California voters are in the thick of a high-stakes governor’s race, in which single-payer health care, an issue that was once central to state politics, has been pushed to the sidelines. Of the top five candidates, only one unequivocally supports a health care model that would finally put California on par with the rest of the industrialized world. Billionaire Tom Steyer…
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The right to strike is under attack throughout the world, including in the United States. Labor strikes are currently forbidden or restricted in the majority of countries. Now, in a landmark 43-page advisory opinion issued May 21, the International Court of Justice (ICJ, or World Court) has determined that the right to strike is protected under the International Labour Organization’s (ILO)…
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Critics say Tulsi Gabbard’s ambitions and conspiracy theories she peddled defined and marred her short-lived tenure as the United States’ most powerful intelligence official.
Gabbard’s spokesperson described her 15-month stint as President Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence as one of “unprecedented transparency, record-breaking declassifications, historic operational reforms, and a relentless focus on putting Americans first.”
But Democrats said Gabbard’s use of conspiracy theories to gain political support doomed her. They said Gabbard will be remembered for her willingness to please Trump — at seemingly any cost —and, most dangerously, her violation of rules put in place to prevent U.S. intelligence agencies from meddling in American politics.
Gabbard’s public declaration that she had found evidence of a “treasonous conspiracy” by former President Barack Obama and her role in the seizure of 2020 election records in Fulton County, Georgia, were cited by Democrats as a return to the abuses of the Cold War, when the CIA spied on Americans.
“Her other legacy is lack of respect for guardrails between intelligence and domestic law enforcement,” a U.S. official with knowledge of the intelligence community told MS NOW.
Olivia Coleman, a spokesperson for Gabbard, bluntly dismissed those criticisms.
“The description you cite is false, and frankly, insulting,” Coleman told MS NOW. “DNI Gabbard began a transformational effort to reshape the Intelligence Community in ways no predecessor had ever attempted.”
Critics said Gabbard, who announced Friday that her last day as DNI will be June 30, came into the job vowing to expose vast conspiracies involving the 2020 election; the JFK, MLK and RFK assassinations; Amelia Earhart’s disappearance; UFOs and myriad other topics. But she failed to prove any of them.
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For a Caribbean city known for its effervescent, out-of-doors culture, Havana has relatively few cars on its streets, not many people on its sidewalks, and a handful of places open for patrons. Life at midweek feels like a Sunday or a holiday. The background noise of competing internal-combustion engines, common to every modern city, has been replaced by the discrete whir of electric vehicles.
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Spencer Pratt doesn’t approve of all the Trump comparisons.
The former reality TV star gets them a lot these days. He’s a celebrity — best known for his breakout role on MTV’s “The Hills” two decades ago — who is now running for mayor of Los Angeles. He doesn’t have much experience in politics or city government, but he comes with an A-list Rolodex and a built-in fanbase that includes more than five million followers across X, Meta and TikTok. He’s bombastic, confident and has a habit of rambling his way through speeches that veer into conspiracy theory. And, by his own admission, he has harbored an absurd, borderline toxic obsession with money since he was a teen.
Pratt, 42, is a registered Republican, but rejects the notion that he is aligned with MAGA or following in Trump’s footsteps. In February, while gathering signatures at an early campaign event on Ventura Boulevard in Encino, he joined the livestream of celebrity gossip blogger Perez Hilton to give his elevator pitch to be mayor. When Hilton asked about claims he’s a MAGA candidate, Pratt pushed back.
“I’m not a political person — I’m somebody with basic expectations of our tax money and our quality of living,” he told Hilton.
Pratt’s primary motivation for the career pivot, he said, stemmed from the Palisades fire that ravaged his neighborhood last January, destroying his family home and killing a dozen of his neighbors. He blames Mayor Karen Bass and Gov. Gavin Newsom for the devastation, which he believes was preventable were it not for the “corruption” in city government.
Talking about the fires on Hilton’s show, Pratt began to ramble, meandering
Nearly a decade ago, Donald Trump infamously asked Black voters in his pitch to garner their support: “What do you have to lose?” The Federal Reserve answered Trump’s question in its recent Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households report for 2025: Black Americans lost more financially than every other racial group. According to the report, 60 percent of Black Americans expressed that their…
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