Police in London on Monday arrested Peter Mandelson, Britain's former ambassador to the United States, who has been under investigation for his relationship with notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Metropolitan Police in London said that Lord Mandelson, 72, was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, the same grounds on which other police in Britain last week arrested and briefly detained Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the former prince and longtime friend of Epstein.
Police in Lenexa, Kansas used automated license plate reader (ALPR) technology to pursue a man who wrote a critical op-ed about the police department, according to reporting by Kansas public radio station KCUR.
The three-judge panel decided Monday that it was too late to redraw the state's congressional map ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
The DNC says Biden ignoring the genocide in Gaza cost Harris the election. See link...
"President Trump's attacks on the Supreme Court are an unmitigated disgrace," began McCarthy in a column for National Review. "The Court tried in good faith " and, for what it's worth, successfully in my view " to uphold the law. By now, the president has to know that the fallout of his ravings will be harassment of the justices by elements of his base that are as deranged as he is. Is the plan to ignite a riot on the Supreme Court steps this time, while he can still pardon the rabble-rousers as he did the Capitol rioters?" "Moreover, what value is there in an oath to execute the laws faithfully from a man who either has no regard for the law or delusionally sees the law as what he personally wants " with what he doesn't want seen not merely as illegal but treasonous?
The Trump administration's weaponization of the once-independent agency has undermined public trust in the rule of law, the attorneys said. Speaking at an event on Friday, two former attorneys for the U.S. Department of Justice said the once-independent and nonpartisan agency had been decimated as the rule of law comes increasingly under attack.
"Since the State of the Union address is next Tuesday, let's get rid of the State of the Union address before Tuesday. And here's why. Nothing has misled the American people to the warped belief that the president can act like a king more than this stupid, boring, performative after-dinner speech from hell where the Sergeant-at-Arms announces the president like he's a king," Maher said.
The leftist congresswoman's Munich stumbling on Friday, Feb. 13, started the critical firestorm and has conservatives questioning her fitness for a potential 2028 Democrat presidential primary campaign. Read more
Top Democratic officials who worked on the party's still-secret autopsy of the 2024 election catastrophe concluded that Kamala Harris lost because of the Biden administration's support for Israel during the IDF onslaught which would kill 73,188 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, mostly women and children, and wounding or maiming another 175,000 people.
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Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman (R): "Nassau [County] can detain immigrants for a maximum of 72 hours, but... county officials held hundreds of people for up to six days, and 16 people for a week or longer. Of the 366 immigrants held for longer than the legal limit, more than 60% had no criminal record."
Blakeman Created Private Militia
Let's be honest with each other for a minute and look at the landscape of American politics in this, the year of our Lord 2026. We aren't just fighting over marginal tax rates or parts per billion of carbon in the atmosphere, or whether we should build a bridge to nowhere anymore.
Just like that, San Francisco's teachers strike appears to be over. The San Francisco school district's 50,000 students, many still struggling to recover from years of school closures and learning loss during the pandemic, will be back in classrooms next week after a tentative agreement was reached early Friday between district officials and United Educators of San Francisco - which represents 6,000 teachers, aides, nurses, counselors, security guards and other workers
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A state legislator's former chief of staff faces charges of child sexual exploitation and child sex trafficking. Federal agents arrested Craig Scott Valdez, 36, early Friday in Juneau, according to court documents. Valdez is an Anchorage resident listed as having served as Republican Wasilla state Sen. George Rauscher's chief of staff since November. Valdez was terminated Friday hours after the charges were made public, according to a press secretary for the state Senate minority caucus, of which Rauscher is a member. Valdez was also elected as chair of the Anchorage Young Republicans in January 2025 and became the group's state committee chair last month, according to social media posts. A grand jury on Tuesday indicted Valdez on charges of sex trafficking a minor, sexual exploitation of a minor " for both allegedly producing and receiving child sexual abuse material " and coercion and enticement of a minor.
Lynch, who often makes controversial remarks about his bandmate in the press, continued, "I always say Don has the same exact personality traits and character as [Donald] Trump, except Trump's a better singer." Read more
At least ten people have been killed in IDF air strikes on eastern Lebanon. Despite a deal between Israel and Lebanese Hezbollah following 13 months of war, Israel has carried out near-daily strikes on Lebanon. The IDF also killed two Palestinians with drone strikes in the Gaza Strip and Israeli Settlers murdered American citizen Nasrallah Abu Siyam (19) in the West Bank.
Israel: Main Source of Instability in the Middle East
