Posts on Friday, January 30, 2026
Former Obama White House General Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler has attempted to downplay a steady drip of revelations about her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein by claiming he never "compensated" her. Newly released emails, however, show the convicted sex criminal showered Ruemmler with luxury gifts, including a $9,400 Hermes handbag, an Hermes-branded Apple watch, and a spa treatment package at the Four Seasons Hotel in Washington D.C., emails reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show.
House Republicans just dropped what might be the most important piece of legislation of our lifetimes. The Make Elections Great Again (MEGA) Act hit the floor on Thursday, and it's a full-throttle effort to secure elections in ways Democrats have long fought against.
For starters, the MEGA Act would require a photo ID to vote and mandate proof of citizenship to register nationwide. The bill also directly targets practices that became major flashpoints in 2020 that undermined confidence in the 2020 election. This legislation mandates that mail-in ballots must arrive by the close of polls on Election Day to be counted, with one exception for military personnel overseas.
The Department of Homeland Security lodged a detainer Thursday in California in the case of an illegal immigrant accused of a crime that a top official there is calling the "most heinous we've ever seen." (snip) A 20-year old Mexican national, Enrique Bautista-Vasquez, was charged with rape. a sentence enhancement for sexual assault of a person unable to consent and sexual assault of a victim deemed to be "particularly vulnerable" (snip.) "This depraved illegal alien raped and sodomized a child with autism," (snip) Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said. "Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee Governor Newsom (snip) will cooperate
A sprawling Islamic complex is planning to open in the Austin suburb of Leander – before being transferred to a national Islamic trust that was identified in federal terrorism prosecutions tied to Hamas financing.
Renaissance Academy, an Islamic school aiming to teach graduates to “fully live the values of Islam” and “play a leading role in American society,” is planning a new 19-acre campus in rural Leander, according to its website. It has already raised $3.3 million and closed on the property.
School officials plan to donate the campus through a “waqf,” an irrevocable religious endowment, to a national Islamic trust such as the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT).
Polar bears are remarkable critters. They are a circumpolar species, found all over the Arctic, from Scandinavia to Russia to Alaska to Canada and thence to Greenland. They are the largest bear extant, and the only bear that feeds exclusively on meat.
Some biologists have been worried about how polar bears will fare in our time of receding sea ice in some parts of the Arctic, but one new study indicates that the great white bears are more adaptable than some thought.
Some polar bears, it seems, are doing well out climate change and reduced ice levels in the Arctic, so a study in Nature Scientific Reports says. Although ‘body condition index’
Catherine O’Hara, a gifted comedic actress and two-time Emmy winner, has died.
O’Hara died Friday at her home in Los Angeles after a brief illness, her reps at CAA confirmed. She was 71.
A native of Toronto, O’Hara was part of the SCTV ensemble that also helped launch the careers of John Candy, Eugene Levy, Rick Moranis and others. She’s arguably best known for playing Kevin’s (Macaulay Culkin) mother, Kate, in the Home Alone movies and had a career renaissance in the past 10 years with Schitt’s Creek — winning an Emmy for her role as a faded soap opera actress opposite old friend Levy — and The Studio\
California Gov. Gavin Newsom filed a civil rights complaint with the Department of Health and Human Services against Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz after a video of his visit to Los Angeles.
On Thursday evening, Newsom announced that his office was filing a civil rights complaint with HHS, accusing Oz of discrimination, The Associated Press reported. According to the complaint, Newsom’s office argued that Oz, in a video, “spewed baseless and racially charged allegations” that risked chilling participation in hospice and home care programs among the Armenian community.
The governor’s office noted Oz's claims had “already caused real-world harm” by reducing business at an
A plastic pig displayed in the window of a newly opened delicatessen on the Piazza dei Signori in the Italian city of Padua has triggered a local controversy after a senior representative of the city’s Muslim community called for its removal, arguing that it is offensive and inappropriate.
The pig, placed in the window of the deli Mortadella… e Non Solo, is used to advertise the shop’s sandwiches and cured meats, which are primarily made from pork. According to Il Giornale, Salim El Mauoed, the regional vice president of Padua’s Muslim community, urged both the shop’s owners and local authorities to intervene, describing the display as “in bad taste” and offensive
College football legend and former Notre Dame coach Lou Holtz has entered hospice, a family source told ABC57 in Indiana. The 89-year-old is best known for his time coaching Notre Dame from 1986-96, which included a national title, plus his role as a college football analyst for ESPN. Holtz also coached the Jets for 13 games in the 1977 season, and is a member of the College Football Hall of Fame. [snip] Holtz is one of college football’s most well-known personalities, having spent almost all of his career coaching at a top level.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani is being urged by Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal to boot right-wing media outlet Newsmax from the Taxi TV monitors that appear in the backseats of thousands of yellow cabs.
Hoylman-Sigal claimed that Newsmax “is not a credible news source for New Yorkers,” in a January 21 letter to Mamdani and Taxi and Limousine Commissioner Midori Valdivia.
Newsmax streams national news programming content in taxis in a partnership with Curbed, one of the TLC’s authorized technology screen providers. But New Yorkers deserve a better news source than Newsmax on Taxi TV, the borough president argued, questioning some of the comments on immigration from hosts on the conservative network.
Through the centuries, many Christians have made the mistake of trying to guess the exact date of the Parousia. I will avoid that error. Christ’s Second Coming will arrive in God’s good time.
I will, however, propose that the Antichrist may already have walked among us for decades.
In an op-ed titled “MAGA’s War on Empathy,” published Thursday by The Atlantic, former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton — yes, Hillary Clinton, of all people — opined on what she regarded as the abandonment of Christian principles by Christian leaders, only to discover that those same Christian leaders regard her disapproval as a badge of honor,
Democrats and Republicans Team Up to Slip
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Stealth Amnesty into DHS Funding Bill
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Pro-American activists and groups are slamming the establishment’s bipartisan push for a stealth nationwide amnesty that would help progressives and CEOs freely use the huge population of million illegal migrants to sideline American citizens.
The stealth amnesty got a big push forward on Tuesday night when Senate Democrats and Republicans agreed to delay passage of the 2026 funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security. The DHS bill is now being held back until Senate Democrats and Republicans can include a series of apparently minor changes that would create a huge bureaucratic barrier to the deportation of non-violent illegal migrants.
But pro-American legislators and activists are fighting back.
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger was sworn in just a few weeks ago, but the tornado of bad policy is already swirling around her state.
Spanberger’s very first order of business was reversing Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s Executive Order 47, which had allowed for coordination between the Virginia State Police and the Department of Corrections and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. That coordination was important because it allowed the federal and state governments to cooperate to remove people in the country illegally who had committed additional crimes. That it was necessary for Spanberger to make it harder to deport criminals i
President Donald Trump said Friday that the United States has directly communicated expectations to Iran as pressure mounts for Tehran to accept a nuclear deal, even as Iranian officials publicly signal interest in talks. Asked whether Iran faces a deadline to make a deal, Trump suggested the timeline already had been conveyed privately.
"Only they know for sure," he said, confirming when pressed that the message had been delivered directly to Iranian leaders.
Both are a little north of one million. Of those, around 400,000 are deaths. (For the Ukrainians, both are a little lower, so far.)
Most observers thought the Russians would overrun Kyiv in weeks. But they’ve now have been at war in Ukraine longer – four years – than America was at war in WWII. And there’s no end in sight. Recent Russian advances are measured not in kilometers, but meters.
Russian troop morale is as bad as you would expect. Nobody goes to Eastern Europe for outdoor winter camping where your tentmate sleeping next to you sometimes gets blown to bits.
Internal orders issued by China’s top military authority have met widespread resistance at the grassroots level following the purge of two of the country’s most senior generals, according to multiple sources close to the People’s Liberation Army who spoke to The Epoch Times.
After Central Military Commission (CMC) Vice Chairman Zhang Youxia and chief of the Joint Staff Department Liu Zhenli were placed under investigation on Jan. 24, at least two directives issued by the CMC General Office to theater commands and group armies were ignored or only passively acknowledged. Sources said the grassroots troops within the military are expressing dissatisfaction, with the command-and-control system of the People’s
The FBI announced Friday nearly 50 members and associates of the violent Latin Kings street gang have been arrested following a sweeping, multistate crackdown aimed at gang-related activity, drug trafficking and threats against law enforcement. Dubbed "Operation Broken Crown," the three-month initiative involved more than a dozen FBI field offices (snip.) Since the operation began last October, more than a dozen firearms have been seized, along with nearly ten kilograms of cocaine, fentanyl and other narcotics, according to the FBI. (snip) "In 2025, we saw a 210% increase in gang takedowns from MS-13 and Tren de Aragua (snip.)"
Panama's Supreme Court has annulled contracts allowing a Hong Kong-based company to operate container ports on the Panama Canal. The ruling comes a year after US president Donald Trump claimed China was "operating the Panama Canal" (snip) in his inaugural speech. CK Hutchison Holdings, through its subsidiary the Panama Ports Company (PPC) has operated two of the five ports since the 1990s. It had previously agreed to sell them to a group led by a US investment firm under a wider deal. The Court found that laws allowing the firm to operate the ports were "unconstitutional" (snip.)
Republican Sen. Thom Tillis said Friday he will oppose President Donald Trump’s Federal Reserve chair pick until a Justice Department probe into current Fed chief Jerome Powell “is fully and transparently resolved,” a stance that could severely complicate Kevin Warsh’s path to confirmation in the Senate.
The retiring North Carolina lawmaker’s vote is needed to advance Warsh’s nomination through the Senate Banking Committee, which oversees the Fed and considers its nominees.
. The Department of Justice and the U.S. Postal Service announced that they issued a $1 million award in an antitrust case. "Today our Antitrust Division announced a $1 million reward -- the first of its kind from @TheJusticeDept -- for a whistleblower who reported bid-rigging on an online auction platform," Attorney Pam Bondi posted on X (snip.) "Under President Trump's leadership we will continue to fight against corporate collusion and monopolistic behavior -- come forward and help us!"
Ex-CNN host Don Lemon arrested for Minnesota
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Disgraced ex-CNN anchor Don Lemon was arrested in Los Angeles early Friday over the anti-ICE protest that stormed a Minneapolis church during Sunday service, according to his attorney and US Attorney General Pamela Bondi.
“Don Lemon was taken into custody by federal agents … in Los Angeles, where he was covering the Grammy awards,” Lemon’s attorney Abbe Lowell said in a statement shared with multiple reporters.
He was one of four people arrested by federal agents early Friday “in connection with the coordinated attack on Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota,” Bondi later confirmed in a statement.
Jewelry, art and toy train top list of
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WASHINGTON -- Foreign leaders and governments presented to former President Joe Biden, his wife, U.S. Cabinet members and other senior officials tens of thousands of dollars in gifts in the last year of the Biden administration, including a $19,000 painting, an $11,000 necklace, a $5,000 bracelet and in one case $15,000 in cash, according to the latest accounting from the State Department.
The annual report, published Thursday in the Federal Register by the department’s Bureau of Protocol, covers calendar year 2024 and does not include any gifts given to President Donald Trump or his administration in the first year of Trump’s second term.
Federal employees are required to report gifts they receive
At the same time it is pursuing a greater trading relationship with China, Starmer's government has been retreating on Chinese national security challenges. United Kingdom Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer traveled to China this week to reset icy relations with the communist power, following in the footsteps of Canada, which recently signed its own trade deal. (snip) [A]t the same time (snip), Starmer's government has been retreating on Chinese national security challenges, such as caving to a new Chinese embassy close to sensitive data cables and planning to cede a key Indian Ocean island, a move opposed by Washington.
Report: Migrants Buying Fake Mexican Birth
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Certificates to Avoid Being Sent to Countries
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Migrants from countries other than Mexico have been purchasing false birth or marriage certificates that are then sent to the United States in order to avoid being deported to their country of origin.
The false birth or marriage certificates are being sold by actual government offices of Mexico’s Civil Registry for $1,500 to $2,500, a report from El Universal revealed. The publication found that false birth certificates are being sold from government offices in various border cities in the southern state of Chiapas. Since those documents are expedited out of government offices and are listed in government databases, they may have inconsistencies, but they appear legitimate when officials search for them
SURPRISE, Ariz. — The Immigration and Customs division of the Department of Homeland Security has purchased a behemoth commercial building in Surprise, Arizona, as the agency looks for space to hold immigrants in detention.
Democratic lawmakers in the state say they are concerned the purchase represents the next step in an aggressive crackdown on immigration enforcement, similar to what is unfolding in Minnesota – the site of protests, emergency lawsuits and two deaths of citizens. Minnesota’s Chief Federal Judge has ordered the head of ICE to appear in court on Friday about ICE’s tactics there.
According to Maricopa County Recorder documents, ICE purchased the 418,000-square-foot warehouse for just over $70 million
Minnesota Citizen Journalist Exposes Chaos,
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"It seems to me our leadership wants to promote conflict and get people in trouble," said Alleister, a citizen journalist who discussed some of the viral videos he's captured over the last few weeks. Alleister (snip) joined Liz Collin and her podcast to talk about what happened behind some of the scenes he recorded. (snip) Alleister recorded a man being surrounded by a mob of protesters and beaten with a flagpole inside a parking garage in Minneapolis. (snip) "We get back into the parking garage where some of the people [demand a halt to videoing,] (snip) start to issue death threats," he added.
Lefty New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill urged residents to film ICE agents operating in their neighborhoods and upload the videos to a state “portal” she vowed to launch.
“If you see an ICE agent in the street, get your phone out,” the Democrat, just eight days into her first term as governor of the Garden State, said in a sit-down interview with The Daily Show host Desi Lydic Wednesday night.
Sherill’s administration will soon be launching a “portal,” she said, so New Jerseyans “can upload all their cell phone videos and alert people” about local immigration operations.
It was unclear how much this portal would cost Garden State taxpayers to launch.
Unlike virtually every other government-spending program sold as an “investment in the future,” Trump Accounts look to fit that bill — with 401(k)-style investment accounts for newborns that can teach the value of saving (and the power of compound interest) from the cradle on.
With Nicki Minaj bringing added star power, President Donald Trump led Wednesday’s summit promoting the new accounts, which officially launch July 4, as part of the nation’s 250th birthday celebrations — fitting, as the accounts are very much about nurturing continued prosperity for the Republic.
The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division has awarded its first-ever whistleblower payment: $1 million to an individual who exposed a bid-rigging scheme that inflated used car prices.
The whistleblower’s tip led to criminal charges against EBLOCK Corporation, which agreed to pay $3.28 million in fines for failing to stop a conspiracy at a company it acquired.
The case marks a milestone for the Antitrust Division’s six-month-old whistleblower rewards program. It signals the government’s commitment to incentivizing insiders who report corporate wrongdoing, particularly schemes that harm everyday consumers in major purchases like automobiles.
EBLOCK, which operates an online auction platform for used vehicles, acquired Company A in November 2020. Court documents reveal
President Donald Trump filed a $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service for negligently allowing one of its contractors to maliciously leak his tax returns to the New York Times and other leftist media outlets in 2019.
Trump, who filed the 27-page federal complaint Thursday in Miami, also named the U.S. Treasury Department as a co-defendant.
Trump is suing in his personal capacity as the founder and former CEO of the Trump Organization, and not in his official capacity as president. The litigation was jointly filed by his sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, as well as the Trump Organization.
In the complaint, the president said the IRS did not properly
Former cable news anchor Don Lemon was arrested last night, multiple sources with direct knowledge tell CBS News. A source familiar says a grand jury was empaneled on this yesterday. FBI and HSI were involved in the arrest, sources say.
It was not immediately clear what charges he would be facing. Abbe Lowell, Lemon's lawyer, confirmed he was taken into custody by federal agents Thursday night in Los Angeles, where he was covering this weekend's Grammy Awards.
President Donald Trump said Friday he intends to nominate Kevin Warsh as the next chairman of the Federal Reserve, marking a comeback for the former Fed governor who was passed over for the top job in 2017.
“I have known Kevin for a long period of time, and have no doubt that he will go down as one of the GREAT Fed Chairmen, maybe the best,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. “On top of everything else, he is ‘central casting,’ and he will never let you down.”
Warsh, 55, served on the Fed’s Board of Governors from 2006 to 2011 and has advised Trump on economic policy.
Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, said Nashville Electric Service (NES) was discussing internal diversity initiatives even as tens of thousands of customers remained without power following Winter Storm Fern.
On Thursday’s edition of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, as more than 86,000 NES customers were without power, Pappert reported that a draft board agenda from the Wednesday, January 28 meeting showed NES considering whether to renew a consulting contract focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
“Nashville Electric Service is under scrutiny across the nation because they have up to 90,000 now, people still without power
An agenda published ahead of the Nashville Electric Service (NES) board meeting held on Wednesday includes a contract extension for a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) consultant who also appears to work full-time for the municipally owned power company now facing scrutiny as 90,000 homes remain without power days after a winter storm.
Listed in the agenda under recommended purchases and contracts for the Wednesday meeting, the board was recommended to grant a six-month extension to the contract for Tony Williams, who currently provides “Consulting for DEI Projects and Initiatives” for NES.
A letter from Nashville Electric Service (NES) CEO Teresa Broyles-Aplin, included as part of the municipally owned power company’s resurfaced Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) report for 2024, reveals NES held over 100 training sessions as part of its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) agenda.
Broyles-Aplin wrote in her letter, included at the beginning of the 2024 ESG report, “NES’ Human Relations Department implemented Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Accessibility, & Belonging (DEIAB) trainings,” and ultimately held, “a total of 102 sessions in 2023 and the first quarter of 2024 for both organization-wide education and nuanced resources for leadership positions.”
Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville believes former Vice President Kamala Harris has “no chance” in winning the presidency in 2028 if she decides to run.
Instead, he has his money set on one Democrat: Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker.
During an interview with Fox News contributor Raymond Arroyo, Carville emphasized that Democrats need to ask themselves “two really important questions” to win over the nomination.
The first, according to Carville, is whether they can “raise a lot of early money.”
“Because no matter how they set it up... when it happens, it happens quickly,” Carville said in comments released Wednesday.
The Rise of the New Confederacy
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"What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun," King Solomon famously observed in the Koheleth (Book of Ecclesiastes). Truer words have never been written. Look no further than the present anarchic tumult in Minnesota.
On Jan. 12, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison initiated a lawsuit on behalf of the North Star State, along with municipal co-plaintiffs Minneapolis and St. Paul, against Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Todd Lyons and the rest of the Trump administration's immigration enforcement apparatus. In his press conference announcing the suit,
Joe wrote about Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner going on an unhinged tirade against ICE agents, promising to hunt them down like Nazis. But there’s more: he plans to prevent them from being pardoned by Trump by slapping state charges on them. It’s not a surprising development, but rather a spin-off of the Georgia lawfare against Donald Trump that fell apart once the prosecutor’s office’s numerous conflicts of interest and inflammatory remarks came under scrutiny. (X) I mean, this is deranged behavior, a window into the lawless, anti-cop disposition that permeates the Democratic Party. CNN’s Scott Jennings tore into Krasner this week
Is Canada Really Warming?
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Is Canada really warming at double the global average rate, as the Canadian government says it is? A new report says no, because the data Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) uses are apparently corrupted by fundamental mistakes, mistakes so severe that when corrected, all the supposed warming of the past six or seven decades vanishes.
Given that Canada represents a large fraction of global land surface area, one naturally wonders if the world is warming at anything like we are told it is.
This discovery should have generated mainstream media headlines across Canada. After all, the mistakes in the Canadian temperature data were discovered over four years ago
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists’ “Doomsday Clock,” which is supposed to be an expert assessment of how close the world is to a nuclear holocaust, ticked down to 85 seconds to midnight this week.
Are you scared? You shouldn’t be. The clock has proved to be a terrible measure of doomsday, but a near-perfect measure of the left’s grip on power, reliably moving away from midnight when Democrats are in the White House, and closer to Armageddon during Republican administrations.
First, look at the reasons behind why it ticked closer to midnight this year.
One of those listed
Goodbye, California
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California’s long goodbye continues apace, as that state’s leftists are promoting a wealth tax on the rich, to be enacted by ballot proposition. We are only after billionaires, they say. Just give us five percent of your money, they say, and we will be satisfied. We won’t come back for more.
No one believes them.
Now California’s rich are packing up to leave:
Over the last week, I spoke with 21 billionaires about the looming prospect of a wealth tax. We discussed whether they left or are planning to leave California (most of them are), what a wealth tax means for the technology industry, and finally how,
According to [Gad] Saad's thesis, empathy becomes misdirected into a type of benevolent altruism that prioritizes the perceived feelings and needs of "marginalized" or external groups at the expense of the survival, security, and interests of one's own group and its values. The outcome is the weakening, and ultimately the destruction, of the very civilization that expressed this emotion.
The problem? This concept of suicidal empathy unfortunately does not work. As the term predicts, it ends up killing its host.
What we observe, however, in many people, is a highly selective empathy, precisely the opposite of caring about everyone.
Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, released a bombshell report with new and damning information on Wednesday. On Wednesday afternoon she shared with White House reporters at the daily briefing. The documents reveal it was Barack Obama and the FBI and CIA leadership at the time to sabotage President Trump before he even stepped into office. Obama did this knowing the entire story was manufactured and not a word of it was true.
Gabbard released one House Intelligence Report that had been locked up in a CIA vault for almost a decade!
I don’t know where CNN finds its liberal guests, but Tiffany Cross, a failed MSNBC host, is elite in how laughably incorrect her observations are, which is in keeping with the office culture of her former employer. MSNBC, or MS Now, only serves to keep liberal America’s blood pressure low through shoddy propaganda that withers under scrutiny. Cross tried to argue Tuesday night that ICE might be riddled with white supremacists, which sent conservative commentator Kevin O’Leary over the edge. She later called him a cultist for the MAGA movement, which was also not well-received.
“Melania” kicked off its big rollout this weekend, with a premiere at the Trump-Kennedy Center Thursday evening, followed by appearances on 1,500 screens nationwide beginning Friday.
“I’m very proud of the film,” Melania told reporters Thursday evening as she arrived for the event with her husband, wearing a black Dolce and Gabbana dress.
“You will see humor, you will see grief, you will see fashion,” the first lady said of what the audience can expect, noting that the public will learn “what it takes from going from private citizen to first lady again.”
Alex Pretti wasn’t killed while “protesting.”
This is a common description of what he was doing on a Minneapolis street Saturday, when a confrontation with federal immigration agents ended in his tragic shooting.
But if Pretti had been a mere protester, he’d very likely be alive today.
Now that we’ve seen videos of an earlier struggle with federal agents and learned more about the organized nature of the anti-ICE resistance, it’s become clear that the better word for Pretti was agitator, or perhaps even operative.
A protester, as typically understood, is someone who is making a point, often as part of a gathering of other like-minded people and,
City Council Speaker Julie Menin introduced legislation Thursday to create an up to 100-foot buffer zone for protests outside synagogues and other houses of worship.
The new proposed bill from the city’s first Jewish council speaker would allow the NYPD to establish a security perimeter of maximum 100 feet around religious institutions during demonstrations, to be determined on a case-by-case basis.
“Jewish New Yorkers make up roughly 10 percent of our city’s population yet last year they were the victims of more than half of all reported hate crimes. That’s a reality we cannot normalize and we cannot ignore,” Menin said.
Trump threatens tariffs on any country
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President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order that would impose a tariff on any goods from countries that sell or provide oil to Cuba, a move that could further cripple an island plagued by a deepening energy crisis.
The order would primarily put pressure on Mexico, a government that has acted as an oil lifeline for Cuba and has constantly voiced solidarity for the US adversary even as President Claudia Sheinbaum has sought to build a strong relationship with Trump.
Trump was asked by a reporter Thursday whether he was trying to “choke off” Cuba, which he called a “failing nation.”
“The word ‘choke off’ is awfully tough,” Trump said.
President Donald Trump is suing the IRS and Treasury Department for $10 billion, as he accuses the federal agencies of a failure to prevent a leak of the president’s tax information to news outlets between 2018 and 2020.
The suit, filed in a Florida federal court Thursday, includes the president’s sons Eric Trump and, Donald Trump Jr. and the Trump organization as plaintiffs.
The filing alleges that the leak of Trump and the Trump Organization’s confidential tax records caused “reputational and financial harm, public embarrassment, unfairly tarnished their business reputations, portrayed them in a false light, and negatively affected President Trump,
The 25-year-old Iranian fashion designer hoped that mass protests nearly four years ago — the ones that erupted after a young woman was arrested and died in custody for not wearing the hijab properly — would improve civil rights in the Islamic Republic.
Not much changed, though. Being on those streets, she felt, may have been for nothing. But it didn’t deter her.
In early January, she protested again. The sea of people across Tehran’s busy streets lifted her spirits. This time, the spark was inflation and the plummeting value of the Iranian rial — though chants soon targeted the country’s theocratic leaders.
During recent hearings on the Trump administration’s Venezuela operation, Secretary of State Marco Rubio forcefully rebutted an argument from Senator Rand Paul. Sen. Paul claimed the administration had violated the Constitution by forcefully removing an elected official from another country. Rubio quickly countered that Nicolás Maduro was not a legitimately elected leader, whose rule rests on widely acknowledged rigged elections, and noted that Maduro has also been indicted in the United States on drug trafficking charges.
"I think we are in violation of both the spirit and the law of the Constitution by bombing a capital, blockading a country, and removing an elected official," Paul said.
“The Government of Cuba has taken extraordinary actions that harm and threaten the United States. The regime aligns itself with — and provides support for — numerous hostile countries, transnational terrorist groups, and malign actors adverse to the United States, including the Government of the Russian Federation (Russia), the People’s Republic of China (PRC), the Government of Iran, Hamas, and Hezbollah,” the order reads.
“For example, Cuba blatantly hosts dangerous adversaries of the United States, inviting them to base sophisticated military and intelligence capabilities in Cuba that directly threaten the national security of the United States.”
"Regime change? Oh no, I think we would would love to see the regime change," Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday while testifying before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations when some Democrat tried to ask him a "gotcha" question about Cuba. While Rubio wouldn't own up to it — and I'm not sure that "regime change" is the appropriate phrasing — I think it's pretty obvious that a free Cuba is a goal of the Donald Trump administration. I mean, they wouldn't 'fess up to plans to dethrone Nicolás Maduro either, but we knew that was coming for months, and we watched it happen on January 3.
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President Donald Trump threatened to decertify Canadian-made aircraft and impose a 50% tariff unless Canada approves Gulfstream jets, accusing Ottawa of illegally blocking certification while allowing its own planes access to the American market.
The dispute centers on aircraft certification, a regulatory process that determines whether planes can be sold and operated in a country. Trump has accused Canadian authorities of using that process to restrict U.S.-made Gulfstream jets.
"Based on the fact that Canada has wrongfully, illegally, and steadfastly refused to certify the Gulfstream 500, 600, 700, and 800 Jets, one of the greatest, most technologically advanced airplanes ever made, we are hereby decertifying their Bombardier Global Expresses, and all
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro has accused JD Vance of being antisemitic for not mentioning that it was the Jewish people who were killed in the Holocaust in his post marking Holocaust Remembrance Day. Shapiro, however, did not explicitly state that it were Jews killed in the Holocaust either. (snip) "It is not surprising to me, however, given the way in which he has openly supported the AfD Party, given the way he openly embraces neo-Nazis and neo-Nazi political parties, given the way in which he has offered comfort, really, to the antisemites on the right who are infecting the Republican Party," Shapiro continued.
Brit who was left paralysed after accident
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reveals what it's like to have Elon Musk's
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One of the first British patients to receive Elon Musk's controversial brain-computer implant has described what it is like to live with the futuristic chip. Sebastian Gomez-Pena is taking part in the first UK clinical trial of the Neuralink device, which allows users to control a computer using only their thoughts. The former medical student, who was left paralysed from the neck down after a devastating accident two years ago, told Sky News: 'It is a massive change in your life where you can suddenly no longer move any of your limbs.
'This kind of technology kind of gives you a new piece of hope.'
On Tuesday of this week, atomic scientists readjusted the Doomsday clock to 11:58:35, or 85 seconds to Midnight, the narrowest window pointing to mankind's purported annihilation ever.
Now keep in mind, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, which almost was the actual annihilation of humans if Russia and the U.S. started exchanging nuclear warheads, the clock was set to 11:53. It's a silly metric, and wholly unserious when considering the geopolitics of all that's going on, past and present. But if we're looking at the longetivity of the Iranian theocracy that's had a deadly iron grip on Persia for nearly 47 years, all indications are the mullahs' time is just about
The Senate on Thursday evening reached a deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security for just two weeks as lawmakers hope to pass a significant spending package in an effort to avoid a partial government shutdown.
Lawmakers kicked the rest of the government's annual funding bills over to the House of Representatives. The Senate will not vote on Jan. 29 to advance the deal struck by lawmakers, a Senate aide informed USA TODAY. The chamber will reconvene at 11 a.m. ET on Jan. 30, according to the Senate Press Gallery. Though the agreement reached Thursday doesn't guarantee a partial government shutdown won't still happen, it marked a big step forward