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CNN
2 days ago
- Politics
- CNN
Trump: 'Out' Of Patience; Iran: 'The Battle Begins' - Erin Burnett OutFront - Podcast on CNN Audio
Trump: 'Out' Of Patience; Iran: 'The Battle Begins' Erin Burnett OutFront 53 mins President Trump wraps up a Situation Room meeting and tells Iran that his patience has already run out. Plus, a look at America's 30,000 pound bunker busting bomb and the likely flight path and preparations to deploy this bomb.
Yahoo
04-06-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Kalamazoo Pride organizers focus on peace, joy during June
KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) — Pride month began June 1 and organizers around West Michigan are gearing up for a month of events to celebrate. OutFront Kalamazoo, a nonprofit organization offering resources for the LGBTQ+ community, has Pride events scheduled for this weekend. The organization's Executive Director Christopher Terkos told News 8 that this year's tone feels a little different. 'I have been involved in Kalamazoo Pride since about 2009 and it does have a different feel this year but that again is that community peace and queer joy,' he said. 'The community is a happy community, we take care of one another, we take care of other communities.' White House: 'No plans' for Trump to issue Pride Month proclamation Terkos said this year's Pride events, like every year, focus on bringing the community together while also protesting the hardships that the LGBTQ+ community has faced over the years. This year, he said, comes at a time when rhetoric and threats to their community have heightened. 'The community has a lot of fear,' he said. 'We have had a funding loss, which has been difficult to manage and along with that, Pride sponsorships are down. 'We have hired a queer security firm that is owned and operated by queer people to make sure that we provide the level of protection that is necessary.' It's a feeling that is shared by other staff members like Michael Cleggs-Arnott. Cleggs-Arnott serves as the organization's director of programs and outreach. He is the longest-serving tenured position there, having worked for OutFront for 10 years. 'I come from a community where I did not really connect with the LGBTQ+ community because I have a religious background and things like that, so we didn't talk a lot about that stuff back in the day. So being able to work at a place like this has helped me become more like myself,' he said. Even though the tone feels different this year, ultimately both say Pride is always about celebration, and this year is no different. List: Pride Month events in West Michigan 2025 'Even in difficult times we come together and celebrate and have a good time for who we are,' Terkos said. 'Pride is a protest, but more importantly queer joy is a protest. It shows that we're here and that we won't let times like this make us shrink back make us go back in the closet. Those are things that are not happening. We will make sure that we have a presence and that we are seen and that we are visible and that we celebrate who we are.' Kalamazoo Pride takes place June 6-7 at Arcadia Creek Festival Place. For a full schedule of events, visit . Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
30-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Former Trump Lawyer Rips Karoline Leavitt With A New Nickname After She Lashed Out At Judges
A former White House lawyer who served President Donald Trump during his first term took a jab Thursday at press secretary Karoline Leavitt with a new nickname as he called her out for attacking federal judges who blocked the president's tariff plans. Leavitt slammed three U.S. Court of International Trade judges at Thursday's White House press briefing, labeling them 'activist judges' and accusing them of abusing their power to 'usurp the authority of President Trump.' The press secretary's comments came shortly after the judges paused Trump's sweeping tariffs Wednesday, arguing that the president exceeded his authority by imposing the tariffs under an emergency powers law. The tariffs were not blocked for long, however, after a federal appeals court temporarily reinstated most of them Thursday. 'There is a troubling and dangerous trend of unelected judges inserting themselves into the presidential decision-making process,' Leavitt said. 'America cannot function if President Trump or any other president for that matter has their sensitive diplomatic or trade negotiations railroaded by activist judges.' Former White House lawyer Ty Cobb told CNN's Erin Burnett on 'OutFront' that Leavitt's comments 'are clearly so defensive and so ill-informed that people might largely [tune] her out.' 'I don't think creepy Karoline — when she speaks — I don't think anybody in America really takes her seriously on a matter of substance. I mean, she's not learned by any imagination,' Cobb said. The CNN guest tells Burnett the courts are not trying to participate in international trade but are ruling on whether a statute authorizes actions by a president. 'The statute in question has never in history been used in connection with tariffs,' Cobb said. 'So I think the likelihood is that this statute will be upheld and enforced in a way that precludes the president from trying to pretend that he has these all-encompassing powers.' Appeals Court Reinstates Most Of Trump's Tariffs For Now Ex-Obama Adviser Spots Exactly How Trump Caught A Big Break With Tariff Decision White House Lashes Out At Judges After Court Blocks Trump's Tariffs
CNN
24-05-2025
- Politics
- CNN
University President To OutFront: 'I'm Afraid' For All Universities - Erin Burnett OutFront - Podcast on CNN Audio
University President To OutFront: 'I'm Afraid' For All Universities Erin Burnett OutFront 47 mins President Trump threatens huge new tariffs on Europe, claiming that negotiations with European Union countries are going nowhere. Plus, this weekend is the official kickoff to the summer travel season and experts are warning it could be chaotic.
Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Politics
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Russian Chess Grand Master Says Putin Is ‘Laughing' at Trump
Russian exile and former chess grand master Garry Kasparov has said that Vladimir Putin is calling the shots on Ukrainian peace talks, and is 'laughing' at President Donald Trump. Trump, who vowed to end the Russia-Ukraine conflict on day one of his presidency, has publicly demanded that Putin stop his bombing of Ukraine and come to the negotiating table. Putin kept Trump's U.S. delegation and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky waiting until the last minute before snubbing peace talks in Turkey last week, in a move that read like a power play. Instead, Putin stayed in Moscow and held a meeting with the head of a Russian bank. Since then, Trump and Putin have had an 'excellent' phone call, according to the U.S. president. Putin said the call on Monday was 'very meaningful and frank,' but a ceasefire remains elusive. Putin dialed in from a music school in Sochi, a city on the Black Sea, not far from Georgia. Trump was speaking from the Oval Office. This too was a power play, according to Kasparov. Speaking on CNN's OutFront with Erin Burnett on Monday evening, the former World Chess Champion who fled Russia due to political persecution by Putin's regime, said the Kremlin chief's choice of venue for the call shows his true feelings for Trump. 'Putin is laughing at him. He didn't even come back to Moscow. He spoke to him from a music school in the obscure place in the south of Russia,' he said. Burnett asked him if this 'matters,' and Kasparov continued: 'Of course! Putin shows disdain. Putin enjoys it. I mean, you can see the body language and also, a dictator has to show his strength.' He added that this is a 'message to Russians' from the tough guy leader. Kasparov added that it also serves as a message to other dictators around the globe. 'Trump is nobody. I mean, look, you know, 'I can play the American president as a broken guitar,'' he said. Kasparov added that Putin 'doesn't hear' the strong messaging from Trump and Vice President JD Vance. 'Putin knows that Trump is capable of doing nothing. And this is an American position as presented by JD Vance, that if Putin doesn't want to negotiate, we'll do exactly what he what he wants us to do. America is walking away,' he explained. He declared that the president of the United States is 'openly taking the side of a brutal dictator that has been carrying genocidal war against its neighbor.' 'And today, Putin is the main threat to the global stability. That should should tell us more about Donald Trump,' he added. Kasparov even suggested that the two-hour 15-minute call that the leaders had on Monday might have even devolved into a negotiation about trade, rather than a ceasefire. 'I mean, the old nonsense about a ceasefire that just went nowhere could take 15 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes, 45 minutes,' he said. 'What about the rest, 90 minutes? And knowing Trump… he talked about trade, I think, you know, they talked about something else which interests Trump. Trump more [than] anything else, he cares about two things—vanity and greed. So I think Putin knows how to handle it.' Kasparov claimed that Trump is using his 'immense power' to 'make him rich.' 'So he's not even hiding this intention. And Vladimir Putin is laughing,' he added. He struck a similar tone on his Substack The Next Move, saying Trump 'looks like a complete idiot' and a 'beaten dog' that has bowed to all of Putin's demands.
