Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University graduate who has been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), was denied permission from attending the birth of his first child, several reports confirmed Monday. Khalil’s attorneys wrote on Sunday to Melissa Harper, the director of ICE’s field office in New Orleans where he is being held, requesting for...
The group of House Democrats who traveled Monday to El Salvador were denied a meeting with wrongfully deported Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia and said they are now demanding daily “proof of life.” Democratic Reps. Robert Garcia (Calif.), Maxwell Frost (Fla.), Yassamin Ansari (Ariz.) and Maxine Dexter (Ore.) comes on the heels of Maryland Sen....
Actor George Clooney said he doesn’t care if President Trump calls him a “second rate movie star,” among other criticisms. Clooney, one of the more prominent Democratic supporters in Hollywood, sat for an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes” in March, during which he slammed Trump and shared more about his Broadway debut. After the interview...
While investors spent the weekend licking their wounds over the $6.6 trillion wipeout in American equities in the 48 hours after “Liberation Day,” world leaders went into overdrive to secure eleventh-hour trade deals with President Donald Trump before the so-called reciprocal tariff penalties on the 60 countries subject to additional tariffs beyond the 10% baseline […]
The year was 2022. Democrats were in a panic heading into the midterm elections, all thanks to an unpopular president pushing unpopular spending that led to the highest inflation the country had seen since E.T. was in theaters 40 years ago. The southern border was a full-blown crisis, with nearly 2.8 million people entering the […]
The Issue: President Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs imposing an initial 10% baseline tax on all imports. The Post brilliantly sums up the bitter fruit...
Since coming into office, President Donald Trump has made rebalancing our trade agreements a top priority, placing historic tariffs on traditional trading ‘partners’ who have taken advantage of American businesses for decades and adversaries hell-bent on our economic collapse such as China. His “Liberation Day” tariffs were indicative of his bold commitment to that mission. […]
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others,” George Orwell wrote in Animal Farm. The legal tide is turning against reverse discrimination. In Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services, the Supreme Court is reviewing whether Marlean Ames, a straight white woman, was unfairly denied a promotion in favor of a […]
After passing the British House of Commons last year, it looks as though a U.K. bill to legalize doctor-assisted suicide may itself be on life support. After many assurances from the outset that there would be high levels of protections to ensure the system is not “misused” (more on that later), these safeguards have already begun to break […]
Senate Republicans passed budget reconciliation instructions last week that are far weaker on spending cuts than those House Republicans passed in February, which could set up a debt explosion should the Senate get its way when the final reconciliation bill is written later this year. The top-line budget numbers in the House reconciliation bill call […]
In rare fleeting moments of childlike naivety, I sometimes wonder how these people live with themselves. And by people, I mean Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), whose 25-hour rambling speech on the Senate floor this week was the longest in the history of the institution, beating the record of segregationist Sen. Strom Thurmond, who filibustered against the Civil […]
