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Kristi Noem ‘quietly’ limits congressional visits to ICE outposts in wake of shooting
In the wake of the devasting ICE shooting of an American citizen in Minneapolis, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) Kristi Noem “quietly” changed the rules so that congresspeople can’t visit ICE facilities as easily, according to reporting. Kyle Cheney, senior legal affairs reporter for Politico, broke the news on social media late Saturday. “BREAKING:
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Elon’s xAI Is Losing Staggering Amounts of Money
Elon Musk constructed his personal mythology around a pair of weighty accomplishments: building actual, stable businesses around both rockets and electric cars. So far, he has yet to accomplish the same thing around his AI business. According to documents obtained by Bloomberg, xAI recorded a net loss of $1.46 billion over the third quarter of
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Deadly ICE shooting in Minnesota, affordability stir up California gubernatorial forums
Just days after the fatal shooting of a Minnesota woman by a federal immigration agent, the Trump administration’s immigration policy was a top focus of California gubernatorial candidates at two forums Saturday in Southern California. The death of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, inflamed the nation’s deep political divide and led to
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Character assassination after a killing: how Minneapolis shows Trump’s contempt for us all
Renee Nicole Good is dead. She was murdered in cold blood in Minneapolis by a masked federal agent who had to know his safety was never in question. The agent ordered Good out of her SUV. She turned the wheels away from him to go home. He was apparently offended that she didn’t immediately follow
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The Trump Administration’s ‘Magical Thinking’ on Cuba
In November 1999, Havana’s Latinoamericano stadium sold out for a baseball game that was billed as a friendly rivalry between Latin America’s oldest and newest revolutionary leaders. Hugo Chávez had been Venezuela’s president for less than nine months when he took the field opposite Cuba’s Fidel Castro, who had led his country’s revolution 40 years
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Why California is keeping this unusual solar plant running when both Trump and Biden wanted it closed
The electricity it makes is expensive, its technology has been superseded, and it’s incinerating thousands of birds mid-flight each year. The Trump administration wants to see this unusual power plant closed, and in a rare instance of alignment, the Biden administration did, too. But the state of California is insisting the Ivanpah power plant in
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Trump hurls ominous threat toward neighboring country: ‘Before it is too late’
President Donald Trump issued an ominous threat Sunday to Cuba, warning that if they don’t “make a deal” favorable to the United States – and soon – it will be “too late” for the Caribbean nation. “Cuba lived, for many years, on large amounts of OIL and MONEY from Venezuela. In return, Cuba provided ‘Security
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The Most Shouted-At Politician in America
Scott Wiener has an unusual distinction in American politics: He upsets almost everybody. In the months before I met the California state senator—who is now running for Nancy Pelosi’s congressional seat—he had been harangued at one public meeting after another. In October, pro-Palestinian protesters disrupted his campaign’s pumpkin-carving event to shout: “Wiener, Wiener, you can’t
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Trump’s first-year actions sparked a fiery legal war, and stunning rebukes from judges
A few months into President Trump’s second term, federal appeals court Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III — a conservative appointee of President Reagan — issued a scathing opinion denouncing what he found to be the Trump administration’s unlawful removal of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to his native El Salvador, despite a previous court order barring it.
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I Was Kidnapped by Idiots
Four men searched my mouth for implanted tracking devices. I had told them I didn’t have any—that, as far as I knew, such things existed only in movies. They asked if I had fillings, and I confessed that I did. They looked again. “No, you don’t,” one of them corrected me, having failed to find