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Illinois Governor JB Pritzker is stepping up his campaign to blame President Donald Trump for the murder of Chicago student Sheridan Gorman, allegedly by an illegal immigrant. “It is the job of the federal government to go after immigration enforcement,” Pritzker told media outlets on Tuesday, even though he has frequently denounced Trump’s policy of deporting migrants and defended the Democrats’ imposition of an amnesty zone in Chicago and Illinois. Pritzker’s allies in the Democratic Party are currently blocking funding for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. “It is the job of our local and state law enforcement to prosecute…

Republicans and Democrats are extremely divided on whether or not abortion, homosexuality, and pornography are “morally wrong,” a survey published Thursday indicates. While a difference in attitudes toward these topics is not shocking, the Pew Research Center survey reveals just how wide the gap on sexual issues is based on political affiliation. The largest divide was on abortion, with 71 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents saying abortion is “morally wrong” compared to just 24 percent of Democrats and Democrat-leaners. On the topic of homosexuality, 59 percent of Republicans and GOP-leaners say it is “morally wrong” compared to 20 percent…

TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Sen. Rick Scott is suing a major government contractor for damages after his tax returns were leaked along with other prominent and wealthy figures, including President Donald Trump. The Florida Republican on Monday filed a lawsuit against Booz Allen Hamilton, a management and technology consulting company, and a former employee of the contractor who was convicted of leaking the tax returns of Trump and other wealthy individuals to The New York Times and ProPublica. “I am disgusted by the weaponization of government under President [Joe] Biden, and I look forward to Booz Allen being held accountable for…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) – Danish voters went to the polls Tuesday in a general election, with Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen seeking a third term at the helm of the Scandinavian country after a standoff with U.S. President Donald Trump over the future of the kingdom´s semiautonomous territory of Greenland. More than 4.3 million people are eligible to have their say in the vote for the new Folketing, or parliament, in Copenhagen, which is elected for a four-year term. Frederiksen called the election in February, several months before she had to in apparent hopes that her resolute image in the crisis…

President Donald Trump declared Monday that the crime problem in Memphis, Tennessee, has been solved through the Memphis Safe Task Force. Trump’s comment came during a Memphis Safe Task Force Roundtable, where he highlighted high levels of crime in the city the year he returned to the Oval Office. “It was averaging far more than one murder per day, with a crime rate higher than Colombia, Mexico City, or Baghdad … I shouldn’t be saying this, but here’s the good news: it’s been fixed, alright? I hate to say this because it’s so negative,” he said. “In the year before…

Former special counsel Jack Smith’s office sought to map a vast web of contacts between President Donald Trump’s most vocal Republican allies in Congress and key players in his bid to subvert the results of the 2020 election, according to newly released records of the Smith-led investigation. Emails from January 2023 circulated among Smith’s deputies show how top GOP lawmakers communicated directly with individuals later identified by Smith as Trump’s co-conspirators in his election interference plot, including attorneys Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman. Those contacts became the Smith office’s justification for pursuing subpoenas of phone logs for more than a…

Missouri’s Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that the Legislature did not violate the state’s Constitution when it drew new congressional maps last year favoring Republicans, delivering a major blow to Democrats’ hopes of blocking the new map ahead of the midterms. In a 4-3 decision, the court ruled that a clause in the state Constitution directing Missouri lawmakers to draw new maps after each census does not impose restrictions on the Legislature from taking up redistricting in the middle of the decade. “The obligation to legislate congressional districts once a decade does not limit the General Assembly’s power to redistrict…

Brussels could lose “favorable” access to American gas if it fails to “go forward” with the agreement, Washington’s envoy has warned The US ambassador to the EU has urged Brussels to ratify the previously signed trade deal with Washington or risk losing “favorable” access to American energy supplies.Under the deal reached last summer, the bloc agreed to a baseline tariff of 15% for all EU goods entering the US, while slashing its own levies on US industrial goods and some agricultural products to zero. The EU also agreed to buy $750 billion worth of US energy by 2028. The European…

At least five people have been killed after overnight attacks hit an apartment block, according to RT’s bureau chief Hami Hamedi The civilian death toll is rising in Tehran after residential areas in the Iranian capital suffered heavy damage from US-Israeli overnight strikes, as emergency crews continue search and rescue operations.RT’s Tehran bureau chief, Hami Hamedi, visited one of the sites struck, where workers were combing through the rubble of a collapsed apartment block in search of survivors. Heavy machinery was deployed at the scene as rescuers worked to clear debris.“The destruction is very severe, almost the entire main part…

A Colombian military C-130H Hercules transport plane crashed Monday in the rural south of the country, killing 66 in what local outlets have described as one of the worst military air disasters in the nation’s history. Local newspaper El Colombiano reports the aircraft, a Colombian Armed Forces transport, came down at the municipality of Puerto Leguízamo, Putumayo, a location in Southern Colombia. At the time of the accident, the plane was reportedly restocking supplies and is believed to have had a total of 128 people on board, all members of the security forces. El Colombiano noted that, as of the early morning hours…