Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has chosen a formerly incarcerated rapper to serve on his City Hall transition team as he prepares to take office in New York City Jan. 1, according to reports. The controversial selection comes as Mamdani, who won November's election on a progressive platform, assembles his transition team. Mamdani's appointment of Mysonne Linen, 49, was announced in a Nov. 26 Instagram post from Until Freedom, a New York City"based social-justice organization, where Linen is a leader.
Convicted Russian cryptocurrency fraudster Roman Novak and his wife Anna watched each other being tortured to death in the UAE desert after their kidnappers failed to extract 380 million UK pounds from their accounts.
Dummkopf Trumpf viciously insulting a reporter: "You are the most obnoxious reporter in the whole place. You are an obnoxious, terrible reporter. It is always the same thing with you!" And here is the Dotard-in-Chief suddenly jolting himself awake during a boring Cabinet meeting prior to haranguing the journalist: "Zzzzz"
Commodity farmers should know by the end of December exactly how much they will receive in economic aid from the Trump administration from the $12 billion package that should be distributed by the end of February, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said on Monday.
Honduras's top prosecutor has issued an international arrest warrant for former President Juan Orlando Hernandez, intensifying legal and political turmoil just days after the ex-leader walked free from a United States prison.
Republicans haven't lost a statewide race in Texas in more than 30 years, but Democrats are hoping a "blue wave" in the midterms could help them end that streak.
MAGA extraordinaire Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman is preparing to enter the race for NYS governor...
Donald Trump Jr. criticized corruption in Ukraine and suggested Sunday that his father may walk away from the country if it doesn't make peace with Russia.
This is like something you might see in a Roadrunner/Coyote cartoon where Wile E. Coyote gets an Acme Su-34 and the ejector seat slams him into the roof of the hangar.
Russia keeps coming up with new and inventive ways to fuck up.
The passage of the law will end a legal challenge pending in Springfield federal court challenging the Minority Teachers program for unconstitutionally favoring people based on race in the name of "diversifying" the ranks of public school teachers in Illinois. Those who brought the challenge declared victory in the days after Pritzker signed the new law. "Illinois cannot disqualify students from competing for a taxpayer-funded college scholarship because of their race," said attorney Samantha Romero-Drew, of the nonprofit constitutional legal advocacy organization, the Pacific Legal Foundation. "Race-based discrimination is a blatant violation of the Equal Protection Clause."
In 2016, as then-presidential candidate Donald Trump vowed that US troops would carry out even his most extreme battlefield orders as commander in chief " some of which former military leaders said would be illegal " Pete Hegseth warned that service members had a duty to refuse unlawful orders from a potential President Trump.
Two former DHS officials who served under both Dummkopf Trumpf and former POTUS Joe Biden report the Dotard-in-Chief is considering firing DHS Secretary Kristi Noem "really soon" in a staff shakeup that could come in time for the New Year.
After two separate federal courts ruled that Alina Habba and Lindsey Halligan were unequivocally disqualified from their positions at the Justice Department, the self-serving Trumpf junta continues describing the two attractive ambulance chasers as AUSAs on official government websites.
The state's worst grades went to energy, inland waterways, roads and stormwater, all receiving a D. California roads are often picked on for being some of the worst in the country, and according to the report, about a third of the state's roads are in poor condition. Bridges also fared poorly in the report with a grade of C-. More than 65% of the structures are older than 50 years, the typical lifespan, and need significant reinvestment to ensure their longevity. Even the Golden Gate Bridge, one of the state's biggest tourist attractions, still needs to secure more funding to finish an ongoing retrofitting project. Earlier this year, a report from the National Transportation Safety Board found that seven California bridges had an "unknown level of risk" for collapse. Read more
To protect their money, the United States and European nations insisted on oversight. They required Ukraine to allow groups of outside experts, known as supervisory boards, to monitor spending, appoint executives and prevent corruption. Over the past four years, a New York Times investigation found, the Ukrainian government systematically sabotaged that oversight, allowing graft to flourish. Read more
The New Year's Eve concert on the Champs lyses has been cancelled for security reasons. Paris was supposed to host its usual spectacle. A free open-air concert at the Arc de Triomphe, video projections on the monument and the midnight festivities that once drew close to a million people. Instead, the concert has been scrapped. It will be replaced on national television with a prerecorded concert filmed weeks ago with a handpicked crowd to mimic a celebration Paris no longer believes it can safely host. A capital once famed for its public life now performs it under studio conditions. Read more
