US politics

US politics

I want to do a little bit of a lightning round, because it's not often I'll get access to a president of the United States, Cohen said. Come on, man, Obama encouraged him. So, couple questions here: Are aliens real? They're real, but I haven't seen them, and they're not being kept in Area 51, Obama said. There's no underground facility, he continued, adding, unless there's this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the President of the United States.

I think we are on this precipice, teetering on this little thing where we have no problem discussing how bad marijuana is but don't attack alcohol, because that's a part of our culture. Well you know what, people get behind the wheel drinking everyday and kill people. I'd much rather smell weed on the side of the street than liquor on someone's breath trying to talk to me. So I think we can be hypocrites about it.

She said she has been assuring European leaders at the conference that she has absolute certainty Democrats will take control of the House of Representatives despite her many concerns about the elections. Pelosi said she is alarmed by the involvement of Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard in a FBI raid on a polling station in Fulton County, Georgia to retrieve 2020 ballots.

Vermont's Democratic Socialist senator and Florida's right-wing governor want to slam the brakes on the hundreds of resource-intensive new facilities springing up across the country to power the artificial intelligence industry. And both point to profits, not the public good, as the real factor motivating the boom. In many ways, the convergence was inevitable. Public wariness about the data-center industry is growing, and politicians could no longer ignore the outcry. Public skepticism of AI is also ubiquitous.

According to the motion for grand jury transcripts that Lemon and Georgia Fort (the other journalist charged in the case) filed yesterday, also on Tuesday, their attorneys had a video meeting with whoever plans to prosecute this case, at which DOJ opposed the bid to get transcripts. On February 10, 2026, counsel for Mr. Lemon and Ms. Fort met and conferred by video with government counsel and advised of their intent to file this joint motion. The government, through counsel, indicated they oppose this motion.

In an eyewitness video analyzed frame by frame by The New York Times, Alex Pretti raises one hand and holds a phone in the other. Federal agents tackle him, and one appears to find and remove a gun holstered on his hip. Then, an agent shoots - and a second follows. They appear to fire nine more shots as Pretti lies on the ground.

All I said to people who say, you have this tension, we didn't have any attention. All I said is, if you want to be a legislator and pass bills, it's important to have the votes to do it. It doesn't help to go online and criticize the people that you want to have because they're not as progressive as you are. She's been a star, eloquent, forceful, and the rest. And she gets along very well with Hakeem Jeffries. They have a New York connection, but I'm so glad she's here.

One of the most dramatic cases involves Larry Bushart, a retired police officer in Lexington, Tenn, according to NPR. A self-described progressive and "keyboard warrior," he posted memes that mocked Republican officials' mourning over Kirk. He was arrested by local police at the request of Sheriff Nick Weems of Perry County, Tenn. Prosecutors later dropped the charges, and Bushart is now suing, represented by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.

It is important for us to recognize the unprecedented nature of what ICE was doing in Minneapolis, St Paul, the way that federal agents, ICE agents were being deployed, without any clear guidelines, training, pulling people out of their homes, using five-year-olds to try to bait their parents, all the stuff that we saw, teargassing crowds simply who were standing there, not breaking any laws, he added.

Dulcie and her family, who live in the Twin Cities metro, are afraid every day when they leave for work and school. "All of my friends are staying at home. No one comes out. It gets to me," said Dulcie, who declined to use her last name because she fears retribution from federal agents, who have been detaining citizens and legal immigrants.

Maher had a lot to say about the current president's recent attacks on climate change. "He thinks it's just some bullshit that people made up out of nothing to get rich. You know, like crypto," Maher said. He went on to say that the EPA's recent decision to stop regulating climate change was arguably "the biggest dick move in American history."

Since Donald Trump's first term, Stephen Miller has risen into an architect and enforcer of some of the president's most controversial policies. On Washington Week With The Atlantic, panelists joined to discuss the senior aide's rise, and how he's become one of the most powerful figures in the Trump administration.

Millions nationwide have begun the process of filing their yearly taxes - including many immigrants without a permanent immigration status. But since President Donald Trump's return to the White House, his administration has sought access to IRS data - including taxpayers' addresses - to further its immigration crackdown and locate undocumented immigrants. And last April, ICE and its parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security, secured a data-sharing agreement with the IRS, alarming many taxpayers who use ITINs to file.

The government's ability to deal with drones that pose a threat on American soil has been questioned this week after the use of a laser designed to shoot down drones near the border in Texas led to the abrupt closure of the airspace over El Paso, sources familiar with the situation told The Associated Press. The details of exactly what happened before the Federal Aviation Administration shut down the busy airport in the Mexican border city on Wednesday aren't entirely clear,

Let's get to the really important news out of the White House is that there is a baby boom going on there. Usha Vance, pregnant. Karoline Leavitt, pregnant, and Stephen Miller's wife, they're all about to have children. You know, they love babies over there at the conservative side of America. I don't understand it, but they think we need more babies. I always think we'd need less. Definitely less

Former President Barack Obama broke his silence on President Donald Trump posting a video depicting both him and his wife Michelle Obama as apes, arguing there is a lack of shame among the president's supporters. Obama joined Brian Tyler Cohen for the Saturday episode of his podcast where the former president dove into a variety of issues, but he first addressed Trump's controversial video post to social media, which he's since blamed on an unidentified staffer.

He had one big takeaway from his visit: "ICE will not win there." The out gay president and CEO of Interfaith Alliance - a progressive religious organization working to challenge Christian nationalism and religious extremism - told LGBTQ Nation that he was utterly blown away by the determination of those protesting the Trump administration's brutal Operation Metro Surge, which resulted in the deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good and in the suffering of countless others.

Just wanted to give you a heads up that if you see some weird comments on my Instagram that I haven't had a chance to delete yet, it's because I got called out for criticizing a pedophile-protecting-American-who-was-executed-by-ICE-slandering-person,