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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., condemned President Donald Trump’s plan to deploy U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to U.S. airports on Sunday. Schumer made the comments while speaking on the Senate floor Sunday, saying Trump’s decision is “impulsive” and could make the situation at airports worse. “Today, Donald Trump and [Tom] Homan … Read more
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is under fire for backing a plan that would slash New York’s estate tax exemption by nearly 90%, a move opponents say could drag middle-class families into a tax burden long aimed at the rich. New York is one of the states that imposes its own estate tax in … Read more
reak travel underway and as a partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security has dragged on since mid-February
Aerial video shows floodwaters around Oahu’s North Shore and Waialua in Hawaii’s worst flood in more than 20 years. Officials urged people in hard-hit areas to ‘LEAVE NOW’ after heavy rains fell on soil already saturated by downpours from a winter storm a week earlier. Muddy floodwaters covered streets and farmland. On Maui, authorities upgraded … Read more
President Donald Trump mocked Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., for a near gaffe Saturday on the Senate floor. “Schumer got ‘discombobulated’ in the Senate yesterday, and said, ‘WE MUST FUND ICE,’ prior to correcting himself,” Trump wrote Sunday morning on Truth Social. “Thank you Chuck, I agree!” Schumer and Senate Democrats are filibustering the … Read more
Today show host Savannah Guthrie’s family released new statement asking for help in locating missing mother, 84 Savannah Guthrie and her family have released a new statement about their missing mother, urging Tucson, Arizona, residents to come forward with potential clues about 84-year old’s Nancy Guthrie’s whereabouts. In their statement on Sunday, the NBC Today … Read more
Former head of the FBI who later investigated Russia’s involvement in the 2016 US presidential election Robert Mueller, who has died aged 81, led an investigation, as US special counsel, into Russian interference in the 2016 White House election and alleged collusion with Donald Trump’s campaign team. Trump was enraged by the two-year-long investigation, which … Read more
Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., survived a key test vote on Sunday on his way to becoming the next Homeland Security chief. Mullin, who was tapped by President Donald Trump to be the next Department of Homeland Security secretary, still has one more vote to go, and likely won’t be confirmed until Monday evening. Should he … Read more
Nebraska, Indiana and West Virginia Republicans have all rolled back child labor regulations while the number of violations has risen fivefold in the last decade The number of child labor violations has risen fivefold in the last 10 years, but Republicans across the US are continuing to propose and pass legislation that rolls back protections … Read more
About 65% of US firefighters are volunteers, as New York state says number has fallen to lowest level in 40 years Officials have warned of serious consequences after the number of volunteer firefighters, the bedrock of firefighting in the US, plunged, leading to entire departments closing in some states. About 65% of American firefighters are … Read more
