Politics, US Political News, Global Issues

Politics

DHS raids are the stuff of Rand Paul’s nightmares. What will he do about it?

Rand Paul made his name as a gadfly preaching about the dangers of a tyrannical federal government. Now, after the killings of two Minnesota residents at the hands of Homeland Security agents, the ...

Credit:

Donald Trump promised to make the US the world’s crypto capital. His businesses are seizing on it.

Donald Trump, the real estate mogul, reality television star and president, has a new title: cryptocurrency tycoon. A growing share of his net worth is now linked to a corner of the financial marke...

Credit:

MORNING GLORY: Minnesota tragedies aren't instant replay calls you make from the couch

An officer-involved shooting is not a disputed call in an NFL game, where the announcers offer opinions on the call made on the field as various angles are played for the audience at home and the n...

Credit:

FBI’s Search of Georgia Election Center Is “Dangerous,” Experts Warn

When the FBI executed a warrant on Wednesday to seize records from the 2020 presidential vote in Fulton County, Georgia, it marked both an extraordinary event in the history of American elections a...

Credit:

The GOP is losing one of its best issues

For years, Republicans have had some reliable terra firma: If they were talking about immigration and border security, they were winning.Even amid the backlash from Donald Trump’s 2016 pledge to ba...

Credit:

San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan enters crowded race for California governor

SAN FRANCISCO — Matt Mahan, a moderate Democrat and mayor of Silicon Valley’s largest city, will enter the crowded race for California governor, accusing rival Democrats of fixating on their opposi...

Credit:

ICE has ended 'enhanced' operations in Maine, Collins says

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have ended enhanced operations in Maine, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said Thursday, as the White House continues to pivot on immigration activities an...

Credit:

A meeting with RFK Jr. set off recriminations inside doctors’ lobbying arm

A meeting this month between the head of the American Medical Association and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has prompted infighting within the nation’s leading lobbying group for doctors.F...

Credit:

Judge rips into ICE but backs off demand for agency head to appear in court

The top federal judge in Minneapolis backed off a plan to haul the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement into court Friday, but delivered a brutal condemnation of the agency for repeatedly de...

Credit:

White House banks on Homan to help avert shutdown

The White House is counting on Tom Homan to cool temperatures – in Minneapolis and in Washington.The border czar arrived in Minnesota this week, part of the Trump administration’s attempt to reset ...

Credit:

Trump officials trade blame as political pressure mounts over Minneapolis

The finger-pointing within the president’s inner circle over the administration’s response to the killing of a second person in Minneapolis is in full force.The Department of Homeland Security on W...

Credit:

‘Our cities are no longer safe’: GOP mayors condemn Trump immigration enforcement

A number of Republican mayors are condemning the Trump administration’s hardline immigration enforcement tactics in Minnesota, as they call on the president to pull back from Minneapolis and worry ...

Credit:

Infantino takes World Cup charm offensive to US mayors

FIFA President Gianni Infantino will take the stage Thursday at the U.S. Conference of Mayors’ 94th Winter Meeting in Washington, D.C., in a high-profile pitch to America’s local leaders just month...

Credit:

Trump impeachment whistleblower Vindman raises $1.7M in first day of Florida Senate campaign

MIAMI — Alexander Vindman, the former National Security Council aide who helped trigger President Donald Trump’s first impeachment, has raised $1.7 million in the first day of his Democratic bid fo...

Credit:

Tim Walz Fears a Fort Sumter Moment in Minneapolis

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz worries that the violence in his state could produce a national rupture. “I mean, is this a Fort Sumter?” he mused today in an interview in his office at the state capit...

Credit:

Newsom bets big on Trump’s goodwill to shrink California’s budget hole

SACRAMENTO, California — Gavin Newsom is making a billion-dollar gamble in his latest budget plan, banking on money from a tax on health insurance carriers to help close a projected deficit.There’s...

Credit:

Lisa Cook lawsuit is ‘the most important legal case’ in Fed history, Powell says

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Wednesday said the Supreme Court’s deliberations over whether President Donald Trump can fire his colleague, Lisa Cook, might be the most consequential lawsui...

Credit:

Trump is threatening to strike Iran. His supporters wouldn’t mind.

President Donald Trump’s MAGA base, known for its aversion to U.S. involvement in foreign wars, has embraced the administration’s aggressive use of military force abroad and would strongly support ...

Credit:

Rubio walks NATO tightrope after Trump’s Greenland gambit

Secretary of State Marco Rubio tried to do two things at once in testimony to senators Wednesday: take the temperature down after President Donald Trump rattled NATO by seeking to acquire Greenland...

Credit:

Minnesota prosecutors face uphill battle if they charge feds in fatal shootings

If Minnesota officials try to prosecute the federal agents who recently killed two people in Minneapolis, they’ll face steep obstacles from a century-old Supreme Court precedent — one that helped s...

Credit:

FBI raids Atlanta-area elections office amid Trump’s push to relitigate 2020 election

The FBI executed a search warrant at the Fulton County elections office outside Atlanta on Wednesday, according to a spokesperson for the agency, which comes amid President Donald Trump’s push to r...

Credit: