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  • Puerto Rico stops for 13 minutes to applaud history and bask in Bad Bunny's spotlight

    Puerto Rico stops for 13 minutes to applaud history and bask in Bad Bunny's spotlight

    Feb 09, 2026 04:14 PM EST

    ... an important moment for Latino culture." He also thought it fantastic that Ricky Martin sang Bad Bunny's, "Lo que le pasó a Hawaii," which laments gentrification in Puerto Rico, a worsening issue for many on an island with a more than 40% poverty rate. "Transmitting that message is extremely ...

  • WATCH: Colombian President Petro holds news conference after Trump meeting

    WATCH: Colombian President Petro holds news conference after Trump meeting

    Feb 03, 2026 04:43 PM EST

    ... by his office, described himself as a politician who has denounced and prosecuted drug traffickers. Accompanied by one of his daughters and his granddaughter, he lamented that most of his children live outside of Colombia, in exile, due to the fight he's waging against drug trafficking. “We have truly ...

  • Arrests of journalists fuel backlash as anti-ICE protests spread from Minneapolis

    Arrests of journalists fuel backlash as anti-ICE protests spread from Minneapolis

    Jan 30, 2026 11:55 PM EST

    ... Constitution? That is the pressing question. Fred de Sam Lazaro: Also arrested, Black Lives Matter activist Trahern Jeen Crews and Minnesota state legislature candidate Jamael Lydell Lundy. Attorney General Pam Bondi said the four were arrested because they violated people's ability to worship -- quote -- "freely and safely." Pam Bondi ...

  • Trump administration charges Don Lemon with federal civil rights crimes related to anti-ICE church protest

    Trump administration charges Don Lemon with federal civil rights crimes related to anti-ICE church protest

    Jan 30, 2026 08:31 PM EST

    ... Lemon and the others who were present during the protest. “At my direction, early this morning federal agents arrested Don Lemon, Trahern Jeen Crews, Georgia Fort, and Jamael Lydell Lundy, in connection with the coordinated attack on Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota,” Bondi said on social media. ‘Keep trying’

  • One year in, a look at the impact of Trump's immigration crackdown

    One year in, a look at the impact of Trump's immigration crackdown

    Jan 22, 2026 11:40 PM EST

    ... the rule, the rule being that that close support with local law enforcement really makes ICE's job, they really do it outside of the limelight, right? But when you don't have that, then ICE is in the forefront. Liz Landers: John, speaking of how ICE operates, yesterday, we ...

  • Trump slams UK deal to hand over Chagos Islands after he previously supported it

    Trump slams UK deal to hand over Chagos Islands after he previously supported it

    Jan 20, 2026 07:23 PM EST

    ... of Commons, but faced strong opposition in Parliament’s upper chamber, the House of Lords, which approved it, while also passing a “motion of regret” lamenting the legislation. It's due back in the Commons on Tuesday for further debate. Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch criticized Starmer's Labour Party ...

  • Top U.S. Catholic cardinals urge Trump administration to use moral compass in foreign policy

    Top U.S. Catholic cardinals urge Trump administration to use moral compass in foreign policy

    Jan 19, 2026 10:22 PM EST

    ... agenda and were a waste of money. Tobin, who ministered in more than 70 countries as a Redemptorist priest and the order's superior general, lamented the retreat in USAID assistance, saying U.S. philanthropy makes a big difference in everything from hunger to health.The three cardinals said their ...

  • Supreme Court will hear appeal by maker of Roundup weedkiller to block thousands of lawsuits

    Supreme Court will hear appeal by maker of Roundup weedkiller to block thousands of lawsuits

    Jan 16, 2026 10:57 PM EST

    ... high court will take up a case from Missouri, in which a jury awarded $1.25 million to a man who developed non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma after spraying Roundup on a community garden in St. Louis. The Supreme Court in 2022 declined to hear a similar claim from Bayer in ...

  • How the Trump administration erased centuries of Justice Department experience

    How the Trump administration erased centuries of Justice Department experience

    Jan 16, 2026 05:32 PM EST

    One judge later identified grave missteps in how Halligan presented the Comey case to a grand jury. Another dismissed both prosecutions outright, calling Halligan's appointment unlawful. Smith, the special counsel who investigated Trump but left before he could be fired, has himself lamented the losses. "These are not partisans ...

  • Trump 'needs to be reined in' after Venezuela action and Greenland threats, Jeffries says

    Trump 'needs to be reined in' after Venezuela action and Greenland threats, Jeffries says

    Jan 07, 2026 11:40 PM EST

    ... you believe the military action was unconstitutional, as you seem to be indicating here, what can you do about it? I mean, the president has lamented earlier in this week to other Republicans that he was worried Democrats would try to impeach him if they lose in the upcoming midterms ...

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