Elon Musk's $44 billion Twitter drama is finally headed to trial -- but first came the harder task: finding jurors who don't loathe the world's richest man. read more
Wayne DeMario, a Florida Republican who voted for President Donald Trump, on Friday delivered a "desperate plea" to the president to return his wife, Yamile Alcantu, who's been detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents for eight months. "Please get her home," DeMario told Local10 on Friday. "Please, she does not deserve this. She is the sweetest person, and she prayed for you." DeMario, a small business owner in Miami-Dade county, told Local10 he and his wife were Trump supporters prior to their ordeal. According to DeMario, Alcantu, who Local10 reports "moved to the U.S. from Cuba 25 years ago through a Visa Lottery," had "a minor run-in with the law during a traffic stop" back in 2008. "They go through her purse, and then they dump the purse out, and three Xanax pills fall out," DeMario explained. read more
Pope Leo XIV has officially dissed Catholic JD Vance's formal invitation to the upcoming July 4th 250th festivities in the United States. Instead, the Pope, formerly of Chicago, will be celebrating that day "on the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa " a migrant gateway in the Mediterranean," reports Christopher Hale, who chronicles the Vatican's doings with his "Letters from Leo" reports. " ... [B]ack in May 2025, JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to take part in the anniversary celebrations. Many assumed Trump and Vance would welcome the first American pope with open arms during this historic jubilee. But Pope Leo never accepted the offer," reports Hale, adding that the rejection came days after the Vatican also rejected an invitation to President Donald Trump's "Board of Peace."
U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday said he was working with Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry to send a hospital boat to Greenland, a Danish territory that Trump has said he wants to acquire. Trump announced the plan on social media moments before hosting a dinner for Republican governors at the White House, where he sat next to and chatted with Landry. Neither the White House nor Landry's office responded to queries about the post, whether the ship had been requested by Denmark or Greenland and which sick people needed help. The Department of War had no immediate comment.
A British grandmother's vacation to the U.S. ended with the woman being unlawfully held in immigration detention for six weeks. Karen Newton, 65, along with her husband Bill, 66, were detained by ICE after attempting to leave the U.S. and enter Canada. Karen told The Guardian that her tourist visa was valid, but her husband's had expired. When they were first held, the couple were persuaded to sign a voluntary self-removal form, which would allow them to return home on the U.S. government's dime plus receive a $1,000 "exit bonus." In return, they would not be able to return to the country for a decade. read more
I know this has become a tired exercise now, but just imagine if the FBI director under any other administration took a private jet to party at the Olympics while a would-be assassin was killed at the president's doorstep and a prominent kidnapping case still remained unsolved.
~ Justin Baragona ~