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More than 450 people signed up to speak about Senate Bill 4. Almost all were against it. State Sen. Charles Perry said his bill to ban so-called sanctuary cities restores the “rule of law.” Critics say the bill would endanger public safety by hurting police relations with immigrant communities. A young woman who attempted suicide…
A former prime minister of Norway has spoken of his shock after he was held and questioned at Washington Dulles airport because of a visit to Iran three years ago. Kjell Magne Bondevik, who served as prime minister of Norway from 1997-2000 and 2001-05, flew into the US from Europe on Tuesday afternoon to attend…
This is a very hard column to write. I’m about to abandon everything I have believed for much of my life about the proper principles for federal governance. Unfortunately, too many of our political leaders did that long ago, which makes this conclusion inevitable: Federal Judge Neil Gorsuch, President Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme…
It’s been more than 16 months since Tom Brady first placed a “Make America Great Again” hat in his locker and kept it there for weeks while telling reporters that it “would be great” if Donald Trump became president. Well, Donald Trump is president, and I’m going to put this as objectively as I can:…
An army of corporate lawyers has joined the battle against President Donald Trump’s travel ban on citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries, as an effort to advise travellers detained at US airports shifts to legal action that could stretch on for years. Some of the biggest corporate law firms — including Gibson Dunn; Hogan Lovells; Paul…
Stock up on BECs, toilet paper and Goya products while you can because Yemeni bodega workers across the city are going on strike tomorrow to protest Trump’s Muslim travel ban. Buzzfeed reports from 12-8pm tomorrow, an estimated 1,000 Yemeni-owned (yeah, that’s how many just Yemeni bodegas there are in New York City) stores citywide will shut down to show…
Refugees come here with the audacity to take the Statue of Liberty literally. Watch Full Frontal with Samantha Bee all new Wednesdays at 10:30/ 9:30c on TBS! 0:00 Welcome back to the show. 0:02 If you’re in the middle of tweeting “Dumb Canadian bitch, 0:05 shut up about immigrants,” pause those thumbs a sec. 0:08…
A bonfire set by demonstrators protesting a scheduled speaking appearance by Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos burns on Sproul Plaza on the University of California at Berkeley campus on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017, in Berkeley, Calif. The event was canceled out of safety concerns after protesters hurled smoke bombs, broke windows and started a bonfire….
President Donald Trump reacted angrily to overnight protests against alt-right speaker Milo Yiannopoulos at University of California, Berkeley, and threatened to withdraw federal funds if the university “does not allow free speech and practices violence” in a tweet posted early Thursday morning. If U.C. Berkeley does not allow free speech and practices violence on innocent…
Supreme Court Justice nominee Neil Gorsuch founded and led a student group called the ‘Fascism Forever Club’ at his elite high school, DailyMail.com can reveal. The club was set up to rally against the ‘left-wing tendencies’ of his professors while attending a Jesuit all-boys preparatory high school near Washington D.C. The name may be inconvenient…