Trump Border Czar Tom Homan: ‘There Will Be No Amnesty’

Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar, is a longtime immigration law enforcement official now tasked with helping implement the administration’s massive deportation campaign. In a wide-ranging interview with POLITICO’s Dasha Burns, Homan explains what will be done with the $170 billion recently passed by Congress to help the effort, defends the tactics of ICE agents, and…

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Mamdani returns, swipes away Defund the Police past

With help from Amira McKee ‘OUT OF STEP:’ Zohran Mamdani distanced himself from “defund the police” posts he made in 2020, saying today they were made “amidst a frustration that many New Yorkers held at the murder of George Floyd.” He said multiple times that the posts were “clearly out of step” with his current…

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The best internet moments of 2025 (so far)

The internet in 2025 has been, in a word, chaotic. (Just look at how it started.) From Pope Crave live-tweeting the papal conclave to Labubu’s rise as the It-girl of modern capitalism, the timeline has once again proven that literally anything can become a cultural event if it happens in front of a camera. This…

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She wants Zohran’s seat

With help from Amira McKee Mary Jobaida is a Bangladeshi-born, Muslim mother of three who wants to be the newest member of the state Legislature. Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani hasn’t been elected mayor yet. But if — or when — he becomes Gracie Mansion’s newest resident, his Assembly seat in the left-leaning “Peoples’ Republic…

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