This third possibility has often been overlooked by commentary around Zohran Mamdani's election as New York City mayor. However, this scenario fits the tenure of John Vliet Lindsay perfectly: a New York mayor who, from 1966 to 1973, passed progressive legislation that leftists would dream of winning today, but whose administration nonetheless oversaw an erosion of working-class power. Because of this failure, Lindsay's good intentions and accomplishments were largely for naught.
It's a despicable way of looking at humanitarianism and humanitarian aid. She criticised the way the UN had praised Donald Trump and the pledge as generous despite the many conditions placed upon it. It also points to the fact that the UN system itself is now so subservient to the American system that it is literally bowing down to just one power without actually being more objective in how it views humanitarianism and humanitarian aid, Khan said.
Republican representative Lauren Boebert has fired back at Donald Trump for vetoing a bill that would have funded a drinking water project in her Colorado district, implying the president was playing at political retaliation. The bill was aimed at funding a decades-long project to bring safe drinking water to 39 communities in Colorado's eastern plains, where the groundwater is high in salt and wells sometimes unleash radioactivity into the water supply.
They stole 18 billion dollars! said Trump. That's just what we're learning about. That's peanuts. He went on to claim that there was additional fraud in other Democratic-led states, calling it a reason for a good new year because his administration would get that money back. And California is worse. Illinois is worse. And sadly New York is worse. A lot of other places, he said.
This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz revisit several favorite segments from Gabfests past to celebrate their 20th anniversary: the consequential and eye-opening "don't call the police" debate, the segment in which John shows Bill Clinton how to apologize with his characteristic eloquence and grace, and that time a data scientist definitively answered the important question: which host interrupts the others the most?
Basic income pilots have distributed over $335 million in economic relief to Americans. A coalition supported by 250 US lawmakers gathered preliminary reports for 27 pilot programs. Of that collection, none of the pilot programs resulted in employment or workforce decline. As Americans navigated economic uncertainty in recent years, including inflation and increased consumer prices, dozens of lawmakers threw their support behind guaranteed income programs.
Asked whether he developed evidence that Donald Trump was responsible for the violence at the Capitol on January 6, Smith did not say yes or no. He said Trump caused the circumstances, exploited the violence once it began, and understood what it was doing for him. That answer is now at the center of a political firestorm because the Justice Department released the full 255-page transcript of Smith's closed-door testimony late on New Year's Eve, a timing that guaranteed selective reading and rapid political framing.
What sucks for them is they're never gonna be able to get me. I don't drink alcohol, I don't do drugs, I'm a virgin. I don't have sex with random girls. You're not gonna catch me on those sexual allegation charges. I don't have any addictions, I don't have any vices. So what are these people gonna get me for. They're done.
We cannot compete globally while navigating a vulnerable, 1970s-era overhead grid. Reliability is a shared responsibility; as neighbors, we are committed to trimming private trees and providing maintenance access. However, we need a matching commitment to modernization. We plead for PG&E and the city to invoke Rule 20A credits to underground our lines. Moving the grid beneath the surface is a public safety necessity for our families and students.
The Jan. 6., 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol "does not happen" without Donald Trump, former special counsel Jack Smith told lawmakers earlier this month in characterizing the Republican president as the "most culpable and most responsible person" in the criminal conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The Republican-led House Judiciary Committee released on Wednesday a transcript and video of a closed-door interview Smith gave about two investigations of Trump.
As midnight struck in New York, the giant ball of Irish crystals and LED lights descended from atop the building at 1 Times Square to mark, as it does every year, the end of one era and the beginning of another. And the city didn't just welcome 2026, or the second quarter of the 21st century. Its nearly 8.5 million inhabitants also hailed the dawn of a new age, the age of Zohran Kwame Mamdani.
During an on-camera virtual press conference on Monday, however, Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth confirmed her caucus helped point the creator in the direction of where to look. Opening the meeting, Demuth welcomed the attention, placing blame on the Walz administration for failing to act. Fraud needs to end in the state, she said. And if this is what it takes, since there's been inaction by our current governor, then this is where we're at.
Nothing in ICE's courthouse-arrest policies or the case law identified by the government explains the lack of a logical connection between ICE's rationales and its expansion of civil arrests at immigration courthouses. This, too, likely makes ICE's courthouse-arrest policies arbitrary and capricious. The ruling applies to the jurisdiction of the ICE San Francisco field office, which includes courts in Concord, Sacramento, Central California, Hawaii, Guam and Saipan.
In a Truth Social post, Trump wrote that much of Minnesota Fraud, up to 90%, is caused by people that came into our Country, illegally, from Somalia. He also repeated attacks on Somali American Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, calling her one of the many scammers. Send them back from where they came, Somalia, perhaps the worst, and most corrupt, country on earth, Trump wrote.
The increase in the US is all the more pronounced given the gradual decline in capital punishment that had been the prevailing wind in the US for most of the past two decades. It stands starkly discordant with the trend in public opinion. Gallup, which has been taking the pulse of the American public's views on the death penalty since 1937, found that this year 52% supported it for people convicted of murder a 50-year low. Most Americans under 55 now oppose the practice.
God Bless Tina Peters, who is now, for two years out of nine, sitting in a Colorado Maximum Security Prison, at the age of 73, and sick, for the crime' of trying to stop the massive voter fraud that goes on in her State ( where people are leaving in record numbers!), began Trump in a post on Truth Social. Hard to wish her a Happy New Year,
