I was talking to [the two veterans] on the rope line, and we were just talking about like, this is just deja vu again, right? And there are so many Latino families right now that are seeing what's happening in Iran and they're like They're doing it again.
The Trump administration purchased a giant warehouse in rural Roxbury Township, New Jersey, for $129.3 million with plans to convert it into one of the largest immigration detention centers in the country. The plan is not only unpopular among a bipartisan swath of residents, but it's also roiling what was already shaping up to be a gripping and crowded Democratic primary in the state's 7th Congressional District.
"The AI Overwatch Act (H.R. 6875) may sound like a good idea, but when you examine it closely, it's pro-China sabotage disguised as oversight," Loomer said on X. "Kill the bill," she said. Driving the news: Sacks, the president's top adviser on crypto and artificial intelligence, opened hostilities Thursday night by retweeting a post that suggested Mast's bill - the AI OVERWATCH Act - would undermine the president. "Correct," Sacks posted on X.
Senator Sheehy joined Capitol Police in lifting up and ejecting anti war protestor Brian McGinnis from a SASC subcommittee hearing. McGinnis is a Green Party candidate running for Senate in N.C. An antiwar activist filmed the video below.
I'm not here to be your prop for your obsession. Rep. Nancy Mace asked Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to define what a woman is while questioning him at a hearing in front of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Walz refused to do so, characterizing the question as part of Mace's personal agenda rather than legitimate legislative inquiry.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries says replacing Nancy Pelosi is like following after Michael Jordan. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images In response to the deaths of Renee Macklin Good and Alex Pretti, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., is urging his Republican counterparts to "rein in" Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). "ICE is completely and totally out of control and it needs to be reined in, which is why we need dramatic reform at the Department of Homeland Security," Jeffries told Morning Edition.
Driving the news: The 13-candidate Democratic primary to replace now-Gov. Mikie Sherrill in New Jersey's 11th congressional district ended in a dead heat between progressive organizer Analilia Mejia and former Rep. Tom Malinowski. With several thousand provisional and late mail-in still to be counted as of Friday, Mejia led Malinowski by 500 votes, 28.75% to 27.97%, according to the Associated Press. Mejia trailed many of her opponents in fundraising, bringing in just $420,000 to Malinowski's $1.2 million.
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- After declining to call Israel's actions in Gaza "genocide" during a congressional debate forum, State Senator Scott Wiener has changed course. Wiener posted a video to social media Sunday, saying he does believe the conflict in Gaza is genocide. The statement comes days after a forum featuring Wiener and other candidates who are hoping to fill Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi's seat in Congress.
Luke Ganger said he and his brother were there to ask for you help and suggested the sense of loss his family felt had been deepened by subsequent events in Minneapolis, where a protester, Alex Pretti, also aged 37, was shot dead by two border patrol agents on 24 January. The deep distress our family feels at Renee's loss in such a violent and unnecessary way is complicated by feelings of disbelief, distress and desperation, he said.
On Monday, House members took turns accessing four Department of Justice computers to search the unredacted files for the names of powerful men with ties to Epstein. During Attorney General Pam Bondi's hearing before Congress Wednesday, a Getty photographer captured an image in Bondi's file pointing to Jayapal's search history on Epstein. The top of the page we can see is titled, Jayapal, Pramila search history,' and appears to show multiple search items related to the Epstein files, MS NOW's Ana Cabrera recounted before playing House Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-LA) reaction to the photo:
On Thursday, Trump again targeted Omar, a Somali immigrant, saying she should be investigated because her net worth has risen dramatically since she arrived in Congress in 2019. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is worth over $30 Million Dollars, Trump wrote on Truth Social. There is no way such wealth could have been accumulated, legally, while being paid the salary of a politician.
We're very much in a trust but verify mode, Walz said. He added that he expected to hear more from the administration in the next day or so about the future of what he said has been an occupation and a retribution campaign against the state. While Walz said he's hopeful at the moment because every indication I have is that this thing is winding up, he added that things could change.