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Nicki Minaj criticized Don Lemon for his reporting on a Minnesota church protest.Nicki Minaj publicly criticized independent journalist Don Lemon over the weekend, responding angrily to his reporting on a protest during a church service in Minnesota. Rapper blasted Lemon, who is gay and married to real estate agent Tim Malone, in 2024, as reported by TMZ. Nicki Minaj calls out Don Lemon on social media In a series of posts on X on Sunday, Minaj wrote, “DON '**** SUCKIN' LEMON IS DISGUSTING,” in all caps. She continued, "HOW DARE YOU? I WANT THAT THUG IN JAIL!!!!! HE WOULD NEVER...

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — A Miami Beach political activist got an unexpected knock on her door Monday over a comment she made to and about Mayor Steven Meiner on Facebook. Raquel Pacheco, a local activist and veteran who once ran for city commission and as a Democratic state Senate candidate, said she was stunned when Miami Beach detectives knocked on her door Monday, asking about a comment she made on one of the mayor’s Facebook posts. “He said, ‘We are here to talk to you about a Facebook comment’ and I said - ‘What? Is this really happening?” Pacheco told...

Asylum seekers are up to seven times more likely to be arrested than the rest of the population, official figures suggest. For every 10,000 asylum seekers, 7.88 arrests were made on Britain's railways last year. In comparison, the equivalent rate was 1.07 for everyone else. Ministers today were urged to 'abolish the entire asylum system' on the back of the British Transport Police statistics, obtained via a freedom of information request. Ex-Reform MP Rupert Lowe, founder of the Restore Britain thinktank, told the Daily Mail that the Conservatives, 'many of whom now sit in the Reform party' were to blame...

Proving once again that he’s a few screws short of a hardware store, California Gubernatorial candidate Eric Swalwell opened his mouth this weekend and inserted his foot, confirming that evolution can go in reverse. Swalwell, who donated his brain to science before he was done with it, vowed to strip Immigration Customs Enforcement officers of their driver’s licenses in a candidates forum — even though California grants drivers licenses to illegal aliens, the NY Post reported. “They’re going to lose their immunity, they’re not gonna be able to drive. I will take your driver’s license. Good luck walking to work,...

A permanent seat on US President Donald Trump's "Board of Peace" aimed at resolving conflicts will cost countries $1 billion each, according to its charter. Invited world leaders include Russian President Vladimir Putin, Hungarian premier Viktor Orban and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. US President Donald Trump's government has asked countries to pay $1 billion for a permanent spot on his "Board of Peace" aimed at resolving conflicts, according to its charter, seen Monday by AFP. The White House has asked various world leaders to sit on the board, chaired by Trump himself, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, Hungarian premier...

WASHINGTON — Tech mogul Elon Musk is throwing his weight behind Senate Republican challenger Nate Morris with a $10 million donation in the hotly contested race to replace retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), The Post has learned.The decamillion-dollar boost was made last week to a Morris-backing super PAC, sources said, and marks the largest contribution from the SpaceX CEO to a candidate for federal office other than President Trump.

Donald Tusk’s government has replaced the words “woman” and “man” in key official documents with gender-neutral terms so that same-sex marriages conducted elsewhere can be recognised in Poland. This follows the European Court of Justice’s November ruling that Poland must recognise a gay couple’s foreign marriage despite the country itself forbidding same-sex marriage. But a host of politicians and legal experts have argued that Warsaw was not obliged to introduce this change of language. Deputy Prime Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski, however, appeared to concede that the move was voluntary, saying his team “wanted to” recognise same-sex marriages. In a statement released...

Donald Trump has not ruled out using force to seize Greenland from Denmark as tensions escalate between the US and NATO. The president was asked in a telephone interview on Monday if he would use military force to take Greenland if a deal could not be reached over the Danish territory. Trump gave a simple response: 'No comment.' The president ramped up pressure as he imposed tariffs on eight European nations over their support for Greenland. The tariffs will start at 10 percent next month and rise again to 25 percent in June, remaining in place until a deal is...

President Donald Trump on Sunday blasted Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar (MN-5) for her criticisms of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) operations in Minnesota. “There is 19 Billion Dollars in Minnesota Somalia Fraud,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. “Fake ‘Congresswoman’ Ilhan Omar, a constant complainer who hates the USA, knows everything there is to know. She should be in jail, or even a worse punishment, sent back to Somalia, considered one of the absolutely worst countries in the World. She could help to MAKE SOMALIA GREAT AGAIN!” In a prior post, Trump said ICE “is removing some of...

At a press conference held by Tom Barrack and Ahmed al-Sharaa (al-Jolani) at the Tishrin Palace in Damascus, it was stated that SDF General Commander Mazloum Abdi was ready to attend the meeting but was unable to do so due to adverse weather conditions. In his brief remarks, al-Jolani said: “We have reached a comprehensive ceasefire and full integration between the Syrian government and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), and a ceasefire order has been issued.” Al-Jolani added that he would meet with Mazloum Abdi at a later date to discuss the details and mechanisms for implementing the agreement. Responding...

The Kremlin has announced that Vladimir Putin has been invited to join Donald Trump’s “board of peace”, set up last week with the intention that it would oversee a ceasefire in Gaza. The Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, told journalists on Monday that Russia was seeking to “clarify all the nuances” of the offer with Washington, before giving its response. The claim of an invitation comes with Putin showing no signs of ending his invasion of Ukraine, in which hundreds of thousands have been killed and Russian troops have carried out atrocities against civilians. The Russian president has repeatedly rejected proposals...

President Donald Trump has blown up another Senate GOP primary, throwing Republicans into turmoil and giving Senate Majority Leader John Thune a blistering headache. Trump’s decision to endorse GOP Rep. Julia Letlow – who isn’t even formally in the Louisiana Senate race — over incumbent Sen. Bill Cassidy (La.) puts the president at loggerheads with Thune, meddling in a safe Republican state. Thune has endorsed Cassidy, and the pair were in Baton Rouge together last week.

Sen. Bernie Sanders has served on the US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s board for 18 years, but hasn’t attended a single meeting — inspiring a bipartisan push to oust him, The Post has learned. Sanders (I-Vt.) was appointed in 2007 to the Holocaust Memorial Council, which meets twice a year to oversee the landmark DC museum located about 2 miles from the Capitol. Records supplied to The Post by museum staff show that Sanders, who mainstreamed democratic socialism with grassroots campaigns for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016 and 2020, has missed every meeting of the board since his appointment. “There...

More than 10,000 illegal immigrants have been arrested in Minneapolis since the start of the second Trump administration, with 3,000 cuffed in the last six weeks alone, the Department of Homeland Security announced Monday. “PEACE AND PUBLIC SAFETY IN MINNEAPOLIS!” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem proclaimed in a post on X. Those arrested, Noem said, “were killing Americans, hurting children and reigning terror in Minneapolis because Tim Walz and Jacob Frey refuse to protect their own people and instead protect criminals.” Frey raised eyebrows on Sunday when he compared ICE’s immigration crackdown in his city to an “invasion” by the federal...

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro claimed that former Vice President Kamala Harris' election team asked whether he was an "agent of the Israeli government" while discussing his potential as a vice presidential candidate.

Russia launched a barrage of ⁠drone strikes on Ukraine's energy infrastructure overnight on Monday, cutting off power in five regions across the country amid freezing temperatures and high demand, Ukrainian officials said. The Ukrainian air force said that Russian troops had launched 145 drones. Air defense units shot ‍down 126 of them, it said. "As of this morning, consumers in ‍Sumy, Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, and Chernihiv regions are without power," the energy ministry said in a statement. "Emergency repair work is underway ⁠if the security situation allows." In the southern Odesa region, energy and gas infrastructure was damaged, the regional...

On his first day in office, Jay Jones, Virginia’s 49th attorney general, announced a broad slate of legal actions and policy reviews that he said are aimed at protecting Virginians, lowering costs and defending constitutional and civil rights. In a statement released from Richmond, Jones said his office will begin joining or advancing multiple lawsuits involving the federal government, while also launching a 30-day review of all existing litigation involving the Commonwealth. The review will assess which cases Virginia should continue, withdraw from or newly enter.

Venturing into the icy seas around Greenland can be unforgiving and unpredictable. Steffen Andersen, a seasoned skipper preparing his six-man trawler for a fishing trip along the craggy coast, was in the mood to complain. He had recently hired a 16-year-old local to work with him, but he grumbled that the towering Danish-owned factory ships docked along the nearby quayside more often hired immigrants. “Those who use Filipinos, they are the Danes,’’ he said. Greenland is increasingly reliant on migrant labour to keep seafood factories, restaurants and its fishing fleet running — critical for an economy overwhelmingly dependent on fisheries...

President Trump may be overplaying his hand in negotiations for Greenland, economists are warning, after the Oval Office threatened new tariffs on E.U. countries if they did not support America’s demand to purchase the territory.Over the weekend, President Trump posted on Truth Social (a site he owns) that “starting on February 1st, 2026, … Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, The United Kingdom, The Netherlands, and Finland, will be charged a 10% tariff on any and all goods sent to the United States of America.“On June 1st, 2026, the tariff will be increased to 25%. This tariff will be due and...

The Biden administration grappled with research suggesting natural immunity was more effective than COVID-19 vaccination shortly before federal vaccine mandates in 2021, admitting the rigor of the massive Israeli study and worrying it might undermine its promotion of one-size-fits-all vaccination, newly released emails show.The Freedom of Information Act production to Protect the Public's Trust, shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation, gives the most compelling evidence to date that federal officials knew their pending mandates were scientifically shaky yet repeatedly asserted in public – misrepresenting federal research – that natural immunity couldn't match vaccine-acquired immunity.The emails add heft to prior...