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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...

Kelly says he wishes someone would tell Trump ‘how math works’

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) said he wishes someone could have told President Trump "how math works" in touting his administration's successes 11 months since he returned to the White House. "Somebody must have showed him some, like, abysmal poll numbers and said, 'You better get out there in front of the American people and explain...

Grassley rejects Senate Judiciary Democrats demand for boat strike hearing

All Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee have demanded a public hearing on the Trump administration’s boat strike campaign over  “serious concerns” the strikes may violate U.S. criminal laws, a request the panel’s head has already denied. In a letter dated Wednesday and sent to committee Chair Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the lawmakers say...

Minneapolis police chief criticizes ICE after officer drags woman through street

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara criticized federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents this week after an attempted arrest on Monday led to a chaotic scene in which an officer dragged a woman through the street as agents fended off protesters. Video of the incident shows an agent kneeling on a woman’s back as she...

EEOC chair makes appeal to white men who may have discrimination claims

Andrea Lucas, the chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), called on white men to come forward with employment and workplace discrimination complaints. Lucas said Wednesday in a video on the social platform X that white men may have a claim to recover money under federal civil rights laws, and should contact the EEOC...

Jelly Roll pardoned by Tennessee governor

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) on Thursday issued a pardon for famed country music star Jason DeFord, whose stage name is Jelly Roll. DeFord was previously convicted of robbery as a juvenile but was granted parole in 2005. While on parole, he was found in possession of cocaine and was charged with the intent to...

Watch live: Trump to sign mammoth defense spending bill into law

President Trump on Thursday evening will sign the mammoth defense policy bill for fiscal 2026 into law. The Senate passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on Wednesday, sending the $900 billion policy bill to Trump's desk, a week after the House overwhelmingly advanced the legislation. Headlining the NDAA is a pay bump of nearly...

Jeffries: Dems expect DOJ to comply with law to release Epstein files 

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Thursday that Democrats are expecting the Trump administration to release the full files on Jeffrey Epstein on Friday, as required by law. "Based on my conversations with some of the top Democrats who've been working on this matter related to the full and complete disclosure of the Epstein...

Trump Media merging with nuclear fusion startup in $6B deal

Trump Media, the parent company of Truth Social, announced a merger Thursday with TAE Technologies, a nuclear fusion startup, in a deal valued at $6 billion. Together, the two companies are planning to create the “world’s first utility-scale fusion power plant.” The unprecedented project is intended to create electricity through fusion at 50 million watts...

Navarro’s bid to toss conviction gets frosty reception from appeals court  

Peter Navarro’s bid to overturn his conviction for evading a congressional subpoena appeared to receive little backing from a federal appeals court Thursday. A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit grilled Navarro lawyer Stanley Brand during an unusual oral argument where only the White House trade adviser’s counsel laid out a case, after the Justice Department dropped its defense of the prosecution earlier this...

Senate nears ‘minibus’ deal to largely fund government, thwarting shutdown threat

Senate leaders are nearing a deal to pass a package of five appropriations bills that would fund most of the federal government through fiscal 2026, which has the potential to largely take the threat of a government shutdown off the table early next year. Senators were waiting Thursday afternoon for a deal to set up...

US sanctions Iran-linked vessels

The Treasury Department on Thursday announced new sanctions targeting 29 vessels that the U.S. says are part of Iran’s “shadow fleet,” used to transport oil and petroleum products through deceptive shipping practices. The Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned the 29 entities, along with their respective management firms, which “have transported hundreds of...

Trump’s ‘warrior dividends’ will use funding for military housing subsidies

President Trump’s “warrior dividends” of $1,776 will use funding appropriated for military housing subsidies under the administration’s signature One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The money for the one-time checks intended for U.S. service members, which the president announced during his Wednesday night national address, will come from the $2.9 billion Congress approved this summer to...

Live updates: Kennedy Center board adds Trump’s name to institution; executive order reclassifies marijuana

President Trump trumpeted his term's success so far in a rapid and aggressive speech Wednesday night that also announced a "warrior dividend" for troops. The $1,776 bonus checks will be funded by tariff revenue, Trump said in his remarks, but senior officials have since said the funding will come out of a congressionally approved housing...

House Democrats release new Epstein pictures ahead of deadline for files’ release

Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released 68 more photos from the estate of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Thursday, one day before the Department of Justice's (DOJ) deadline to release all of its information on the disgraced financier on Dec. 19. Some photos show lines from the Vladimir Nabokov novel...

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