In a single day in January, Immigration and Customs Enforcement spent more money than it had on any other day in either of President Trump's terms, federal spending records show. The agency advanced billions to Chicago Title Insurance in escrow to acquire detention facilities, according to a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson. Over the next two months, ICE used $1.07 billion of the funds to purchase 11 warehouses it planned to convert to detention megacenters, seven of which the agency now plans to sell.
Vendors rolling out AI have an "incentive to deny as many claims as possible."
According to the lawsuit, those who wish to purchase a gun for the defense of their homes " and not for public carry " must wait until 30 days after a transferee report is submitted to their local police chief or sheriff. "Thus, state law effectively creates a 30-day waiting period for Minnesotans, even if a person desires to use a firearm solely for defense of his or her home," the lawsuit says.
Earlier this summer, the Trump administration claimed that there were more than 15,000 noncitizens voting on Nevada's voter rolls. Last month, that number shrank to 185. Now it's zero"a perfect example of the administration's frantic, fraught effort to find voter fraud that doesn't exist.
International fugitive from justice Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, an alleged war criminal responsible for the deaths of at least 73,914 human beings -- 20,179 of them CHILDREN, as well as the vicious maiming and wounding of another 174,952 people in Gaza -- snuck into NYC and brayed a useless and spiteful tirade at UNGA which was uniformly ignored by the diplomatic community. The nefarious war criminal was angrily met by hundreds of Samaritans, including diligent members of Jews Against Genocide, many of whom were proudly arrested by the NYPD. These volunteers would be quickly processed and released by the progressive judges of NYS who probably wondered why these well-intentioned pilgrims were arrested in the first place.
INTERPOL RED NOTICE for the "Butcher of Bethlehem"Read more
Several years ago, political strategist Rick Scott wrote that "everything Dummkopf Trumpf touches dies." This strange cosmological phenomenon continues plaquing those that the deeply unpopular and troubled POTUS comes in contact with, including the rebuilding New York Giants football team who pinned their future on new head coach John Harbaugh and rising superstar rookie QB Jaxon Dart.
"Few are spared."
Pablo Torre is working with Mother Jones on a story about Life Surge, a Christian-based company that sells business classes. Tim Tebow, the former star college football quarterback, is one of the main celebrities who speaks at Life Surge seminars. While the company has high marks on Google reviews, other search results paint a different picture. There are Reddit threads and Facebook groups asking what's going on with the company and people people have filed complaints with the Federal Trade Commission and Better Business Bureau. Read more
More than three years after the toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, a member of the field response team is coming forward with allegations of contamination data being buried. Testers were told they'd better come back with good results, and residents were falsely assured the air was safe, according to a sworn affidavit obtained by NewsNation.
Airline industry officials have finally stopped panicking about the Federal Aviation Administration's soon-to-launch artificial intelligence tool for managing flights and easing congestion in air travel, according to multiple people familiar with the situation.
Xi Jinping has called for extensive cooperation with Washington to avoid the "Thucydides trap" that could put the US and China on a military collision course amid rising tensions over artificial intelligence, trade and Taiwan.
At the start of his summit meeting with Donald Trump in the White House, the Chinese president laid out terms for a mutual understanding that he said could steer the two competing superpowers away from future military conflict and on to a road of mutual gain.
American service members were seen on their hands and knees smoothing the red carpet for Chinese President Xi Jinping's arrival in Washington on Wednesday. Jinping, 73, exited his plane alongside First Lady Peng Liyuan to greet President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump"but not before a 100-foot-long red carpet was rolled out. Why Trump, who has raged against communism, chose to break precedent with Jinping is not clear. He will host a State Dinner for Jinping at the White House on Thursday"an occasion which he seems eager about.
Not long ago, President Trump could claim that he ran the world. Now he's waiting at the bottom of a set of airline steps for the Chinese president.
The Pentagon is investigating how parts of the nation's most advanced fighter jet ended up in Hong Kong, with a news outlet reporting Wednesday that China has obtained the F-35 equipment. The F-35 Joint Program Office said in a statement that it and the Defense Department are aware of "a shipment issue" with F-35 components. "We are actively working with U.S. authorities and industry partners to retrieve these components, investigate the incident, and place safeguards to avoid a future occurrence," the office said.
President Donald Trump is accusing Democrats of being behind the 2024 attempt to assassinate him in Butler, Pennsylvania. In a social media post Tuesday, Trump called it a "Democrat plot." He also called out former President Joe Biden and accused former FBI director Christopher Wray of mishandling the investigation. Read more
UNITED NATIONS (AP) " Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged the world's leaders Wednesday to keep choking Russia's revenues and impede its war efforts, telling the U.N. General Assembly that "Russia's revenues must remain a target."
"When someone gives Russia more money through trade, they give this war more time. And that is exactly why we insist on limiting trade with the aggressor, and why we are burning Russia's revenues ourselves," he said, speaking in English at the U.N. General Assembly.
The Trump administration is preparing a plan to ban exports of diesel for 90 days, despite splits inside the administration and with the oil industry, in a bid to bring down energy prices weighing on Republicans leading into the midterms, five people familiar with the discussions said Wednesday. A ban, the legal process of which is still being worked out, has been opposed by U.S. fuel producers who have warned that any short-term benefit would be outweighed by higher fuel prices in the future. Any halt to shipments would be the first restriction on U.S. energy exports since the Obama administration lifted a decades-old ban on oil exports in 2015. Read more
