D.C. Mayor Candidates Are Fixating on Teen Hangouts — and Turning the Cops on Them
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Kenyan McDuffie says D.C. must crack down to stave off the Trump administration. Janeese Lewis George argues that plays into Trump's hand.
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President Donald Trump threatened Thursday to take over Washington, D.C., on a federal basis if democratic socialist Janeese Lewis George wins next week's Democratic primary for mayor. Trump told Oval Office reporters he wouldn't like it if Lewis George prevails, reported The Washington Post. Currently, Lewis Georg is leading the polls. “We are not going to get ICE off our streets by fearing this president. We are not going to protect our rights or Home Rule by obeying in advance. Threatening Home Rule because you do not like how residents vote is an attack on democracy itself. The people of DC elect the mayor of DC. And they want someone who will stand up to Donald Trump,” Lewis George responded. While Trump has the authority to temporarily seize control of the city's police department and deploy the D.C. National Guard — like he did last year — he is legally barred from unilaterally revoking the city's right to self-government without congressional approval, The Washington Post reported. Trump has not explained his opposition to Lewis George beyond her association with democratic socialist policies.Watch the video below. Your browser does not support the video tag.
The Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin faced criticism after attacking New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani during a press conference.Mullin said neither gets along, and added, "It's shameful, and hopefully people in New York will wise up and get a true leader in there in a few years."Critics quickly highlighted the irony of an Oklahoma-based federal official attempting to influence New York City elections regarding its highly popular mayor. Reactions poured into social media. "Nothing like an Oklahoman with no ties to New York City trying to tell the city what to think about its highly popular mayor," wrote Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, senior fellow at the American Immigration Council."New Yorkers definitely want a plumber from Oklahoma telling them what to do," journalist John Harwood wrote."The leader of American Gestapo is both dumb as a rock and purely evil," Norman Ornstein, political scientist and contributing editor for The Atlantic, posted.The controversy was amplified by reports stating Trump and Mamdani maintain a friendly relationship, texting at least twice weekly.Watch the video below. Your browser does not support the video tag.
President Donald Trump is poised to celebrate his 80th birthday this Sunday with an unprecedented Ultimate Fighting Championship bout at the White House, but according to Zeteo, the president is still musing about expanding his birthday celebrations to a national scale.“As the birthday boy gears up for his party, we feel compelled to remind you of a remarkably sad fact: Yes, President Trump really does want to make his birthday a federal holiday,” Zeteo’s Asawin Suebsaeng wrote in the outlet’s report published on Friday. “Whether he ever makes it happen, he’s got some Republican allies on Capitol Hill who would clearly like to help him pull it off.”Zeteo first reported back in March that on separate occasions throughout 2025, Trump had talked with “longtime advisers” about making his birthday a federal holiday. Those talks have apparently continued through 2026, expanded to include Republican lawmakers, and occurred with such frequency that some have coined a phrase to refer to the discussion topic.“The birthday thing,” one source familiar with the matter told Zeteo, speaking on the condition of anonymity, referring to Trump’s “casual” talks with GOP lawmakers about making his birthday a federal holiday.Suebsaeng argued the notion would have seemed "deeply weird" at the start of Trump's first term – but enacting it in 2026, he wrote, was outright "disturbing."“It would be deeply weird for a political party to fortify this kind of personality cult for a president whose approval rating hovered at the 60s, as President Barack Obama’s did when he left office and Trump took over the first time,” Suebsaeng wrote. “It is much, much more surreal and disturbing for a party to be doing this for a guy whose numbers are stuck in the low-to-mid 30s. It is more deranged than if Hollywood super-agents mounted a serious awards-season push to get ‘Freddy Got Fingered’ an Oscar. And yet here we are! Happy birthday, I guess?”
A man suspected of stealing from a San Francisco Trader Joe’s was killed, and two police officers were injured after a fatal vehicle crash on California Street on Friday.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin is ripping into New York City's "shameful" socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani and vowing to surge ICE agents into NYC.
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The mayor of a Pennsylvania borough defended his use of the N-word during a confrontation with children and young adults at a local park — despite outrage from local parents.Daniel Berard, a registered Republican and mayor of Northumberland, Pennsylvania, told Raw Story via a phone call about an April 17 incident at the Second Street Playground where he said he gave the group a “lawful order” to leave the park.In a video of the incident viewed by Raw Story, Berard uses the N-word after the parkgoers repeatedly called him the N-word and other insults.“Didn't you hear the disrespect and sour treatment that these juveniles treated me with?” Berard asked Raw Story.“It's self-explanatory, and when they called me N—, they called me on the film at least four times, and off the film in the beginning they called me that multiple times. Multiple times. And my response to them is, ‘I'm not your N—.’”Berard used the racial slur again while speaking with Raw Story.“It's a despicable, despiteful (sic), disrespectful word to say to anyone, and these kids didn't know me, and they were swinging that word … like it's part of their vocabulary, and my response to them was, ‘I'm not your N-word.’ That's what I said,” Berard said.Tara Phelan, a mother of a 13-year-old biracial son who was present during the incident, said her son told her the mayor said to the group, “You N— have been told you are not allowed to be at this park once it's dark.”Phelan, a 46-year-old full-time caretaker in Northumberland, said Berard made the comment unprompted and “was using the hard ‘R,’” causing her son to come home upset.He was a mess,” Phelan, who is white, said of her son, who is half-Black. “He just was in disbelief. There was a lot of fear there.” Tara Phelan (second from right), one of the parents speaking out against the mayor of Northumberland, Pennsylvania, with her family (Photo courtesy of Tara Phelan)Berard told Raw Story the claim that he was unprovoked was a "lie." The beginning of the incident was not captured on video. "I used the hard 'R.' They used the 'ga,'" Berard said."Same word, just spoken a different way, and they can claim all they want I said this awful word to them unprovoked, but that’s simply not true."Berard said he "did not know what color they were — did not matter to me" about the parkgoers he interacted with on April 17.Phelan and other residents addressed the incident at a Northumberland Borough Council meeting on May 5 but were disappointed by the mayor’s response, which Phelan called “very smug.”“I was hoping that the response would be that he would issue some kind of a public apology and try and do better, or step down if he's not going to serve all of the members of this community,” Phelan said.Angela Jodon, a 31-year-old Northumberland mother who works in human services, attended the Council meeting and spoke up about the incident after she said her 13-year-old daughter was chased the day before by a man calling her the N-word.“There's some words that you're just not allowed to say, and it's pretty well universally understood that is not a word people say, and [the mayor] was saying it with a hard ‘er’,” Jodon, who is Black, told Raw Story after she saw the video of the incident.“There is a version of the word we all know with the ‘A’ at the end, and it is used amongst people of color towards each other, but that is a word that is not allowed with the hard ‘er.’“Everybody knows that. Socially, it's unacceptable anymore, and it has been unacceptable for a very long time, and I believe because he's in a position of power, he felt like he could say it … it doesn't matter what context you're using it. It's offensive, and it's terrifying for people of color to hear the people that's representing them in the community saying that as well.”‘Unconscionable’Phelan said her son was on his way out of the park around 8:18 p.m. when the exchange with Berard happened. Her 20-year-old daughter was waiting to pick him up before his 8:30 p.m. curfew, and the children know “they have to be out of there by the time it gets dark,” she said.Jeramee Clark, a 20-year-old construction laborer from Sunbury, was present during the incident. He estimated about 20 people were present at the park, ages 13 to 20.Clark, who is Black, said he spoke with a police officer who “did tell us, as long as we're not disturbing the peace or anything, whatsoever, we're fine being there,” even after the park lights were on. Second Street Playground in Northumberland, Pennsylvania (Photo courtesy of Tara Phelan)Berard said part of his job is “to uphold the ordinances of the borough” and that the group told him they would still return after he asked them to leave. Berard said the parkgoers came back to play basketball, prompting him to call the police to tell them to leave.Clark disputed Berard’s account, noting that the mayor was in the alleyway during the exchange.
