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Daniel Lurie in San Francisco in October 2024. (Mike Kai Chen/Mike Kai Chen for The Washington Post) In her Aug. 30 column, "Daniel Lurie, San Francisco's quiet radical," Kate Andrews was right that San Francisco's mayor represents a quiet revolution within the Democratic Party. Recent Manhattan Institute focus groups that I've run in California suggest that San Franciscans have noticed -- and they help explain why his approach is working. Compared with voters we interviewed in Los Angeles,...

The report has drawn the attention of the Pinellas Human Rights Board, whose chair, County Commissioner René Flowers, said this week she wants Gualtieri to address community concerns about the rebooking practice. What they're saying: In an interview with Axios, Gualtieri said the practice was "totally on" Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and that the issue arose because the federal agency doesn't have enough detention space. * "It's stupid," Gualtieri said of the ProPublica report,...

A federal jury Wednesday acquitted Suffolk Sheriff Steven W. Tompkins of two counts of extortion, concluding a closely-watched corruption trial centering on the Democrat's dealings with a cannabis company. Tompkins, 69, as sheriff has run the Nashua Street Jail and the South Bay House of Correction for years. This breaking news story will be updated. Danny McDonald can be reached at daniel.mcdonald@globe.com. Follow him @Danny__McDonald.

The president's granddaughter shared her first week on campus, says she's 'been sobbing' NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Kai Trump, the 19-year-old granddaughter of President Donald Trump, detailed her emotional transition to college life in a video posted to her , capturing everything from early-morning team meetings to an unexpected bout of strep throat during her first week at the University of Miami. The video documents her final days in Jupiter, Florida, before moving into...

The U.S. Postal Service has been swiftly developing a complex screening system for mail-in ballots ahead of this year's midterm elections, despite ongoing legal wranglings over President Trump's executive order to restrict voting by mail. The new system, which requires states to tell the Postal Service which voters will be sent ballots so they can be verified before delivery, shows how aggressively the Postal Service is moving to deliver on the president's directive ahead of the upcoming ...

The comedian compared facilities to concentration camps and alleged children were being assaulted in ICE custody NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! condemned comedian Rosie O'Donnell and set the record straight after she made multiple wild claims about ICE facilities. In titled, "Friday Ramble," O'Donnell discussed a variety of topics, including the recent death of country music legend Dolly Parton, before launching into criticism of the Trump administration. "We all vowed 'Never...

A brute was caught on camera randomly throwing a baby crib filled with trash at a 90-year-old woman on a Brooklyn sidewalk this week, knocking her to the ground, according to cops. The senior was walking on busy Brighton Beach Avenue near Brighton 5th Street around 9:45 a.m. Monday when the assailant ran up to her, grabbed the discarded crib left next to a trash can and hurled it at her, according to the NYPD and footage obtained by News 12. The victim fell on her side to the ground as...

This is Washington Edition, the newsletter about money, power and politics in the nation's capital. Today, congressional reporter Erik Wasson fills in for regular newsletter author Nancy Cook and examines the political reaction to the warning from the bond market. Sign up here. Email our editors ...

President Trump pledged Wednesday to campaign in Alaska for Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan. Mr. Trump said a second candidate also named Dan Sullivan on the ballot -- a confusion tactic allegedly engineered by Democrats -- could cost the Republican the seat in a tight race. "It's close for one reason, that they have a phony Dan Sullivan. This guy is a phony, and he was put up by the Democrats," Mr. Trump said. He noted that the other Dan Sullivan had never been in politics and rarely ...

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat, endorsed progressive Democrat Angie Nixon in the Florida Senate race on Wednesday, weighing in on a race some Democrats hope to contest in the November midterms. Nixon, a democratic socialist, won the Democratic primary in Florida's Senate race last month and is set to face off against Republican Senator Ashley Moody. She now has support from Ocasio-Cortez, one of the most prominent progressive lawmakers in the country. Moody is...

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is one of the most odious concepts to emerge in America in the last 15 years. DEI is built on the foundational premise that America is fundamentally discriminatory, and therefore the government must deliberately give preferential treatment to "underrepresented" groups who are allegedly oppressed. This stands in sharp contrast to civil rights laws, which Republicans advanced for the narrowly tailored purpose of remedying discrimination and segregation against...

With help from Daniella Cheslow Subscribe here | Email Daniella | Email Gigi Deputy Secretary of State CHRISTOPHER LANDAU's bid to win over Pacific Island countries has run directly into a Beijing problem. He's trying to reassert U.S. influence over a region that includes crucial sea lanes linking Hawaii and Australia during a 12-day visit ending next Friday. That effort includes a pledge of $150 million to support infrastructure upgrades and assistance to cushion the regional impact of "the...

New opinion issued by the DoJ says those who take federal money through TANF and SSI must report undocumented immigrants across their state governments The US Department of Justice has ordered states to expand how they report undocumented immigrants to the federal government, according to a legal opinion from Tuesday that reverses a policy that has been in place for nearly 30 years. Under the new opinion, issued by the department's Office of Legal Counsel, any state that takes federal money...

As far as President Donald Trump is concerned, Prince Harry and his wife Meghan are a royal pain. Asked what he thought of their return to Britain after a six-year sojourn in Montecito, California, Trump said he was "not a fan." "I'm happy about it," Trump said in response to a question about the royal couple's departure a week earlier during a Sept. 2 news conference with reporters in the Oval Office. Harry and his American-born wife decamped to California from the United Kingdom amid ...

As part of Donald Trump's trade war with Canada, which the administration claims is not a trade war, the president has signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario "Lake America." This follows his renaming of the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. These childish antics help no one, but Mr. Trump is not alone in changing names for political and woke purposes. There is a long road in Northern Virginia that, for years, was called the Lee Highway. It passes through Arlington and Fairfax ...

The Justice Department issued a new legal interpretation on Wednesday in an attempt to push every state in the country to report undocumented immigrants living in their communities and advance President Donald Trump's mass deportation plan. The department's Office of Legal Counsel, which advises the Attorney General, said that when states accept federal funds to assist low-income families -- through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and the Supplemental Security Income programs -- ...

Top Jeffries ally tells Democrats to move past defection drama and focus on November A top ally of Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said the party should "stay focused on winning the House," as the Democratic leader weighs repercussions for two centrist Democrats who crossed party lines on Tuesday, which forced a divisive vote condemning socialism. Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY), a senior House Democrat with close ties to Jeffries and the Congressional Black Caucus PAC chairman, would not...

Somewhere in America, a recent college graduate named Rahil Prakash is smiling. And honestly? He's earned it. Mr. Prakash, all of 21 years old, decided to conduct what he generously called "a short-term social experiment." The rest of us would call it "making up numbers and watching very serious people lose their minds." Armed with nothing but a website, some AI and the boundless confidence that only a person who cannot yet legally rent a car possesses, he invented a polling firm named Median...

Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy questions President Donald Trump about the possibility of the Iranian people rising up against their government. Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy questions President Donald Trump about whether growing unrest inside Iran could lead to the Iranian people rising up against the country's government amid escalating tensions.

Retired Vice Adm. Robert Harward joins 'America's Newsroom' to assess escalating U.S.-Iran strikes and the administration's push to isolate Tehran financially. Retired Vice Adm. Robert Harward joins 'America's Newsroom' to evaluate strikes against targets in Iran and operations in the Strait of Hormuz. Harward details responses to attacks on U.S. assets in Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait and Bahrain and outlines President Donald Trump's goal to isolate the regime financially from the world.

A Maryland man arrived on a Pennsylvania farm in 1851, intending to take back what he considered to be his human property. He was unprepared for what followed. Four enslaved black men fled Edward Gorsuch's Maryland farm in November 1849. Over the next 22 months he hunted them like a man possessed. ...

A one-stop information center is setting up shop at Woodland Park in Portage to assist residents and businesses affected by the Aug. 11 derecho. The Porter County Emergency Management Agency is partnering with the Indiana Department of Homeland Security to set up the information center, EMA Director Lance Bella said in a release. The information center will help residents and businesses that experienced storm-related damage meet with representatives from multiple local, state and federal ...

The disconnect is emerging as one of the central political challenges surrounding the AI boom -- and it's one that politicians from both parties must navigate as the midterms approach. The issue has repeatedly shown up as a divisive theme in races across the country. It's an especially thorny thicket for President Donald Trump as he tries to lead his party to hold its majority, considering his full-throated embrace of data centers despite their massive energy needs. On Monday, Trump warned ...

The Justice Department moved Wednesday to require states to provide information on undocumented immigrants or lose federal funding for two key public assistance programs, issuing a sweeping revision of a long-standing legal opinion. It's the latest move by the Trump administration to force states to cooperate in the president's aggressive immigration crackdown -- this time, threatening to pull federal funding if they don't turn over information on undocumented immigrants who they believe are...

President Donald Trump will join first responders and the Tunnel to Towers Foundation at the White House next week as the group brings a massive piece of World Trade Center steel to Washington, D.C., ahead of the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Trump is expected to speak alongside Tunnel to Towers Foundation Chairman and CEO Frank Siller at a Sept. 8 ceremony at the White House Ellipse, the foundation said in a press release. The event will feature a 21-foot, 16,900-pound...

Portage officials expressed their disappointment in Gov. Mike Braun and other statewide elected officials for their response in the wake of the Aug. 11 derecho that devastated the city and left some residents without power for weeks. Their remarks came during a lovefest for Portage residents and others who rallied in support of the city. "I have never felt more awkward than trying to be on the phone trying to get state officials to take our city's situation seriously," Mayor Austin Bonta said...

New $1 commemorative coins featuring President Donald Trump appeared to be out of stock Wednesday afternoon, hours after they went on sale from the US Mint at noon. One side of the gold coin shows Trump's presidential portrait with the inscription "IN GOD WE TRUST" and "LIBERTY." On the other side is the presidential seal and a "250" inscription in honor of America's 250th anniversary. A roll of 25 coins costs $61, while a bag of 100 Trump coins sells for $154.50, according to the US ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon on Aug. 26. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) The Pentagon has pulled decades of classified documents from a secret computer system commonly used by defense officials and U.S. troops, after The Washington Post published a story detailing senior military officers' concerns about the Iran war. Documents associated with the Secretary of Defense Orders Book (SDOB) were removed from an internal web portal on the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network ...

President Donald Trump celebrated Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle's plans to leave the US, taking a dig at the royal couple as they return to live in the UK. "I'm happy about it. I was not a fan," Trump said when asked by reporters Wednesday at the White House about their decision. "I ...

Russia has been secretly helping Iran for years to develop a series of supersonic missiles to target US warships, according to a new report. Project C430L has seen Russia's top missile experts assist Iran in developing a new class of supersonic weapons capable of targeting the US aircraft carriers and warships deployed to the Middle East, the Financial Times reported. The program allegedly began in 2023, aimed at helping Tehran develop its own ramjet propulsion system, which would allow its...