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Jeffries calls on Trump to ‘put on costume and pretend to act like a president’

In the spirit of Halloween and the ongoing shutdown that is threatening the livelihoods of millions of Americans, U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries has a costume suggestion for President Donald Trump. “You know, it’s Halloween. Donald Trump should put on a costume and pretend to act like a president at least on this day,” the Democratic leader in the U.S. House of Representatives told CNN, a day before SNAP funding expires on Saturday, Nov. 1. A federal judge ordered the Trump […]

October 31, 2025

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As millions of Black Americans could lose SNAP, Trump heads to resort for weekend dinner with donors

President Donald Trump, Republicans, and Democrats in Congress have yet to come to a deal to reopen the federal government, leaving millions of Americans vulnerable to hunger and worsened economic pain as SNAP benefits expire on Saturday. Trump, who returned from a nearly weeklong trip in Asia on Thursday, left Washington, D.C., on Friday to spend the weekend at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. On Saturday, Trump will host a dinner with donors of MAGA Inc., a super […]

October 31, 2025

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Angela Rye apologizes to Joe Budden for ‘Dumbing Down America’ podcast title

On the latest episode of the “Native Land Podcast,” Angela Rye addressed Joe Budden and apologized. Rye, and her cohosts, Tiffany Cross, Andrew Gillum, and Bakari Sellers spoke to Charlamagne Tha God about the framing of a previous episode that prompted Budden to respond on his own podcast. “We should’ve titled it differently,” Rye said about the episode, which was originally called “Joe Budden and the Dumbing Down of America.” According to Rye, Budden’s camp had the video taken down […]

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Jolanda Jones is ready to channel childhood trauma to fight back for Texas in Congress: ‘If they go low, I’m going in the gutter’

Jolanda Jones is not your conventional candidate for U.S. Congress, something she quickly admits. “I’m not your traditional elected official,” said the Texas state representative running in a special election for Texas’s 18th Congressional District on Nov. 4. “I think people like my authenticity,” Jones told theGrio. Throughout the nearly hour-long Zoom interview from her car outside a Houston voting precinct during early voting, Jones stopped several times to introduce herself to voters and ask them for their support. “My […]

October 31, 2025

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Trump administration says ICE operations will be in ‘full force’ on Halloween

Chicagoans will not see a reduction in federal law enforcement presence on Halloween, despite Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker requesting that the Trump administration pause its ICE operations to allow children to trick-or-treat on the holiday without fear of interactions with federal officers. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the Trump administration’s operation will be in “full force” on Halloween. “We’re going to be out on the streets in full force and increase our activities to make sure kids are safe,” […]

October 31, 2025

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Barack Obama was ‘not happy’ with Nancy Pelosi after Kamala Harris 2024 endorsement, book claims

A new book claims Barack Obama was displeased with Democratic phenom U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi after the former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives swiftly endorsed Kamala Harris for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination. Just 24 hours after then-President Joe Biden shocked the world on July 21, 2024, by dropping out of the race for re-election and endorsing Harris, Pelosi issued a statement declaring her “enthusiastic support” for the then-vice president. Pelosi praised Harris as “brilliantly astute” and said […]

October 30, 2025

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Lupita Nyong’o endorses Zohran Mamdani, revealing how she met him 20 years ago

Actress Lupita Nyong’o is throwing her Hollywood influence behind New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani just days before Election Day. “I believe that Zohran Mamdani possesses the personality, skills, and temperament to be an excellent mayor of New York City. The polls are open now, and it was an honor to cast my vote for him!” wrote Nyong’o in a social media post sharing her “two cents” about the candidacy and character of Mamdani, whom she has known […]

October 30, 2025

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Kamala Harris says Biden ‘greatly disappointed’ and ‘angered’ her after ‘unnecessary’ phone call before debate with Trump

Kamala Harris opened up about her “complicated” relationship with former President Joe Biden, revealing that there were times when he “greatly disappointed” and even “angered” her. During an interview with the “Diary of a CEO Podcast” promoting her memoir “107 Days,” the former vice president got candid about some of her takeaways from her time as Biden’s number two and eventually his replacement as the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee for the 2024 presidential election. When host Steven Bartlett asked Harris […]

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A Confederate statue is restored as part of Trump’s efforts to reshape how history is told

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has restored a memorial to a Confederate general in Washington, D.C. that demonstrators took down during racial justice protests in the summer of 2020, part of a broader effort by the president to reshape the way the country’s history is told. The statue of Albert Pike, a Confederate general and diplomat who later served on the Arkansas Supreme Court, is the only outdoor statue of a Confederate leader in the nation’s capital. It has been contentious since it […]

October 30, 2025