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British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s recently appointed communications director resigned on Monday, just hours after the departure of his chief of staff, as the government struggles to survive the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. Tim Allan, a veteran of the former Labour government of Tony Blair, who was brought into Downing Street in September to help the already-struggling Starmer administration, resigned on Monday. “I have decided to stand down to allow a new No. 10 team to be built. I wish the PM and his team every success,” he said in a statement per the Times of London. His resignation comes…
On Friday’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) stated that if Republicans don’t support immigration enforcement reforms pushed by Democrats, there will be a shutdown of “other aspects of DHS, like Coast Guard, like FEMA, and like TSA, which would be very unfortunate.” Jeffries said, “Democrats have certainly articulated a position on behalf of the American people that taxpayer dollars should be used to make life more affordable for everyday Americans, not brutalize or kill them. We believe that immigration enforcement should be fair, it should be just, and it should be humane. That…
OSLO, Norway (AP) – A Norwegian ambassador who was involved in Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts in the 1990s and most recently served in Jordan has resigned as she faces scrutiny over her contacts with Jeffrey Epstein, the country’s Foreign Ministry said. The ministry announced Mona Juul’s resignation on Sunday evening, days after she was suspended as Norway’s ambassador to Jordan. That followed reports that Epstein left the children of Juul and her husband, Terje Rød-Larsen, $10 million in a will drawn up shortly before his death by suicide in a New York prison in 2019. Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said…
Friday on MS NOW’s “The Weeknight,” Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) said “real patriotism means to push back against” President Donald Trump’s immigration policies. Crockett said, “Yeah, I mean, I don’t know that, we have to guess because they have been very overt with their words, not just Trump, but JD Vance. It has been kind of this we don’t have to hide anymore. We are the ones that are being targeted. We being white people, right? There is a lack of respect for the contributions that all of us make to this country. Whether you are black Americans who did not…
With fewer than five days to go before a DHS shutdown, Senate Democrats have put bill text for a full-year funding compromise on the table. But another punt is probably still the best-case scenario, and it’s by no means guaranteed. — What Democrats are pitching: The draft legislation Democrats sent Republicans on Sunday would codify the immigration enforcement guardrails outlined by Democratic leaders last week, according to two people granted anonymity to discuss the plans. They include new judicial warrant requirements and limits on masking by federal agents. — Republicans review and prepare for CR: While getting bill text is…
Marshal of the Sejm Wlodzimierz Czarzasty has said the US president does not deserve a Nobel Peace Prize The US Embassy in Poland announced that it would cut ties with Polish parliamentary speaker Wlodzimierz Czarzasty after he said US President Donald Trump does not deserve a Nobel Peace Prize.On Monday, Czarzasty denounced Trump’s tariff policies and his plan to annex Greenland from Denmark. He also criticized the president for downplaying the contribution of America’s NATO allies during the war in Afghanistan. Czarzasty further described Trump’s proposed global Board of Peace as “illusory” and accused him of undermining the EU, UN,…
Friday on MS NOW’s “All In,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) claimed the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act had “nothing to do with voter ID.” Raskin said, “Right now, they’re placing a lot of emphasis on the SAVE Act. And some of even the more moderate Republicans are saying, well, that’s a Trump initiative they can get behind. The SAVE act has nothing to do with voter ID. They keep saying it’s a voter ID law. No, it’s not a voter ID law, which just says you bring ID with you to the polls when you go vote, which exists…
The White House says a staffer posted a video depicting the former president and his wife as apes by mistake US President Donald Trump has declined to apologize after a video depicting former President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle as apes was posted on his Truth Social account. The now-deleted clip was condemned by both Democrats and Republicans as racist and deeply offensive.According to Axios, the video was posted to Trump’s account on Thursday night and remained online for nearly 12 hours. The AI-generated clip was originally created by an account that posts pro-Trump memes.White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt…
In July of 1917 as the fires of WWI raged across Europe, the Russian city of Petrograd was facing its own special turmoil in the form of a large scale Bolshevik insurgency. Up to 500,000 protesters, agitators and provocateurs had entered the city from across the country, many of them armed. They took over large swaths of the metropolis, hijacked private vehicles and confiscated private buildings. Some soviet leaders including Vladimir Lenin called the event “premature” and did not publicly endorse it, which may have been a calculated attempt to avoid direct blowback. The official historical explanation is that the…
Japan’s conservative LDP party, led by Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae, obtained a historic landslide electoral victory on Sunday, securing a two-thirds supermajority in the lower house of the Parliament. LDP saw its best electoral performance in the party’s entire history by claiming 316 seats out of the parliament’s 465 — up from the 198 it had before the election, granting the ruling conservatives a two-thirds supermajority mandate that allows it to pass bills rejected by the upper house among propose constitutional amendments, among several other prerogatives. The landslide victory marks the first time a single party in Japan has a higher proportion of representatives in…