Author: Tara Suter

British primatologist and scientist Jane Goodall, who died last week, she in one of her last interviews that she wanted to send President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, alongside others she didn’t like, into space. “There are people I don’t like. And I would like to put them on one of [Elon] Musk’s spaceships and send them all off to the planet he’s sure he’s going to discover,” Goodall said on Netflix’s “Famous Last Words: Dr. Jane Goodall.” The interview, which was recorded in earlier this year, was released upon her death at age 91.   “Would he be…

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) on Sunday said that hundreds of Texas National Guard members were headed to his state and Oregon and labeled it “Trump’s Invasion.” “This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate,” Pritzker said in a thread on the social platform X Sunday night. “We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members…

President Trump said Sunday that talks with the Palestinian militant group Hamas have been “very successful, and proceeding rapidly.” “There have been very positive discussions with Hamas, and Countries from all over the World (Arab, Muslim, and everyone else) this weekend, to release the Hostages, end the War in Gaza but, more importantly, finally have long sought PEACE in the Middle East,” the president said in a post on his Truth Social post. “These talks have been very successful, and proceeding rapidly. The technical teams will again meet Monday, in Egypt, to work through and clarify the final details,” he…

Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday called President Trump’s Gaza peace plan “realistic” when talking to reporters. “So far it seems a realistic proposal,” the pope said, according to Vatican News, also saying he wishes Hamas would go with the plan “within the established timeframe.” “It’s important, nonetheless, that there be a ceasefire and the release of the hostages. But there are elements there that I think are very interesting, and I hope Hamas will accept it within the established time frame,” he added. Trump would chair an international “board of peace” to govern and rebuild Gaza within a 20-point plan…

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Tuesday that he hasn’t heard from the White House since a Monday meeting with President Trump and other congressional leaders. “We haven’t heard from the White House since the White House meeting on Monday. The president has been behaving, you know, somewhat erratically and in [an] unconventional fashion in the context of the government shutting down,” Jeffries told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “The Lead.” “Clearly, they wanted to shut the government down, unfortunately,” he added. “We’re ready to work together to bring it back open, but to do it in a way where…

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) in a Monday interview explained why he didn’t think Democrats should back the GOP funding measure that would prevent a government shutdown on Wednesday, saying he did not “want to be a consignee to this tyranny” from the government. “Why would we want to continue to be, you know, cosignees on this madness that is hurting our friends and neighbors and making us look less and less like America?” Swalwell told CNN’s Kate Bouldan on “CNN News Central.” “This is a Republican-run government. They have the White House, the House and the Senate. They’ve had plenty…

President Trump said Sunday that a peace deal to end the war in Gaza is in its “final stages,” according to an Axios report. “Everybody has come together to get a deal, but we still have to get it done,” the president said in an interview, according to Axios. Trump said a peace deal would “be the first chance for real peace” in the region, adding, “But we have to get it done first.” On Friday night, the president touted “inspired and productive discussions” surrounding Israel’s war in Gaza. “Intense negotiations have been going on for four days, and will…

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said on Sunday that Democrats have taken “the federal government as a hostage” amid tension over a looming government shutdown. “Thirteen different times, we did continuing resolutions in the Democratic majority. And in every case, they passed,” Thune told NBC News’s Kristen Welker on “Meet the Press.” “And what the Democrats have done here, is take the federal government as a hostage, and for that matter, by extension, the American people, to try and get a whole laundry list of things that they want, the special interest groups on the far-left are pushing them…

A majority of American voters are pessimistic about freedom of speech being protected, according to a poll released Wednesday. In the survey from Quinnipiac University, 53 percent of respondents said they are “pessimistic” when it comes to freedom of speech being protected in the U.S., while 43 percent said they are “optimistic,” and 3 percent were unsure or did not respond. The same poll notes that nearly 80 percent of those surveyed said the U.S. is in a political crisis. The findings come as controversy swirls over the recent suspension of late-night host Jimmy Kimmel by ABC and its implications…

Former Republican Rep. Joe Walsh (Ill.) slammed Democratic leadership on Tuesday, months after joining the party. “I know I’ve only been a Democrat for three plus months, so if I’m overstepping my bounds here I apologize, but damn…the leadership of my new party just doesn’t f—— understand the threat and isn’t f—— meeting this moment,” Walsh wrote on the social platform X. Walsh’s comments were in response to a clip of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) discussing his approach to combatting President Trump’s agenda as funding negotiations ahead of an Oct. 1 shutdown deadline show little signs of movement.…