POLITICS

Bipartisan Bill Would Require Accountability and State Department Plan to Dismantle Mexican Cartels

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The senators want ‘performance indicators’ and a way to evaluate the effectiveness of U.S. aid to Mexico in battle against criminal organizations. The bipartisan Mexico Security Assistance Accountability Act introduced in the Senate on May 15 would require the State Department to come up with a strategy to dismantle the Mexican drug cartels with measurable

South African president to visit White House after Afrikaner refugees arrive

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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will visit the White House next week, his office said Thursday, days after the arrival in the U.S. of the first group of White South Africans, having been granted refugee status under a new Trump administration policy.   Ramaphosa’s office said the visit will provide a “platform to reset the strategic

South African president to visit White House after Afrikaners arrive

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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will visit the White House next week, his office said Thursday, days after the arrival in the U.S. of the first group of White South Africans, having been granted refugee status under a new Trump administration policy.   Ramaphosa’s office said the visit will provide a “platform to reset the strategic

5 Takeaways From Supreme Court Hearing on Nationwide Injunctions, Birthright Citizenship

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The Supreme Court on May 15 heard oral arguments in relation to the Trump administration’s request to lift nationwide injunctions placed on the president’s birthright citizenship order. The decision could determine how judges can address presidential actions. During the argument, the justices posed questions about how far lower court judges could go in issuing relief

‘Corpse of the Phallus,’ Black Latex, and Circus Performers: Meet The Avant-Garde Artists Arrested For Violently Storming Columbia Library

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Before Isaiah Decastro Nash was arrested for storming a Columbia University library, the philosophy undergraduate dabbled in poetry. “The primordial trauma of existence is the death and rot of God. The corpse of God; the corpse of Death; the corpse of Time; the corpse of the Phallus,” he wrote in “Sociotraumatics,” a 2024 poem published