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09/19/2026

Nancy Pelosi told senior House Democrats in a closed-door meeting that she preferred to see Donald Trump imprisoned rather than impeached, according to multiple officials who were present.

The remark came during a tense exchange with House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler of New York, who had again pressed the Speaker to open an impeachment inquiry following the release of the Mueller report. Pelosi told Nadler and four other committee chairs, “I don’t want to see him impeached, I want to see him in prison,” according to Politico, which first reported the remark citing multiple Democratic sources familiar with the meeting. NBC News later confirmed the quote through a congressional aide who was in the room.

That aide said Pelosi’s comment was consistent with her position that Trump needed to be removed electorally in 2020, and that impeachment without bipartisan support could backfire and cost Democrats their House majority. Pelosi’s spokeswoman, Ashley Etienne, declined to confirm or deny the remark directly, telling reporters only that the Speaker and the chairs had a productive meeting about the state of play with the Mueller report.

At the time, Pelosi was resisting mounting pressure from within her own caucus. An ABC News analysis found nearly 60 House Democrats, roughly one in four members, wanted to open proceedings. Adam Schiff of California and Richard Neal of Massachusetts were among those who believed an inquiry should wait until the caucus was more unified.

Pelosi’s position ultimately shifted. She backed an impeachment inquiry later that year, and the House impeached Trump twice during his first term, once in December 2019 over the Ukraine affair and again in January 2021 following the Capitol riot. The Senate acquitted him on both occasions. The 2019 prison remark, made privately and never repeated publicly, remains one of the sharpest comments Pelosi is reported to have made about Trump during her tenure as Speaker.

09/19/2026

A new national poll has found that a majority of registered voters want Congress to impeach President Donald Trump immediately, with the survey showing 52 percent in favor and 40 percent opposed, including one in seven Republicans backing removal proceedings.

The poll of 790 voters was conducted by Lake Research Partners, the firm run by veteran pollster Celinda Lake, and commissioned by Free Speech For People and a second group opposing Trump’s Iran war and immigration enforcement policies. Pollsters asked voters about two specific justifications: Trump’s military strikes on Iran and the conduct of immigration agents in American cities. John Bonifaz, who ran the survey, called the finding “an unprecedented result this early in a presidential term.”

The result marks a rare level of early opposition. The only other two-term president to see majority support for impeachment was Richard Nixon, and voters did not turn against him until deep into his second term, well after the Watergate scandal had broken. The April survey found the numbers tracked closely with Trump’s overall job approval, with Democrats overwhelmingly disapproving and Republicans still largely supportive, while independents leaned negative.

The finding follows a separate Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll conducted in June, which asked a different question, whether grounds for impeachment already exist, and found 53 percent of Americans said yes. Despite the numbers, Democratic leadership has been reluctant to campaign on impeachment. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has said the party has not ruled the option in or out, with some in the party privately warning that a failed push could be framed as tacit approval of Trump’s conduct rather than accountability. Any impeachment effort would still require a House majority to bring charges and a two-thirds Senate vote to convict, a threshold that has not been reached in either of Trump’s two prior impeachments.

09/19/2026

Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, who has built her political career on opposition to same-sex marriage, is facing a sworn ethics complaint alleging she carried on s*xual relationships with three House staffers, two women and one man, while they worked under her direct supervision.

The complaint, filed with the U.S. House Committee on Ethics by David B. Wheeler of American Muckrakers, names Clarice Navarro Ratzlaff, Boebert’s district director from January 2021 to January 2025; Raven Finegan, her current district chief of staff; and Jeffrey Small, her Washington chief of staff from 2021 to 2025. It alleges the relationship with Navarro Ratzlaff ran from 2021 through January 2025, with encounters described as occurring during and after office hours, in Boebert’s district office, in a vehicle for which Navarro Ratzlaff collected mileage reimbursements, and in hotel rooms paid for by Boebert’s campaign committee.

The complaint further alleges that after Navarro Ratzlaff left the office and told Boebert she intended to file an ethics complaint, a payment of roughly $200,000 followed in March 2025, though its author says he does not know the source of the money and the section describing how he verified the payment was redacted from the public filing. The evidence for the relationships rests on unnamed sources described in notes not included in the published complaint, along with, for one of the other aides, a set of Instagram photos including birthday tributes from a staffer to her boss. The alleged conduct would violate House Rule XXIII, clause 18(a), the post-2018 rule barring members from sexual relationships with employees under their supervision.

Boebert’s office and campaign have not responded to the allegations. Her ex-husband, Jayson Boebert, rejected them when contacted by a reporter, saying, “I think it is all a fairy tale made up propaganda,” and adding, “I don’t believe any of that. Bad sources.” The House Ethics Committee does not confirm or deny the existence of ongoing reviews.

09/19/2026

Dylan Mills, a 16-year-old student at Tarkington High School in Cleveland, Texas, was crowned Homecoming King in a ceremony under the stadium lights, sixteen years after surviving a house fire that burned an estimated 84 percent of his body when he was a toddler.

The fire broke out in 2009 at the family’s home in northeast Houston, when Mills was around 17 to 18 months old. Local station KHOU-11 covered the blaze at the time, reporting that multiple family members were hospitalized. His father suffered serious burns trying to reach him inside the burning house, and his mother pulled him to safety. Doctors later told the family the burns covered roughly 84 percent of his small body, and years of skin grafts, surgeries, and rehabilitation followed.

Standing beside him as Homecoming Queen was Ashlyn Primeaux, his classmate and close friend since early childhood. Their pairing was not a coincidence: Primeaux’s mother explained in a comment on a viral post covering the story that the two “have been best friends since they were 4 years old,” adding that “they were in the same kindergarten class, went through 8th grade promotion together, even went to prom one year together, so running for king and queen was just another milestone they shared.” She said the pair ran for homecoming “just for fun,” and that winning was simply “a bonus.”

The moment was captured by FOX San Antonio reporter Ryan Wolf, whose post describing the pairing circulated widely online. For the Tarkington ISD community, Mills’ crowning has been embraced as a milestone marking how far he has come since the injuries of his infancy, with his story continuing to circulate on social media in the weeks since.

09/19/2026

A trio of national polls conducted in late January and early February 2026 found that a majority of American voters now believe Joe Biden did a better job as president than Donald Trump is doing in his second term, a reversal from Trump’s standing a year earlier.

The Harvard CAPS/Harris poll, conducted January 28-29 among registered voters, found that 51 percent said Trump is doing a worse job than Biden did, compared with 49 percent who said he is doing better. That figure had stood at 53 percent in Trump’s favor as recently as December, and marked a steep drop from February 2025, when 58 percent of respondents to the same poll said Trump was outperforming Biden. The shift held even along ideological lines that would typically favor Trump: a Rasmussen Reports survey conducted February 2-4, a pollster generally seen as friendly to Trump, found 48 percent of likely voters said Biden did a better job, compared with 40 percent who chose Trump, with 8 percent calling it a tie. Rasmussen’s head pollster, Mark Mitchell, said that while he personally would not side with voters choosing Biden over Trump, the numbers were undeniable, adding that if an election were held that day between the two men, Biden would win.

A third survey, from YouGov and The Economist and conducted February 6-9 among U.S. adults, found 46 percent said Trump was doing a worse job than Biden, against 40 percent who said he was doing better. Harvard CAPS/Harris co-director Mark Penn has separately noted that voters remain focused on the economy, saying there is room for opinion to shift as conditions change. Responding to the polling, White House spokesperson Kush Desai pointed to Trump’s 2024 election victory, saying nearly 80 million Americans had given him a mandate to end what he called Biden’s economic disaster and immigration crisis.

The numbers arrive as Trump’s approval ratings have continued to slide in other surveys, including Reuters/Ipsos polling that has repeatedly put his overall approval in the low-to-mid 30s in recent months, with voters citing the cost of living as their dominant concern heading into the 2026 midterms.

09/19/2026

A South Carolina homeowner in Chesnee will face no charges after fatally sh*oting a 19-year-old stranger who forced his way through a locked back door at roughly 2 a.m., reviving debate over how far the state’s self-defense laws extend inside the home.

The Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office said deputies were called to a home on Cherokee Circle early Sunday, August 30, 2026, after g*nfire was reported. They found the intruder d*ad at the scene from multiple g*nshot wounds. The Spartanburg County Coroner’s Office identified him as Xavier Felix Rivera-Goucher of Campobello. Investigators said Rivera-Goucher had broken through a secured back door and had no known prior relationship with either of the two residents inside, who woke to find him in the home.

One of the two residents opened fire, striking Rivera-Goucher several times. Deputies arrived within minutes and pronounced him d*ad at the scene. The sheriff’s office said the investigation remains active but that it does not expect the homeowner to face criminal charges. South Carolina’s Protection of Persons and Property Act, its version of the castle doctrine, grants residents a legal presumption of reasonable fear of d*ath or great bodily harm when someone forcibly and unlawfully enters an occupied home, removing any duty to retreat before using deadly force.

The case is one of several in recent months to test the limits of castle doctrine protections nationally, as prosecutors and sheriffs’ offices in states from Texas to Indiana have weighed similar break-in sh*otings against statutes that shield homeowners acting in self-defense. Legal experts note the protections are not absolute: force used against a fleeing or already-incapacitated intruder, or against someone with a legal right to be on the property, falls outside what most castle doctrine statutes allow. In this case, investigators say the physical evidence supported the homeowner’s account, and no formal charging decision has yet been announced by prosecutors.

09/19/2026

Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota has pushed back on President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda, arguing the policy does not reflect the will of the American public, amid an escalating feud between the two that has spanned months.

The clash intensified during Trump’s State of the Union address in late February 2026, when Omar and fellow Democratic Representative Rashida Tlaib of Michigan shouted in protest as Trump defended his immigration crackdown. Omar shouted “You have k*lled Americans!” as Trump pressed Democrats over sanctuary city policies, after he had referred to Somali community members in Minnesota as “Somali pirates” in connection with fraud investigations in the state. Trump responded on Truth Social, writing that the two lawmakers had behaved like “crooked and corrupt politicians” and should be sent “back from where they came from.”

Omar, a naturalized U.S. citizen who fled Somalia’s civil war as a child and became a citizen in 2000, is not legally eligible for deportation, since the process applies only to non-citizens. Trump has nonetheless continued to target her personally, at one point telling a Pennsylvania audience, “I love this Ilhan Omar, whatever the hell her name is, a little turban,” before adding that she “comes in, does nothing but b*tch.”

Omar’s chief of staff, Connor McNutt, has dismissed the administration’s rhetoric and renewed fraud allegations against her as a distraction, telling Newsweek it was a “ridiculous lie and desperate attempt to distract” from unpopular policies. The Department of Homeland Security has separately reported more than 605,000 deportations carried out since Trump returned to office in January 2025, a scale of enforcement Omar and other Democratic critics argue exceeds public support for the administration’s immigration approach.

09/19/2026

Vice President JD Vance drew a sparse crowd for a Republican midterm rally in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on Friday, with a photograph showing attendees filling only a small square in the middle of a gymnasium as staff clustered a tighter group behind him for the cameras.

Vance appeared at the Mid-America Center alongside GOP gubernatorial nominee Zach Lahn and 4th Congressional District candidate Chris McGowan, using the stop to promote the administration’s record on taxes, trade and immigration and to attack Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rob Sand. “This election is a referendum on commonsense versus pure unadulterated crazy,” Vance said at the rally. Republican U.S. Senate nominee Ashley Hinson, locked in a tight race with Democratic state Representative Josh Turek for the seat being vacated by Joni Ernst, did not attend, with her campaign citing scheduling conflicts, though Vance praised her from the stage.

The turnout quickly drew ridicule online. Journalist Aaron Rupar described the photo as showing Vance speaking to dozens of people, while Breaking Points co-host Krystal Ball wrote, “Oof that’s rough.” The Lincoln Project pointed to Hinson’s own recent lackluster turnout, and commentator Molly Jong-Fast noted that Donald Trump won Iowa by 13.2 points in 2024, suggesting the political mood may be shifting.

Friday’s rally was Vance’s second visit to Iowa this year, part of a broader push by Trump administration officials into the state as Republicans try to protect competitive Senate, governor and House races that the Cook Political Report has rated a toss-up. Iowa Democratic Party Chair Rita Hart said Vance’s visit was aimed at boosting Lahn, whom she cast as a continuation of Governor Kim Reynolds’ agenda.

09/19/2026

Thousands of protesters formed a human chain around the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. on Friday evening, locking arms around the storied arts venue in opposition to President Donald Trump’s threats to demolish it and his push to install his name on the building.

The rally, called “Hands Around the Kennedy Center” and organized by the advocacy group Hands Off the Arts, began at 6:30 p.m. on the Kennedy Center steps with musical performances and testimonials from current and former employees before the crowd moved to encircle the building. More than 950 people had signed up to attend, according to Hands Off the Arts co-founder Chris Raleigh, who told one outlet he hoped the event would show that people are willing to fight to keep Trump’s plans for the building at bay. Rows of protesters locked hands while blocking the entrance to the main building, chanting “Keep your tiny hands off” before shifting to a simpler “Hands off!”

The demonstration came after the Kennedy Center abruptly closed on Tuesday following a board vote, and after a federal judge ruled Thursday that the venue must give at least 30 days’ notice before any major renovations or demolition. Trump installed himself as chairman of the Kennedy Center last year after removing its previous leadership and replacing board members with his own appointees, and he has argued the center is in poor condition, calling it “a dump” and claiming it has lost “hundreds of millions” of dollars, though he has not provided evidence for the claim. Hands Off the Arts said on its website that the demonstration opposed the sudden closure, the installation of security fencing, and political efforts to alter or demolish portions of the presidential memorial.

The dispute has been building for months. In May, a judge ruled the center’s board could not unilaterally add Trump’s name to the venue, and on Tuesday, District Judge Christopher R. Cooper ruled the Kennedy Center cannot inscribe Trump’s name on its marble facade. Trump has continued to press the issue regardless, and the Kennedy Center remains closed while officials assess reported structural hazards.

09/19/2026

Woody Harrelson, the 64-year-old actor known for “Cheers” and “Natural Born K*llers,” called Donald Trump a “son of a b****” in comments that resurfaced online in February 2026, sparking confusion among viewers who believed the remarks were newly made.

The quote originates from an Associated Press interview, at the premiere of the LBJ biopic, in which Harrelson starred as former President Lyndon B. Johnson. Speaking to reporters that day, Harrelson said the country was moving in the wrong direction under Trump’s leadership. “We have a guy running this country who has unearthed a lot of bigotry and a lot of racism, and it seems to be more virulent than ever,” he told the AP, adding, “it’s strange how we just, it seems like we’re going backward.”

He then made the remark that would recirculate nearly a decade later: “And yeah, I wish that there were a way to, I wish there were a way to get rid of that son of a b**** and get in a great president, you know, but it doesn’t seem like that’s going to happen. And I don’t know how much he’s going to continue to foment hatred.”

The clip went viral again in February 2026 after being shared without its original date by political commentators including Brian Tyler Cohen, along with accounts tied to NowThis Impact and Occupy Democrats, one of which labeled the years-old remarks “breaking” news. The lack of context led many social media users to assume Harrelson had just made the comments, prompting fact-checkers to trace the footage back to its 2017 origin.

Harrelson has continued criticizing Trump in the years since. In a separate interview posted online in November 2025, he said he would have “slip[ped] him some cyanide” had he pursued his childhood ambition of becoming a Secret Service agent assigned to protect the president.

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