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CHICAGO (AP) — Cook County’s top judge has signed an order barring ICE from arresting people at courthouses. Cook County includes Chicago, which has seen a federal immigration crackdown in recent months. Detaining residents outside court has been a common tactic for federal agents, who have been stationed outside county courthouses for weeks, making arrests and drawing crowds of protesters. The order, which was signed Tuesday night and took effect Wednesday, bars the civil arrest of any “party, witness, or potential witness” while going to court proceedings. It includes arrests made inside courthouses and in parking lots, surrounding sidewalks and...
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Since the federal government isn't currently paying its bills during the shutdown, Senate Democrats think federal workers shouldn't have to either. Sen. Brian Schatz (D–Hawaii) and 17 of his Democratic Senate colleagues have introduced a bill that would relieve federal workers and contractors from their obligations to pay rent, mortgages, insurance premiums, and student loan payments during shutdowns. The bill would also stay eviction and foreclosure proceedings for 30 days after a shutdown ends. Anyone who tries to carry out an eviction or foreclosure of a federal worker or contractor during that time would be guilty of a misdemeanor and...
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The Libertarian Party has announced The Parity Project, a ten-year plan to grow its membership and visibility to rival the Democrats and Republicans. The effort draws inspiration from past membership drives, including the 1990s-era Project Archimedes. In an October 15 letter to members, Libertarian National Committee Chair Steven Nekhaila outlined a plan to “equalize” the party by targeting Americans who already identify with libertarian principles. Citing research from “eleven different studies,” he estimated that 30 to 60 million Americans either identify as libertarian or hold mostly libertarian views. Nekhaila noted that many of these voters currently cast ballots “defensively” for...
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Letitia James’ fugitive grand-niece at the center of the federal indictment against the New York attorney general posted a boastful, fib-filled Facebook post after her extensive criminal record became national news. “For all inquiring minds no I’m not in trouble havent been in years at all,” wrote Nakia Thompson, 36. She claimed her extensive rap sheet dating, back nearly 20 years, including two charges of assaulting cops, was “OLD AS HELL” and “fabricated.” “Very much a active mother to my children everyday, work everyday, and very much in college and about to graduate with my B.A. in Sociology with a...
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Today on TAP: His platform, his movement, and his super-rich enemies all fit the historic pattern of New York’s politics. Zohran Mamdani delivered a major speech last night to thousands of supporters who’d crowded into New York’s United Palace to hear him lay out the stakes in the upcoming mayoral election. To the historically sentient, the speech was replete with echoes of New York’s previous progressive heroes—Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fiorello La Guardia, and A. Philip Randolph in particular. Mamdani began by acknowledging the legions who’d walked precincts and made phone calls on his candidacy’s behalf. “There is something special in...
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Key Points A federal judge blocked the Trump administration, for now, from firing federal workers during the ongoing government shutdown. The order came five days after the administration issued reduction-in-force notifications to more than 4,000 federal workers.
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The taxpayer-funded CEO of Los Angeles County was quietly awarded $2million after she complained about a ballot measure that she claims will force her out of her job and bruise her 'reputation'. Fesia Davenport, who earns a hefty $570,000 per year for overseeing the county's government operations, secretly entered the handsome settlement in mid-August. The agreement, first reported by the LAist on Tuesday, vaguely indicated Davenport sought out compensation for 'reputation, embarrassment, and emotional distress' she sustained on the job.
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said Tuesday that he is on board with a proposal to have a conversation with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on C-Span. . “I look forward to that,” Jeffries told reporters in Washington. “We’re going to try to get it scheduled, absolutely,” he promised, referencing a possible joint appearance on C-Span’s new program Ceasefire. The development could set the two party leaders in the House up for a rousing debate over the government shutdown, which entered its 15th day on Wednesday. Johnson has declared he has no intention of accepting Jeffries’s offer to do...
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Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) has made good on his promise to ensure President Trump’s threats to unseat him will “backfire” as his campaign fundraising numbers reach personal record heights. Massie has touted more than $2 million in cash on hand for his reelection bid after managing to pull in nearly $768,000 in contributions from July to September, according to filings with the Federal Election Commission. That three-month sum is reportedly a record for Massie’s political career. The Kentucky Republican has bucked the Trump administration on numerous occasions, warranting recognition as a firebrand for White House critics. Massie voted against the...
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Attorney General Letitia James, the architect of New York state’s mortgage-fraud crackdowns, now finds herself in the position of her former defendants, accused of exploiting the very system she once claimed to defend. The hypocrisy is undeniable. Any attempt by Letitia James to claim ignorance of the law as a defense in her mortgage fraud indictment is all but gone. Announcement of convictions for a Brooklyn couple involved in $1.3 million mortgage fraud by Attorney General James and State Police Superintendent Corlett. In June 2019, New York Attorney General Letitia James stood before the cameras to hail a conviction she...
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Smith, who resigned from the Justice Department in January shortly before Trump returned to office as president, warned that attacks on public servants would have an “incalculable” cost on the country. “I think the attacks on public servants, particularly nonpartisan public servants — I think it has a cost for our country that is incalculable, and I think that we — it’s hard to communicate to folks how much that is going to cost us,” Smith said in an interview last week with former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissman at University College London Faculty of Laws, where Weissman is a visiting...
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More details continue to emerge about the collusion between Democrats in Congress and Biden's weaponized DOJ in targeting Trump. =============================================================== Congressional investigators collected a stunning 30 million lines of phone data mapping contacts between conservatives and the Trump White House in the name of investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol breach, a massive dragnet that raises civil liberty concerns about the lack of limits on the ability of lawmakers to snoop on Americans' private phone calls. The mountainous collection of phone records were revealed to the FBI led by Chris Wray in late 2023 by former Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a GOP...
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Indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James was defiant Monday in her first public appearance since being hit with federal charges over allegations she committed bank fraud and lied to a financial institution to obtain a lower mortgage rate. “We see powerful voices trying to silence truth and punish dissent and weaponize justice for political gain,” James told supporters of Zohran Mamdani at a rally for the New York City mayoral frontrunner in Washington Heights. “We are witnessing the fraying of our democracy, the erosion of our system of government,” the Empire State’s top prosecutor argued, describing the current state...
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Another round in the generational fight within the Democratic Party is coming to Massachusetts.Rep. Seth Moulton will challenge Sen. Ed Markey for his Senate seat in 2026, setting up one of the biggest tests of Democratic voters’ appetite for generational change following the 2024 presidential election.Moulton, who turns 47 this month, is putting age at the center of his announcement, saying in a campaign video to be released Wednesday that Markey is “a good man” but he should nevertheless move on after decades in Congress.“We’re in crisis, and with everything we learned last election, I just don’t believe Senator Markey...
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Deep State ‘career’ prosecutors in the Western District of Virginia are attacking the DOJ’s investigation into whether Biden’s FBI secretly destroyed classified documents in ‘burn bags’ to protect James Comey with leaks to the New York Times. As previously reported, the DOJ is investigating whether the FBI, during Joe Biden’s presidency, secretly destroyed documents to protect James Comey and John Brennan. James Comey served as the Director of the FBI from 2013 to May 2017, when Trump fired him. John Brennan served as the Director of the CIA from 2013 to 2017. According to The Times, the investigation is related...
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To combat shoplifters using the five-finger discount, Long Beach is taking aim at self-checkout. Retailers aren't happy about it. In August, the California city rolled out a first-of-its-kind US law limiting how many self-checkout registers major stores can install. The regulation highlights a tension between the rich and the poor in a community that sees hundreds of multi-million-dollar real estate deals each year, while also being home to 22.8 percent of residents who live below the federal poverty line. symbol
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Democrat Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA) lashed out after President Donald Trump announced that he would use unspent research and development (R&D) funds to pay U.S. troops amid the ongoing Democrat-caused government shutdown. During a CNN interview with John Berman, Rep. Dean is fuming that President Trump is keeping our brave troops paid during the Democrat-led shutdown. John Berman: “How do you feel about these paychecks going out during the shutdown? I don’t think anyone’s opposed to people being paid, but people look at this and say this could actually extend the shutdown because it takes out some of the pressure...
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Lawyers for James Comey told a federal judge in Alexandria on Tuesday that they plan to file a motion early next week to formally dismiss his criminal case, citing what they argued is President Donald Trump’s "unlawful" appointment of former White House aide Lindsey Halligan as acting U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia shortly before Comey’s indictment. The filing is part of a broader effort by Comey’s legal team to have the criminal case tossed. His lawyers told the judge overseeing the case last week they planned a separate motion to dismiss the case on grounds of vindictive...
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GENEVA (AP) — The United Nations’ food aid agency said Wednesday that severe funding cuts from its top donors are hurting its operations in six countries and warned that nearly 14 million people could be forced into emergency levels of hunger. The World Food Program, traditionally the U.N.'s most-funded agency, said in a new report that its funding this year “has never been more challenged” — largely due to slashed outlays from the U.S. under the Trump administration and other leading Western donors. It warned that that 13.7 million of its food aid recipients could be forced into emergency levels...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — With every passing day of the government shutdown, hundreds of thousands of federal employees furloughed or working without pay face mounting financial strain. And now they are confronting new uncertainty with the Trump administration’s promised layoffs. “Luckily I was able to pay rent this month,” said Peter Farruggia, a furloughed federal worker. “But for sure I am going to have bills that are going to go unpaid this month, and I really don’t have many options.” Farruggia is the head of the American Federation of Government Employees local representing employees at the Centers for Disease Control and...
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