Politics

Kilmar Abrego Garcia has never set foot in Uganda, but President Donald Trump’s administration is currently “processing” his deportation to the East African nation after rearresting him at a mandated check-in with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Abrego Garcia’s renewed detention is the latest escalation by the Trump administration in their …

In another American timeline, former football coach Tim Walz, rather than the Yale-educated MAGA toady J.D. Vance, is the vice president of the United States — in the White House of Democratic President Kamala Harris. But Donald Trump won the 2024 election, and Walz, still the governor of Minnesota, was …

Alina Habba — Donald Trump‘s former personal lawyer who, a court recently ruled, has been illegally serving as U.S. attorney in New Jersey — accused federal judges of “a collusion” against her. U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann said last week that Habba “is not lawfully holding the office of United …

The Pentagon has been planning to send the military to Chicago for weeks, The Washington Post reported. The deployment would be part of Donald Trump‘s show of force against Democrat-run cities. The military’s actions in Chicago could then be a blueprint for rolling out similar occupations in other cities, officials …

Rep. Jim Jordan, the congressman accused of covering up a university doctor’s sexual misconduct against Ohio State wrestlers while Jordan was an assistant coach, said he believes convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell‘s recent testimony in which she denied Trump and Epstein were “close.” Maxwell has been accused of running a …

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov tried to defend his country’s assault on Ukraine under sharp questioning from Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker, with Welker eventually asking, “Either the Russian military has terrible aim or you are targeting civilians. Which is it?” “This week, Russia escalated its attacks in Ukraine,” …

O n the arctic evening of Feb. 13, Yessenia Ruano and her husband, Miguel, stand in their Milwaukee living room turning over a question they’ve been avoiding for weeks: whether tomorrow will be the day Ruano, 37, says goodbye to their two nine-year-old twin daughters, without knowing when she’ll see …

Top Democrats are laying out the stakes of a national congressional redistricting fight, after Texas obeyed Donald Trump’s order to adopt a new, wildly gerrymandered congressional map in advance of the 2026 midterm elections. On a conference call organized by party chair Ken Martin, Democratic leaders justified their plan to …

Zohran Mamdani has the penthouse crowd aflutter. The Democratic mayoral nominee’s bold, simple plan to make New York affordable for everyday citizens — freeze the rents, make buses and child care free — would be funded by a meager two percent tax hike on New York’s millionaire class. The ultrawealthy …

Donald Trump’s administration now intends to send Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man it unlawfully sent to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador, to Uganda — after he refused a plea deal, was released from jail, and was allowed to return to his family. “We are not going to stop …