US President Donald Trump says he plans to hit movies made in foreign countries with 100% tariffs, as he ramps up trade disputes with countries around the world. read more
Nearly half of all layoffs so far in 2025 have been driven by cuts related to the Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) efforts ... read more
A hacker has breached and stolen customer data from TeleMessage, an obscure Israeli company that sells modified versions of Signal and other messaging apps to the U.S. government to archive messages, 404 Media has learned. read more
"Martin Casanova, founder of THX, a program that connects consumers with farmworkers, told Newsweek: "We are dangerously close to a breaking point. In 2022, an estimated 15 million tons of produce were left unharvested in the U.S. -- enough for 30 billion daily servings." read more
President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a hard-to-reach California island that has been closed for more than 60 years. read more
The Trump administration has approached far-flung countries to aid its mass deportation effort, asking nations like Angola and Equatorial Guinea to accept migrants who are not their citizens, according to internal federal government documents obtained by CBS News. read more
Abdul Rahman Waziri, the father of two infant daughters and an Afghan refugee who fought alongside US Special Forces, was shot dead in Texas after a dispute over a parking space. Waziri fled to the US to escape the Taliban and was killed in the parking lot of his west Houston apartment complex. Witnesses said they saw the suspect vandalizing Waziri's car, and then the fight broke out. After the fight ended, the shooter retrieved his gun and fatally shot Waziri several times. Although the suspect was arrested, the DA declined to press charges. read more
Not only are tariffs making inflation worse, but the president is also arguing that's a good thing. Our economic injury is self-inflicted. And Republicans have been cheering for it. read more
The Constitution's Fifth Amendment says "no person" shall be "deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law"; it does not say that person must be a U.S. citizen, and the Supreme Court has long recognized that noncitizens have certain basic rights. read more
In 2001, after working up to it for years, Tim Friede finally allowed himself to be bitten by a snake. read more
French police are investigating a series of kidnappings of investors linked to cryptocurrency after a 60-year-old man had a finger chopped off by attackers who demanded his crypto-millionaire son pay a ransom. This was the latest of several kidnappings of cryptocurrency figures in France and western Europe. Police rescued the victim from a house south of Paris on Saturday night. Other abductions of cryptocurrency figures or their partners were reported in Spain and Belgium in the past five months. David Balland, the co-founder of the crypto firm Ledger, which is valued at more than $1bn, was abducted with his partner on 21 Jan. He also had a finger cut off. read more
Israeli Cabinet ministers approved the plan in an early morning vote, hours after the Israeli military chief said the army was calling up tens of thousands of reserve soldiers. read more
Donald Trump's former vice-president Mike Pence will receive a John F Kennedy Profile in Courage Award on Sunday for refusing to endorse false claims that the 2020 election was stolen. read more
The aggressive push to privatize public lands, explained. read more
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration proposed a $163 billion cut to federal spending next year, which would eliminate more than a fifth of the non-military spending excluding mandatory programs, it said in a statement. read more
GasBuddy, a company that tracks fuel costs across the country, is refuting President Trump's claims in a Friday morning social media post touting record low prices at the pump. "Gasoline just broke $1.98 a Gallon, lowest in years, groceries (and eggs!) down, energy down, mortgage rates down, employment strong, and much more good news, as Billions of Dollars pour in from Tariffs," the president wrote on his Truth Social platform. However, GasBuddy said it could not locate any fuel stations with those prices. read more
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