County Attorney Mary Moriarty came under fire last week for not charging state employee caught vandalizing Teslas Mary Moriarty (@HennepinAtty) Prosecutors in Minnesota’s largest county are now required to take a criminal defendant’s race into account when negotiating plea deals, following a new directive from Hennepin county attorney Mary Moriarty (D.). “While racial identity and
Homan said that having a child in the United States after entering illegally ‘is not a get out of jail free card.’ White House border czar Tom Homan said that illegal immigrant parents of children who are born in the United States are not immune from being deported. “Having a U.S. citizen child doesn’t make
A few days after saying he would not get involved in Canada’s election, U.S. President Donald Trump issued a message to Canadians on election day, wishing them luck while repeating comments that Canada should be a part of the United States. “Good luck to the Great people of Canada,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social
From getting tough on fentanyl trafficking to deporting gang members to El Salvador, Trump has implemented a whole-of-government approach to border security. In Starr County, Texas, Marcus Canales said the past 100 days under President Donald Trump have made him wonder if he’s living in the “Matrix,” the computer-generated virtual world made famous in the
A different kind of sanctions relief: Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health partnered with China’s national health insurer in 2019 to offer an annual “training course on health financing.” Included in the inaugural training were officials from the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), a state-run “paramilitary group.” The United States sanctioned the XPCC
Columbus Day was previously commemorated alongside Indigenous People’s Day under former President Joe Biden’s administration. President Donald Trump said on April 27 that he would bring Columbus Day back “from the ashes,” as he accused the Democrats of tarnishing the reputation of Italian explorer Christopher Columbus. Columbus Day is a federal holiday in the United
For decades, federal law has required U.S. universities to disclose the sources of large foreign donations to the federal government. But the Biden administration sparsely enforced the law, allowing foreign nationals from adversarial countries to funnel cash to top American schools and stay anonymous. In some cases, it’s unclear whether the schools themselves are keeping