of people who...
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shared an edited clip from the animated comedy series "South Park" on Wednesday that facetiously "flipped" the food pyramid as he debuted his upside-down food pyramid featuring updated dietary guidelines. On the social platform X, Kennedy shared a clip in which an animated version of himself...
Why do so many progressives absolutely love the idea of imprisoning their political enemies for expressing ideas they dislike or think are wrong? For example No. 8,057 (yes, I made up that number), see Mehdi Hasan, a well-known leftist commentator and founder of the progressive news site Zeteo. Hasan wants to elect far-left Democrats and defeat Donald Trump and the Republicans,...
Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wis.) said Thursday his Wisconsin office was targeted by “an individual fueled by anti-ICE rhetoric” in the hours after the fatal shooting of a Minnesota woman during an immigration enforcement operation. Van Orden alleged in a post on social platform X that the person was “shouting slurs, pounding on our doors,...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he’s ruling out serving as head coach or general manager of the Miami Dolphins, in a facetious nod to jokes about the many positions he holds in the Trump administration. The lighthearted remark came shortly after Rubio’s hometown football team announced Thursday morning that it fired the head coach....
