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Fear of increased ICE raids have already negatively affected the nation's agricultural sector, causing alarm that food prices could skyrocket in the near future as a result of Donald Trump's aggressive immigration policies. Bakersfield, California, saw a massive drop-off in the number of field workers showing up for work Tuesday while ICE agents in unmarked Chevy Suburbans rounded up and detained immigrants in the area, profiling individuals they believed to be field workers, reported CalMatters. The end result: acres of unpicked oranges roasting in the California sun at the height of the season. "We're in the middle of our citrus harvesting," Casey Creamer, president of the industry group California Citrus Mutual, told CalMatters. "This sent shockwaves through the entire community. People aren't going to work and kids aren't going to school. Yesterday about 25 percent of the workforce, today 75 percent didn't show up."
Trump wants to shut down the Federal Emergency Management Agency and let states handle their own disaster needs. I don't think we should give California anything,' he said.
NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Bishop Mariann Budde about her homily Tuesday, where she made a plea directly to President Donald Trump.
Since all fetuses "at conception" are female, Trump just defined EVERYONE as female.
On Tuesday, Daniel Ball's case tied to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack was formally dismissed after he received a full pardon from President Trump. But by Wednesday, Ball was arrested once more on a pending federal gun charge . The Florida man appears to be the first Jan. 6 rioter to face additional legal trouble after the sweeping clemency bestowed on those who rioted at the Capitol as lawmakers sought to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election. His arrest warrant was also the first publicly filed in Washington, D.C., following the start of Trump's second presidency. Ball was charged in May 2023 with 12 counts tied to the Capitol attack, including assaulting, resisting or impeding officers using a dangerous weapon and using explosives to commit a felony. Read more
State Rep. Bruce Skaug (R-Nampa) introduced the bill which would make Idaho the only US state to give preference to a firing squad. Skaug sponsored a bill that became law in 2023 that added back the firing squad as a backup method of execution in the state, but only when lethal injection is not possible because of a lack of execution drugs. Nine inmates sit on death row. Read more
A barricaded suspect shot and wounded four police officers who had responded to a residential call in San Antonio, TX. The shooting occurred at an apartment complex in the Stone Oak neighborhood of north San Antonio. Police told reporters that the incident unfolded when officers responded to a call from a family member of the suspect regarding a "suicide in progress." The four officers were hospitalized with what were believed to be non-life-threatening injuries. Stone Oak is considered "one of the most beautiful and beloved neighborhoods" of San Antonio, Texas. Read more
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and the House Republican Conference plan to establish a select subcommittee to continue the party's investigation into the events leading up to and after the Jan. 6, 2021, protests at the Capitol. Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., will chair the group, which falls as a select subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee, chaired by Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, according to a statement released Wednesday. "House Republicans are proud of our work so far in exposing the false narratives peddled by the politically motivated January 6 Select Committee during the 117th Congress, but there is still more work to be done," Johnson said. "We are establishing this Select Subcommittee to continue our efforts to uncover the full truth that is owed to the American people. The composition and other details regarding the Select Subcommittee will be announced soon."
The city of Huntington Beach is now a non-sanctuary city after the city council voted to approve Mayor Pat Burns' initiative to make that declaration last night. Currently, California is a sanctuary state, meaning local law enforcement cannot cooperate with federal immigration authorities. But in Huntington Beach, local law enforcement would help federal agents make arrests for immigration violations. In a social media post, the city of Huntington Beach said that the intent of this Resolution is to deliberately sidestep the Governor's efforts to subvert the good work of federal immigration authorities and to announce the City's cooperation with the federal government, the Trump Administration, and Border Czar Tom Homan's work. The city attorney also now has the power to defend against any legal action brought by the state against the resolution.
After exiting the White House in 2021, Kushner launched a new private equity firm, Affinity Partners, and announced he was seeking to raise $7 billion. Kushner had no experience in private equity, and his most significant business experience was nearly bankrupting his family's real estate company. Who would be interested in giving Kushner billions of dollars? Kushner raised $2 billion from the government of Saudi Arabia through their Public Investment Fund (PIF). The PIF committee that screens investments recommended rejecting Kushner's proposal, citing "the inexperience of the Affinity Fund management" and "excessive" fees. The committee's recommendation, however, was overruled by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), who Kushner formed a friendship with during his time in the White House. Read more
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President Donald Trump is preparing to send around 10,000 troops to the southern border, and Border Patrol agents have been directed to deny entry to asylum seekers because they pass through countries where communicable diseases are present, according to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection briefing document obtained by The Washington Post.
In attempting to ban transgender people, Donald Trump issued an executive order that directs federal agencies to recognize gender as immutable and defined at conception. One of the many problems with that idea is that male sexual development doesn't begin until about a month and half into pregnancy. We are all female at conception.
A prominent federal judge on Wednesday ripped President Donald Trump's mass clemency for Jan. 6 rioters, saying the justification he offered in his proclamation " to correct an "injustice" and trigger a "national reconciliation" " was "flatly wrong" and a "revisionist myth."
Two D.C. police officers are expected to receive a presidential pardon after they were sentenced on charges related to a 2020 chase that ended in the death of a man riding a moped. The District's police union said they are working with President Donald Trump to secure the two pardons for the officers convicted in Karon Hylton-Brown's death. Trump highlighted the case while signing a flurry of executive orders and pardons on Monday. "We are looking at two police officers, actually, Washington police officers, that went after an illegal and things happened and they ended up putting them in jail. They got five-year jail sentences. You know the case," the president said as he was signing orders. "And we're looking at that in order to give them, uh, we gotta give them a break." Read more
