Case involving June 2025 protest is escalation in Trump officials’ attack on first amendment rights, say experts A federal jury has found three protesters, including a US military veteran of the war in Afghanistan, guilty on felony conspiracy charges on Thursday for their part in a June 2025 protest against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement … Read more
Los Angeles mayoral candidate and former reality TV star Spencer Pratt sits down with NBC News’ Tom Llamas to discuss his campaign, in which he accuses Mayor Karen Bass and Governor Gavin Newsom of “criminal negligence” over their handling of the devastating L.A. wildfires.
Jewish New Yorkers, beware. The same rabid anti-Israel activists who have harassed Jews at synagogues in recent weeks in violent protests, flown the flag of Hamas and Hezbollah and stomped on the Israeli flag are returning to the streets tonight at Time Square in midtown Manhattan to rage-bait Israelis and Jews attending a “Jerusalem Real … Read more
A viral internet lookalike, free Botox and imported New York bagel water are not usually the ingredients of a mayoral campaign. Peter Simel, the Florida man who went viral earlier this year as “Palm Beach Pete” over his uncanny resemblance to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, says he is now “seriously considering” a run for mayor … Read more
Mallory McMorrow, a Democratic candidate for Senate in Michigan, wasted no time answering whether an antisemitism problem exists in the Democratic Party. “There is,” McMorrow answered bluntly at a debate Senate debate on Thursday. “At the Democratic convention, an attendee yelled an antisemitic slur at my husband, who is Jewish and was walking with my … Read more
Ryan Fournier, 30, was charged with simple assault and threats to do bodily harm The co-founder of the group Students for Trump was arrested on Tuesday on domestic violence charges. Washington DC’s Metropolitan police department arrested Ryan Fournier, 30, and charged him with simple assault and threats to do bodily harm, Defector first reported. Continue … Read more
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani won’t be attending the city’s annual Israel Day Parade on Sunday, a break from decades-long tradition, despite attending other events celebrating the city’s diverse cultural landscape. Since 1964, every mayor in the city has attended the Jewish celebration, which comes amid record levels of antisemitism and weeks of anti-Israel demonstrations … Read more
An official tells NBC News that negotiators for the US and Iran have reached a deal to end the war. That official tells us it’s just waiting for a signoff from President Trump and from Iranian Leaders. NBC News’ Richard Engel has the story.
The Treasury Department is preparing to print $250 bills with President Donald Trump’s face on them, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirmed Thursday, and is just waiting for Congress’s green light
Organizers rally outside Delaney Hall, facing violent clashes with agents, as over 300 detainees are on hunger strike Chaos breaks out at New Jersey immigration detention center – in pictures Wednesday marked the sixth day that more than 300 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees were on a hunger and labor strike at Delaney Hall … Read more
