Companies that have collaborated with immigration enforcement agencies in various ways to aid Trump's mass deportation initiative"whether through allowing ICE to raid their parking lots, taking on contracts with DHS, or a variety of other actions"are starting to feel the rumblings of a consumer revolt. Home Depot is possibly the most visible case after the company's parking lots became a familiar setting for shocking viral clips and local news segments depicting federal agents' aggressive attempts to apprehend unsuspecting day laborers. The home-improvement chain now faces the prospect of a national boycott. But that's not the end of their troubles: A particularly headline-grabbing protest was staged last weekend at the Home Depot in Monrovia, California, a location picked because it's where Roberto Carlos Montoya Valds, 52, from Guatemala died on the freeway after being hit by an SUV while running from an ICE raid.
"President Trump has set free a private equity executive who had served less than two weeks of a seven-year sentence for his role in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded thousands of victims," the New York Times reports. "David Gentile, 59, a onetime resident of Nassau County, N.Y., had reported to prison on Nov. 14, and was released on Wednesday." Mr. Gentile and a co-defendant, Jeffry Schneider, were convicted in August 2024 of securities and wire fraud charges, and sentenced in May. Unlike a pardon, the commutation granted to Mr. Gentile will not erase his conviction. Mr. Schneider, who was sentenced to six years, does not appear to have received clemency from Mr. Trump Read more
The fraud scandal that rattled Minnesota was staggering in its scale and brazenness. Federal prosecutors charged dozens of people with felonies, accusing them of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from a government program meant to keep children fed during the Covid-19 pandemic. At first, many in the state saw the case as a one-off abuse during a health emergency. But as new schemes targeting the state's generous safety net programs came to light, state and federal officials began to grapple with a jarring reality. Over the last five years, law enforcement officials say, fraud took root in pockets of Minnesota's Somali diaspora as scores of individuals made small fortunes by setting up companies that billed state agencies for millions of dollars' worth of social services that were never provided... Read more
Stocks and cryptocurrencies linked to the Trumpf Crime Family (TCF) are in a deep slump, leaving some of the president's biggest fans with steep losses. Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group DJT, which operates the president's Truth Social platform, have tumbled 75% since Dummkopf Trumpf seized power on 20 Jan 2025.
Former Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) blasted Donald Trump on Friday over the death of Sarah Beckstrom, the West Virginia National Guard member who was fatally shot near the White House earlier this week. Walsh " once a Tea Party congressman and now an outspoken Trump critic " said the 20-year-old soldier should never have been stationed in the nation's capital to begin with.
Using maritime drones, Ukrainian special services attacked two oil tankers in Russia's shadow fleet in the Black Sea, rendering them both inoperable.
Five local rabbis are among the more than 400 New Yorkers tapped for NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's transition committees, the teams tasked with preparing his much-anticipated administration which begins on 1 Jan 2026.
At least, in today's terms, we know who's the more racist.
There's an enormous disconnect between what parents think public schools do and what the system actually supports. People believe schools exist to educate kids. They don't. They do this by employing people who will vote as a bloc to ensure their continued employment and, thus, the system's growth. Read more
US President Donald Trump has said that he will pardon the ex-president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernndez, who was convicted of drug trafficking charges in a US court last year. Trump made the announcement in a Truth Social post on Friday, congratulating the former president on the pardon, saying he was "treated very harshly and unfairly". Hernndez was found guilty in March 2024 of conspiring to import cocaine into the US, and of possessing machine guns. He was sentenced to 45 years in prison. In the same post, Trump also said he supported conservative candidate Tito Asfura in the upcoming general election in the Central American country on Sunday.
Washington " President Trump said Friday he is canceling all orders signed by former President Joe Biden using an autopen, a mechanical device that reproduces signatures. "Any document signed" by Biden via the use of an autopen "is hereby terminated, and of no further force or effect," Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social. "I am hereby cancelling all Executive Orders, and anything else that was not directly signed by Crooked Joe Biden, because the people who operated the Autopen did so illegally," Mr. Trump said. "Joe Biden was not involved in the Autopen process and, if he says he was, he will be brought up on charges of perjury."
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Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) released imagery of what they discovered from the recent MRI brain scan they conducted on the 47th President of the United States.
Malicious intruders have hijacked US radio gear to turn emergency broadcast tones into a profanity-laced alarm system.
