Palmetto State circuit court judge Dianne Goodstein had been receiving death threats, sources say ... read more
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that a previously announced Ultimate Fighting Championship event at the White House will take place on June 14 next year, which will be the president's 80th birthday. read more
Stephen Miller's cousin, Alisa Kasmer, has publicly disowned him in a resurfaced emotional Facebook post in which she condemned his role as the architect of the Trump administration's hardline immigration policies. Kasmer, Miller's cousin on his father's side, recalled their childhood together, describing him as an "awkward, funny, needy middle child who loved to chase attention" but was "always the sweetest with the littlest family members." She once saw him as "young, conservative, maybe misguided, but lovable and harmless." But in her scathing post, Kasmer wrote, "I am living with the deep pain of watching someone I once loved become the face of evil. I grieve what you've become, Stephen ... I will never knowingly let evil into my life, no matter whose blood it carries"including my own." read more
We're in a hell of a mess here," said Ohio farmer Chris Gibbs as he worked on his combine at the start of harvest season. "A severe cash flow mess," he sighed. "A working capital mess." Gibbs, who farms more than 500 acres of corn, soybeans, wheat, and alfalfa hay in Shelby County, along with a 90-head cow-calf operation, described the five-alarm fire raging in the farming community from Trump's blanket tariffs. Some growers have called the fallout from his chaotic trade war, and the reciprocal tariffs it provoked, a "farmageddon" that could ruin what made rural America great. It's that bad. read more
Federal agents shot a woman in the Brighton Park neighborhood on Chicago's Southwest Side Saturday morning after they became boxed in by vehicles, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. DHS originally said the shooting happened while agents were patrolling in Broadview, where the department has a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility that has been the site of ongoing protests and clashes between agents and demonstrators. But officials later confirmed the incident happened near 40th Street and Kedzie Avenue in Chicago. The patrolling agents were rammed by vehicles and "boxed in by 10 cars," according to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin. DHS said the agents were unable to move their vehicles and got out of the car.
Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE
Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in
Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle
Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired