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Monday, May 19, 2025

France plans to build a brand new high-security prison in the Amazon rainforest near the site of the notorious Devil's Island penal colony in Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, French Guiana. Bordering Suriname, the new Bastille will cost French taxpayers a total 400 million euros ($451 million) and will also house a court. This jungle dungeon would incarcerate drug kingpins and radical Islamists, including 60 maximum-security prisoners. How much de-forestation to build this 500-inmate gulag in not clear. Map: Link One read more


Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump held a rare phone call on Monday, but the Kremlin refused to agree to a ceasefire, despite mounting pressure from Washington. read more


Florida real estate prices are in decline again -- and this time, real estate experts say, the costs of living with climate change may deepen the down phase of the usual boom-and-bust cycle.


A federal district judge on Monday tossed out the takeover of the U.S. Institute of Peace by the Trump administration and the Department of Government Efficiency, declaring that actions by "illegitimately-installed leaders" were "unlawful" and had to be declared "null and void." read more


President Donald Trump's administration has agreed to pay nearly $5 million to the family of Ashli Babbitt ... read more


For generations, official American documents have been meticulously preserved and protected ... read more


U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, announced Thursday he is asking Congress to reimburse Texas $11.1 billion for border security costs.


Science fiction author Neal Stephenson has suggested AIs should be allowed to fight other AIs, because evolution brings balance to ecosystems, but also thinks humans should stop using AI before it dumbs down our species. read more


"This is the largest single action stripping any group of non-citizens of immigration status in modern U.S. history," said Ahilan Arulanantham, one of the lawyers representing Venezuelan plaintiffs in the case. read more


A simple question --- what benefits to Americans have the DOGE cuts provided?


ProPublica interviews people who survived Hurricane Helene in the mountains of North Carolina. Many said they did not get any warning that the two rivers in the area were expected to flood. read more


Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok has blamed a "programming error" to explain why it said it was "sceptical" of the historical consensus that 6 million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust ... read more


Uncle Sam's consumer watchdog has scrapped plans to implement Biden-era rules that would've treated certain data brokers as credit bureaus, forcing them to follow stricter laws when flogging Americans' sensitive data. read more


President Donald Trump called for a "major investigation" into celebrities who aided Kamala Harris's 2024 election campaign, including Bruce Springsteen and Beyonce, saying their appearances were potentially illegal contributions. read more


The Trump administration conceded this weekend what economists, CEOs and consumers already knew: Americans pay for tariffs. read more


Shirin Sinnar: The Trump administration has already wielded the "terrorist" label to stigmatize and strip rights from student activists and migrants. read more


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