Renowned composer Philip Glass has withdrawn his newest symphony from the Kennedy Center, becoming the latest artist step away from the venue in protest of President Trump’s takeover of the performing arts center. The National Symphony Orchestra was set to premiere Glass’s Symphony No. 15 “Lincoln”, a 40-minute work based on former President Lincoln’s 1838…
“It wasn’t a scrum. He was murdered. We have to start using the word,” said “Naked Sports” host Cari Champion.
More than 6,000 people have been killed amid the Iranian government’s crackdown on recent protests in the country, an activist group said Tuesday. The protests began on Dec. 28 in response to the plummeting value of the rial, Iran’s currency. The government responded to the protests with the bloodiest crackdown in several decades in the…
House Homeland Security Committee Democrats have threatened to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem if she does not resign or is not fired, following backlash over the fatal shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good by federal immigration authorities.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said Monday he is launching a review of TikTok following allegations that the app’s new owners were suppressing content critical of President Trump. Newsom’s office said it had received reports and “independently confirmed instances” of content being suppressed. “It’s time to investigate,” the governor wrote on the social platform X….
Martha Stewart has waded into the debate over the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown after receiving a not-so-subtle push from her granddaughter. The award-winning TV personality shared an Instagram post on Monday featuring a text her granddaughter, Jude, sent her following the fatal weekend shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti in Minneapolis by a U.S. Border Patrol…
The conservative magazine published an editorial calling the senior figure “the most incompetent lieutenant” in the entire administration.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) is facing criticism from the U.S. Holocaust Museum after he compared Anne Frank hiding from the Nazis in Germany to the current experience of children in Minnesota amid Operation Metro Surge. “Anne Frank was targeted and murdered solely because she was Jewish. Leaders making false equivalencies to her experience for…
Former President Biden on Tuesday praised Minnesotans protesting federal immigration enforcement operations in the wake of two recent shootings. “What has unfolded in Minneapolis this past month betrays our most basic values as Americans,” Biden wrote in a statement on the social platform X. “We are not a nation that guns down our citizens in…
The world slipped further toward the abyss over the past year, with the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists on Tuesday moving the hands of the famed Doomsday Clock four seconds closer to midnight, at 85 seconds. The 80-year tradition of the Doomsday Clock is meant to serve as an urgent call to action for populations to…
Fox News host Sean Hannity said Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials should not be conducting raids at Home Depot or other businesses. “Now, is ICE perfect? They’re not. Can they do a better job? They can,” he said during an episode of “The Sean Hannity Show” on Monday. “Do I think that, you know,…
The Fox News host gave his immigration crackdown advice on ICE.
A senior Greenlandic official dismissed President Trump’s desire for the U.S. to gain sovereignty over the land on which its military base sits. Naaja Nathanielsen, Greenland’s minister of industry, raw materials, mining, energy, law enforcement and equality, told USA Today on Sunday that the president’s proposal is a “red line.” Trump claimed to the New…
Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), slammed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Monday, saying the agency “cannot exist” and “needs to be abolished” after tensions between the Trump administration and local leaders in Minnesota escalated following the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti. “As you probably know and folks should know, ICE and the [Department of Homeland…
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he hides his naps from President Trump during flights together, according to a new New York magazine report. “There’s an office with two couches, and I usually want to sleep on one of those two couches,” Rubio said, telling the magazine’s Ben Terris about Air Force One flights with…
A former president of FIFA is suggesting President Trump’s foreign policy moves are grounds for a boycott of this year’s World Cup, which will hold several matches in major U.S. cities during competition. Sepp Blatter, in a social media post on Monday, referenced an interview Swiss attorney Mark Pieth gave to a European news outlet…
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers are expected to help with security at next month’s Milano Cortina Winter Games in Italy. Agents will join the international band of law enforcement securing the Olympics, according to two officials at the U.S. Embassy in Rome, The Associated Press reported. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Tuesday…
President Trump on Monday announced that White House border czar Tom Homan was headed to Minnesota following another deadly shooting in the state at the hands of federal immigration authorities. “I am sending Tom Homan to Minnesota tonight. He has not been involved in that area, but knows and likes many of the people there,”…
Former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Acting Director Jonathan Fahey said Monday that President Trump may have to “take the next step” if local and state leaders in Minnesota don’t “show that they’re committed to law and order” amid protests over several recent shootings involving federal immigration officers. “A lot of this action by these…
Consumer confidence took a dive in January as Americans grow increasingly concerned about their financial prospects.
President Trump’s approval ratings on immigration have dropped to a record low, according to a new poll. The Reuters/Ipsos survey results come during the Trump administration’s massive immigration crackdown operations in Minnesota, where tensions have risen to a boiling point after federal agents shot and killed two people and wounded another man. Only 39 percent…
Officials are warning that states need to be prepared for what happens next.
Some Border Patrol agents are leaving Minneapolis, Minn., after the deaths of two local residents at the hands of federal immigration enforcement agents, which Council Member LaTrisha Vetaw (D) said is a “great first step” to deescalating tensions. Greg Bovino, commander-at-large of the U.S. Border Patrol, is expected to depart Minnesota on Tuesday along with…
First lady Melania Trump called for unity in Minnesota on Tuesday amid growing outrage over the presence of federal agents in the city following the fatal shooting of ICU nurse Alex Pretti over the weekend. “I’m calling for unity,” she told “Fox and Friends” in an interview. “I know my husband, the president, had a…
Chris Madel, the attorney who ended his GOP campaign for Minnesota governor Monday after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by a Border Patrol official, slammed the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operations. “There are people right now that are living in fear, that are United States citizens, that are staying home right now and feeling…