US politics

US politics

Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who had ruled agains the administration's attempts to close the bureau in March, wrote in her Tuesday decision that the administration's latest funding argument is an unsupported and transparent attempt to achieve the very end the court's injunction was put in place to prevent. The decision is just the latest in a battle over the bureau's existence.

Related: Looking Back at Kellyanne Conway's Anti-LGBTQ+ Rhetoric That apparently includes lesbian comedian Rosie O'Donnell, who has been married twice to women. In the episode, Conway and her colleagues lambasted O'Donnell for her anti-Trump statements, such as those in a recent TikTok video in which O'Donnell called for Trump to be removed from office via the 25 th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

"There is no place in civil society for this kind of violent degeneracy," he posted to social. "Leftists, and specifically the mentally deranged 'trans' community, have declared war on the right. It is time all of our leaders, from the Trump Administration down to the local level, put a stop to all of this immediately. We should not allow the continued incitement of violence by leftists towards the right."

The arch is one of several building projects Trump has pushed for as the country enters into its 250th year, proposed to be constructed at the culmination of a bridge that leads from the Lincoln Memorial to Arlington National Cemetery. The design of models Trump has shown reporters echoes that of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France and would be designed to honor America's military veterans.

The holiday season is here, a time when countless immigrants in the United States are sending a little extra money back home to their families. But now, many are bracing for a new financial hurdle: effective January 1, 2026, a federal 1% remittance tax will go into effect, adding a new cost to the cash, checks, and money orders that millions of immigrants rely on to support loved ones abroad.

Ivanka Trump wasn't the only rich and famous person to head to the posh and snowy mountain town of Aspen, Colorado, to celebrate the Christmas holidays. But according to a report, President Donald Trump's daughter and her family were the only visitors to arrive with a contingent of Secret Service agents that was so large that it put the village and its nearby ski slopes into full-blown security lockdown much to the dismay of others hoping to enjoy the long weekend.

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.

Move comes after a conservative YouTuber claimed daycare centres run by Somali Americans were defrauding the state. United States President Donald Trump's government has frozen childcare payments to the state of Minnesota and launched audits of immigration cases involving Somali Americans, intensifying a campaign that critics say uses fraud investigations to target immigrant communities.

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.

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,

Driving the news: Trump rejected a measure to ease payments for a long-planned water pipeline supporting southeastern Colorado and another that would have expanded the Miccosukee Tribe's reserved area in theFlorida Everglades, the White House announced Tuesday. Both bills swept through Capitol Hill earlier this month. To override his vetoes, both houses of Congress would need to vote by a two-thirds margin - a feat rarely achieved. Congress has done it before to Trump, overriding his veto of a defense funding billat the end of his first term.

Shortly after the director's death, president Donald Trump himself took to social media to blast him as a "tortured and struggling artist," adding that Reiner was a "deranged person as far as Trump is concerned."

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth joined forces with one of social media's most vitriolic anti-trans campaigners last week to drum a Navy Commander out of the service over her support for transgender healthcare. It was a one-two punch from Hegseth in service of the president's crusade against "woke" ideology and transgender people in the federal government and American society at large.

In a year marked by escalating attacks on transgender people, the Trump administration has seemed to outdo its own cruelty at every turn. While the administration has led a series of attempts to curtail trans people's rights, recognition, and safety, neither Congress nor the Supreme Court seem willing to provide a meaningful check on the administration's brazen targeting of trans people and other demonized communities.

Author Kyle Lukoff's 2019 children's book - the first in a series of picture books about the title character - follows a young transgender boy's coming-out journey at school and eventually to his parents. As public radio station WFDD notes, the book is the only one of the nearly 20,000 books in the library's children's collection to so much as mention gender identity.

Has the president convinced himself that he doesn't need to sell his policies and actions? It appears that he believes he can will people into agreeing with him by claiming his achievements are the biggest, best and most amazing in American history. He's gone way too far by slapping his name on buildings (the Donald J. Trump and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts) and government programs (the Navy's Trump-class battleship).