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If courts can ‘strike down’ the other branches’ actions, as Roberts claims, then that isn’t ‘co-equal.’ It’s judicial supremacism... It’s a sad day in America when the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court ignores the basic framework of the Constitution he’s supposed to interpret. That’s what happened on Wednesday, when Chief Justice John Roberts took it upon himself to subtly thumb his nose at President Trump and conservatives during a rare sit-down interview in his hometown of Buffalo, New York. In addition to rebuking calls to impeach activist lower court judges for overstepping the confines of the Constitution, the...

Approximately 100 rowdy demonstrators gathered in Lower Manhattan Saturday to protest the arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka at an ICE facility this week. The agitators held signs in Foley Square reading “No ICE, no DOGE, no state terror,” and “ICEstapo must go!” and at least one appeared to hound and follow a supporter of President Trump who showed up as a counter-protest. Elected officials, including Democratic mayoral candidate state Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani and socialist NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, also spoke. Mamdani attempted to link some of his opponents for City Hall to the president. “For the Trump Administration,...

Alberta’s threat to divorce Canada is getting more serious than ever. Premier Danielle Smith announced this week that the oil-rich province could hold its first-ever referendum on independence in 2026, as the area’s pro-51st state activists ramp up calls to ditch the Great White North in favor of the star-spangled banner. “Staying with Canada is finished,” Alberta resident Steve Harvey, 52, told The Post. “We’ve been an eagle locked up in a cage for decades because of Canada. It’s time that we’re set free.” Alberta’s beef with Canada comes from growing anger over what’s viewed as the Liberal government chocking...

More than 100 people have been taken into custody by federal immigration officials in a joint operation with the Tennessee Highway Patrol, leaving many in Nashville’s immigrant community uncertain and worried. “None of us have ever seen anything like this,” Lisa Sherman Luna, executive director of the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition said Friday. The operation with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is a reminder of how local and state law enforcement jurisdictions are critical to President Donald Trump’s plans for mass deportations. Last week, Florida officials touted a joint operation with ICE that resulted in 1,120 immigration arrests....

Three teenagers allegedly kidnapped a wealthy man at gunpoint and drove him to a remote Arizona desert to steal $4 million in cryptocurrency in a sinister plot. Austin Fletcher and Belal Ashraf, both 16 and from Pasco County, Florida, allegedly teamed up with a third, as-yet-unidentified teenager to target the victim, who has remained anonymous. Prosecutors said at Fletcher's probable cause hearing on Friday that the third teenager is no longer in the United States. It is not clear if authorities know where they are or if they plan to extradite them. A juvenile court judge ruled that Ashraf and...

A Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman on Saturday said that members of Congress bodyslammed a female ICE agent. Tricia McLaughlin, Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs, appeared on CNN to discuss the violent confrontation between New Jersey Democrats and ICE Agents at the Delaney Hall detention facility. Democrat members of Congress and Newark Mayor Ras Baraka stormed the ICE facility in Newark on Friday. Democrat Reps. LaMonica McIver, Bob Menendez and Bonnie Watson Coleman were all fighting for the release of dangerous criminal aliens. Mayor Baraka was arrested and charged with federal trespass on Friday, however, more arrests are imminent, the...

The Texas Senate passed a bill Thursday that leading business interests fear would lead to an age of expensive power and rolling blackouts. If passed by the House, state S.B. 715 would require all renewable projects — even existing ones — to buy backup power, largely from coal or gas plants. This would require solar plants in particular to buy backup power to “match their output at night — a time when no one expects them to produce energy and when demand is typically at its lowest anyway,” consultant and energy expert Doug Lewin wrote in an April analysis. The...

Justin Trudeau will be remembered as the most unserious man ever to hold serious power in Canada. He governed by press release, ruled by emotion, and floated through crisis after crisis with nothing but slogans and an empty smile. He invoked the Emergencies Act against working-class protesters, locked down the country for years, and divided citizens by class, jab status, and belief. But Mark Carney represents something far more dangerous. The 60-year-old didn’t rise through politics. He was not elected. He was installed — by the very institutions that profit most from technocratic control and public obedience. Goldman Sachs. The...

President Donald Trump has announced a “full immediate ceasefire” between Pakistan and India. On Saturday, the president announced the ceasefire in a post on his Truth Social. “After a long night of talks mediated by the United States, I am pleased to announce that India and Pakistan have agreed to a FULL AND IMMEDIATE CEASEFIRE,” Trump wrote in a morning Truth Social post. “Congratulations to both Countries on using Common Sense and Great Intelligence. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” Trump’s statement comes two days after Vice President JD Vance that the U.S. does not want to get...

President Trump signed an executive order Friday directing the Department of Veterans Affairs to create a center for homeless veterans on its West Los Angeles campus.The order set a goal of housing up to 6,000 homeless veterans at the center, which Trump named the National Warrior Independence Center, and ordered federal agencies to “ensure that funds that may have been spent on housing or other services for illegal aliens are redirected to construct, establish, and maintain” it.Trump ordered VA Secretary Doug Collins to prepare an action plan to create the housing by Jan. 1, 2028. He also directed Collins to...

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to halt mass layoffs of federal workers for at least two weeks in a temporary restraining order issued Friday.A coalition of local governments, nonprofit organizations and labor unions, including the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the largest federal employee union, filed a lawsuit last month challenging an executive order issued Feb. 11 that instructed federal agency heads to prepare large-scale reductions in workforce.The AFGE-led coalition had argued that the president does not have the power to make that order. Judge Susan Illston of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of...

His super PAC, which is said to have amassed $400 million alongside its nonprofit arm, has grown even more influential. And powerful groups for congressional Republicans are being stocked with Trump allies.President Trump is harnessing the Republican Party’s all-encompassing deference to him to exert even greater control over the G.O.P. big-money world, which had long been one of the party’s final remaining redoubts of Trump skepticism. For years, the super PACs allied with House and Senate Republicans have been some of the most powerful and independent fiefs in American politics, raising and spending hundreds of millions of dollars in each...

Cardinal Robert Prevost has been elected pope and will be known as Pope Leo XIV. The 69-year-old is the first American to become a pontiff and will lead members of the Catholic Church's global community of 1.4bn people. Born in Chicago, he is seen as a reformer and worked for many years as a missionary in Peru before being made an archbishop there. He also has Peruvian nationality and is fondly remembered as a figure who worked with marginalised communities and helped build bridges in the local Church. Why do popes choose different names? One of the first acts of...

A new AP-NORC poll finds that most U.S. adults agree with President Donald Trump that whether a person is a man or woman is determined by their sex at birth.WASHINGTON (AP) — About half of U.S. adults approve of how President Donald Trump is handling transgender issues, according to a new poll — a relative high point for a president who has the approval overall of about 4 in 10 Americans.But support for his individual policies on transgender people is not uniformly strong, with a clearer consensus against policies that affect youth.The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research survey...

Christopher Pelkey was killed in a road rage incident in Chandler in 2021, but last month, artificial intelligence brought him back to life during his killer’s sentencing hearing. It was the first time in Arizona judicial history — and possibly nationwide — that AI has been used to create a deceased victim’s own impact statement. The video player is currently playing an ad. Pelkey’s sister and brother-in-law used the technology to recreate his image and voice likeness to “talk” to the courtroom about his life and the day he met Gabriel Paul Horcasitas, who shot him during a confrontation near...

SCOOP: 🚨 Chinese representatives spotted at @PDVSA headquarters in Venezuela ahead of expiring US licenses for American oil companies in Venezuela 🚨 There are 17 more days left until the licenses for American oil companies in Venezuela will expire. Sources on the ground in Venezuela sent me this photo of Chinese officials sent by Xi JinPing to prepare for the seizing of American oil assets, sitting in the lobby of PDVSA. Additionally this week, thousands of Chinese workers arrived in Venezuela to work at the oil refineries and to literally seize the American oil assets in Venezuela on May 27th....

Proving once again that C&C readers are far ahead of the media’s curve, yesterday, the New York Times ran a story headlined, “Trump Officials Consider Suspending Habeas Corpus for Detained Migrants.” “The Constitution is clear,” White House Deputy Chief of Staff Steven Miller told reporters outside the White House. The writ of habeas corpus “could be suspended in time of invasion.” Miller was completely correct. The “somebody said something” story, if you can call it that, was a steaming heap of journalistic excrement. For one example, after repeatedly referring to the writ of habeas corpus as a “right” until readers...

The Kremlin announces that Putin is set to make an announcement shortly. The statement will be issued in one hour. Putin is reportedly meeting with the security council right now. The 3-day ceasefire in Ukraine is set to end in 1 hour 10 minutes. Interesting timing.

The high-profile sex trafficking case against Sean “Diddy” Combs has taken a stunning turn; one of the prosecution’s key witnesses has mysteriously gone missing just days before opening statements are set to begin. Federal prosecutors told a Manhattan judge this week that they’ve been unable to reach “Victim 3,” a central figure expected to deliver bombshell testimony against the hip-hop mogul. The missing woman, who does not reside in New York, had planned to testify without using a pseudonym and was prepared to detail “very personal and explosive” abuse she allegedly endured at the hands of Combs, according to the...

SummaryTalks in Geneva aim to defuse trade war disrupting global economy Low expectations for major breakthrough amid US-China distrust Discussions wrap up on Saturday evening, to continue on Sunday China determined to defend international fairness, Xinhua says GENEVA, May 10 (Reuters) - Top U.S. and Chinese officials wrapped up the first day of talks in Switzerland on Saturday aimed at defusing a trade war that threatens to hammer the global economy and planned to resume negotiations on Sunday, a source close to the discussions said.Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng met for about eight hours with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent...