White House urges Hamas to release hostages as relatives meet with Harris
The White House pushed back on calls for a ceasefire in the Israel–Hamas conflict by calling for the terrorist group to release hostages it has held for six months. “You have a party, Hamas, who is holding innocent people that it took hostage a long time ago,” national security adviser Jake Sullivan said. “There could […]
Texas Rep. Beth Van Duyne urges NYPD cops to ‘escape’ NY after Detective Jonathan Diller’s death
Republican Texas congressman urges New York police officers to pack up and head to Texas, supports green lights and proposes a state free of “pro-criminal” politicians that could offer a better quality of life are doing. Rep. Beth Van Dine (R-Texas) placed an ad in the New York Post urging Empire State police officers to […]
Special Counsel Jack Smith urges Supreme Court to reject Trump immunity claims: ‘No person is above the law’
Special Counsel Jack Smith asked the Supreme Court on Monday to reject former President Trump’s argument that he cannot be prosecuted for allegedly trying to overturn the 2020 election. Smith’s team argued that lower courts were correct to reject Trump’s immunity claims in prosecutors’ final briefs before the justices hear arguments in Trump’s case on […]
Special counsel Jack Smith urges Supreme Court to reject Trump’s immunity claim
Special Counsel Jack Smith asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to deny former President Donald Trump’s request for immunity in a 2020 federal election interference case. Mr. Smith, 66 pages of filing The high court argued that President Trump’s “unconventional and comprehensive” immunity claim violates “a fundamental principle of our nation’s constitutional order,” which […]
Jack Smith urges Supreme Court to reject Trump’s ‘novel and sweeping’ immunity claim
Special Counsel Jack Smith asked the Supreme Court on Monday to reject former President Trump’s immunity claim and prevent him from further delaying his trial in a federal election destruction case in Washington, D.C. In a filing Monday night with the U.S. high court, Smith wrote that no one, including the president, is “above” Trump’s […]
Pence worries TikTok bill could get lost in ‘fog of presidential politics,’ urges Senate vote
Former Vice President Mike Pence says a bipartisan effort to force popular social media app TikTok to cut ties with China could cost him presidential politics ahead of what is expected to be a highly competitive November election. I’m concerned that this will happen. In an interview with Fox News Digital, he referenced the upcoming […]
Father of humanitarian worker killed in Gaza urges Blinken to suspend aid to Israel
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — America’s top diplomat offers condolences by phone after his son was killed in an Israeli airstrike that hit a World Central Kitchen convoy delivering aid in the Gaza Strip. John Flickinger knew what he meant. A grieving father told Secretary of State Antony Blinken that Israeli killings in Hamas-controlled areas […]
Speaker Johnson urges competing factions to back House’s FISA bill
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) is pitching his colleagues on the House’s latest proposal to expand warrantless state surveillance powers, warning of a looming deadline and the risk of Senate intervention. The Reform Intelligence and Surveillance Act announced Friday extends Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which allows the government to spy […]
Chicago mayor urges Biden to grant work permits to half million illegal immigrants
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson on Thursday called on President Biden to grant work permits to the nearly 500,000 undocumented immigrants living in the state. Johnson also said the city of about 2.7 million people could “conservatively” admit an additional 400,000 to 700,000 illegal immigrants. “I hope the president will do the same to help our […]
Citigroup urges dismissal of 'misguided' New York lawsuit over fraud scams – Yahoo Finance
Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – Citigroup on Tuesday asked a federal judge to dismiss New York Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsuit accusing a Citibank unit of failing to repay customers who were victims of online fraudsters. did. The third-largest U.S. bank acknowledges that the problem of online wire fraud is “real,” but it has […]