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The Department of Justice is preparing to issue a series of grand jury subpoenas as part of a South Florida-based investigation into former CIA Director John Brennan and the probes by the CIA and FBI into Russian interference in the 2016 election, MSNBC has learned. The investigation is being supervised by the U.S. attorney in South Florida, Jason Reding Quiñones, in consultation with Justice Department senior staff in Washington, according to a source familiar with the matter and other information obtained by MSNBC. The Justice Department declined to comment.

NEW YORK (AP) — Zohran Mamdani wasted little time as mayor-elect of New York City before making clear that he sees part of his new role as standing up to the president of the United States, who had threatened not only to defund the city if he won but also to arrest and deport him. Mamdani, a Democrat, addressed the Republican president directly and at length from the stage at his victory party in Brooklyn on Tuesday night.

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) is gearing up to attend the 30th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference in Brazil next week, while no member of the Trump administration plans to show up. Newsom is looking to expand his international status after California voters handed him a redistricting win against President Donald Trump this week. This marks the first time the Democratic governor and likely 2028 presidential contender will attend COP, which begins Nov. 10 and ends Nov. 21. California’s government is particularly cognizant of climate change and the perceived economic benefits of green energy, whereas the Trump administration has taken...

Calley Means, a health adviser to U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has left his role at the White House, the New York Times reported on Thursday. Means worked in the Trump administration as a special government employee and was a close aide to Kennedy, particularly active in the "Make America Healthy Again" movement. For much of the past six months, he played a key role in shaping health policy and supporting Kennedy's efforts to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system, the report said.

It’s unclear whether the measure will pass after administration officials tried to reassure Republicans who signaled they may support the effort.The Senate will vote Thursday on a bipartisan measure to block President Donald Trump from attacking Venezuelan territory in a new test of Republicans’ willingness to oppose his use of military force in Latin America. It is unclear whether the largely symbolic effort will attract enough GOP support to pass, or whether a recent push by the administration to walk back Trump’s repeated threats of escalation has reassured those lawmakers who have suggested they might join the effort. On Wednesday,...

The new mayor's buddy, Hasan Piker, wishes the Soviet Union had won the Cold War.New York City's next mayor will be Zohran Mamdani, who is not merely an extreme left progressive but an actual democratic socialist. It would be a mistake to underemphasize the radical nature of this ideology. And yet, that's precisely what some in the media are doing. The BBC, for instance, featured an infographic that described Mamdani's democratic socialism as an ideology "which has no clear definition but essentially means giving a voice to workers, not corporations." That's an extremely evasive way of describing a radical political...

WASHINGTON (TNND) — A mayor of a small town in Kansas was charged earlier this week for allegedly voting in multiple elections, despite not being a U.S. citizen. Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach and Kansas Secretary of State Scott Schwab filed six charges against Mayor Joe Ceballos in Comanche County. Ceballos is the mayor of Coldwater and is described as a lawful permanent resident from Mexico who allegedly voted in the 2022, 2023 and 2024 elections, according to Fox News. Prior to being mayor of Coldwater, he used to be a city councilman.

An Illinois state senator is fuming following the death of two constituents allegedly caused by an illegal immigrant driving his car under the influence, asking what more it will take for Democrats to take action. Edwin Pacheco-Meza, 34, was allegedly driving his car under the influence when he caused a crash on Oct. 24 that killed Coles County Board member Michael Clayton and his wife, Gail Clayton, in Westfield, Illinois, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Juan Morales-Martinez, an 18-year-old passenger inside the car Pacheco-Meza was driving, was also arrested. Ammunition, an extended magazine, drugs and an open...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) is set to hold a vote Friday with an eye toward ending the government shutdown. The GOP leader told lawmakers over a conference lunch that he will hold another vote on the House-passed continuing resolution (CR) that has failed to advance 14 times so far. This time, however, Thune is putting it on the floor with an eye toward amending it to attach a three-bill spending package — known as a minibus — that has been part of negotiations with Democrats, one Senate GOP aide said

Lefty MSNBC news anchor Joe Scarborough revealed he’s brokering a meeting between Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt after the anti-Israel socialist was accused of refusing to work with the organization. Scarborough made the announcement during a breakfast with reporters following a heated on-air exchange with Greenblatt on Wednesday, during which the ADL chief claimed Mamdani vowed not to work with the group to fight antisemitism, Mediaite reported. The “Morning Joe” host pushed back during the interview, alleging Greenblatt was “blurring and bending” his criticisms of Mamdani, even though the incoming mayor has been a vocal critic...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Coldwater Mayor Jose “Joe” Ceballos, who was reelected on Tuesday, was charged by Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach the next day. In a news conference Wednesday, Kobach said Ceballos was facing criminal charges for three counts of voting without being qualified and three counts of election perjury. Both are non-person felonies. “He is not a United States citizen,” Kobach said. “He is a legal permanent resident of the United States and a citizen of Mexico.” Kobach said if Ceballos is convicted, the crimes can carry a maximum of 68 months in prison and a fine of...

After New York City’s race for mayor catapulted Zohran Mamdani from state assembly member into one of the world’s most prominent progressive voices, intense debate swirled over the ideas at the heart of his campaign. His critics and opponents painted pledges such as free bus service, universal childcare and rent freezes as unworkable, unrealistic and exorbitantly expensive. But some have hit back, highlighting the quirk of geography that underpins some of this view. “He promised things that Europeans take for granted, but Americans are told are impossible,” said the Dutch environmentalist and former government adviser Alexander Verbeek in the wake...

To understand this week's election, look to economic and political lessons from Argentina.To understand why Democrats overperformed in this week's elections, look to Argentina. Last month, Argentinian president Javier Milei won an unexpectedly large electoral affirmation, as his party significantly outperformed expectations by more than doubling its congressional representation in what was widely seen as a referendum on his agenda. Over the past two years, Milei, the world's most libertarian national leader, has slashed spending, cut red tape, and made his top priority restoring economic order and prosperity to a country that has long been a socialist basket case. Critics...

Stonington — A social media video showing a local business operator using a racial slur sparked immediate and universal backlash from her fellow merchants. The video, which emerged last weekend, shows Michelle Stone, 54, of Mystic, using the n-word during a verbal altercation with several people, at least one of whom is Black. Stone began operating the Velvet Espresso Bar in the Velvet Mill last month and celebrated the business' ribbon-cutting on Saturday. New London firefighter and amateur food critic Al Mayo initially posted the video to a Facebook group, but it was taken down, according to Mayo. On Wednesday,...

Ford is considering scrapping the electric version of its F-150 pickup — once billed as the future of American trucks — after racking up billions in losses and watching demand collapse. Executives are in active talks about axing the money-losing F-150 Lightning altogether, sources told the Wall Street Journal, in what could become the first major casualty of America’s faltering electric vehicle revolution. The Lightning, launched with fanfare in 2021 and hailed by CEO Jim Farley as a ‘smartphone that can tow,’ was supposed to mark a new era for Ford. President Joe Biden even took one for a spin,...

There will be plenty of warmth on display as US President Donald Trump welcomes Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban at the White House on November 7, but alongside the strong personal chemistry there will be a full plate of issues as they sit down to lunch. Long united by ideology and words, the two leaders are on opposite sides of the policy fence when it comes to imports of Russian oil. Meanwhile, plans for Orban to host Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin at a summit in Budapest have been placed very much on the back burner. An exemption from...

Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., avoided answering whether he would support eliminating the filibuster, as he did under President Joe Biden on Wednesday. Raskin was asked by CNN’s Dana Bash about President Donald Trump’s recent comments regarding several Republican losses nationwide Tuesday night and the ongoing government shutdown. “One of the things that he has been talking about for the last couple of days more intensely is getting rid of the filibuster. That’s actually something that you wanted to do when Joe Biden was president. Things weren’t getting through the Senate. So is that an area where you agree with him?”...

Nations were poised to approve the first fee on pollution from ships. That’s when the Trump administration began the threats.More than 100 nations were poised last month to approve a historic deal to slash pollution from cargo ships. That’s when the United States launched a pressure campaign that officials around the world have called extraordinary, even by the standards of the Trump administration’s combativeness, according to nine diplomats on its receiving end. An ambassador from Asia was told that, if he voted in favor of the plan, his country’s sailors would no longer be allowed to disembark at American ports....

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the Trump administration to enforce a policy aimed at limiting transgender rights that would restrict sex designations on passports to “male” and “female” based on sex assigned at birth. The justices granted an emergency request filed by the administration, which is seeking to reverse a policy introduced during the Biden administration that allowed people to put “X” as a gender marker or self-select male or female. "Displaying passport holders’ sex at birth no more offends equal protection principles than displaying their country of birth—in both cases, the Government is merely attesting to...

CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge in Chicago will issue an extensive injunction restricting federal agents’ use of force, saying Thursday that a top Border Patrol official leading an immigration crackdown repeatedly lied about threats posed by protesters and reporters.The preliminary injunction detailed in court Thursday came in response to a lawsuit filed by news outlets and protesters who allege federal agents have used excessive force during the operation that has netted more than 3,000 arrests and led to heated clashes across the nation’s third-largest city and its many suburbs. “I see little reason for the use of force that...