Last week, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced an end to age restrictions for employment at ICE. "Qualified candidates can now apply with no age limit," she said. Before the change, applicants to ICE had to be at least 21 years old, and no older than 37 or 40, depending on the position they were applying for, according to the Associated Press. They can now be as young as 18 or as old as Methuselah.
Laura Loomer has spoken out for the first time since her bizarre deposition became public. "I was under oath," she posted to X after the deposition went viral. "I couldn't lie." Loomer (32) said last year that VPOTUS Kamala Harris had an "infested snatch." She also said that Marjorie Taylor Greene had "Arby's" in "her pants," appearing to suggest that the Republican lawmaker's vagina resembles roast beef. Loomer also alleged that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is secretly gay. "When is Lindsey coming out of the closet? We all you know you're gay, Lindsey," Loomer posted to X last year. Loomer did not change her stance on Graham's sexuality when HBO's lawyer brought it up. "It's well-known," Loomer said of Graham's sexuality. "Several of President Trumpf's staff have told me in confidence that Lindsey Graham is gay." Read more
The Kremlin has announced the Putin-Trump meeting in Alaska will be 1-on-1, with only translators present during the Ukraine war talks " and a press conference is set to follow. Read more
A failed Republican political candidate was sentenced to 80 years in federal prison for his convictions in a series of drive-by shootings at the homes of state and local lawmakers in Albuquerque in the aftermath of the 2020 election. A jury convicted Solomon Pena earlier this year of conspiracy, weapons, and other charges in the shootings in Dec 2022 and Jan 2023 on the homes of four Democratic officials, including the current state House speaker. Prosecutors, who had sought a 90-year sentence, said Pena has shown no remorse and had hoped to cause political change by terrorizing people who held contrary views to him into being too afraid to take part in political life. Read more
At least 40 people have died in Sudan's Darfur region in the war-torn country's worst outbreak in years, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) reports. "On top of an all-out war, people in Sudan are now experiencing the worst cholera outbreak the country has seen in years," the medical charity said in a statement. "In the Darfur region alone, MSF teams treated over 2,300 patients and recorded 40 deaths in the past week." Map: Sudan. Sources: Death Toll; Food Waste. Read more
President Donald Trump's pick to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics was among the crowd outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, with the White House saying he was a "bystander" who wandered over after seeing coverage on the news. E.J. Antoni, an economist from the Heritage Foundation nominated by Trump this week, after the president fired the previous BLS head, appears in numerous videos posted on social media of the crowd on the Capitol grounds.
Trump Reportedly Set to Offer Putin Access to Alaska's Resources and Sanctions Relief
Aug 14, 2025
According to The Telegraph on August 13, US President Donald Trump is preparing to offer Russian leader Vladimir Putin a series of economic incentives to end the ongoing war in Ukraine.
These proposals will be presented during their highly anticipated meeting on Friday, which will take place in Trump's offer to Putin includes access to Alaska's rich natural resources, lifting some sanctions on Russia's aviation industry, and providing access to the rare earth minerals in Ukrainian territories currently occupied by Russian forces.
The U.S. government's budget deficit grew nearly 20% in July to $291 billion despite a nearly $21 billion jump in customs duty collections from President Donald Trump's tariffs, with outlays growing faster than receipts, the Treasury Department said on Tuesday.
The deficit for July was up 19%, or $47 billion, from July 2024. Receipts for the month grew 2%, or $8 billion, to $338 billion, while outlays jumped 10%, or $56 billion, to $630 billion, a record high for the month.
The Trump administration's claim that it is saving billions of dollars through DOGE-related cuts to federal contracts is drastically exaggerated, according to a new POLITICO analysis of public data and federal spending records. Through July, DOGE said it has saved taxpayers $52.8 billion by canceling contracts, but of the $32.7 billion in actual claimed contract savings that POLITICO could verify, DOGE's savings over that period were closer to $1.4 billion.
ICE's data infrastructure makes misidentification permanent. Officers are supposed to document citizenship investigations, but they aren't required to update a person's status in ICE databases, even after confirming U.S. citizenship. Read more
Aug 12, 2025
Donald Trump just got embarrassed as a reporter dropped a salacious bombshell on his Homeland Security Chief Kristi Noem ... Read more
Israel always boasted that it was the only country in the region to support press freedom. That boast rang hollow even before the current war. Now, it's not even pretending. On Sunday, Israel openly and brazenly killed six journalists as they were sheltering in a tent that housed reporters and media workers. Israel accuses one of those journalists " Al Jazeera's Anas al-Sharif " of being a terrorist. It has not said what crime it believes the others have committed that would justify killing them. The laws of war are clear: journalists are civilians. To target them deliberately in war is to commit a war crime.
Donald Trump's child sex-trafficking friend Ghislaine Maxwell appears to be eligible for work release assignments outside the minimum security "camp" she was transferred to after meeting with Trump's former defense lawyer, who is now a top Department of Justice official. Maxwell's Bureau of Prisons classification shows her custody status as "OUT," which normally would mean she is permitted to work outside the federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas, where she is being held. That is a privilege that convicted sex offenders are not permitted under the bureau's own rules. Read more
Alligator Alcatraz, Florida's secretive new immigration detention center, has already drawn scrutiny over claims of inhumane conditions, questions about its legal authority, and recently, allegations about an "outbreak of a serious illness" inside the facility. But if an infectious disease like, say, COVID-19, is spreading among detainees at the remote site, the state refuses to say so. On August 7, attorneys Eric Lee and Chris Godshall-Bennet issued a statement on behalf of their client, 38-year-old Venezuelan Luis Manuel Rivas Velsquez, who they say recently suffered a "serious health emergency" while being held at the hastily constructed detention center. According to the statement, Rivas Velasquez, who was previously in good health, collapsed while sitting inside a tent at the facility and "found himself unable to breathe." He was transported to HCA Florida Kendall Hospital, where he was diagnosed with a respiratory infection, the lawyers say.
The US has taken into custody 26 fugitives from Mexico facing a range of federal and state criminal charges relating to drug-trafficking, hostage-taking, kidnapping, illegal use of firearms, human smuggling, money laundering, and murder. Among the fugitives are leaders and managers of dangerous drug cartels, designated as FTOs and SDGTs, including the Sinaloa Cartel, Crtel de Jalisco Nueva Generacin (CJNG), and Crtel del Noreste (formerly Los Zetas). These fugitives are collectively alleged to have imported into the US tonnage quantities of dangerous drugs, including cocaine, methamphetamine, fentanyl, and heroin. The cartel figures were put on planes after the Justice Department agreed not to seek the death penalty against any of the defendants or against any cartel leaders and members sent to the US in February. Read more
Russian intelligence agents arrested Vyacheslav Solovyov in a rare extradition operation in a Dubai shopping center on 5 Aug. He is the former chief executive of a state-run leasing company who fled Russia nearly a decade ago. Following his detention, Solovyov was taken to the Russian Embassy in Dubai and flown to Moscow the next day. The oligarch now faces charges of espionage, which carry a prison term of 10 to 20 years, as well as fraud. Russian security agencies had known Solovyov's whereabouts for more than a year. But extradition from the UAE is unusual, as the Gulf nation typically refuses to hand over fugitives wanted in Russia. Months of negotiations took place in the lead-up to the arrest. General Filatov, who oversaw the Dubai operation, heads the SVR's elite Zaslon unit, responsible for protecting top Russian officials during overseas visits and safeguarding key diplomatic missions. Read more
