Lippmann was one of the most successful people who ever lived.... No other journalist in American history has had so much influence on events, had his hand in so many state papers, been on such equal terms with the great. No other wrote books that became such famous keys to each era in turn, was able to impart to newspaper and magazine columns, with such a magisterial air of cultivation, political intelligence of the coolest and most decisive sort.
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. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground.
Barely a week after confessing she had embezzled money from Lake Tahoe Community Presbyterian Church, South Lake Tahoe Mayor Tamara Wallace has resigned, and encouraged her Mayor pro tem to also resign over his bar fight allegations. So Mayor Wallace is out, and South Lake Tahoe City Council will have to discuss picking a new mayor and other issues at their October 21 meeting. [KOVR]
The Orange city council member comes from O.C. Republican royalty. Her grandfather, Cruz, was a Mexican immigrant and civil rights pioneer who registered with the GOP in the late 1940s after Democratic leaders wouldn't help him and other activists fight school segregation against Mexican American students in Orange County. Her second cousin, Steve Ambriz, was a rising GOP star serving on the Orange City Council when he was killed by wrong-way driver in 2006.
Trump is planning on hosting tele-rallies for Ciattarelli, in which he will address supporters by phone. Meanwhile, allies and surrogates to the president are helping to raise millions of dollars for a pro-Ciattarelli super PAC, according to a person familiar with the discussions. Senior Republican strategists say Trump could be most helpful by energizing his voters during an off year-election, when turnout is likely to be down. In recent elections, Republicans have struggled to turn out voters when Trump isn't on the ballot.
On Tuesday, U.S. President Donald Trump emphasized his support for Argentine President Javier Milei and made his backing for the country conditional on the populist leader's victory in the October 26 legislative elections. These statements came during a meeting between Trump and Milei in the West Wing of the White House, scheduled after Washington promised a $20 billion currency swap to shore up the South American country's economy.
It was part of a larger struggle over control of Congress in next year's midterm elections, but now the conflict has broadened: to California, where Gavin Newsom's Democrats are trying to squeeze more Democratic seats out of their map; to Indiana, where Republicans are hoping to repeat what they did in Texas on a smaller scale; and to other states across the country.
While many lawyers and advocates for immigrants have decried SCOTUS' implicit permission for continued racial profiling, the 93-year-old retired lawman sees the 6-3 decision as a vindication of his aggressive and constitutionally questionable policing tactics in arresting Latinos. "I was just cleared by the Supreme Court," Arpaio explained to me over the phone. "Obama and Biden went after me for racial profiling. ... They went after me [and] the Supreme Court ruled in my favor last month."
A federal judge heard arguments Tuesday to decide whether maneuvers used by the Trump administration to install Bill Essayli as acting United States attorney in Los Angeles are improper - and, if so, what should be done about it. During a Tuesday hearing in downtown L.A., Senior Judge J. Michael Seabright - who flew in from Hawaii for the proceeding - wondered how to proceed after defense attorneys sought to dismiss indictments against three clients and to disqualify Essayli
According to the brief press release, Mexican criminal networks have directed collaborators in the United States to monitor, harass, and even assassinate deployed federal agents. They detail a structured reward system to incentivize violence against federal personnel, with payments increasing based on rank and the action taken: $2,000 for gathering information or disclosing personal data about agents, including photos and family details;
House Republicans are dragging their feet on letting Grijalva officially join their ranks and have been using the government shutdown as an excuse. However, it's widely speculated that a major reason for the delay in swearing her in is the vote to release the Epstein files, as Grijalva would be the 218th vote to pass the bill in the House; she's publicly made this accusation many times herself.
Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook content moderation had gone too far earlier this year, and promised less censorship. Until his boss man Trump told him to censor a Facebook page that ICE complained about, and Zuck quickly complied. It was well before Donald Trump had even been reelected yet when Facebook founder and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologized to Republicans for adhering to the Biden administration's request to censor certain COVID-19 content because that content was complete bullshit about ivermectin and such.
We're going to get to the funding of Antifa, we're going to get to the root of Antifa, and we are going to find and charge all of those people who are causing this chaos in Portland and all these other cities across our country. Talk to all the influencers who have been threatened and beat up and their lives threatened from Antifa members.
This is not an isolated case, because like this marriage, in which one spouse is undocumented and the other is a U.S. citizen, there are 1.4 million mixed-nationality couples who live in fear of being separated. Separation, however, has become a lesser evil in many cases, given the treatment received by those who end up in ICE custody. Many couples prefer to continue their relationship long-distance rather than enter the uncertain process of detention and deportation.
Robert F Kennedy Jr is the father of six children. He's also the US health secretary. Two facts that might lead a reasonable person to assume he possesses a basic understanding of how foetuses develop. In a shocking development, however, it seems that Kennedy an anti-vaxxer who says his brain was partly eaten by a parasitic worm may not know what he's talking about.
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.
The new policy announced by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth sparked immediate outrage from the Pentagon Press Association as an unprecedented message of intimidation, including the threat of criminal prosecution and the demand that reporters get approval from Department of Defense officials before publication. The vast majority of broadcast and cable news networks including conservative ones like Fox News and Newsmax voiced strong opposition to the new policy, issuing a statement that it was without precedent and threatens core journalistic protections
