Tag: Politics

Despite public attention on Immigration and Customs Enforcement dying down in recent months, the agency is quietly reshaping daily life far beyond the border. From Haitian immigrants in Ohio to university campuses, tax databases, and fake federal agent scams, ICE's reach now extends into neighborhoods and airports across the country. What remains uncertain is just how much power the agency will ultimately hold.

Andrew Gillum, the former Tallahassee mayor who came within 34,000 votes of becoming Florida's first Black governor in 2018, was arrested in Daphne, Alabama on charges including possession of dangerous drugs, drug paraphernalia, and marijuana.

Nicki Minaj has a grim view of Dr. Fauci's future, saying he'll be eating from feeding tubes and losing the ability to speak. On Friday, the rapper posted a lengthy message on X with her bleak assessment of Fauci while also blaming the scientist for the pain and suffering that she believes he caused during the pandemic.

Before Zohran Kwame Mamdani stepped into New York City Hall to become the city's youngest mayor in over 40 years, his namesake, Kwame Nkrumah, was actively dismantling British colonial rule in Ghana in the 1950s. The Ghanaian revolutionary spent a decade in the United States and the United Kingdom working alongside political icons like W.E.B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey to host anti-colonial summits before becoming Ghana's first president.

Tiffany Haddish blamed President Donald Trump for Team USA's World Cup disaster while guest-hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live, saying everything Trump touches dies and mocking his tiny hands.

Nearly 700,000 people live in Washington. We work, raise our children, serve in the armed forces, and pay federal taxes at a higher rate per person than residents of any state. Not one of us can cast a vote that counts in Congress. How did the capital of a self-governing nation come to deny self-government to the people who live in it? The answer runs through the city's history. When Black Washingtonians gained political power in 1867, Congress abolished the city's elected government and handed control to three presidential appointees. Direct federal rule lasted a century.