Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Susan Collins (R-ME) bluntly told Bolton, No, when asked if she supports Trump's threats to cut major projects like the $16 billion rail tunnel under the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey. The Trump administration has been putting pressure on Democrats during the ongoing shutdown by stripping their states of major projects and defunding programs, something that critics long warned was part of the Project 2025 playbook.
Behind the scenes: "I almost jumped up on the stage and said, 'Don't ever f--king do that to the president of the United States again - ever," Hunter Biden, still furious months later, told Karl in one of their extensive interviews. The younger Biden insisted his dad was simply taking some time to acknowledge the crowd. "I knew that that was going to be a meme," Hunter recalled. "That really, really, really, really pissed me off."
The leakers and media are at it again, undermining the President's foreign policy. POTUS says there was no yelling at Zelensky, as the media reported. Zelensky said it was a positive meeting. We have seen the same thing between POTUS and Netanyahu, submitted Levin on Monday night. Someone or some people are relentlessly leaking and undermining President Trump and our allies. The perp or perps must be found out and removed, asap.
It is abundantly clear that the Trump administration is unwilling to police its own officers or hold them accountable for gross misconduct. Accordingly, NYPD - pursuant to the department's own mission, values and oath of office - has an obligation to intervene and take appropriate action, including arrest, when federal immigration officers engage in conduct that is unlawful under state law and beyond the scope of their federal enforcement authority.
In 1975, New York City ran out of money. For a decade it had managed to pay for its hundreds of thousands of city employees and robust social services by taking on billions of dollars in debt. But eventually investors were no longer willing to lend the city any more money. New York teetered on the edge of bankruptcy the city shuttered more than a dozen firehouses, teachers went on strike and garbage piled up in the streets.
The problem is that I doubt that this is on Trump's mind. But I trust that the democratic resolve of the American institutions, which do not exist yet in Colombia, are able to put science and truth above slander and arrogance and greed. You mission is not to change Trump, Coronell summed up. No, the president replied. Your mission is to seek the best possible negotiation for those millions of Colombians who depend on those jobs and that economy.
Fishermen in Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago reported being afraid to return to work after the Trump Administration conducted the seventh of its lethal air strikes on suspected drug-trafficking boats since September, eighty-three year-old senator Mitch McConnell fell to the floor while answering a question from two volunteers about whether he supported ICE's practice of abducting people off the streets,
He told the hundreds of generals and admirals gathered to hear him that some of them would be called upon to take a primary role at a time when his administration has launched occupations of American cities, deployed tens of thousands of troops across the United States, created a framework for targeting domestic enemies, cast his political rivals as subhuman, and asserted his right to wage secret war and summarily execute those he deems terrorists.
It's bad enough that our sitting president sits up in either the Oval Office or in some golf cart somewhere, posting racist and/or Democrat-hating AI-generated videos during a time that would be better spent - oh, I don't know - running a country that is currently operating without a funded federal government. But, since Trump has been back in office, the social media feeds the White House and other federal agencies have also become little more than government-run 4chan threads for MAGA rubes who communicate their political ideologies through memes because they don't read books.
I believe Zohran Mamdani poses a danger to the security of the New York Jewish community, Rabbi Cosgrove said. Mamdani's refusal to condemn insightful slogans like globalize the intifada,' his denial of Israel's legitmacy as a Jewish state, his calls to arrest Israel's prime minister should he enter New York, and his thrice-repeated accusation of genocide in Thursday's debate. For these and so many other statements past, present, and unrepentant, he is a danger to the Jewish body politic of New York City.
I couldn't be prouder to represent this borough of constituents, from 190 countries, that speak 360 languages, and dialects, he said, thanking Senator John Liu for putting forward a law to make Diwali a holiday.
The state already permitted carrying weapons as long as they were kept inside a car or somewhere out of public view, but a court declared a 1987 ruling prohibiting open carry unconstitutional. Now, people can walk around with pistols in their waistbands or rifles and submachine guns slung on their shoulders, except in places where it is expressly prohibited, such as businesses or private properties, which decide whether or not to allow it.
Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller says the central bank is entering a "new era" in payments - one that openly embraces decentralized finance (DeFi), distributed ledgers, and digital asset innovation as part of the mainstream financial system. Speaking Tuesday at the Fed's first-ever Payments Innovation Conference in Washington, Waller said the central bank intends to play an "active role" in the crypto revolution transforming the global payments landscape.
When Donald Trump arrived in Israel last week to celebrate his Gaza agreement, Israelis of all stripes fell over themselves to thank him for his efforts to end the war and bring hostages home. The Knesset was lit up in red, white, and blue; its members gave the president a two-and-a-half-minute standing ovation when he arrived. A Tel Aviv beach was decorated with a giant silhouette of his face.
Cruz's phone records were ultimately not analyzed as part of Smith's Jan. 6 Capitol attack investigation because AT&T did not comply with the subpoena, according to a source directly familiar with the situation. Between the lines: The disclosure makes Cruz the ninth Republican senator for whom the Justice Department sought phone records, according to a copy of a subpoena obtained by Axios.
US President Donald Trump announced a deal with pharmaceutical giant Pfizer on 30 September, aimed at improving the affordability of drugs for people in the country. This is the first concrete step under Trump's 'most-favoured nation' policy, which intends to align US medicine prices to those in other wealthy countries. But it is unlikely to deliver the promised reductions in drug costs, and the knock-on effects could adversely affect public health globally.
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.
Court documents obtained by CBS News said Christopher Moynihan was arrested Sunday after saying in text messages that he planned to "eliminate" Jeffries when the top House Democrat spoke at an event in New York City on Monday. According to a court filing by prosecutors in the New York state criminal case, Moynihan wrote, "Hakeem Jeffries makes a speech in a few days in NYC I cannot allow this terrorist to live."
The Central Intelligence Agency is providing the bulk of the intelligence used to carry out the controversial lethal air strikes by the Trump administration against small, fast-going boats in the Caribbean Sea suspected of carrying drugs from Venezuela, according to three sources familiar with the operations. Experts say the agency's central role means much of the evidence used to select which alleged smugglers to kill on the open sea will almost certainly remain secret.
