In pursuit of illegal immigrants, federal agents are carrying the instruments of war, fine-tuned and perfected for killing at short range.
Measles in South Carolina has spread to at least 789 people, surpassing the 2025 West Texas outbreak that sickened 762 people and killed two young girls. The majority of cases remain centered in Spartanburg County, mostly among people who were either unvaccinated or didn't know their status, the South Carolina Department of Public Health reported Tuesday. There have been 89 new cases confirmed since Friday, indicating that the outbreak isn't under control. Health officials said that 557 people are in quarantine for 21 days. The South Carolina outbreak began this past fall. By January, cases directly linked to the state had been documented in California, North Carolina and Washington.
President Donald Trump is beginning to seek political retribution against the Indiana Republicans who voted against redistricting, as he pledged to do. Trump endorsed three primary challengers against Republican Indiana state lawmakers this week. Weighing in on typically sleepy statehouse races reflects his frustration toward Indiana for foiling the GOP's mid-decade redistricting campaign. Trump was counting on the Indiana Statehouse to help counter the Democrat-friendly map passed by California, and he threatened to support primary challengers to any senator who dissented. Twenty-one Republican state senators joined Democrats in December to defeat a new congressional map that would have advantaged Republicans in every district in the state.
Furious that Donald Trump's Minneapolis fiasco was upstaging her film, Melania Trump forced her husband to overhaul his deportation campaign, author Michael Wolff claims. "This was supposed to be the Melania week," Wolff told his co-host Joanna Coles on the Inside Trump's Head podcast. But on Saturday, as the 55-year-old first lady prepared to host a screening of her documentary, Melania, federal immigration agents killed 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti. According to Wolff, a "truly p---ed-off" Melania bristled as outrage over Trump's deportation operation swallowed the spotlight meant for her $75 million film ahead of its premiere at the Kennedy Center on Thursday.
President Donald Trump surprised some people around him when he said he expected to lie in state within a decade.
Jared Kushner, a real estate developer and son-in-law of Donald Trump, unveiled a "master plan" for post-war Gaza during a presentation at Davos, Switzerland. The plan, which was contrived without any consultation with Palestinians in Gaza, promises to rebuild Gaza from scratch and includes residential towers, data centers, seaside resorts, parks, sports facilities, and an airport.
Gaza Resort To Be Built Over 71,657 Corpses
The DODIG reports: "Major military installations in the United States are unprotected from drone attacks because of bureaucratic confusion over which bases should be covered."
Drone Espionage
The Spanish government has announced a plan to legalise the status of undocumented migrants, a measure expected to benefit at least 500,000 people.
The Honorable Elma Saiz, Minister of Inclusion, Social Security, and Migration
Now, some lawmakers are questioning the legality of the Trump coin and broader moves by the mint, including its decision last year to scrap commemorative quarters honoring abolitionists, civil rights figures and suffragettes.
A frame-by-frame assessment of actions by Alex Pretti and the two officers who fired 10 times shows how lethal force came to be used against a man who didn't pose a threat.
Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar has been attacked by a man while hosting a town hall meeting in Minneapolis. Omar was sprayed with an unknown substance by the man before he was tackled to the ground on Tuesday. Read more
One person is in critical condition after a shooting involving a US Border Patrol agent in Arizona near the US-Mexico border, officials said. The FBI requested the Pima County Sheriff's Department's help to lead the use-of-force investigation involving the agent and is conducting a parallel investigation, the department said in a news release.
Trump has transformed the national political discourse from skirmishes over his assorted harebrained ideas and extreme actions (Venezuela, Greenland, vengeful criminal prosecutions, mass deportations, the destruction of the public health establishment, his war on universities, tax cuts for the rich, and so on) into a debate over the fundamental nature of the United States. Will it become a full-fledged authoritarian-led police state? That's the fight at hand. Trump and his miscreants are eager for it. They may attain their fascistic fantasy"unless enough Americans say no.
The type of playing card has long been associated with racism and death, dating back to the Vietnam War.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement was discovered to have unlawfully failed to disclose the deaths of at least eight migrants in detention, a bombshell report from Zeteo revealed Tuesday. Under existing law, ICE is required to notify Congress of any in-custody deaths within 90 days, but according to a deep dive by Zeteo into ICE disclosures, the agency had failed to do that. Among the migrants whose deaths had not been disclosed are 34-year-old Leo Cruz-Silva, who died in a Missouri detention facility three days after being arrested, and an unidentified Honduran man who was "struck by a law enforcement vehicle."
"The best they can do is shoot the guy in the back?" That's not the voice of some liberal commentator. That's what a homeland security officer told me this weekend. He closed on a plaintive note: "I think it's time to pull out of Minnesota, that battle is lost." "Fuck this," a senior ICE officer said about the shooting of Pretti.
