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May 13, 2025 On his arrest, the private prison company GEO, and why he believes we’re heading into authoritarianism—but democracy will prevail. Ad Policy Protesters, activists, and local politicians gather in Lower Manhattan to denounce the arrest yesterday of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka for allegedly trespassing at an ICE facility in New Jersey.(Spencer Platt / Getty Images) Ras Baraka, the democratic mayor of Newark, New Jersey, who was arrested by federal agents last Friday, is the latest example of the Trump administration’s metastasizing authoritarianism. Baraka was arrested outside Delaney Hall, an immigration detention center in Newark, and charged with a…

An unresponsive private aircraft that drew a response from military jets in 2023, causing a sonic boom in and around Washington, D.C., most likely suffered a loss of cabin pressure before it crashed in Virginia, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a report released on Tuesday.All four people on board were killed when the private business jet went down near Montebello, Va., in June 2023. The N.T.S.B. said in its report that the plane most likely suffered a loss of cabin pressure, leading to a lack of oxygen and incapacitating the pilot and the three passengers.The board also found…

Popular Twitch streamer and political commentator Hasan Piker, who has more than 2 million followers on the live-streaming platform, said he was detained and questioned by federal authorities at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport for more than two hours after arriving in the U.S. on an international flight.This happened as Piker, 33, was headed to speak at the University of Chicago on Sunday after he returned from a family vacation in Paris. Piker, a prominent Turkish American live streamer who has openly spoken out against the war in Gaza, told the Institute of Politics crowd at UChicago that he believes he was…

Christopher S. Bond, who was Missouri’s youngest governor and the state’s first Republican governor since 1945 when he was elected in 1972, and who went on to serve four terms in the U.S. Senate, died on Tuesday in St. Louis. He was 86.His death was announced by Gov. Mike Kehoe, a fellow Republican. The announcement did not say where in St. Louis he died.Mr. Bond, known as Kit, was 31 in 1970 when he was elected state auditor, defeating a 17-year incumbent. He served from 1971 to 1973, when he became governor, having been elected in November 1972 at age…

As he called to order a marathon committee session to consider Medicaid cuts and other critical pieces of Republicans’ sweeping domestic policy bill, Representative Brett Guthrie of Kentucky surveyed a packed hearing room on Tuesday afternoon and asked for a respectful debate.“I know we have deep feelings on these issues, and we may not all agree on everything,” said Mr. Guthrie, a Republican who is in his first term as chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.It was not to be.Minutes later, a group of protesters in the back of the Capitol Hill hearing room began shouting at lawmakers…

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Customers shop for produce at a grocery store on Feb. 12, 2025 in Austin, Texas. Brandon Bell/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Brandon Bell/Getty Images As the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) makes sweeping demands on states and their contractors for the sensitive, personal data of tens of millions of food assistance recipients, one payment processor has so far signaled it intends to turn over data to the federal agency. Meanwhile, privacy and civil liberties advocates say the USDA’s unprecedented demand for sensitive state data is unlawful, and warn the request through third-party contractors could be a new playbook for…

He has a new, carefully groomed beard. He bantered with bros for hours on an irreverent comedy podcast. And on Tuesday, he criticized the Trump administration through an appeal to patriotism in a state early on the presidential nominating calendar.Pete Buttigieg is inching back into the Democrats’ spotlight this spring with a series of appearances that have prompted speculation about how one of the party’s most evidently ambitious politicians might spend the lead-up to 2028.With Democrats still searching for a direction and a standard-bearer after November’s loss to President Trump, supporters of Mr. Buttigieg, a smooth-talking former mayor from Indiana…

The head of the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health and a handful of teams at the agency had their layoff notices rescinded Tuesday, multiple officials say, and several worker safety programs that had been eliminated by layoffs last month are being restored.Letters reversing the layoffs arrived in the inboxes of some NIOSH staff a day ahead of House and Senate hearings Wednesday with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. where he was expected to face questions about the layoffs.Health officials and scientists being brought back to work include everyone in NIOSH’s respiratory health division, division…

Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s new book Original Sin reveals top White House aides lying to journalists and trying to gaslight the public over Biden’s decline. Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s new book Original Sin reveals top White House aides lying to journalists and trying to gaslight the public about Biden’s decline. Ad Policy President Joe Biden looks on as he participates in the first presidential debate of the 2024 elections with Donald Trump at CNN’s studios in Atlanta, Georgia, on June 27, 2024.(Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP via Getty Images) Original Sin is out after several months of drumroll, setting…