A Wall Street Journal report details how profit is at the center of Trump's "peace" talks. read more
Elaine Miles was walking to a bus stop in Redmond to go to Target, she said, when four men wearing masks and vests with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement label stepped out of two black SUVs ... read more
When a presidential administration abruptly stops releasing the most important economic indicators -- GDP, inflation, jobs, consumer spending -- Americans must ask a blunt question: What are they trying to hide?
Companies that have collaborated with immigration enforcement agencies in various ways to aid Trump's mass deportation initiative"whether through allowing ICE to raid their parking lots, taking on contracts with DHS, or a variety of other actions"are starting to feel the rumblings of a consumer revolt. Home Depot is possibly the most visible case after the company's parking lots became a familiar setting for shocking viral clips and local news segments depicting federal agents' aggressive attempts to apprehend unsuspecting day laborers. The home-improvement chain now faces the prospect of a national boycott. But that's not the end of their troubles: A particularly headline-grabbing protest was staged last weekend at the Home Depot in Monrovia, California, a location picked because it's where Roberto Carlos Montoya Valds, 52, from Guatemala died on the freeway after being hit by an SUV while running from an ICE raid.
"President Trump has set free a private equity executive who had served less than two weeks of a seven-year sentence for his role in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded thousands of victims," the New York Times reports. "David Gentile, 59, a onetime resident of Nassau County, N.Y., had reported to prison on Nov. 14, and was released on Wednesday." Mr. Gentile and a co-defendant, Jeffry Schneider, were convicted in August 2024 of securities and wire fraud charges, and sentenced in May. Unlike a pardon, the commutation granted to Mr. Gentile will not erase his conviction. Mr. Schneider, who was sentenced to six years, does not appear to have received clemency from Mr. Trump read more
Is stinky inviting the guy who flooded America with 400 tons of cocaine to his golf resort?