Kornacki: More Republicans are in ‘truly safe' districts heading into 2026 midterms compared to 2018
NBC News National Political Correspondent Steve Kornacki joins Meet the Press NOW to explain how Republicans could hold on to control of the House in the 2026 midterm elections compared to their sweeping losses in 2018.July 22, 2025
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Daily Mirror
4 hours ago
- Daily Mirror
MIKEY SMITH: 11 unhinged Donald Trump moments as Epstein survivors accuse him of 'cover up'
The survivors of America's most notorious dead paedophile are up in arms - accusing Trump of a "cover up" and giving paedophiles "preferential treatment" Donald Trump and the people around him seem to be signalling the direction the Epstein scandal is going to go - and it's towards a very dark place. The survivors of America's most notorious dead paedophile are up in arms - accusing Trump of a "cover up" and giving paedophiles "preferential treatment". It comes after the Mirror revealed Ghislaine Maxwell was being transferred to a much cushier prison. Meanwhile Trump didn't like the new, disappointing employment statistics, so he fired the person in charge of collecting them, mulled the idea of giving Diddy a pardon, was super creepy about a senior member of his team and paved over a historic part of the White House lawn - infuriating an important figure from his past. It's been quite a night, but here's everything you need to know. Buckle up. 1. Trump gets bad jobs figures, fires woman in charge of counting them You'll remember from yesterday's roundup that Trump was delivered some pretty rough jobs numbers for July - with May and June getting a hefty downgrade. Well, Trump last night did exactly what you'd expect him to do. He claimed they were "phony" and fired the person in charge of counting them. Claiming the figures had been manipulated for political reasons, he fired Erika McEntarfer, the director of the Bureau of Labour Statistics - a Biden appointee. He provided no evidence for his claim, which is presumably actionable. "I have directed my Team to fire this Biden Political Appointee, IMMEDIATELY," Trump said on Truth Social. "She will be replaced with someone much more competent and qualified." Trump later posted: "In my opinion, today's Jobs Numbers were RIGGED in order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad." 2. The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears Asked why anyone should trust numbers in future in a gaggle outside the White House last night, Trump said: "You're right. Why should anyone trust numbers?" 3. Did Ghislaine Maxwell get her sex offender status waived? It was reported overnight that for Ghislaine Maxwell to get transferred to a minimum security camp in Texas, she'd have to have her sex offender status waived. Bureau of Prisons policy is that anyone with a sex offender determination known as a "public safety factor" are required to be housed in at least low-security prisons - like the one she was held in in Florida - unless they receive a special waiver. 4. Trump's favourite news channel is rolling the pitch for a Maxwell pardon Meanwhile, Newsmax - one of Trump's favourite news channels - has been making the case for Maxwell's innocence... Host Greg Kelly said on air last night: "There's something else going on here. "It's an injustice ... people are horrified when I say that this individual just might be innocent. "But think about it. Who told us about her? The most reviled institutions in America. The media and the Biden justice department." This all seems to be going in a horrifying direction... 5. Epstein survivors and families are angry "President Trump has sent a clear message today: Pedophiles deserve preferential treatment and their victims do not matter," the family of Virginia Giuffre and other Epstein accusers said in a statement, expressing "outrage" at Maxwell's move to a cushier prison. The statement added: "This move smacks of a cover up. The victims deserve better." 6. It's OK though, he's probably not going to pardon he was mean Asked in an exclusive interview for - wait for it - Newsmax last night whether he'd consider a pardon for Sean "Puff "Diddy" Daddy" Combs, Trump said: "Well he was essentially half innocent. I don't know, he's still in jail or something... " You know, I was very friendly with him. I get along with him great. Seemed like a nice guy. "I didn't know him well. But when I ran for office, he was very hostile...I don't know, it makes it more difficult to do." He said, as a result, it was "more likely a no." 7. What's on JD Vance's playlist? So let's take a break for a moment of levity - and laugh at JD Vance's Spotify playlist. An anonymous website named "the Panama Playlists" claims to have identified and scraped data from high profile figures in the Trump administration, revealing their favourite tunes. The VP's "Making Dinner" playlist includes I Want It That Way by the Backstreet Boys and and One Time by Justin Bieber. Another of his playlists includes What Makes You Beautiful by One Direction. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has a playlist entitled "baby shower", which includes A Bar Song by Shaboozey. And Attorney General Pam Bondi's playlist includes Nelly's Hot in Herre and Foreigner's Cold As Ice. 8. Trump creepy about Leavitt And here's Donald Trump being creepy about Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt's lips. 9. Trump paved over the rose garden and Four Seasons Total Landscaping is not impressed A weird thing about Trump's return to the White House is the amount of building work he's doing to a property he legally has to move out of in three and a half years. And the first of these projects was to pave over the White House's world famous, historically significant Rose Garden. Well, Four Seasons Total Landscaping - where Rudy Giuliani held a deeply weird press conference by mistake the day Trump lost the 2020 election - is unimpressed. 10. Well, thats a metaphor The drainage holes on the new patio are in the shape of American flags. Get Donald Trump updates straight to your WhatsApp! As the world attempts to keep up with Trump's antics, the Mirror has launched its very own US Politics WhatsApp community where you'll get all the latest news from across the pond. We'll send you the latest breaking updates and exclusives all directly to your phone. Users must download or already have WhatsApp on their phones to join in. All you have to do to join is click on this link, select 'Join Chat' and you're in! We may also send you stories from other titles across the Reach group. We will also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don't like our community, you can check out any time you like. To leave our community click on the name at the top of your screen and choose Exit group. If you're curious, you can read our Privacy Notice. 11. Trump's ballroom looks awfully familiar. Also, just awful The design proposals for the other big construction project Trump wants to undertake on the White House look awfully familiar. The huge ballroom he wants to tack on to the East Wing is designed to look remarkably similar to the main ballroom at Mar A Lago, Trump's club in South Beach, Florida. It's almost as if he's never planning to leave.
The Guardian
8 hours ago
- The Guardian
Language on immigration in UK news and politics found to have ‘shaped backlash against antiracism'
A pattern of 'hostile language' in news reports and UK parliamentary debates is more likely to describe people of colour as immigrants, or with less sympathy, researchers have found. The race equality thinktank the Runnymede Trust analysed more than 63m words from 52,990 news articles and 317 House of Commons debates on immigration between 2019 and the general election in July 2024. Researchers concluded that the use of language about race and immigration by media and politicians has helped shape 'the increase in reactionary politics and backlash against antiracism which has emboldened the far right in this country'. The report, A Hostile Environment: Language, Race, Surveillance and the Media is the second in a series. The first phase of the research analysed parliamentary and media reports from 2010 to 2014. It found that 'illegal' was the most commonly linked word to migrants in parliamentary debates, which the researchers said reinforced the perception of migration as inherently unlawful. The latest report found that between 2019 and 2024 'the word 'illegal' has became an even stronger word association with the terms 'migrant' and 'immigrant' in both news and parliamentary debates than it was in the 2010–14 period', which, the authors claim, 'shows that the defining characteristic of migrants has been cemented as illegality over the past decade'. The study claims that since 2014, 'hostile environment' immigration policies have worked to 'expand and normalise the surveillance state' through legislation, reporting measures and data sharing. When the researchers filtered 'words associated with immigrants' in news data by nationality, religion, ethnicity and geographical location, they found the word 'Mexican' was most strongly associated, 'typically in the context of news reports about the USA'. Referring to the second- and third-placed terms in that category, the report added that 'Chinese' and 'Indian' were also very strongly associated with 'immigrant(s)', usually when reporting about immigration 'in the UK context'. The other most commonly used signifiers of identity associated with the word 'immigrants' in news were 'Asian', 'Irish', 'Haitian', 'Muslim', 'Jewish', 'non-white', 'Venezuelan', 'Cuban' and 'African'. 'Overwhelmingly, when the UK news media represents immigrants, the image that is invoked … is of an ethnically minoritised person,' the report added. Meanwhile, in Hansard data of parliamentary debates, the top 10 words most strongly associated with migration were 'illegal', 'net', 'committee', 'act', 'bill', 'tackle', 'level', 'reduce', 'system,' and 'mass'. The report said parliamentarians 'are more likely to use humanising terms when talking about Ukrainians' – such as 'guest', 'brave', 'community' or 'diaspora'. The report claims: 'Racist discourse from the highest levels of UK society, including politicians and the media, is used to frame immigration as an existential threat to the British way of life … this works to justify ever more hostile immigration policies.' Sign up to First Edition Our morning email breaks down the key stories of the day, telling you what's happening and why it matters after newsletter promotion The report added: 'One stark example of the partnership between parliament and the news media in framing public perceptions of immigration in the UK can be found in connection with the 'stop the boats' political slogan. 'The explicit use of this slogan by rioters in the summer of 2024 on banners and in chants demonstrates that the hostile language we have identified in our analysis has emboldened sectors of the UK public to engage in racist violence. 'Throughout the 2019-24 period, news articles and political debates disseminating this kind of narrative come out in fairly close alignment with each other, both reaching their peak in 2023 and declining slightly into 2024, but with still very high levels of usage.' The Home Office has been approached for comment. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said the disorder of August 2024 – which followed the Southport attack – ''highlighted the need for a new approach to community cohesion' and that a task force was developing a strategic national approach, while £1.5bn was being invested in community services in 75 areas nationwide.
The Guardian
9 hours ago
- The Guardian
Colombia's ex-president Álvaro Uribe sentenced to 12 years' house arrest for witness tampering
Colombia's still-powerful former president Álvaro Uribe has been sentenced to 12 years of house arrest, capping a long and contentious career that defined the country's politics for a generation. Uribe, aged 73, received the maximum possible sentence after being found guilty of witness tampering, a legal source told AFP. The lengthy house arrest, which is due to be publicly announced on Friday, marks the first time in Colombia's history that a former president has been convicted of a crime and sentenced. Uribe led Colombia from 2002 to 2010 and helmed a relentless military campaign against drug cartels and the Farc guerrilla army. He remains popular in Colombia, despite being accused by critics of working with armed rightwing paramilitaries to destroy leftist rebel groups. And he still wields considerable power over conservative politics in Colombia, playing kingmaker in the selection of new party leaders. He was found guilty of asking rightwing paramilitaries to lie about their alleged links to him. A judge on Monday found him guilty on two charges: interfering with witnesses and 'procedural fraud'. Uribe insists he is innocent and said he would appeal the ruling. A law-and-order hardliner, Uribe was a close ally of the United States and retains ties to the American right. The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, earlier decried Uribe's prosecution, claiming, without providing evidence, that it represented 'the weaponization of Colombia's judicial branch by radical judges'. Recent opinion polls revealed Uribe to be the South American country's best-loved politician. In 2019, thousands protested in Medellín and the capital, Bogotá, when he was first indicted in the case. On Monday, a smaller group of followers gathered outside the court wearing masks fashioned after his image and chanting: 'Uribe, innocent!' The investigation against Uribe began in 2018 and has had numerous twists and turns, with several attorneys general seeking to close the case. It gained new impetus under the current attorney general, Luz Camargo, picked by the current president, Gustavo Petro – himself a former guerrilla and a political arch-foe of Uribe. More than 90 witnesses testified in the trial, which opened in May 2024. During the trial, prosecutors produced evidence of at least one ex-paramilitary fighter who said he was contacted by Uribe to change his story. The former president is also under investigation in other matters. He has testified before prosecutors in a preliminary investigation into a 1997 paramilitary massacre of farmers when he was governor of the western Antioquia department. A complaint has also been filed against him in Argentina, where universal jurisdiction allows for the prosecution of crimes committed anywhere in the world. That complaint stems from Uribe's alleged involvement in the more than 6,000 executions and forced disappearances of civilians by the Colombian military when he was president. Uribe insists his trial is a product of 'political vengeance'.
