BIDDEFORD, Maine " The Biddeford Police Department has confirmed there was an incident involving Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel at the intersection of Pool Street and Hill Street on Monday morning.
Just before noon, Gov. Janet Mills confirmed a person was dead as a result of the shooting. "I know that situations like these are alarming and frightening," she said.
"The Maine State Police are at the scene supporting and working cooperatively with the Attorney General's Office, Maine's Office of Chief Medical Examiner, and Federal officials to determine the facts of what occurred this morning."
President Donald Trump's lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over his leaked tax returns was filed for an "improper purpose," a judge said Monday in a scathing decision that referred one of his lawyers for discipline and characterized the $10 billion complaint as an exercise in self-dealing.
Millions of Americans are borrowing money or draining their savings to buy groceries, highlighting the financial strain many households face as the cost of living rises, new research has found.
The Justice Department can't access New York's unredacted voter roll, a judge said in handing the federal government yet another loss in court in its quest to obtain the lists from all 50 states.
As an example of the fine line Democratic leaders have to walk...
For the Democrats, the situation is very different ...
President Donald Trump's lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over his leaked tax returns was filed for an "improper purpose," a judge said Monday in a scathing decision that recommended attorney sanctions and disciplinary action. The ruling from U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams amounts to a stinging rebuke of the Republican president's lawsuit, characterizing it as an exercise in self-dealing in which he sued an entity that is effectively under his control. "The nature of the suit itself and the conduct of the Parties and counsel from its filing make plain that this was an attempt to use the Court to provide some legitimacy to an agreement to confer immunity to people and entities affiliated with the President and to earmark billions of dollars from American taxpayers to redress grievances not defined in the law," the judge wrote.
One person was reportedly shot and killed during an ICE operation in Biddeford, Maine, according to the state's speaker of the house, Ryan Fecteau. "This morning a shooting occurred in Biddeford. A person was killed. ICE was involved. State Police and the Department of Public Safety are now on scene to gather details and would expect the FBI to investigate as well," he said. Police confirmed to local news that the area where the shooting was reported has been closed and that there was significant police presence.
"We are reinstating the THE IRANIAN BLOCKADE," Trump said on social media. "All other countries will have fair and open use of the Strait." The president said the U.S. would be "reimbursed" by 20% of the value of cargo to help cover "any and all costs necessary to do the job of providing safety and security."
The Israeli Death Forces (ID) killed at least six people in Gaza this weekend, including Tala Abu Matar (9). The American taxpayer funded IDF continues its constant violations of the US-backed one-way ceasefire deal which only disarmed Palestinian resistance fighters, not the homicidal IDF. Lancet Global Health reports the death toll in Gaza is ~75,200. In Jerusalem, the IDF butchered unarmed Nasr Za'al Ka'abneh (20). The IDF are the US-backed serial killers of the Middle East, slaughtering defenseless adults and children like Jeffery Dahmer. US Peace Envoy mega-oligarch Steve Wikoff de-humanized Gaza's Palestinians as two million Nazis." US midterm elections are scheduled for Tuesday 3 Nov 2026.
So, who are the Nazis here?
FBI Director Kashyap Pramod Vinod Patel: "The FBI is assisting local authorities and has made every necessary resource available." There are no signs of foul play and the late septuagenarian Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) may have suffered a blood clot from his long return flight home from Ukraine which caused a pulmonary embollism leading to cardiac arrest.
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As California tries to derail Paramount's $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount CEO David Ellison's friends and advisers have been pushing the media executive to consider shifting his business out of the state. Ellison's confidantes have pushed him to consider moving its corporate headquarters and reallocating much of its $30 billion in planned spending outside the state if California Attorney General Rob Bonta were to sue to stop the merger, according to people familiar with the discussions. No decisions have been made, these people said, and the considerations may just be a show of brinkmanship, given so much of the industry's production takes place outside of Hollywood already. Under the current deal, Paramount has committed to keeping both companies' lots operational if it remains in California. Read more
In January, while still threatening to seize Greenland, President Trump announced the formation of a "Board of Peace," proclaiming it "the Greatest and Most Prestigious Board ever assembled at any time, any place." The United Nations Security Council endorsed the board as part of a "Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict," but the board's charter claims a far broader mission: securing"peace in areas affected or threatened by conflict."
China's expansive maritime claims in the South China Sea have no legal basis, Japan, the Philippines, the United States and 11 other countries said in a joint statement on Sunday to mark the 10th anniversary of a landmark international tribunal ruling. The Philippines won the 2016 case at the Permanent Court of Arbitration that found China's sweeping claim of sovereignty in the South China Sea had no basis under international law, a decision that Beijing continuously rejects.
The new wave of Democrats and progressives, he argued, are repeating the same mistakes that cost the party in the past. "These people are so f"ing stupid I don't know what to say about it," said Carville, who previously served as a senior adviser to former President Clinton. "So now we have this idea that these insurgent Democrats. And what is their solution?" "Is their solution to beat Republicans, to run against Republicans? No! Their solution is to beat Democrats like they're part of the problem," he continued. "You are part of the problem because you're a f-king idiot!"
Journalist Pidcock debuts with a revealing account of how white evangelical worship music "has become a servant of the political right." He traces the evolution of the worship music industry starting in the 1980s, as a few megachurches began producing the bulk of worship music, hewing to rigidly hierarchical power dynamics that reflected evangelicalism's rightward turn. Unlike Black worship songs that often emphasize themes of liberation, white evangelical worship songs tend to reinforce strict power hierarchies, "celebrate the exile of everyone who doesn't fit their definition of the saved," and depict rigid gender binaries that paint women as submissive "helpers of men." Read more
