The Trump administration has revoked the visas of six foreigners deemed by U.S. officials to have made derisive comments or made light of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk last month. The State Department said Tuesday it had determined they should lose their visas after reviewing their online social media posts and clips about Kirk, who was killed while speaking at a Utah college campus on Sept. 10.
WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration has revoked the visas of six foreigners deemed by U.S. officials to have made derisive comments or made light of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk last month. The State Department said Tuesday it had determined they should lose their visas after reviewing their online social media posts and clips about Kirk, who was killed while speaking at a Utah college campus on Sept. 10.
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Louisiana v. Callais began with a simple act of compliance. After a federal court found that the state's congressional map violated the VRA by weakening Black voters' power, Louisiana's Republican Legislature was ordered to draw a second majority-Black district.
Republican leaders in North Carolina said they will redraw their state's congressional maps to add another Republican seat, becoming the latest in a growing list of states conducting mid-decade gerrymandering to favor one party before the 2026 midterms. Legislative leaders in the southern state said they would use an October legislative session to block the efforts of blue state Democrats to take control of Congress from Republicans after Donald Trump had called on state legislatures to undertake redistricting to defend their congressional majority.
Imagine this: You've got just an hour before your flight starts boarding, you're schlepping a carry-on backpack stuffed to the brim, your passport's in one hand, the handle to a suitcase with a faulty wheel is in the other, and you're about to finally go through security-when a video of Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem whining about Democrats starts blaring. That'd be my last straw.
"Does he or does he not have a brain worm?" Behar asked, slamming her hand down on the table. "It ate just a little bit of his brain and died," Hines responded. "So don't worry." The other women of The View were confused, seemingly not having heard of the famous Kennedy brain worm, which was first reported on by the New York Times in May 2024.
A chaotic school board meeting in Maine on Wednesday night confirms a trend among anti-trans MAGA activists desperate for attention in Donald Trump's crusade against trans identity: stripping in public. The Augusta School Board devolved into partially-nude anarchy last week when local MAGA activist Nick Blanchard, who led the stunt, delivered an angry speech from the podium as two women stripped down to their underwear next to him and yelled at board members and the audience.
Another round of anti-Trump 'No Kings' protests will unfold across several South Florida cities this Saturday, among thousands across the country during heightened political unrest and a government shutdown. The protests, scheduled from Miami to West Palm Beach, will coincide with Trump's return to his Mar-a-Lago residence this weekend for a fundraiser. Previous peaceful protests have drawn thousands to cities across South Florida.
Donald Trump has again said he'd pressure Fifa to remove 2026 World Cup games from a host city on the basis of that city's politics, with Boston becoming the third such city to come in for threats from the US president. Trump also said he would consider similar action against Los Angeles for the 2028 Olympics on account of potential safety issues.
A now-removed Reddit post, from around 6 a.m. Tuesday, claimed the controversial video was playing at San Francisco International Airport. However, spokesperson Doug Yakel told SFGATE that the video is not playing at SFO and never has. "This video is not being played at SFO, consistent with our policy prohibiting any messaging of a political nature," SFO said on Threads. The Reddit post had more than 600 upvotes and almost 80 comments before moderators removed it for misinformation.
No, it's really meant to help a good financial philosophy, where Argentina can, after 20 years of disaster because it was very successful at one point, and it can be again, like Venezuela. Venezuela was very, very successful, and now it's a dictatorship. So, when we can help our neighbors you know, we're making tremendous progress in South America. [Secretary of State Marco Rubio] was telling me he's like our great expert here. He really knows it.
Spotify has been no stranger to controversy over the past few years, with local bands pulling their music from the platform and rallying at in-person events around the Bay Area that proclaim "death to Spotify." Many of those protests surrounded poor royalty payments and outgoing CEO Daniel Ek's involvement in the military industrial complex; however, those disillusioned with the service now have another reason to consider other streaming options. Spotify is running an ad campaign for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
"Although vehemently denied by appellant and Victor Aenlle, the evidentiary record is highly suggestive that appellant Sheriff Corpus and Mr. Aenlle were in a romantic extra-marital relationship," Emerson wrote in the report. "Corpus elevated her own interest in the close personal relationship she held with Mr. Aenlle above her obligation to appoint, recruit, select, and/or retain based upon merit and in conformity with the principles of equal opportunity."
A rainbow crosswalk and a street mural declaring "Black Artists Matter" in Austin, Texas, are in danger of being removed after the state's governor Greg Abbott ordered the Texan transportation department to enforce a directive from President Donald Trump to remove political and artistic road murals. Critics say the governor and the president are using roadway safety regulations to target art expressing support for LGBTQ+ and anti-racism causes as the Trump administration continues its suppression of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.
I knew nothing about Josh Hammer's random tweet about public executions the night before Charlie was publicly executed. In what context does that tweet make sense? Literally WTF,
This is just the latest round of reductions to the CISA workforce since Trump came to office in January. Employees at the Agency have been worried about cuts for months. When we reported layoff fears in April, CISA had an estimated 3,300 person workforce; according to DHS' shutdown contingency document the agency had just 2,540 people as of the end of May.
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Currently, the administration is waging a secret war against a secret list of unnamed groups that they will not tell us about. There have been four lethal strikes against [alleged Venezuelan narco-trafficking] boats in the Caribbean. The administration wrote us [the U.S. Senate] a letter...about what they were doing in September. They said they considered themselves to be in a 'non-international armed conflict' -- that means a war -- against a secret list of 'designated terrorist organizations.'
Ever since Donald Trump's election in 2016, liberals and the left have struggled to understand the meaning of his rise, and that of "Trumpism," for American politics. When Trump entered the political scene, he was hard to take seriously. In his first campaign, he seemed-initially, at least-to be a zombie headline straight from the New York Post 's"Page Six": a faded reality-TV star, a bankrupt real estate speculator, a huckster, a creep, and a punch line.
"I've heard it said that hope is the consequence of action more than its cause," he told David Leonhardt while appearing on the New York Times Podcast, The Opinions, "and that's something I try to think about a lot in this moment. Instead of waiting around for hope, we actually have an obligation - a responsibility - to build hope, and that hope is the result of what we do in this moment."
