One person is in critical condition after a shooting involving a US Border Patrol agent in Arizona near the US-Mexico border, officials said. The FBI requested the Pima County Sheriff's Department's help to lead the use-of-force investigation involving the agent and is conducting a parallel investigation, the department said in a news release.
President Donald Trump told reporters on Tuesday that "you can't have guns" at protests, in the wake of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent shooting of ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minnesota on Saturday. "You can't have guns. You can't walk in with guns.... You can't do that," Trump said of protesters
Trump has transformed the national political discourse from skirmishes over his assorted harebrained ideas and extreme actions (Venezuela, Greenland, vengeful criminal prosecutions, mass deportations, the destruction of the public health establishment, his war on universities, tax cuts for the rich, and so on) into a debate over the fundamental nature of the United States. Will it become a full-fledged authoritarian-led police state? That's the fight at hand. Trump and his miscreants are eager for it. They may attain their fascistic fantasy"unless enough Americans say no.
U.S. consumer confidence declined sharply in January, hitting the lowest level since 2014 as Americans grow increasingly concerned about their financial prospects.
The type of playing card has long been associated with racism and death, dating back to the Vietnam War.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement was discovered to have unlawfully failed to disclose the deaths of at least eight migrants in detention, a bombshell report from Zeteo revealed Tuesday. Under existing law, ICE is required to notify Congress of any in-custody deaths within 90 days, but according to a deep dive by Zeteo into ICE disclosures, the agency had failed to do that. Among the migrants whose deaths had not been disclosed are 34-year-old Leo Cruz-Silva, who died in a Missouri detention facility three days after being arrested, and an unidentified Honduran man who was "struck by a law enforcement vehicle."
"The best they can do is shoot the guy in the back?" That's not the voice of some liberal commentator. That's what a homeland security officer told me this weekend. He closed on a plaintive note: "I think it's time to pull out of Minnesota, that battle is lost." "Fuck this," a senior ICE officer said about the shooting of Pretti.
The peace-loving, hardworking American taxpayer will soon be funding another offensive war against Iran on behalf of Israel as the USS Abraham Lincoln Aircraft Carrier Group (ACG) finally reached its attack location in USCENTCOM AOR.
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Ted Cruz trashed President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance in conversations with GOP donors last year, explosive leaked recordings allege. The Texas senator, expected to run for president in 2028, slammed Trump's tariff crusade and said he even threatened his staff with immediate firing if they used the phrase "Liberation Day" to refer to the day the sweeping taxes were announced, reports Axios. "Mr. President, if we get to November of [2026] and people's 401(k)s are down 30% and prices are up 10"20% at the supermarket, we're going to go into Election Day, face a bloodbath," Cruz told Trump, according to the recording. "You're going to lose the House, you're going to lose the Senate, you're going to spend the next two years being impeached every single week." Trump allegedly responded bluntly: "F--- you, Ted.'"
During a recent interview with New York Magazine, President Donald Trump had "an unfortunately timed" memory lapse when struggling to remember the name of a disease perhaps best known for memory loss, The Daily Beast reported Monday. In the interview, Trump addressed mounting questions about his health, which have increased as the president continues to be spotted in public with swollen ankles and bruised hands. His increased instances of rambling during speeches, along with his MRI scan last year that has yet to be fully explained have also raised concerns among critics. Trump remained defiant, however, touting his father's good health in his later years as evidence of his own. He did, however, note that his father, Fred Trump, did have one health condition. He had one problem. At a certain age, about 86, 87, he started getting ... what do they call it?" Trump told New York Magazine. "Alzheimer's," White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt interjected.
The Trump administration pledged to deport violent criminals"but instead, some of them have been on the payrolls of the federal government's most aggressive agencies. ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection employed at least 30 people with sexual and violent criminal histories in recent years, according to a report published Monday by the Ohio Immigrant Alliance with research from the Pacific Antifascist Collective. At least 20 of those individuals committed offenses with underage victims, according to the report.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Monday notably distanced President Trump from rhetoric made by high-profile members of his administration in the aftermath of the shooting death of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.
President Donald Trump said he's closed his eyes during Cabinet meetings because they are "boring as hell." "I'm going around a room, and I've got 28 guys " the last one was three and a half hours. I have to sit back and listen, and I move my hand so that people will know I'm listening. I'm hearing every word, and I can't wait to get out."
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Microsoft provided the FBI with the recovery keys to unlock encrypted data on the hard drives of three laptops as part of a federal investigation, Forbes reported on Friday.
Venezuela's acting president Delcy Rodrguez said Sunday she has had "enough" of Washington's orders, as she works to unite the country after the US capture of its former leader Nicols Maduro. Rodrguez has been walking a tight-rope since being backed by the US to lead the country in the interim; balancing keeping Maduro loyalists on board at home while trying to ensure the White House is happy. Read more
A security officer assigned to protect Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer was placed on leave as officials investigate an alleged romantic relationship between the married Roman Catholic mother of two children and her bodyguard.
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