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Thursday on MS NOW’s “The Briefing,” New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents’ actions were “cruel and inhumane.” Mamdani said, “We are proud of the fact that we are a sanctuary city. We’re proud of that for a number of reasons. One, it is a policy designed to keep New Yorkers safe. Two, we know that here in our city, we are proud of the more than 3 million New Yorkers who are immigrants. I’m one of them. And we know that in a city like this, it is incumbent upon us to live up to…
The United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) on Wednesday revealed that it carried out a “lethal kinetic strike” against a drug boat engaged in narco-trafficking operations in the Eastern Pacific, killing two male individuals identified as narco-terrorists. Wednesday’s strike is the fifth such military strike against a drug-trafficking vessel disclosed by SOUTHCOM in May 2026 and is part of Operation Southern Spear, an ongoing U.S. military counter-narco-terrorism security campaign. In an official statement, SOUTHCOM detailed that the operation was carried out by Joint Task Force Southern Spear at the direction of Commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan. “Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known…
Thursday on CNN’s “The Lead,” Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) said President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement was “chaotic, cruel and corrupt.” Host Jake Tapper said, “Senator, you went inside the facility yesterday. You said it is a moral stain in our nation. What did you see? What did the detainees tell you?” Booker said, “Well, remember this is being run by a private corporation that showered Republicans with cash. Have $1 billion operation. So it is a private, for profit prison now profiting off of people’s pain. Inside, the conditions were insufficient and unacceptable. From lots of complaints about medical conditions,…
Hungary will keep the policy of the previous administration in relation to Ukraine unchanged, Peter Magyar has reiterated Hungary will not supply weapons or military equipment to Ukraine, the country’s newly elected prime minister, Peter Magyar, said on Thursday shortly after meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in Brussels.Magyar’s center-right Tisza party defeated Viktor Orban’s Fidesz last month, securing a two-thirds parliamentary majority. EU officials, who had previously criticized Orban as a Kremlin-friendly politician, voiced support for Magyar ahead of the election and were widely seen as expecting him to roll back many of the previous government’s policies.Magyar, however,…
WASHINGTON—Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, filling in for White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, stressed at Thursday’s press briefing that President Donald Trump will not “take a bad deal” on Iran. Shortly before Bessent took the podium, anonymously sourced reports began to surface that U.S. officials and Iran had agreed to a deal on a ceasefire extension contingent on final sign-off from the president. When asked if there was agreement at the top of the briefing, Bessent said U.S. and Iranian negotiators “have been going back and forth.” “President Trump has made it very clear, he talked about it at the…
Thursday on MS NOW’s “The Last Word,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said President Donald Trump and the Department of Justice’s so-called anti-weaponization fund was a “collusive, fraudulent settlement.” Host Lawrence O’Donnell said, “I’d like you to comment on the judge’s motion to this judge. And then that, the notion that rule 60 here could be the crucial lever, for the judge in this case, to use.” Raskin said, “Well, it was a true act of public service on behalf of these former judges to step forward, to say that this would truly be a fraud, not just on the court, but on…
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) said that the proposed agreement with Iran is “a surrender document.” And we appear to be “negotiating America’s unconditional surrender to Iran.” But, short of taking over Iran, “there’s literally no other option.” Moulton said, “This is not a deal. It’s a surrender document. And Trump, who started this war with no plan to win it, no plan to end it, and demanded Iran’s unconditional surrender, now seems to be negotiating America’s unconditional surrender to Iran. This is a loss across the board.” Guest host Kate Bolduan then asked, “But…
During a portion of an interview with the Fox News Channel aired on Thursday’s broadcast of “Special Report,” FBI Director Kash Patel stated that the biggest national security threat facing the United States “is the combination of the bad actors from the CCP, from Russia, from Iran, and from the DPRK.” Fox News National Correspondent Brooke Taylor asked, “What’s the biggest national security threat right now?” Patel answered, “The biggest national security threat overall is the combination of the bad actors from the CCP, from Russia, from Iran, and from the DPRK. Separate and apart from that, who are doing…
European Parliament member Diana Sosoaca said Bucharest would use the recent drone incident to justify increased defense spending The leaders of the EU and NATO are using the recent drone incident in Romania to push the country closer to war with Russia, Diana Sosoaca, a Romanian member of the European Parliament and former senator, has told RT.Romania blamed Russia after a drone crashed into an apartment block in the city of Galati near the Ukrainian border on Friday, injuring two people.Russian President Vladimir Putin called on Romania to share data about the incident for an “objective investigation,” while Russia’s ambassador…
On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” Rep. Pat Fallon (R-TX) said that a deal with Iran must involve the removal of enriched uranium, the opening of the Strait of Hormuz, and Iran needs to commit to stopping the export of terror and ballistic missile technology. Fallon said, “[T]he president made it very clear that we have to have a great deal or no deal. And what a great deal would entail is, we need all of that enriched uranium in the United States’ hands or a trusted third party’s hands. It cannot stay under Iranian control,…