President Donald Trump warned Tuesday that his administration could assume direct federal control over Washington, D.C., if the city’s government fails to take stronger action against crime.
In a post on social media, Trump accused local leaders of being too lenient on young offenders and called for sweeping changes to the city’s criminal laws.
“The Law in D.C. must be changed to prosecute these ‘minors’ as adults, and lock them up for a long time, starting at age 14,” the president wrote.
Trump said his administration was prepared to step in if necessary.
“If D.C. doesn’t get its act together, and quickly, we will have no choice but to take Federal control of the City.”
The statement comes amid rising political debate over crime in the nation’s capital and renewed discussions about the limits of D.C.’s home rule, which grants the city self-governance but leaves ultimate authority with Congress and the president.
President Donald Trump has announced his intention to shake up the pharmaceutical industry with an alarming new tariff plan.
At the National Republican Congressional Committee dinner on Tuesday night, having ignored the warnings from experts, Trump declared: “We’re gonna tariff our pharmaceuticals and once we do that they’re gonna come rushing back into our country, because we’re the big market.”
He confidently stated that such measures would drive companies back to the US and promised: “So we’re going to be announcing very shortly a major tariff on pharmaceuticals.”
In other words, we’ll treat the pharmaceutical industry like sh*t and they’ll rush back loving us. Fat chance of that!
https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/donald-trump-slaps-tariffs-pharmaceuticals-1080697
A federal appeals court has rejected the Trump administration’s attempt to oust members of two independent federal labor agencies in a pair of back-and-forth cases that will likely set the stage for a showdown at the U.S. Supreme Court and have a profound impact on President Donald Trump’s continued effort to slash the federal workforce.
In a 7-4 vote, the full panel of judges on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia blocked the president from removing Cathy A. Harris from the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) and Gwynne Wilcox from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), reasoning that they were improperly dismissed without cause.
“The government has not demonstrated the requisite ‘strong showing that [it] is likely [to] succeed on the merits’ of these two appeals,” the panel wrote in a three-page per curiam order. “The government likewise has not shown a strong likelihood of success on the merits of its claim that there is no available remedy for Harris or Wilcox, or that allowing the district court’s injunctions to remain in place pending appeal is impermissible.”
The new tattoo revealed in the video features the Arabic word ‘kafir,’ which in the Quran means ‘disbeliever’ or ‘infidel’ and is inked below hegseth’s ‘Deus Vult’ tattoo.
The discovery sparked anger from activists who are already infuriated about his tattoos featuring Christian and American images.
‘Hegseth just got a kafir (كافر) tattoo under his Deus Vult tattoo—a Crusader slogan. This isn’t just a personal choice; it’s a clear symbol of Islamophobia from the man overseeing U.S. wars,’ wrote Nerdeen Kiswani, a pro-Palestinian activist in New York City on social media.
Kiswani described the tattoos as the ‘normalization of Islamophobia at the highest levels of power.’
Others on social media felt similarly about the tattoo.
‘The كافر/kafir tattoo in the Quran means disbeliever,’ wrote writer Tam Hussein on X. ‘To the Muslim world the tattoo will be seen as an open declaration of Hegseth’s enmity towards them.’
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