Pritzker: I'm explaining to you that our murder rate has been cut in half, and very importantly, Bret, you gotta hear this, very importantly we've been doing the things that are necessary to bring crime down, right? We've invested in community violence interruption, we've invested in police. I've added more state police than any governor in quite a long time. It's very important that we do both of those things and more to invest in our communities so that we bring crime down.
New York Democrats rallied around state Attorney General Letitia James after she was indicted in Virginia federal court. The indictment, returned Oct. 9, alleges James committed bank fraud related to a mortgage in purchasing a Virginia home. President Donald Trump, who James sued in 2022, called for her to face charges just weeks earlier. James, a 66-year-old Brooklyn Democrat, said she was not afraid of what she called "baseless charges." Her allies in Albany, Washington, DC, and New York City were equally forceful.
Kirk's killing during a speaking event in Utah last week unleashed a wave of negative commentary about the activist online, ranging from criticism of his conservative views to morbid celebrations of his death. Graphic footage of Kirk's murder also ricocheted across platforms, exposing millions of people to gory images of his final moments. In the hours after the killing, Republican House Representative Anna Paulina Luna urged Meta, X and TikTok to take down videos of Kirk's death, warning that at some point, social media begins to desensitise humanity.
I love the smell of deportations in the morning Trump posted. Chicago about to find out why it's called the Department of WAR, in reference to Trump's rebranding of the Department of Defense. Behind an AI-generated image of Trump as the main character in the movie is a depiction of Chicago burning with helicopters hovering over the city.
I've been thinking about their friends and their teachers, about all of the parents, about all the grandparents out there navigating the return to school. And all they should be hoping to do is have someone to sit with at lunch or someone to play with on the playground. They should be waiting to hear an update when they get home. And that is not what these parents at the school experience today.
We cannot even make it through the first week of school without mass shootings. And the @GOP will continue to do absolutely nothing while our kids are being gunned down. This is sick.
A county clerk in New York refused to file a civil judgment against Dr. Margaret Carpenter from Texas, protecting her under state shield laws for abortion providers.
Mitch McConnell told Senate Republicans that Americans concerned about losing Medicaid will 'get over it.' No one will 'get over' losing a loved one because Republicans in Congress failed them.
The feeble response from mainstream liberal parties is entirely dissonant with the gravity of the moment, creating an eerie calm amid the escalating chaos.
If [Newsom] was doing his job, then people wouldn't have gotten hurt the last couple of days... We wouldn't have officers with shattered wrists from bricks being thrown.