Palestinian prisoners could be held in jails surrounded by crocodile-filled moats, under proposals put forward by the Israeli government.
Idit Silman, Israel's environmental protection minister, has reclassified the Nile crocodile as a "tended wild animal", paving the way for their use at detention centres.
The reclassification of the reptile followed longstanding protests from both human and animal rights groups. Read more
An employee of The GEO Group, the private-prison company that operates the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Aurora, has been arrested in connection with a shooting of a woman outside the facility Thursday night, Aurora police said. Brandon Booth, 42, was arrested on suspicion of charges that include attempted second-degree murder, first-degree assault and felony menacing, according to an Aurora Police Department release. The shooting occurred just outside the facility on Nome Street, where the victim had been among a group of demonstrators participating in a protest against ICE detention.
Russian hackers have been exploiting unsecured doorbell cameras and other internet-connected devices to spy on NATO military bases and weapons transport routes. This attack, revealed by Dutch intelligence, highlights the severe risks associated with poorly secured IP cameras and the consequences for organisations in the UK and across Europe.
Top of Drudge Report. There are elements many can agree with, but the damage to the Nation outweighs putting the DSA in charge. Read more
Chinese Tech Support: Microsoft is using engineers in China to help maintain the Defense Department's computer systems " with minimal supervision by U.S. personnel. Skills Gap: Digital escorts often lack the technical expertise to police foreign engineers with far more advanced skills, leaving highly sensitive data vulnerable to hacking. Ignored Warnings: Various people involved in the work told ProPublica that they warned Microsoft that the arrangement is inherently risky, but the company launched and expanded it anyway.
The Bureau of Land Management plans to reopen the area around Chaco Culture National Historical Park for possible oil and gas leasing, giving the public until July 29 to comment. In April, the Interior Department moved to revoke protections surrounding Chaco Culture with a proposal to rescind Public Land Order 7923, which put wide areas of land around the park off limits to mining and drilling. The BLM has now opened a 14-day comment period for the draft Environmental Assessment for Proposed Revocation of Public Lands Order 7923. The move came just days after President Donald Trump slashed the boundaries of two Utah national monuments, Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments, by nearly 3 million acres. Both are important to tribes in the region. Read more
President Donald Trump's social network Truth Social announced on Thursday that it will start selling investors quicker access to posts from prominent accounts, opening an unprecedented new way the president could profit from his office. "Markets already move on Truth Social posts," said Kevin McGurn, interim chief executive officer of TMTG. "As adoption grows, we expect Truth API to become a meaningful, ongoing source of revenue for the company, creating lasting value for shareholders."
The Federal Communications Commission will vote to repeal the National Television Ownership Rule that is supposed to prevent a single broadcast station owner from reaching more than 39 percent of all TV households in the US. The proposed change sets up a likely court battle over the FCC claim that it has authority to repeal a limit set by Congress.
A recent poll shows more voters would be more likely to support a democratic socialist candidate than a MAGA supporter or a candidate endorsed by Dummkopf Trumpf. In Maine, Democratic senate candidates are now for completely abolishing " not just reforming or fixing " ICE. In Pennsylvania, 57% of Democrats want US Senator John Fetterman (D-Israel) to leave the party.
Plenty of excellent non-AIPAC Democratic candidates to choose from
"As part of a broader employment investigation, it was discovered that Luna-Mejia's employer had removed her from the wage and hour tax reporting required by the State of Missouri," the DOJ alleged in its press release. "Further investigation determined Luna-Mejia had been receiving wages from that employer the entire time she received SNAP, but she did not report it on her recertifications. She also did not report the existence of her bank account in which she deposited her paychecks to further conceal her income. Investigators determined that had she been truthful about her income, she would have been ineligible for nearly $40,000 in benefits she received during that time." Read more
United Airlines is planning to offer passengers flight changes free of charge to avoid landing at the newly renamed President Donald J. Trump International Airport in Florida, according to an internal memo that appears aimed at customers who object to the airport's new name. Passengers who object to landing at the airport " previously Palm Beach International Airport " may be moved to Fort Lauderdale or Miami without having to pay extra, according to an internal memo obtained by Live And Let's Fly. Read more
Laura Benanti, a Melanoma Trumpf impersonator who appeared regularly on Stephen Colbert's show, was forced to relocate her family because of a right wing psychopath who exposed her personal information online in order to threaten, intimidate, or possibly harm her or her daughter.
Dummkopf Trumpf supporters are clearly not Compos Mentis
Vincent Lang (60) was arrested for attempting to burn down the Northeast Philadelphia Islamic Center. This Islamophobic miscreant faces a maximum 20 years in prison, with a mandatory minimum of five years' imprisonment.
Idiotic anti-Sharia laws enacted across the US for 4.5m Muslims -- a timy percentage of people in the "Land of the Brave and the Home of the Free."
The detestable Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz informed US Secretary of War Crimes Pete Hegseth that brutal Israeli occupation forces won't withdraw from Gaza, Syria, or Lebanon.
"Ha-ha-ha!" Israel Katz and Pete Hegseth are simply not good human beings
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot a Colombian man in Maine this week is an Army veteran who has struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood and never should have been given a badge and gun to patrol American streets, several of his close relatives told The Associated Press. David Brouillette has a history of terrifying and violent behavior, according to those relatives. They accuse him of attacking women in his life over the years, and one shared a voicemail with the AP from last winter in which he told her that he thought someone should slit her throat.
A man has been arrested in the western United States after allegedly stabbing a Muslim man multiple times inside a shopping mall, telling investigators he targeted the victim because of his religion and he "intends to kill Muslims", according to court records. Police said the attack, which took place on Monday at Valley Fair Mall in West Valley City in the state of Utah, appeared to have been motivated by religious hatred. In a court affidavit released on Tuesday, investigators said the suspect "targeted the victim because of the victim's religion" and warned that he posed "a substantial danger to the public if released based on his violent actions, ... ideologies and pre-planned mass casualty events".
