President Donald Trump said Saturday that he is sending a hospital boat to Greenland, the Arctic island and Danish territory he has sought to acquire. "Working with the fantastic Governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, we are going to send a great hospital boat to Greenland to take care of the many people who are sick, and not being taken care of there. It's on the way!!!" the president posted on social media alongside an illustration of the naval hospital ship the USNS Mercy. Read more
DHS is temporarily suspending its TSA PreCheck and Global Entry programs due to the agency's lapse in funding.
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Wayne DeMario, a Florida Republican who voted for President Donald Trump, on Friday delivered a "desperate plea" to the president to return his wife, Yamile Alcantu, who's been detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents for eight months. "Please get her home," DeMario told Local10 on Friday. "Please, she does not deserve this. She is the sweetest person, and she prayed for you." DeMario, a small business owner in Miami-Dade county, told Local10 he and his wife were Trump supporters prior to their ordeal. According to DeMario, Alcantu, who Local10 reports "moved to the U.S. from Cuba 25 years ago through a Visa Lottery," had "a minor run-in with the law during a traffic stop" back in 2008. "They go through her purse, and then they dump the purse out, and three Xanax pills fall out," DeMario explained. Read more
Pope Leo XIV has officially dissed Catholic JD Vance's formal invitation to the upcoming July 4th 250th festivities in the United States. Instead, the Pope, formerly of Chicago, will be celebrating that day "on the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa " a migrant gateway in the Mediterranean," reports Christopher Hale, who chronicles the Vatican's doings with his "Letters from Leo" reports. " ... [B]ack in May 2025, JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to take part in the anniversary celebrations. Many assumed Trump and Vance would welcome the first American pope with open arms during this historic jubilee. But Pope Leo never accepted the offer," reports Hale, adding that the rejection came days after the Vatican also rejected an invitation to President Donald Trump's "Board of Peace."
U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday said he was working with Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry to send a hospital boat to Greenland, a Danish territory that Trump has said he wants to acquire. Trump announced the plan on social media moments before hosting a dinner for Republican governors at the White House, where he sat next to and chatted with Landry. Neither the White House nor Landry's office responded to queries about the post, whether the ship had been requested by Denmark or Greenland and which sick people needed help. The Department of War had no immediate comment.
A British grandmother's vacation to the U.S. ended with the woman being unlawfully held in immigration detention for six weeks. Karen Newton, 65, along with her husband Bill, 66, were detained by ICE after attempting to leave the U.S. and enter Canada. Karen told The Guardian that her tourist visa was valid, but her husband's had expired. When they were first held, the couple were persuaded to sign a voluntary self-removal form, which would allow them to return home on the U.S. government's dime plus receive a $1,000 "exit bonus." In return, they would not be able to return to the country for a decade. Read more
NASA is taking steps to potentially roll back the Artemis II rocket and Orion spacecraft to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida after overnight Feb. 21 observing interrupted flow of helium to the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket's interim cryogenic propulsion stage. Read more
A high-impact nor'easter is about to crush parts of the Northeast with blizzard conditions, heavy snow and strong winds. The forecast has been fraught with uncertainty for days, but has finally homed in on a major storm from the Mid-Atlantic to New England, including New York City, Boston and other big cities. Read more
"Network" turns 50 " and somehow feels more shocking, more sobering, and more timely than ever
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The Bucks County District Attorney's Office announced Saturday that it is conducting an investigation into the police response to a walkout by Quakertown High School students who were protesting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions.
Just like that, San Francisco's teachers strike appears to be over. The San Francisco school district's 50,000 students, many still struggling to recover from years of school closures and learning loss during the pandemic, will be back in classrooms next week after a tentative agreement was reached early Friday between district officials and United Educators of San Francisco - which represents 6,000 teachers, aides, nurses, counselors, security guards and other workers
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Elon Musk's $44 billion Twitter drama is finally headed to trial"but first came the harder task: finding jurors who don't loathe the world's richest man. Nine jurors were seated Thursday in San Francisco federal court after the judge spent more than five hours slicing through a pool of 93 prospective jurors in the investor class action suit against Musk, according to reporting by Bloomberg Law. Musk's attorney, Stephen Broome of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, argued the hostility in the jury pool was extraordinary. "We have so many people in the venire who hate him so much that we're becoming desensitized," Broome said. In most cases, he added, a juror admitting they "hated" the defendant would be immediately excused.
A state legislator's former chief of staff faces charges of child sexual exploitation and child sex trafficking. Federal agents arrested Craig Scott Valdez, 36, early Friday in Juneau, according to court documents. Valdez is an Anchorage resident listed as having served as Republican Wasilla state Sen. George Rauscher's chief of staff since November. Valdez was terminated Friday hours after the charges were made public, according to a press secretary for the state Senate minority caucus, of which Rauscher is a member. Valdez was also elected as chair of the Anchorage Young Republicans in January 2025 and became the group's state committee chair last month, according to social media posts. A grand jury on Tuesday indicted Valdez on charges of sex trafficking a minor, sexual exploitation of a minor " for both allegedly producing and receiving child sexual abuse material " and coercion and enticement of a minor.
Lynch, who often makes controversial remarks about his bandmate in the press, continued, "I always say Don has the same exact personality traits and character as [Donald] Trump, except Trump's a better singer." Read more
That's because this document shows the FBI conducted not just one, but four, interviews with Trump's accuser. And, as I reported Wednesday, while the government gave all four of those interviews to Maxwell's legal team ahead of her trial, the government gave only one of those four interviews to us in the Epstein files." Read more
