When a 41-year-old mother is murdered at a bus stop, who bothers to protest? Stephanie Minter's death is as closely tied to the nation's immigration debate as Alex Pretti's or Renee Good's. But while Pretti and Good died while trying to prevent the enforcement of our country's immigration laws, Minter died precisely because those laws were not enforced. Abdul Jalloh, the man alleged to have stabbed Minter to death in Fairfax County, Virginia, should never have set foot in America.
Federal regulations govern interest on duty overpayments [...] Conservatively using the lower rate for all entries, we calculate [...] that $700 million in interest is added to the final bill every month that the government delays tariff refunds, or around $23 million per day.
The US and Israel are employing tactics used in Israel's genocide in Gaza, the "War on Terror," and Donald Trump's recent attacks on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean Sea.
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Ivermectin is now making a comeback, after its use receded in the waning years of the pandemic. Now, especially in conservative political circles, its reputation keeps growing as a kind of cure-all for various ailments, and even for cancer " despite a lack of evidence it works. Last month, Trump's appointed head of the National Cancer Institute, Anthony Letai, said the agency was conducting preclinical studies on ivermectin's ability to kill cancer cells " though doctors say it holds little promise. And Florida's First Lady Casey DeSantis, a breast cancer survivor, touted it in announcing $60 million in cancer research funding, including use of ivermectin.
When FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen FBI agents and staff last week for their role in the classified documents investigation of Donald Trump, he targeted an elite counter espionage unit that investigates threats from foreign adversaries and specializes in Iran, according to more than a half dozen sources with knowledge of the firings. The firings came as Patel claimed " without evidence " that the team of FBI agents who investigated Trump's hoarding of top-secret records at his Mar-a-Lago club had engaged in improper investigative steps. But his gutting of the global espionage unit, known as CI-12, also came days before Trump launched Operation Epic Fury, a series of bombing strikes on Iran that killed the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Two of Donald Trump's MAGA stars appear to be on the outs after a searing rebuke from the president surrounding their comments on his Iran strikes.
A Minnesota prosecutor on Monday said her office is investigating the "potentially unlawful behavior" of federal agents during a crackdown earlier this year on undocumented immigrants that met widespread resistance and in which agents shot and killed two U.S. citizens, sparking nationwide outrage.
Megachurch pastor Jack Hibbs (68): "Let me tell you something right now, you want to have Democrats removed from the face of the earth, bring over some Iranians right now and they would take care of the Democrats."
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Foreign Service Officer Jared Llamado (32) of McLean Virginia stabbed Michelle Adams (39); Dana Bonnell (36); Mary C. Flood (37), and Heather Miller (40) in a road rage incident in Fairfax, VA. Adams and a dog were killed in his rampage, as was Llamado by a responding Virginia State Trooper.
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Israeli police have opened an investigation into Polymarket account "Magamyman" that accurately forecast the illegal 28 February US-Israeli strikes on Iran. Donald Trump Jr. serves as an adviser to Polymarket after his firm invested millions into the company. Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump (R) had dropped two federal investigations into Polymarket which were opened under former POTUS Joe Biden (D).
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The US launched preemptive strikes against Iran after learning Israel was about to attack " and American troops in the region faced an imminent threat of retaliation, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday. Rubio made the revelation on Capitol Hill, where he briefed a small group of congressional leaders on the joint US-Israel offensive. 'There absolutely was an imminent threat,' Rubio stated. 'And the imminent threat was that we knew that if Iran was attacked, and we believed they would be attacked, that they would immediately come after us, and we were not going to sit there and absorb a blow before we responded.' Read more
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First Lady Melania Trump is slated to chair a UN Security Council meeting on Monday, March 2, an appearance that was announced last week before the United States launched its war against Iran. Her office said the former model would "make history at the United Nations, taking the gavel as the United States assumes the Security Council Presidency to emphasize education's role in advancing tolerance and world peace." Stephane Dujarric, spokesperson for the UN secretary-general, confirmed Melania's event would mark the first time a first lady " or first gentleman " has presided over a Security Council meeting. The US will hold the Council's rotating presidency in March. President Donald Trump's third wife has dabbled in diplomacy before, notably working to try to secure the release of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia.
Police Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch announced that the NYPD delivered the safest January ever for gun violence, with the fewest shooting incidents and shooting victims in recorded history. Manhattan and Staten Island went the entire month of January without a single murder.
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Under a new policy released Thursday, the Trump Administration will test conversion therapy on trans people in prisons. It explicitly states that it aims to help trans people "recover," all the while forcibly detransitioning them both medically and socially.
Slave owning Founding Father Caesar Rodney, "whose statue in Delaware was removed in 2020 amid calls for racial reckoning, will be given a position in honor in Washington by the Trump administration as part of celebrations of the nation's 250th birthday."
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