More: Last June, the man credited with introducing President Trump to his wife asked the administration for a favor.

Paolo Zampolli, a former modeling agent turned presidential special envoy, had learned that his Brazilian ex-girlfriend was in a Miami jail, arrested on charges of fraud at her workplace. They had been in a custody battle over their teenage son. Now he saw an opportunity.

He reached out to a top official at Immigration and Customs Enforcement, explaining that his ex was in the country illegally, according to records obtained by The New York Times and a person familiar with the communications. Could she be put in ICE detention? That could help him get his son back.

The official, David Venturella, promptly called the agency's Miami office to ensure that ICE agents would pick up the woman from the jail before she was released on bail, according to the records and a person with knowledge of the conversation who requested anonymity to discuss it. During the call, Mr. Venturella noted that the case was important to someone close to the White House.

The woman, Amanda Ungaro, was placed in ICE custody and ultimately deported, an outcome that may well have happened regardless of Mr. Zampolli's meddling. But the ICE official's willingness to spring into action for a Trump ally " even one in a low-level, largely ceremonial role " reflects a recurring theme of the second Trump administration: The levers of the federal government can be pulled to settle a personal score.

More: "The most expedient thing to do for the people around me was to continue to fight, and if I had to ignore the truth at that moment for their expediency, I felt like it was the right thing to do," Robinson said. "We can deal with this on the back end, but I certainly don't want to be the person that costs the president of the United States the election. Didn't want to cost anyone else their election."

Seriously?

Though he admitted feeling regret following his 2024 loss, Robinson said he does not regret lying and would make the same decision again. Instead, one of his "biggest regrets" was not changing his staff earlier in the campaign, because if he had, he would've won, he said.

This all seems to be a rather recent epiphany for Robinson, given that just eight months ago, Robinson appeared on a different podcast and denied CNN's report, calling it "fake news." Even if it were true, he said then, what's so bad about a grown man watching pornography in the privacy of his own home?

In that sense, yes, Robinson is right. But the reason why Robinson was unfit for public office, and the reason why he lost the election, isn't because he used to watch porn, or even that he lied about it. It's that he used the porn forum to say vile things, including "Slavery is not bad. Some people need to be slaves" and "I'm a black NAZI!"

More: Other states, such as Texas, have already begun working with DHS to mass-verify the citizenship status of their voters through SAVE. Election officials cite this as a reason why North Carolina should join in. The problem is, many of those states have encountered serious issues with the database.

"After running its entire voter list " more than 18 million records " through the SAVE database, the office identified 2,724 potential noncitizens registered to vote in Texas," Executive Director Sam Hayes said in a press release.

That's only 0.015% of the state's registered voters. But the real number of noncitizen voters in Texas is even smaller than that, because the SAVE database keeps making mistakes, an investigation by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found. In Texas, the database incorrectly flagged hundreds of voters as potential noncitizens, with one county reporting an error rate of at least 14%.

Missouri had similar problems. In St. Louis County, the state's most populous county, around 35% of those initially flagged by SAVE were in fact registered at naturalization ceremonies, The New York Times reported. In Boone County, home to the University of Missouri, more than half the voters identified as noncitizens were actually citizens.

More: The Hong Kong-flagged Sea Horse, believed to be carrying some 27,000 tonnes of Russian gas, was headed towards the island after appearing to divert course last month. The ship is estimated to arrive in Cuba on Monday, Samir Madani, co-founder of maritime intelligence company TankerTrackers.com, told the FT.

The Russian-flagged Anatoly Kolodkin, carrying some 100,000 metric tons of crude " equivalent to 725,000 to 728,000 barrels depending on oil grade " was estimated to arrive in Cuba on April 4, Madani added.

More: Altogether, Powell said, central bankers see "a degree of stability" in the labor market.

"But the thing that I think a good number of people on the committee are concerned about is just the very, very low level of job creation," Powell said in a press conference following the Fed's decision to hold interest rates steady.

"Effectively, there's zero net job creation in the private sector," after accounting for revisions over the past six months, Powell said. "But actually, that looks like that's about what the economy needs, in terms of dealing with very, very low " nonexistent, really " growth in the labor force, which of course we've never had in our history."

All pre-war increases. March will be even uglier.

More: The joint US"Israeli strike against Iran in February 2026 has triggered intense debate among scholars and policy observers. Military conflicts in West Asia are not unusual, but this particular episode may carry consequences far beyond the immediate battlefield. Some analysts have drawn parallels with the 1956 Suez Crisis, when Britain and France attempted to seize the Suez Canal after Egypt nationalized it.

Although the operation initially succeeded militarily, it collapsed politically after the US forced its European allies to withdraw. The crisis revealed that Britain could no longer act as an independent global power and symbolized the end of its imperial dominance.

Today, Iran strike could represent a comparable geopolitical inflection point. For more than seven decades, the US has anchored the global order, not only through military power but also through institutions, rules, and economic arrangements that have structured the post"Second World War international system. Many countries, including emerging powers, expanded economically within this framework.

China's rise as a manufacturing powerhouse and Russia's growing integration into global markets both occurred largely within an economic system shaped by American leadership. The legitimacy of US leadership, therefore, rested not only on strength but on the perception that the system it created produced stability and shared economic benefits.

My hope is that this is a sign of things to come.

But what I suspect actually happened was that Evanston's sizeable Jewish population is educated on the realities of the terror, collective punishment and genocide Israel has unleashed in Gaza and elsewhere since 10/7 and has rejected AIPAC's preferred candidates because of it. We can't count on most of America to be that well informed.

As damning as this resignation is for the Trump regime this guy was a Tucker Carlson protege and I'm glad he's out of our government.

Trump has found the Vietnam that he so desperately tried to avoid in his youth.

I'd like to say no way this holds up on appeal but who can tell these days.

The grid didn't just collapse, we've put them under siege and they have no fuel or spare parts. What we as a nation are doing to 11 million human beings in Cuba is absolutely barbaric.

BullBringer is just repeating what he read.

He hasn't a clue what he means.

Yeah I meant the author not him, but term moron certainly applies to both. I plonked bellringer long ago, nothing he has to say is of any interest to me.

I feel sorry for the cancer.

These morons need to learn what words like Marxist actually mean before they use them. There are no Marxists in the Democratic Party, it's a center-right party.

Tell that to all the Russian ships they've sunk.

Is AI writing articles about year-old archived reddit posts now?

Slow unnecessary death is the best way to get fewer conservatives.

#3,

Exactly. Iran will chose when they want the war to end.

More: CNN ANCHOR BRIANNA KEILAR: Happening now in the House investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, testimony from Epstein's longtime accountant Richard Kahn. He's being deposed behind closed doors today.

The House Oversight Chairman calls Kahn a, quote, "big witness.".

Lawmakers were expected to ask him, among other things, how Epstein accumulated his vast wealth and how he spent it.

Moments ago, a member of the House committee said Kahn provided some new information about the system that enabled Epstein to commit his crimes. The congressman also saying this:

REPRESENTATIVE SUHAS SUBRAMANYAM (D-VA): We can't get into the details of everything that was said, but one of the things that we did learn was that there was another head of state that was mentioned as having financial transactions with Jeffrey Epstein. Not an American one.

And then another person who was an accuser of Donald Trump was given a settlement by Jeffrey Epstein's estate. We did confirm that.

She wants in on all the steak and lobster tail the Secretary of War Crimes ordered.

Almost seems like this was the plan when we started the war.