The Department of Homeland Security admitted that it deported an innocent man with protected status to an El Salvadoran prison known for torture and human-rights abuses. The Trump administration claims there’s nothing they, or any American court, can do to bring him back. According to a Tuesday report from The …
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Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said as he began speaking on the Senate floor Monday night that he intended to disrupt “the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able,” citing his belief that “our nation is in crisis.” He wasn’t kidding. Booker spoke …
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GREEN BAY, Wis. — Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, delivered $1 million checks to two of his supporters on Sunday evening at his town hall, saying the point of giving out these payments is to “get attention.” “I should say that the reason for the checks is that it’s …
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Windmills cause cancer. They’re killing birds and whales. Electric vehicles don’t work. Have you heard about the electric sharks? Climate change is a hoax. There are many things Donald Trump has said about climate change and renewable energy that are difficult to make sense of, but Trump’s newest line on …
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Investors are seeing red on Monday as the stock market and major indexes continue their downward plunge ahead of Donald Trump’s expected April 2 announcement of a sprawling tariffs package, which the president is billing as “Liberation Day.” Trump is expected to enact a massive economic package that will match …
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At his million-dollar elections giveaway in Wisconsin on Sunday night, Elon Musk shared a supposedly “mind-blowing” chart showing a sharp uptick in immigrants receiving Social Security numbers. The chart showed that noncitizens have increasingly been granted Social Security numbers, not benefits, although Musk and Antonio Gracias, a staffer with his …
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“I think we are making a mistake,” wrote Vice President J.D. Vance in the now-infamous chat group discussing plans to carry out military strikes in Yemen. To his credit, Vance has been consistent in his skepticism about the use of American military power to solve the world’s problems. It is …
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Donald Trump played the strongman in a Saturday interview. The president said he is growing increasingly frustrated with Russia and its refusal to sign a Ukraine ceasefire agreement as well as with Iran for not reaching a nuclear deal with the U.S. Trump said he is “very angry” and “pissed …
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Fresh off J.D. Vance‘s embarrassingly truncated visit to Greenland, President Donald Trump said that using “military force” to seize the semi-autonomous territory from Denmark is not “off the table.” “We’ll get Greenland. Yeah, 100%,” Trump told NBC News’ Kristen Welker in a Saturday phone call. “No, I never take military …
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The Trump administration is revoking students’ immigration status without notifying them or their schools, according to Zeteo. Citing documents and interviews with university officials, Zeteo reported that “Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) appears to be manually revoking students’ immigration status — an authority typically left to university staff.” Sometimes, ICE …
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