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Fox News host Mark Levin joining Trump administration
PHILADELPHIA — Mark Levin is heading to Washington, at least for part of the time.
The longtime syndicated talk show host and Fox News personality is joining President Donald Trump’s administration as a member of his new Homeland Security Advisory Council, led by Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem.
“I am proud to announce the ...Read more

‘I never issued a criminal contempt citation in 19 ½ years on the bench’ – a former federal judge looks at the ‘relentless bad behavior’ of the Trump administration in court
Legal battles between the Trump administration and advocates for deportees flown to prison in El Salvador have turned into conflicts between the government and the judges overseeing those cases. One federal judge, James Boasberg, accused Trump administration lawyers of the “willful disregard” of his order in March to halt those flights, ...Read more

Crime is nonpartisan and the blame game on crime in cities is wrong – on both sides
Following George Floyd’s death at the hands of police in Minneapolis in 2020, the U.S. has undergone a national reckoning over crime prevention and police reform.
Across the country, calls went out from activists to rethink the scope and role of the police. Some on the left vowed to “defund” the police. Others on the right ...Read more

Canada's Gen Z voters turn to Conservative Party's Pierre Poilievre in race against Liberal leader Mark Carney
Giancarlo Zorrilla attended a campaign rally for the first time in his life in March. It was a rainy night near Vancouver — typical weather for Canada’s west coast — but that wasn’t stopping the 29-year-old Canadian from seeing Pierre Poilievre speak.
“It’s time for a change,” Zorrilla said on his way in to see the Conservative ...Read more

Editorial: Dems delight in blasting president over economy – if it's Trump
How do you know Joe Biden is out of the White House?
Because Democrats care about the economy.
Specifically, they care about hammering President Donald Trump about the economy, and his tariff rollout/rollback’s effect on it. They are tickled pink to point fingers across the aisle.
Politico cited interviews with more than a dozen Democratic ...Read more

Commentary: The FEC has opened the floodgates for big money to flood elections. Here's how we can fix it
Elections are getting bigger.
2024 was a blockbuster year in campaign spending, shattering the previous record — set just four years prior — as donors across the nation and the economic spectrum swooped in to pull control of every branch of government their way.
And they have a newly-powerful tool at their disposal: joint fundraising ...Read more

Commentary: Trump administration exaggerates its powers in foreign policy
Despicable is the Trump administration’s refusal to ask Nayib Bukele, the authoritarian president of El Salvador, for the return of Armando Abrego Garcia, a man who was sent to a notoriously harsh prison there by a U.S. acknowledged “administrative error.”
Using such heinous deportations without legal due process eliminates the ...Read more

Editorial: Moment of truth -- Judge Boasberg is right to seek contempt against Trump officials
President Donald Trump’s contemptuous view of the courts was bound to lead to bring the country to this: A federal judge writing, “The Constitution does not tolerate willful disobedience of judicial orders.”
D.C. Federal Judge James Boasberg, in a nearly-50-page opinion, explains why he’s reaching for a nuclear option: potentially ...Read more

California students and faculty join national protest of Trump's crackdown on higher education
Students and faculty across California and the nation staged coordinated protests Thursday to collectively push back against what they view as the Trump administration’s attacks on higher education.
In the greater Bay Area, rallies protesting federal funding cuts and more took place at Stanford University, California State University — East...Read more

Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo urges Trump administration to remove lithium tariffs
Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo is urging the Trump administration to remove lithium tariffs.
The Republican governor sent a letter earlier this week applauding the president’s efforts to bring manufacturing jobs to the United States but expressing concerns about the tariffs’ impact on Nevada’s growing lithium industry.
“The continued ...Read more

UN nuclear watchdog says US-Iran talks are at crucial stage
The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog said talks between Iran and the U.S. are at a “crucial stage” and warned they have limited time to resolve their years-long standoff.
“There is a possibility of a good outcome but nothing is guaranteed,” Rafael Mariano Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, ...Read more

Supreme Court will hear Trump's proposed limits on birthright citizenship
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court announced Thursday it will hear arguments in May on President Trump's proposed limits on birthright citizenship.
But it was not clear whether the justices would weigh in on the constitutionality of Trump's proposal or instead decide only whether it can be blocked nationwide by a federal judge acting on behalf of...Read more

Senior NYC officials fined for campaigning, fundraising for Kamala Harris, Eric Adams
NEW YORK — City Transportation Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez and a former senior NYPD official with reputed links to China’s Communist Party have agreed to pay fines after admitting they misused their official positions by campaigning and fundraising for ex-Vice President Kamala Harris and Mayor Eric Adams, new records reveal.
Rodriguez, ...Read more

Supreme Court to review Trump birthright citizenship order
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will decide the future of President Donald Trump’s effort to overturn birthright citizenship, agreeing Thursday to hear oral arguments next month.
Rather than rule on the Trump administration’s requests to pause rulings from lower courts in Washington, New Jersey and Maryland that kept the policy unchanged, ...Read more

What is stopping Trump from exiling you to a foreign prison?
WASHINGTON — With cameras rolling in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump told reporters this week that he would carefully study the law before deciding whether to exile Americans accused of violent crimes to prisons overseas, where, according to his administration, U.S. courts are powerless to respond.
Yet before the press arrived, Trump...Read more

Trump berates Fed's Powell, urges 'termination' for slowness
President Donald Trump said Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s termination from his position can’t come quickly enough, arguing that the US central bank should have lowered interest rates already this year, and in any case should do so now.
Trump, derisively nicknaming the Fed chairman he nominated in his first term as “Too Late,” ...Read more
Harvard warns of 'grave consequences' as Trump pushes IRS action
Harvard University pushed back against the U.S. government after President Donald Trump said the school should lose its tax-exempt status, warning that such a move would endanger its ability to carry out its mission and threaten higher education in America.
“There is no legal basis to rescind Harvard’s tax-exempt status,” university ...Read more
Trump berates Fed's Powell, urges 'termination' for slowness
President Donald Trump said Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s termination from his position can’t come quickly enough, arguing that the U.S. central bank should have lowered interest rates already this year, and in any case should do so now.
Trump, derisively nicknaming the Fed chairman he nominated in his first term as “Too Late,” ...Read more

'Able to happen again': Japanese American historians in San Diego warn of Trump's use of 1798 wartime law
SAN DIEGO -- Kay Ochi’s parents were 21 and 22 years old when they were forced to leave San Diego, where they were born, and taken to an incarceration camp in the desert of Poston, Arizona, simply because of their Japanese heritage.
“That was three years of pure hell,” said Ochi, a third-generation Japanese American, or Sansei, who is ...Read more

Trump seeks to accelerate millions of deportation cases
The U.S. Justice Department has directed federal immigration judges to scour their dockets for asylum cases they can deny without holding a full hearing, signaling that the Trump administration is taking aim at severe court backlogs as it seeks to ramp up deportations.
Judges should take “all appropriate action to immediately resolve cases ...Read more
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- Commentary: The FEC has opened the floodgates for big money to flood elections. Here's how we can fix it
- Commentary: Trump administration exaggerates its powers in foreign policy
- Editorial: Moment of truth -- Judge Boasberg is right to seek contempt against Trump officials