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How Mamdani can escape the serious hard time that Rikers Island now promises him

Unlike his two predecessors, Mayor Zohran Mamdani has no hope of avoiding a hard time with the Rikers Island jails.

What MLK might have to say about America today

What would the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. have to say about his country’s...

British leader tells Trump that tariffs on Europe over Greenland are ‘wrong’

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told President Trump on Sunday that it is "wrong" to impose tariffs on European nations that refuse to back his push to acquire Greenland.

Walz, Frey pan DOJ subpoenas as Pentagon reportedly prepared to deploy 1,500 troops to Minnesota

The Trump Justice Department issued subpoenas for Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey in what appears to be an expanding investigation into the two Democrats' strident anti-ICE stance.

Trump threatens to sue JPMorgan Chase over Jan. 6 debanking

President Trump said Saturday he would sue JPMorgan Chase over the company’s decision to close his account following the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.  “A front page Article in The Fake News Wall Street Journal states, without any verification, that I offered Jamie Dimon, of JPMorgan Chase, the job of Fed Chairman,” the president wrote...

Trump says US military considering ‘strong options’ on Iran

President Trump said Sunday the U.S. military is considering “strong options” on Iran as the country’s regime cracks down on growing nationwide protests.  When asked on Air Force One whether Iran is crossing a red line, the president told reporters “they’re starting to, it looks like.”  “There seemed to be some people killed that aren’t...

Nikki Glaser cracks CBS News, Epstein jokes during Golden Globes

Nikki Glaser was cracking jokes about CBS News and the Epstein files within moments of taking the stage for her Golden Globes monologue. "There's so many A-listers," Glaser told the audience Sunday at the awards show in Los Angeles. "And by A-listers, I do mean people who are on a list that has been heavily...

Stock futures fall after Powell confirms criminal probe into Fed

Stocks fell in overnight trading Sunday after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell confirmed the Trump administration had opened a criminal investigation into the central bank. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures were down 200 points shortly after 8:30 p.m. EST, falling 0.4 percent. S&P 500 futures were down 0.5 percent and Nasdaq futures were down 0.7...

Trump says he’s ‘inclined’ to keep Exxon Mobil out of Venezuela deals

President Trump said on Sunday that he is inclined to keep oil giant Exxon Mobil out of deals regarding Venezuela following the CEO’s skeptical response to future investment in the South American country.  “I’d probably be inclined to keep Exxon out,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One en route to Washington, D.C.  “I didn’t...

Powell confirms DOJ probe into Fed, blasts Trump pressure on rates

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has opened a probe into the Federal Reserve’s ongoing renovation of its headquarters in Washington, D.C. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said in a statement Sunday that the DOJ served the Fed with grand jury subpoenas and threatened a criminal indictment related to his testimony before the Senate Banking Committee...

Murphy says US annexation of Greenland ‘would be the end of NATO’

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said Sunday that the U.S. moving to take Greenland by force would mark the end of NATO. “It would be the end of NATO,” Murphy said on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” when asked by host Kristen Welker what such a move would result in. The Connecticut Democrat, who serves on the...

Sen. Mullin says officer in Minneapolis ICE shooting ‘had the right to defend’ himself

Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) defended the federal immigration officer who fatally shot Renee Nicole Macklin Good on Wednesday, arguing he was acting in self-defense. Mullin told host Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union” that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer Jonathan Ross “had the right to defend” himself once Macklin Good drove forward....

Cuba responds to Trump’s demand to cut deal: ‘No one dictates what we do’ 

Cuba has responded to President Trump’s demand to cut a deal with the United States, saying, “No one dictates what we do.” “#Cuba is a free, independent, and sovereign nation. No one dictates what we do. Cuba does not aggress; it is aggressed upon by the United States for 66 years, and it does not...

Transgender athlete bans and Trump’s Fed firing headline Supreme Court January session

The Supreme Court justices are back on the bench for their first session of the new year, and several major cases are slated for oral arguments. Over the next two weeks, battles over transgender athlete bans, the Second Amendment and President Trump’s firing of a Federal Reserve governor will play out before the justices. Here’s a look at January's Supreme...

Pritzker calls for ‘due process’ after ICE shooting in Minneapolis

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) called for due process in the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer, slamming the Trump administration for drawing hasty conclusions about the incident before an investigation took place. In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Pritzker criticized Homeland Security Secretary...

Democratic rep calls for limits on ‘military authority’ of ICE

Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-Va.) said Sunday that Congress should rein in the authority of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the wake of an officer from the agency fatally shooting a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis. “The real question now is can we find enough Republicans to work with us Democrats, to put a check on...

Warner bucks Dems’ calls to freeze ICE funding, cautions against another government shutdown

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) is pushing back against calls from some Democrats to freeze funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), even if it were to result in another government shutdown. In an interview on CNN's "State of the Union," the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee expressed concern about the fatal shooting of...

Cassidy on RFK Jr. vaccine schedule change: ‘Let’s just take care of people and move beyond your ideology’

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) expressed further frustration Sunday with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) changing the childhood vaccine schedule. The CDC, overseen by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., reduced the number of recommended vaccines for children from 17 to 11 on Monday, putting it in line with...

Omar on Minnesota ICE shooting: ‘Let the investigation take place’ 

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Sunday pushed back on Trump administration attacks on Renee Nicole Macklin Good, a woman who was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer last week in Minneapolis. “It is not acceptable for Kristi Noem and the president and the vice president to make these kind of judgments...

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