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Thursday, February 26, 2026

A nearly blind refugee from Myanmar missing since his release from a Buffalo jail into the custody of U.S. Border Patrol has been found dead on a downtown street, city authorities said on Wednesday. read more


A federal judge found the Internal Revenue Service has broken the law thousands upon thousands of times by sharing confidential taxpayer information with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issued a ruling Thursday that found the vast majority of taxpayer addresses shared with ICE in August were provided without the IRS confirming the agency had provided a valid address for the individuals whose records were sought, as required by law, reported the Washington Post. "The IRS violated the [Internal Revenue Code] approximately 42,695 times by disclosing last known taxpayer addresses to ICE ... without confirming that ICE's request set forth the address of the taxpayer with respect to whom the requested return information relate[d],'" the judge wrote in her opinion.


Vladimir Putin's top aides are snickering behind Donald Trump's back because they think the Russian tyrant is playing the MAGA leader like a fiddle. British spies have repeatedly shared with their U.S. counterparts intercepted calls and texts between ranking Kremlin officials ridden with laughter at what they perceive as Trump's willingness to take Putin at his word on his invasion of Ukraine. "We have continually shown them intelligence that shows the Russians are lying," a senior UK security official told The Spectator on Thursday. "The Russians are privately mocking Trump over his naivety about Putin's intentions. Putin doesn't want to end the war."


A federal judge reprimanded Donald Trump's administration for claiming that an immigrant seeking his release from custody was convicted for marijuana possession in 2009 -- when he was 4 years old. read more


In a now-deleted X post on Sunday, Sen. Mike Lee appeared to compare masks worn by ICE agents to those worn by cartels setting fire to a gas station in Mexico. read more


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