'Squad' member Pramila Jayapal laughs at Fox News coverage about illegal immigrant accused of raping 13-year-old girl

Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal laughed at recent coverage of an illegal migrant arrested for allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl and called it 'fear-mongering' on an appearance with Joy Reid.

Reid argued some Americans believe immigrants commit more crimes because networks report it more. She specifically called out Fox News.

The Congressional Progressive Caucus chairwoman was then shown a chyron from the network about the arrest of Christian Geovanny Inga-Landi, 25, after he was accused of binding, gagging and raping the girl in a park in Queens, New York.

Reid suggested falsely that Fox News hadn't covered Biden's executive order protecting up to 500,000 migrants from deportation.

'Ha! Yes,' Jayapal responded.

'And so I think that’s a part of the problem,' Reid went on.

'Exactly,' Jayapal agreed.

Republicans were quick to jump on the footage and said it proved: 'Extreme House Democrats do not care about you or your family.

'Their loyalties lie with the criminal migrants who murder Americans and rape children.'

Judge Judy called the hush money case against Trump 'nonsense'.

The longtime TV judge said:

You had to twist yourself into a pretzel to figure out what the crime was.'

In an interview with CNN she added:

I would be happier, as someone who owns property in Manhattan, if the district attorney of New York County would take care of criminals who were making it impossible for citizens to walk in the streets and use the subway.

To use his efforts to keep those people off the street, than to spend $5 million or $10 million of taxpayers’ money trying Donald Trump on this nonsense.'

I, as a taxpayer in this country, resent using the system for your own personal self-aggrandizement,” the Amazon Freevee “Judy Justice” personality said of Bragg.

Steve Bannon made a last-ditch plea on Friday to the U.S. Supreme Court to keep him out of prison until he finishes appealing his criminal conviction for contempt of Congress.

Bannon's petition was filed one day after a Washington-based federal appeals court, in a split decision, denied his emergency request to delay him from reporting to prison on July 1 as scheduled.

The rightwing media firebrand and staunch Trump ally, was convicted in 2022 of two misdemeanor counts of contempt of Congress.

He refused to turn over documents or testify to a Democratic-led House of Representatives committee that was investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

In their filing on Friday, Bannon's attorneys said: 'Mr. Bannon was barred from presenting any evidence or argument on good faith reliance on counsel.'

The president of the Teamsters Union is set to speak at next month's Republican National Convention.

It comes as Donald Trump angles to chip away at President Joe Biden's support among the blue-collar workers who are expected to play a major role in the election.

They are expected to be crucial in key Midwestern states like Wisconsin and Michigan.

In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump said that O'Brien had 'accepted my invitation to speak at the RNC Convention in Milwaukee.'

Teamsters spokesperson Kara Deniz said O'Brien had requested a speaking slot at both major party conventions. and accepted Trump's invitation for the RNC.

Former President Donald Trump is expected to hold a huge rally in Virginia Friday, the day after he faces President Joe Biden on the debate stage for the first time in the 2024 cycle.

The move is meant to exude confidence, as Biden beat Trump in Virginia in 2020 by 10.2 points, whereas now Trump seems to be within striking distance.

It's stirring up VP rumors too, as Trump will reportedly be joined by Virginia's popular Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin - who was once being pushed by some Republican donors to run against Trump in the 2024 GOP primaries - an opportunity the first-term governor declined.

CBS News first reported the Friday rally, as the Trump campaign looks at holding it in the Virginia Beach or Chesapeake area, where there's a large military population.

Judge Aileen Cannon flashed signs of skepticism of defense lawyers who argued in her federal courtroom that special counsel Jack Smith should get thrown off the Trump classified documents case.

Cannon, who was nominated by Trump and confirmed by the Senate weeks before he left office, appeared to push back the the former president's lawyers when they argued Smith's status posed an 'ominous' threat.

Trump critics have asked why Cannon even decided to hold a hearing on the matter, in a critical case where she has already postponed the trial date.

Trump's team, led by lawyer Emil Bove, argued that AG Merrick Garland wasn't authorized to designate Smith as special counsel, and that any person filling such an important role must be confirmed by the Senate, notwithstanding other courts which have allowed it.

A judge in Nevada dismissed the criminal case against Trump 'fake electors' in 2020, saying prosecutors filed the case in the wrong district.

The trial was set for January 2025 before it was tossed, according to the Associated Press.

Trump-connected defendants included: Michael McDonald; national party committee member Jim DeGraffenreid; national and Douglas County committee member Shawn Meehan; and Eileen Rice, a party member from the Lake Tahoe area.

Andrew Miller, a senior State Department official, resigned amid the Israel-Gaza conflict.

He had been known to be skeptical of the Biden administration's pro-Israel policies during the ongoing war in Gaza.

Miller served as the deputy assistant secretary for Israeli-Palestinian affairs.

According to the Washington Post, he told State Department colleagues that he would be departing the administration on Friday.

Donald Trump is celebrating that labor leader and Teamsters President Sean O'Brien has accepted an invitation to speak at the Republican National Convention.

The former president wrote on Truth Social:

Sean O’Brien, the General President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, has accepted my invitation to speak at the RNC Convention in Milwaukee.

Our GREAT convention will unify Americans and demonstrate to the nation’s working families they come first.

When I am back in the White House, the hardworking Teamsters, and all working Americans, will once again have a country they can afford to live in and be respected around the world.

Sean, I look forward to seeing you represent the Teamsters in Milwaukee. Together we can Make America Great Again.

The Biden campaign has doubled down on claims the 'freezing' videos of the president are from the Trump campaign and have been 'doctored'.

Rob Flaherty, the Biden-Harris Deputy Campaign Manager, claimed the 'cheapfake' clips are being deployed to 'distract from his unpopular agenda'.

The White House and Democrats have come out in force to claim the videos have been deceptively edited.

It followed Biden's awkward encounters at the G7 over the weekend and the footage of him being guided off the stage of a LA fundraiser by Barack Obama.

Clarence Thomas was the only dissenting voice as the Supreme Court ruled against domestic abusers being allowed to own guns.

Justice Thomas wrote that doing so 'strips an individual of his ability to possess firearms and ammunition without any due process.'

The government 'failed to produce any evidence' that the law is consistent with the nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation, he wrote.

'Not a single historical regulation justifies the statute at issue,' Justice Thomas said.

The justices ruled 8-1 in favor of a 1994 ban on firearms for people under restraining orders to stay away from their spouses or partners.

They reversed a ruling from a federal appeals court in New Orleans that had struck down the law.

Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the court, said the law uses 'common sense' and applies only "after a judge determines that an individual poses a 'credible threat' of physical violence.

Justice Clarence Thomas dissented.

House Republicans are demanding information related to the vetting process of the eight Tajikistan nationals with suspected ties to ISIS who were found in cities across the U.S. after having crossed the southern border illegally.

In a new letter to Homeland Security Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas, Reps Jim Jordan and Tom McClintock asked for all case information, detention history, consular files, date, time and place of entry of the eight Tajiks, whether or not CBP officials were alerted to the concerning information about them and what questions were asked during the screening process.

After the eight arrestees entered the U.S. through the southern border last spring and passed through the government's screening process, preliminary searches did not turn up information that would have identified them as potential terrorism-related concerns.

But ICE officials told the New York Post a wiretap revealed one of the suspects had been talking about bombs, prompting concern that a horrific attack like 9/11 or the Boston Marathon bombing could occur again.

Two ICE officials said they arrested the suspected terrorist affiliates only after the FBI raised the alarm on their ISIS ties.

A senior State Department diplomat has reportedly resigned.

Andrew Miller was a skeptic of Joe Biden's 'bear hug' policy toward Israel, the Washington Post reported.

Miller, deputy assistant secretary for Israeli-Palestinian affairs, reportedly told colleagues he was leaving for family reasons.

Suzanne Maloney, vice president and director of foreign policy at the Brookings Institution, told the Washington Post: 'It’s a telling indicator of the general toll that the conflict has taken on those who have been working to deal with its security implications for the United States and its allies.'

In the battle for the billionaires, Joe Biden is scooping up support from the Hollywood, tech and fashion industries, while Donald Trump is scoring with old-school business tycoons as the uber-wealthy pick their sides in the 2024 presidential race.

And, as the rich start to invest in their candidates, they are reshaping the race by giving Trump a financial advantage. The former president outraised Biden for the second consecutive month in May after having trailed his Democratic rival.

Biden's supporters include the famous -  Steven Spielberg, George Clooney, Julia Roberts - and infamous - Michael Bloomberg, George Soros and Anna Wintour.

Trump's backers include many from his previous campaigns, including Nelson Peltz, Las Vegas mogul Steve Wynn, the WWE's Linda McMahon and Miriam Adelson.

He also has the supportive of the reclusive billionaire Timothy Mellon.

The court issued a decision in a rare Second Amendment case Friday.

Their decision backs a 1994 law banning guns for people under domestic violence restraining orders.

The Supreme Court did not issue rulings on Trump immunity or obstruction cases Friday.

The court is likely to hand down those decisions next week, and potentially go into the first week of July.

There were more ructions at the top of The Washington Post Friday after British editor Robert Winnett opted to stay put rather than take the helm of one of the most prestigious jobs in journalism.

Instead, Winnett will remain on Fleet Street in London, where he will keep his post at the Daily Telegraph. That came amid staff fury at leadership changes at the Washngton paper.

'I'm pleased to report that Rob Winnett has decided to stay with us,' wrote Telegraph editor Chris Evans in a memo to staff that leaked Friday. 'As you all know, he's a talented chap and their loss is our gain.'

Winnett had worked closely in the past with new Post CEO and publisher Will Lewis, who faced blowback from staff after he was appointed to helm the publication owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos and once guided by legendary editor Ben Bradlee during the Watergate era.

Previous executive editor Sally Buzbee, who joined the paper from the Associated Press three years ago, resigned after management announced a new structure of the newsroom.

The Supreme Court is set to release more decisions this morning.

The biggest cases that remain include whether Trump has immunity from prosecution due to actions taken while in office.

Another deals with January 6 rioters - and whether they can be prosecuted on obstruction charges.

It's a case that has implications for former President Trump's 2020 election interference case.

Trump took to Truth Social to comment on Louisiana's new law which forces all public classrooms to display the Ten Commandments.

'I LOVE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS, PRIVATE SCHOOLS, AND MANY OTHER PLACES, FOR THAT MATTER.'

'READ IT — HOW CAN WE, AS A NATION, GO WRONG??? THIS MAY BE, IN FACT, THE FIRST MAJOR STEP IN THE REVIVAL OF RELIGION, WHICH IS DESPERATELY NEEDED, IN OUR COUNTRY. BRING BACK TTC!!! MAGA2024'

A last-minute appeal lodged by Steve Bannon to delay his prison deadline was rejected Thursday evening by a federal court panel as he fights his conviction for criminal contempt of Congress.

The former adviser to Donald Trump will now have to report to prison by July 1 to begin serving his four-month sentence.

Bannon's lawyers asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to allow him to remain free while he continues to overturn the conviction all the way up to the Supreme Court, if necessary.

President Joe Biden begins an intense period of private preparations on Friday at Camp David for what may be the most consequential presidential debate in decades.

The 81-year-old Democrat's team is aware he cannot afford an underwhelming performance in the CNN debate on June 27.

He will face Republican rival Donald Trump for 90 minutes on live television.

Biden's team expects aggressive attacks on his physical and mental strength, his record on the economy and immigration.

Trump, 78, will stay on the campaign trail before going to his Florida estate next week for two days of private meetings as part of an informal preparation process for the debate.

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has donated $20 million to pro-Biden groups

The billionaire philanthropist, who briefly ran for president as a Democrat in 2020, sent $19 million to the pro-Biden group Future Forward.

He also gave $929,600 to the Biden Victory Fund.

Bloomberg formally endorsed Biden on Thursday. He said:

I stood with Joe Biden in 2020, and I am proud to do so again.

Conservative billionaire Timothy Mellon, an heir of the Pittsburgh-based Mellon banking family, gave $50 million last month to a pro-Trump super PAC known as MAGA Inc.

Mellon, who lives in Wyoming and is rarely photographed, is an amateur pilot who has invested in and led transport-related companies.

Forbes estimates that the Mellon family is worth some $14.1 billion.

MAGA Inc has been ramping up outlays on television ads supporting Trump's bid, with the torrent of spending helping pro-Trump allies outspend Biden's allies in recent weeks.

It got another $10 million from billionaires Liz and Dick Uihlein, who founded the Uline shipping and packaging company from their basement in 1980.

For the first time, Donald Trump's presidential campaign reported having more cash in its main account than President Joe Biden's re-election campaign had in its account.

Trump's campaign had about $116 million in the bank at the end of May, more than double what it had a month earlier.

Biden's campaign told the Federal Election Commission it had about $91 million in the bank, just above what it had at the end of April.

The financial disclosures showed on Thursday, as both sides built their war chests ahead of the Nov. 5 election.

It comes after a surge in donations around the time of Trump's conviction in his hush money trial last month.