New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani said on Tuesday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is not showing “humanity” in its duties. ICE has received rampant criticism from Democratic lawmakers following an ICE officer-involved shooting in Minneapolis that resulted in the death of Renee Good. Mamdani revealed on The View that he supports “abolishing” the agency. “What […]
Justice Sonia Sotomayor sharply questioned lawyers on Tuesday over why a Hawaii law that preemptively bars gun owners from carrying their weapon on private property should be struck down, as the Supreme Court heard arguments in the high-profile gun rights case. During oral arguments in Wolford v. Lopez, Sotomayor pressed lawyer Alan Beck, who argued […]
Federal judges in Virginia are moving to install their own interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, escalating a monthslong clash with the Trump administration over the legality of President Donald Trump’s handpicked prosecutor, Lindsey Halligan. Chief U.S. District Judge Hannah Lauck announced on Tuesday that the court is soliciting applications for an […]
A federal judge has denied a motion filed by House Democrats who sought to block the Department of Homeland Security from enforcing a new policy that restricts federal lawmakers from visiting Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities without a seven-day notice. In a Monday ruling, U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb of Washington, D.C., determined DHS did […]
The 2028 Democratic presidential primary campaign promises to be a far more cutthroat affair than the 2024 vintage, with voters getting an early sneak peek of things to come this week, thanks to a new book from Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA). The memoir, which will be released on Jan. 27, lays bare the simmering feud […]
A search is underway for the gunman who shot an Indiana judge and his wife in their Lafayette home on Sunday afternoon. Judge Steven Meyer of the Tippecanoe County Superior Court in Indiana and his wife, Kimberly Meyer, were shot by the assailant at around 2:17 p.m. on Sunday, according to the Lafayette Police Department. […]
Maryland Democrats can breathe a sigh of relief after the blue state’s popular former two-term Republican governor, Larry Hogan, announced Tuesday he would not mount a challenge to Gov. Wes Moore (D-MD) this fall. Hogan, who served as governor between 2015 and 2023 and lost a high-profile Senate bid in 2024, announced via op-ed in […]
Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) is unveiling her $260 billion state budget on Tuesday, an ambitious proposal that includes a tax on nicotine products like Zyn but skips an income tax hike. The budget proposal signals Hochul’s defiance of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who wants to tax the rich as part of his economic […]
Former Gov. Roy Cooper (D-NC), the front-runner in the Democratic primary for North Carolina’s open Senate seat, was successfully lobbied in 2019 by an anti-deportation group with financial ties to a dark-money hub. After a pressure campaign from the group, Cooper rejected legislation that would have helped immigration authorities track illegal immigrants who had been […]
The United States and Europe are engaged in a dispute over the Trump administration’s desire to “own” Greenland, taking attention away from Ukraine as it suffers through another brutal winter of Russian troops targeting its infrastructure. Leaders from around the world, excluding Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, descended on Davos, Switzerland, this week for the World […]
