(TMZ/WCVB/Mark Schiefelbein/AP photo) A new video obtained by TMZ shows the moment Bruna Ferreira, the mother of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt's nephew. was detained by ICE agents last week. The security video, shot on November 25 and released by TMZ on Wednesday, shows Ferreira leaving her Revere, MA home before several other vehicles surround her car. Dressed in a gray hoodie, Ferreira exits the car and is promptly placed in handcuffs and led away.
For the past five years, I have taught Legislation & Regulation at Oklahoma City University School of Law, a course situated at the intersection of administrative law, statutory interpretation, and legislative design. Each semester, my students and I return to a foundational question: when, if at all, should courts defer to agency views, and when must the judiciary exercise independent interpretive judgment?
More than a million ballots are in the mail. The first votes will be counted in less than a week. The Santa Clara County Assessor's runoff off election is jogging into the homestretch toward Election Day, Dec. 30. December 30? That's right. An election cycle that began more than five months ago in the bright sun of the summer solstice with the resignation/retirement of Assessor Larry Stone ends in the shadows of its winter counterpart.
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.
After two National Guard soldiers were shot in Washington, D.C. last week, several U.S. pundits and politicians were quick with their descriptions of the alleged attacker. They erroneously assumed that he brought his "culture" or "society" to the United States. "You are not just importing individuals. You are importing societies... At scale, migrants and their descendants recreate the conditions, and terrors, of their broken homelands," said White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller on X.
It is difficult for today's youth to believe, but the snarky T-shirt is a relatively recent innovation. Though they are now everywhere, until the late 1990s one almost never saw another person wearing a shirt that read "Stop looking at my nuts" with a pair of the threaded metal hardware implements pictured, or perhaps one with a sports figure on it and "I just hope both teams have fun."
The proposed bill, which follows last month's boisterous demonstration led by pro-Palestine supporters outside an Upper East Side synagogue in which participants shouted antisemitic phrases and slogans seeks to establish a clear 25-foot buffer zone around houses of worship and healthcare facilities, restricting protests that directly impede access or create a hostile environment for anyone entering or exiting the building.
And now, in what may be his most career-defining moment yet, Hegseth is confronting questions about the use of military force and demands he release the videotapes after a special operations team reportedly attacked survivors of a strike on an alleged drug boat off the coast of Venezuela. Some lawmakers and legal experts say the second strike would have violated the laws of armed conflict.
That strike, just one of more than 20 that have to date killed at least 80 people in the Trump administration's posturing against the regime of Nicolás Maduro, now balanced on the edge of conventional war, recently reignited a firestorm of controversy when fresh reporting at the end of November revealed that a second strike had allegedly been ordered to kill several survivors of the wrecked boat.
Now the Pentagon's top watchdog has concluded that the information Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared in the chat could have put the mission, U.S. personnel, and national security at risk had it fallen into the wrong hands. The information Hegseth shared included the precise times that fighter pilots would attack their targets. If Houthi militants had learned those details in advance, they might have been able to shoot down American planes or better defend their positions.
The uncertain future of science at the embattled space agency, meanwhile, took a back seat at the confirmation hearing for Jared Isaacman. NASA is at an inflection point, said Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, who is chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, which held the hearing. The agency must prioritize if we're to beat China back to the moonand then to Mars.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has claimed that the ignorance of young people and their consumption of content on social media is responsible for their opposition to Israel and its genocide in Gaza, blaming "made up" propaganda on Tuesday while speaking at a conference held by a far right Israeli publication. In remarks on Tuesday, Clinton said that the sentiments among young people following the October 7, 2023, attack are a "serious problem for democracy"
The proposal would significantly reduce fuel economy requirements, which set rules on how far new vehicles need to travel on a gallon of gasoline, through the 2031 model year, according to a White House official and several people familiar with the plan. They were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly because the proposal has not been announced and spoke on condition of anonymity.
