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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer declined to explain why he has so far refused to endorse Zohran Mamdani, who resoundingly beat former Gov. Andrew Cuomo to become the Democratic candidate for New York City mayor. “I know him. We have had a good relationship in the past. And we had …

Two American military cargo jets deported people to Africa this month on flights that appear to have had their transponders turned off, obscuring their locations from public flight databases and other nearby aircraft. One of the jets was later identified in a lawsuit in U.S. federal court as carrying 14 …

President Donald Trump surprised members of his administration with his social media outburst Saturday night demanding that Attorney General Pam Bondi quickly move ahead with efforts to prosecute his political enemies. In a Truth Social post directed to “Pam,” Trump complained that his Department of Justice has not yet prosecuted …

Donald Trump called Charlie Kirk “one of the brightest lights of our times” and the “greatest evangelist for American liberty” during his speech at the conservative activist’s public memorial at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Ariz. The event had the energy of a tent revival, several speakers observed. Kirk, the …

It was clear Donald Trump and his allies would ramp up their crackdown against any and all opposition in the wake of the assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk — and this week, the president’s second administration unleashed its most authoritarian blitz yet. The Trump administration got late-night host Jimmy …

Back in 1940, Charlie Chaplin made a movie called The Great Dictator, a comedy about fascism. In it, he plays a Hitler-like character named Adenoid Hynkel, the authoritarian leader of an imaginary country called Tomainia. As parodies go, this one was relatively direct: There was a Goebbels character, a Göring …

Ayman Soliman, a beloved former children’s hospital chaplain in the Cincinnati area, has been jailed by Donald Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement since July 9. Soliman was finally released today, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell Rolling Stone. Just before 1:15 p.m., Adam Allen — one of the Cincinnati …

Charlie Kirk’s assassination during an event at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10 set off a chain of events that has rocked the nation’s political and cultural landscape. President Donald Trump blamed Kirk’s death on “the radical left”; conservative activists warned of “civil war”; journalists, publicists, and college faculty have …

Former Vice President Kamala Harris criticized the Trump administration over its “assault on free speech,” following Jimmy Kimmel‘s suspension from ABC over his comments about the assassination of Charlie Kirk. “What we are witnessing is an outright abuse of power,” wrote Harris on X, without mentioning Kimmel directly. “This administration …

Donald Trump gloated over the news that ABC has pulled Jimmy Kimmel’s show off the air “indefinitely” after the host’s comments about the assassination of Charlie Kirk. The president declared on Truth Social that the suspension of the late-night show was “Great News for America” and congratulated the network “for …