POLITICS

Lawmakers pursue avenues to counter Trump tariffs

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Washington — Backlash to President Trump’s tariffs cropped up throughout Capitol Hill on Thursday, as Democrats, and some Republicans, expressed concern about the sweeping levies on foreign imports — while putting forward a handful of possible methods to counter them. On Wednesday, the president announced a 10% baseline tariff on all U.S. trading partners while

Al Sharpton, Critic of ‘Over-Policing,’ Threatens To Jail Anyone Who Disrupts NYC Mayoral Forum

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‘I’ve instructed all our security to just remove you and hand you over to the po-po, and I will sign the complaint myself,’ says Sharpton Al Sharpton at the 2025 National Action Network Convention (YouTube) MSNBC host Al Sharpton, who has for years criticized law enforcement for the “over-policing” of “low-level crimes,” threatened to hand anyone who

Judge in Boston weighs case of detained Tufts Ph.D. student

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A federal judge in Boston considered Thursday a case involving a Tufts University Ph.D. student taken into custody in Massachusetts and moved by Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities to Louisiana last week. The government claimed in a filing Tuesday that Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish doctoral student and Fulbright Scholar, had already been removed from Massachusetts

States to Certify Anti-Discrimination Commitment or Lose Federal Education Funding

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States have 10 days to return signed forms acknowledging compliance with the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 2023 Supreme Court decision. State education agencies must now certify that schools under their jurisdiction are not discriminating against students or employees based on race or national origin to remain eligible for future federal funding, officials said