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June 28, 2026
Israel divide grows in Democratic Party after New York primaries
The divide over Israel is only deepening in the Democratic Party after New York City’s first democratic socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, helped propel three primary candidates to victory last week, unseating two incumbent Democrats in the process. The New York City primaries were unusually focused on Israel, with Mamdani-backed candidates making the issue a central line of attack as they blasted their opponents for being insufficiently critical of the war in Gaza or for taking money from AIPAC- ...
Go to discussionTrump pushes civil rights enforcement to the states
06/27/2026 03:00 PM EDT President Donald Trump’s decision to gut the federal office charged with protecting students from discrimination is creating new responsibilities for states that aren’t ready to take them up. Amid mass layoffs of government employees and Trump’s efforts to dismantle the Education Department, the agency shuttered seven of its 12 regional Office for Civil Rights branches that families turned to when they felt their rights were violated. That pullback is starting to expos ...
Go to discussionAnderson Cooper makes his feelings crystal clear on working for Bari Weiss at CBS News
Saturday 27 June 2026 22:01 EDT CNN star Anderson Cooper has reportedly made his feelings clear about working with CBS News boss Bari Weiss ahead of a corporate merger that would put the two media outlets under the same ownership. Paramount, which owns CBS, is poised to acquire CNN’s parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery, in a massive $111 billion consolidation. The merger would put David Ellison, the tech heir and Trump ally who controls Paramount, in charge of both the legacy broadcaster ...
Go to discussion'Horrifying': Pulte's choice for top spy aide stokes fears of Trump vote tampering
Jun. 27, 2026, 5:22 PM EDT Bill Pulte, the acting director of national intelligence, has stirred fear by choosing as his chief of staff a GOP election lawyer who oversaw a poll watching program that included Jack Posobiec and other conservative conspiracy theorists. The lawyer, Christina Norton, also appears to have no experience working in the intelligence community. “It is horrfiying,” a former senior U.S. intelligence official told MS NOW Saturday. “Not only does Norton have absolutely no ...
Go to discussionDonald Trump's golf club seeks approval for 11,330-square-foot expansion, and it has little to do with golf
Story by Sneha Abraham • 7h A golf club applying for a building expansion is not unusual. But when the club belongs to the sitting U.S. president, and the addition is not a fairway, the application is anything but routine. Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., has filed an application to add an 11,330-square-foot ballroom and covered rooftop terrace to its clubhouse. A Golfweek report published on June 24 stated that the Bedminster Township Land Use Board will discuss an applicatio ...
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