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The Guardian
2 days ago
- Politics
- The Guardian
Supermen and dancing devils: Photos of the day
The country's air defence system intercepts missiles during an Iranian attack over Tel Aviv Photograph: Léo Corrêa/AP A block of flats lies in ruins after an Iranian missile strike Photograph: Chen Kalifa/Reuters A painting and personal belongings lie covered in dust and shards of glass in a home struck by an Iranian missile Photograph: Oded Balilty/AP Shia Muslim clerics shout slogans during a rally at the Shatt al-Arab seaside promenade in the southern Iraqi city in protest at Israel's strikes on Iran Photograph: Hussein Faleh/AFP/Getty Images A mourner weeps during the funeral of Palestinians killed by Israeli fire yesterday, while they sought food aid in northern Gaza Photograph: Mahmoud Issa/Reuters Palestinians queue after the arrival of a truck distributing water. Most of the population is experiencing serious water shortages after the destruction of water wells and tanks Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images Protesters demand the resignation of the Thai prime minister, Paetongtarn Shinawatra, near Government House in Bangkok. The protest follows the leak of a call between Paetongtarn and the former Cambodian premier Hun Sen, regarding the two countries' border dispute Photograph: Rungroj Yongrit/EPA Representative Angie Craig embraces a mourner at a candlelight vigil for the Minnesota state Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, at the State Capitol Photograph: Nikolas Liepins/AP Police remove protesters during a visit by the interior minister at Gare du Nord as the country launches a two-day crackdown in stations, trains and buses against 'illegal immigration'. About 4,000 officers will be mobilised on 18-19 June during the nationwide checks Photograph: Martin Lelievre/AFP/Getty Images Workers from the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees union protest at Bowen Hills Photograph: Darren England/AAP A teacher guides her young charges during an earthquake drill at a school in Metro Manila Photograph: Rolex dela Peña/EPA Christians take part in the traditional Bavarian Corpus Christi boat procession on Lake Staffelsee, near Murnau Photograph: Angelika Warmuth/Reuters A member of the Brotherhood of the Diablos Danzantes de Chuao (Dancing Devils of Chuao) arranges his mask during the Corpus Christi festival in Aragua state Photograph: Maxwell Briceno/Reuters Superman fans gather during the Superman Look Up fan event in Manila. The Superman movie world tour starts in the Philippines, with the film scheduled for international release on 9 July Photograph: Francis R Malasig/EPA A woman poses for a picture next to the character Mokoko as she visits Pop Mart's theme park Pop Land Photograph: Pedro Pardo/AFP/Getty Images Racegoers queue to enter Royal Ascot Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
Rep. Angie Craig calls for political rhetoric to turn down after killing of Minnesota lawmaker
Minnesota is reeling after the shocking killing of a Democratic lawmaker and her husband on Saturday. Rep. Angie Craig (D-MN) knew the victims, State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, and joins Alex Witt to remember who they were and why it's important to bring calm to the current political atmosphere.
Yahoo
11-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Why lesbian Rep. Angie Craig says she's ‘ready for the fight' in her run to be Minnesota's next U.S. senator
As U.S. Rep. Angie Craig steps into the national spotlight with a U.S. Senate bid, she brings with her a battle-tested strategy forged in one of the most politically divided districts in America — and a record of standing firm for LGBTQ+ rights while building unlikely coalitions. Keep up with the latest in + news and politics. Now in her fourth term representing Minnesota's Second Congressional District, Craig is aiming higher at a moment when both democracy and queer equality feel precariously under siege. Following the November election that returned President Donald Trump to the White House over Vice President Kamala Harris, Craig is clear-eyed about what's at stake. Related: Minnesota Rep. Angie Craig battles for reelection to continue path toward LGBTQ+ equality 'We're in the fight of our lives,' she said in an interview with The Advocate. 'But I'm holding up pretty well, and I'm up for the fight.' Craig, a Democrat and the first out LGBTQ+ person elected to Congress from Minnesota, won her D+1 district by nearly 14 percentage points in 2024. 'Because rural Minnesotans know I'll meet them where they are,' she said. 'They know I'll listen and deliver.' Angie CraigCourtesy Angie Craig for Minnesota Her ability to connect across political lines has earned her unusual traction in a state increasingly seen as a bellwether for the cultural and electoral divisions reshaping the nation. 'I outperformed the top of the ticket more in my most rural county,' she noted. 'I don't stay in my blue bubble.' Related: Her own story deeply informs Craig's political approach. 'Yes, I'm a lesbian. I've been happily married to my wife for 18 years now,' she said. 'We've got four sons, and we now are the proud Mimi and Gigi's — the grandparents of three grandsons.' She added, 'It does make a difference. When you have visibility, and [people in communities] meet you on a human level, they get to know you.' But Craig is not just a symbol — she's also a legislative force. As the top Democrat on the House Agriculture Committee, she has helped shape federal farm and food policy in a state where agriculture is the economic bedrock. 'I came back, I took on the status quo, became the top Democrat,' she said. 'I can go anywhere in Minnesota and talk with family farmers.' She's also among the few Democrats willing to tackle complex, often uncomfortable conversations, like transgender athlete inclusion in youth sports. 'We have to be clear-eyed that voters don't understand the trans community as well as we thought they did,' Craig said. 'But I don't know how anyone could argue against standing up for and supporting a community that is being targeted for discrimination.' Related: Now, with a Senate seat on the line, she's bringing that same philosophy statewide. Equality PAC, the political arm of the Congressional LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus, has endorsed her bid, praising her visibility and legislative commitment as both historic and essential. Craig is one of several high-profile LGBTQ+ candidates looking to counter the Trump administration's hardline policies. Those policies include a sweeping executive order Trump signed in February, reinterpreting Title IX to bar transgender girls and women from competing in women's sports. The Republican-controlled House passed a companion bill, and Senate Republicans forced a test vote in March on legislation to define Title IX 'based solely on a person's reproductive biology and genetics at birth.' That bill failed 51-45, with Democrats voting uniformly against it. But the cultural pressure hasn't abated. Craig has been clear: She opposes blanket federal bans and supports leaving sports governance to local school systems and associations. On proposed federal bans, she was unequivocal: 'The idea that we're going to subject all girls' sports to invasive checks .… It's ridiculous how Republicans have proposed to deal with this.' Related: Instead, she argues, those decisions should be made locally. 'Every sport differs so dramatically,' she said. 'I very much believe that these decisions should be up to our local schools and our local sports associations.' It's the existential threats to LGBTQ+ people under Trump that most animate her candidacy. Craig called the reinstated ban on transgender military service members 'immoral' and 'fundamentally unfair.' 'What the hell are you doing?' she asked bluntly. 'Where are your values when people who are willing to die for this nation — you want to eradicate them from the U.S. military?' Angie CraigCourtesy Angie Craig for Minnesota Craig says she sees the danger as not just political but deeply personal. 'I wake up every single day and watch an administration take away the rights of communities that I care about and people that I love,' she said. 'This is a fight I've been fighting my whole life.' That fight has included marriage equality — she and her wife saw the fight for it firsthand. 'We got married in California in 2008, and the next month, Proposition 8 passed,' she recalled. 'We didn't know whether we would still be married or not.' Now, with the future of Obergefell in doubt after conservative Justice Clarence Thomas indicated in the Dobbs decision, which revoked the national right to an abortion, that the ruling that allowed same-sex couples to marry should be revisited, Craig remains vigilant: 'Progress is never linear in this country.' At the heart of her message is a call for Democrats to resist both authoritarianism and complacency. 'We've got to both have a fist up and fight like hell … and have a hand extended to some of these people to come back,' she said. 'That's the only way that we're gonna win again.' So is her hand out? 'Well, my fist is up, and my hand is out. One hundred percent,' Craig said.
CNN
23-05-2025
- Business
- CNN
Millions could lose food assistance under GOP's ‘big, beautiful bill,' CBO says
Millions of low-income Americans, including families with children, could lose their food stamp benefits under House Republicans' newly passed tax and spending cuts package, according to a Congressional Budget Office analysis released Thursday. Others could see smaller monthly assistance. The analysis is the latest to show the impact of the historic cuts to the nation's safety net programs contained in the package, which aims to fulfill President Donald Trump's agenda. The legislation would provide trillions of dollars in tax cuts while slashing federal support for food stamps and Medicaid to help offset the cost. The package, however, is expected to undergo multiple changes in the Senate, where some lawmakers have already expressed concerns about the safety net provisions. As written, the bill would reduce federal spending on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP, the official name for food stamps, by roughly $286 billion over the next decade, according to the CBO analysis, which was requested by Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Rep. Angie Craig, ranking members of the Senate and House agriculture committees, respectively. House Republicans have said the measures are intended to 'restore integrity' to the program, which provides aid to roughly 42 million Americans. Among the most consequential and controversial provisions are expanding the program's existing work requirements to many older Americans, and, for the first time, to many parents. Also, states would have less flexibility in waiving these requirements during tough economic times. These measures would strip roughly 3.2 million people of their food stamp benefits in an average month over the next decade, CBO estimates. This includes 800,000 people who live with children ages 7 and older. States would have to share in the cost of the benefits for the first time, shouldering between 5% and 25% of the cost depending on their payment error rate. State responses would vary, but some 'would modify benefits or eligibility and possibly leave the program altogether because of the increased costs,' CBO projects. The provision would lead states to reduce or eliminate food stamp benefits for about 1.3 million people in an average month over the decade, CBO estimates. Also, subsidies for child nutrition programs would decrease for about 420,000 children during that period. Other measures in the bill, including capping annual increases in benefits, would also reduce monthly assistance. And a provision tightening eligibility for noncitizens would leave between 120,000 and 250,000 people without aid. CBO noted that the coverage loss projections are for each set of provisions individually and do not account for overlap in the people who could be affected. Its analysis does not provide an overall figure for how many people would lose access to food stamps. The House bill also calls for introducing the first-ever work requirement to Medicaid, which could leave millions of low-income Americans without health coverage, according to experts.
Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
House Democrats Criticize Donald Trump's "Corrupt" Connections to Cryptocurrency. Should Investors Be Worried?
The president has been accused of corruption relating to his meme coin. He has also been accused of conflicts of interest related to other crypto investments. Do not take any risks with your money here. 10 stocks we like better than Official Trump › It's no secret that President Donald Trump is heavily invested in cryptocurrencies ranging from Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) and Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) to his Official Trump (CRYPTO: TRUMP) meme coin on Solana, among many others. It's also no secret that the president's focus on cryptocurrency regulation reforms has been a major pillar of his administration's efforts so far. But when those two things combine, political clashes are bound to happen, and at least so far, they aren't frivolous or trivial in nature. On May 6, a hearing on cryptocurrency legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives got contentious, with Democratic Rep. Angie Craig from Minnesota saying: "It's legitimate to call out the self-dealing from the Trump administration related to hawking meme coins from the White House. It's corrupt." Rep. Maxine Waters from California also accused the president and his family of corruption, and Rep. Stephen Lynch from Massachusetts voiced similar concerns. Are these allegations a concern? How should investors be approaching these issues? There are many aspects of the president's cryptocurrency investments that are worth considering in terms of risk to investors; in total his crypto holdings are estimated to be worth about $2.9 billion. The majority of that value is from the president's stake in the Official Trump meme coin, which has a market cap of $2.7 billion currently. An estimated 80% of the supply of that coin is held by companies or individuals closely affiliated with the president or his family, which means that increases to its price disproportionately benefit them rather than other holders. Furthermore, those entities gather transaction fees with every trade, which resulted in about $100 million in proceeds during the coin's first two weeks of trading, according to Reuters. In other words, trading the coin puts money in the president's pocket, and he has encouraged his followers to buy it using his social media accounts. The president is also supposedly hosting a dinner for the 220 largest holders of the coin on May 22 at one of his golf courses. Therefore, it is explicitly part of the president's plan to enable those who buy enough of the coin to also simultaneously buy access to the president. Per an analysis conducted by Bloomberg, more than half of the coin's largest holders conducted their purchases on foreign cryptocurrency exchanges that are banned in the U.S., suggesting that the holders are themselves most likely foreign citizens. Thus, foreign citizens are purchasing assets that directly increase the value of the president's portfolio while also generating money for him via trading fees. These already wealthy individuals would probably not waste their funds on buying a highly risky meme coin unless they stood to gain something far more valuable, like influence with the U.S. president. Aside from the coin, there's the cryptocurrency exchange called World Liberty Financial, which is run by two of the president's sons. It holds large quantities of many different coins, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana. Recently, a company based in the United Arab Emirates called MGX announced that it would buy $2 billion of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin offering. That means the business exchanged dollars for digital assets, increasing the value of the Trump family's company significantly. Consider why a buyer might prefer to use World Liberty Financial's stablecoin rather than one of the cryptocurrency industry's other interchangeable stablecoins, many of which are vastly more liquid and have longer histories of use. In late March, a handful of Senate Democrats on the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee and the Senate Finance and Banking Committees flagged the president's relationship with World Liberty Financial and its stablecoins as being "extraordinary conflicts of interest and unprecedented risks to our financial system," which makes sense given that he has a direct ability to regulate that category of assets and stands to gain from any new or adjusted rules. So it is very reasonable to be concerned about self-serving new policies or statements that might affect the value of Trump's holdings disproportionately. Don't buy the president's meme coin. It isn't intended for you. Remember, if the president wants to actually spend the money "invested" by foreign investors seeking influence, he'll need to sell some of his coins. Given his ownership of the majority of the supply, he can sell a vast amount and smash the price down along the way. If that happens, you will be hit with severe losses. Keep in mind that this does not actually prevent the coin's future use as a vehicle for other actors to "invest" once more; they can and will invest $100 million into the asset whether its price per coin is at a penny or at a dollar. On the bright side, the president and his family don't own nearly enough Bitcoin, Solana, or Ethereum to have much of an impact on the price with their purchases or sales. Nor is there as much of an opportunity for presidential corruption with those assets, at least not as transparently as with the official meme coin or World Liberty Financial. 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