A now viral video appears to show an Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) agent bragging about his salary on X.
Daniel Stern is no longer part of ABC's comedy pilot Do You Want Kids?, starring Rachel Bloom and Rory Scovel, Deadline has learned. The network and producing studio from 20th Television will be recasting the series-regular role to which the Home Alone alum was signed for in December, I hear. The dismissal comes days after Stern on Monday was charged with a single misdemeanor charge of engaging or agreeing to engage in prostitution. He initially had been cited by Ventura County (CA) sheriff's deputies on December 10 for allegedly soliciting a prostitute at a Camarillo hotel.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. " A Jacksonville woman was arrested after she allegedly punched a Florida Highway Patrol trooper during an encounter with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said.
A federal officer has shot a man in the leg in the US city of Minneapolis after being attacked with a shovel as he tried to make an arrest, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) says. In a statement on X, the DHS said Wednesday's shooting happened after a car chase involving a Venezuelan national who was in the country illegally. It ended in a crash and the driver was joined by two more people who all attacked the officer, it said. DHS said the man who was shot was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Donald Trump has blamed his inability to end the war in Ukraine on its president Volodymyr Zelensky " not Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Asked why US-led negotiations had not yet resolved Europe's largest land conflict since the Second World War, Trump responded: "Zelensky". He added that Putin "is ready to make a deal" while "Ukraine is less ready to make a deal". The claim from Trump is in sharp contrast with European allies, who see Putin as the key figure ramping up military aggression as he rejects peace proposals from Trump's envoys. Just hours earlier, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov insisted Moscow was not interested in agreeing to a ceasefire, instead holding out for a peace agreement that would end the conflict on its terms.
Operations Benchwarmer, Tidal Wave, Abracadabra, Dust Off, Fleur De Lis " these are just a few of the secret programs recently undertaken by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE has become a self appointed bouncer for America under Donald Trump, enlisting tens of thousands of federal, state, and local police and intelligence departments and agencies to not just root out "illegals," but also exploit them for intelligence, leaked documents show. A Border Patrol official outraged by ICE's conduct has leaked to me this and other documents providing an unprecedented glimpse into ICE's undeclared activities across the country. Many of these operations and their codenames have not been previously reported.
Recently leaked documents list Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the Proud Boys, as an ICE agent.
The FDA website reports there are at least 13 recalls, market withdrawals, and safety alerts for food or drugs in the very first two weeks of the new year, averaging about one a day during the Trump administration.
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Yesterday, Donald Trump again said that the U.S. must own Greenland for national security reasons. The White House also posted this cartoon on eX-Twitter:
A global realignment in higher education is underway, according to the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2026. While the University of Oxford holds the top position for the 10th consecutive year, the data reveal a shifting balance of academic power: US institutions are slipping, even as leading universities across Asia continue to climb.
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MINNEAPOLIS " Federal law enforcement was on scene at North Lyndale Avenue and 25th Avenue Wednesday night after a man was shot in the leg by a federal agent. Developing story.
The U.S. allies hoped meeting senior Trump officials would diffuse tensions and tough talk on Greenland. It didn't.
A website dedicated to naming ICE and Border Patrol employees is coming under a "prolonged and sophisticated" cyber attack after the Daily Beast revealed it planned to make public 4,500 names of federal immigration staff. The founder of ICE List said the website was overwhelmed by malicious web traffic originating in Russia after the Beast reported that a huge cache of personal IDs had been leaked to the site by an alleged Department of Homeland Security whistleblower. The Direct Denial of Service (DDOS) assault, which began on Tuesday evening and is still ongoing at the time of publication, saw a huge number of IPs simultaneously access the website of ICE List, a self-styled "accountability initiative." Read more
Former Rep. RJ May will spend 17 1/2 years in prison for distributing videos of children being sexually abused, a federal judge decided Wednesday. After hearing from a tearful May, members of his family and a statement from one of the children shown in the videos May shared, U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie opted for a slightly lesser sentence than the 20 years federal prosecutors requested but significantly more than the five years the 39-year-old proposed for himself. May, a West Columbia Republican and founding member of the ultra-conservative Freedom Caucus, pleaded guilty in September to sending videos depicting child sexual abuse over a five-day span in April 2024. After his release from prison, May will spend 20 years under supervised release, with federal parole officers monitoring his actions to be sure he doesn't reoffend. He must pay a fee of $58,500 to the children shown in the videos he sent who government officials were able to reach. Read more
Fifteen years ago, Daniel Ek broke into America's digital-content wars with his streaming music start-up, Spotify, which has turned into a publicly traded company with a $110 billion market value. Now he and his business partner, the Swedish entrepreneur Hjalmar Nilsonne, aim to crack a higher-stakes consumer market: American health care.
President Donald Trump and his top aides' preferred path to the U.S. taking ownership of Greenland is incentivizing people there to vote in a referendum to align with the United States, according to two people familiar with his thinking and granted anonymity to speak candidly.
