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A federal judge on Friday once again blocked the Trump Administration from terminating Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Somalis. The termination was supposed to take effect on March 17, however, a federal judge previously halted the termination. On Friday, US District Judge Allison Burroughs, an Obama appointee, issued a new administrative stay after the plaintiffs filed an amended complaint and an emergency motion. There are more than 100,000 Somalis living in the US. An estimated 5,000 Somalis are eligible for Temporary Protected Status. The Justice Department responded to the judge’s order. “Judge Allison Burroughs just entered yet another order preventing...

Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has called for an urgent meeting of EU interior ministers after what he called some member states’ “selfish, polarising and unlawful reaction” to this week’s mass border crossing into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, in north Africa. More than 50,000 people crossed into the territory from Morocco on Thursday and Friday, with at least 67 people dying in the attempt. Some drowned, while others were crushed as they tried to cross a breakwater barrier. Although more than 48,000 people had voluntarily returned to Morocco by 6pm on Friday, the influx triggered a political crisis for...

A man accused of killing one person and injuring another in an east Charlotte apartment complex shooting appeared before a Mecklenburg County judge Friday after initially refusing to leave his jail cell. David Simpson, 29, is facing charges for the Dunlavin Way shooting Wednesday. Simpson is charged with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious harm, and possession of a firearm by a felon. A woman identified as Simpson's girlfriend, Shakema Scott, was also charged with accessory after the fact. The shooting happened outside an apartment complex around 1:45 a.m., according...

1 August 2026 Saint Alphonsus Mary de' Liguori, Bishop, Doctor on Saturday of week 17 in Ordinary Time Church of Saint Alphonsus of Liguori, Rome, Italy Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: A(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingJeremiah 26:11-16,24'This man has spoken to us in the name of the Lord'The priests and prophets addressed the officials and all the people, ‘This man deserves to die, since he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your own ears.’ Jeremiah, however, replied to the people as follows: ‘The Lord himself sent...

Jon De Lorraine @jon_delorraine Translated from French 🔴🇪🇺 IMMIGRATION 22 EU countries have signed the letter led by Italy and Denmark to strengthen external borders and accelerate expulsions. The five states that did not sign: ❌ 🇪🇸 Spain ❌ 🇫🇷 France ❌ 🇮🇪 Ireland ❌ 🇱🇺 Luxembourg ❌ 🇵🇹 Portugal The 22 states that signed: 🟢 🇩🇪 Germany 🟢 🇦🇹 Austria 🟢 🇧🇪 Belgium 🟢 🇩🇰 Denmark 🟢 🇪🇪 Estonia 🟢 🇫🇮 Finland 🟢 🇬🇷 Greece 🟢 🇭🇺 Hungary 🟢 🇮🇹 Italy 🟢 🇱🇻 Latvia 🟢 🇱🇹 Lithuania 🟢 🇲🇹 Malta 🟢 🇳🇱 Netherlands 🟢 🇵🇱 Poland 🟢 🇨🇿 Czech...

Whether Stephanie White likes it or not, she has to deal with the issues that her players have gotten involved in. One such issue is the backlash towards Sophie Cunningham, who commented in an ESPN profile that female athletes should be protected in sports where they “shouldn’t have to go against biological men.” Prior to the Indiana-Portland game on Friday, White was asked about her stance on this matter. The Fever head coach offered a disclaimer for her response. “I don’t know that I would say that I’m educated enough from a scientific standpoint. I don’t ever believe that exclusion...

WASHINGTON — A 15-year-old boy in Indiana was sentenced to a century in prison after he was convicted of shooting and killing 26-year-old Dayla Swain and injuring another woman outside a nightclub, according to the Madison County Prosecutor's Office. Jo'Majze Larry and his 19-year-old co-defendant Rashawn Samuels were both found guilty last month for the shooting that happened on Feb. 2, 2025, in Anderson, Ind., about an hour outside Indianapolis. Convicted on similar charges, the 19-year-old received the longer sentence of 125 years.

Announcement: http://ReplacementClock.org is now live! A year ago, I went looking for something like a Great Replacement Tracker — a site that aggregated all the demographic data for the West and could tell me how bad things really were. To my surprise, I couldn't find one. So six months ago, I started building it myself. Today, I'm announcing the first live version of the Great Replacement Clock. It tracks the European-descended share of the world's population and of 45 historically White countries. It consolidates historical figures and modeled projections into a single interactive timeline — sourced, auditable, and methodologically transparent....

This is one of the most beloved paintings in America, and it puts its finger on something we all pass through, first as the child, and one day as the parent left behind... The painting is Breaking Home Ties<, by Norman Rockwell, on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post in 1954. A father and his teenage son sit side by side on the running board of a battered farm truck, waiting at a railway stop. A single track runs along the bottom of the picture. A ticket pokes from the boy's pocket. His suitcase is stacked with schoolbooks and...

The father of a six-year-old Kentucky boy stabbed to death in his own bed is publicly breaking down after the man who did it was released from prison for the second time, this time with no supervision. Dean Tipton took to Facebook on Wednesday and wrote that the killer of his son Logan being released again may be his breaking point. Tipton wrote that the justice system handed his family a life sentence while giving the killer, Ronald Exantus, a slap on the wrist. Exantus broke into the Tipton family’s Versailles home on December 7, 2015, stabbed Logan Tipton to...

Poor Troy Jackson. He can’t buy a serious ticket to a U.S. Senate seat without first enduring a ribald ribbing on social media. X users were having more fun laughing over Troy’s marital partnership with his second cousin than attendees at an American Legion bean supper in Allagash, Maine pop. 240. After Maine Wire chief editor Steve Robinson reported that the former state senate president is attached to his second cousin, with whom he has two kids, all bets were off for X users. “His favorite dating app is 23AndMe,” PoliMath joked on X. “Sydney Sweeney eat your heart out,”...

Edna Elizabeth Townsley, Mark Jerome Gabour, Marguerite M. Lamport, Thomas Frederick Eckman, Dr. Robert Hamilton Boyer, Karen John Griffith, Thomas Ray Karr, David Hubert Gunby, Thomas Aquinas Ashgton, Paul Bolton Sonntag, Claudia Marilyn Rutt, Harry Walchuk, Officer Billy Paul Speed, Roy Dell Schmidt and the unborn son of Claire Wilson. These are the names of the people who lost their lives when a shooter turned a simple day at the University of Texas into one of the darkest days in Texas history. This Saturday, August 1, marks the 60th anniversary of the UT Tower shooting, a day when 18 people...

STILL, STILL WITH THEE SONG DEVOTIONAL Beloved, one of the greatest blessings of salvation is the daily fellowship we have with our precious Lord Jesus. Through Jesus' death and resurrection, we have been brought into the very presence of Almighty God and invited to fellowship and walk with Him each day. Beloved, how astonishing and wonderful is that! Jesus is not a distant Savior but an ever-present Shepherd who delights in the fellowship with His blood-bought sheep. Whether in the quietness of the morning, the responsibilities of the day, or the stillness of the evening, Jesus remains with us always....

Aug 1 (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury bought yen on Friday to support the battered Japanese currency, the Financial Times reported, marking Washington’s first yen-buying intervention with Tokyo in more than a decade as it languishes near 40-year lows. The Federal Reserve ​Bank of New York sold euros for yen on behalf of the Treasury through Goldman ‌Sachs and Morgan Stanley, the FT said, citing people familiar with the matter. The report did not indicate any amounts of yen purchased.... Earlier on Friday, the Treasury informed a number of banks that it might intervene in the yen market and that...

A day after Google unveiled a new feature that allowed users to create AI-generated satellite images with the click of a button on its Google Earth platform, the company announced it was removing the tool. "We've seen geospatial professionals using this feature for a range of useful purposes," Google said in a statement on X. "However we've also seen people sharing screenshots of generated imagery that appear to violate our policies. So we're rolling back this feature in Google Earth while we work on implementing stronger guardrails." In its initial announcement of the new feature on Thursday, the company said...

President Trump may have found the cleanest answer yet to the Senate Republicans trying to hold up Todd Blanche. Keep Blanche exactly where he is. Blanche is not some random White House aide temporarily dropped into the top job. He is the Senate-confirmed Deputy Attorney General, and federal law puts him first in line when the Attorney General’s office is vacant. The legal point behind President Trump’s hardball option is laid out in this clip: This is where the obstruction campaign runs into the actual statute. The official U.S. Code says that when the Attorney General’s office is vacant, the...

On Thursday, shocking footage spread online of droves of primarily young male Moroccans storming Ceuta, a small Spanish territory on the North African coast. Thousands of them swam around breakwaters and climbed fences to enter the tiny enclave. An estimated 60,000 people are believed to have arrived in Ceuta—where the permanent population is 84,000—in 24 hours. Eighteen immigrants have died during the crossings. Meanwhile, local bars and shops are closed for fear of looting. The chaos has caused the leader of Ceuta to appeal to Madrid to send in the army. The Spanish government has done so, but it should...

US embassies in Jerusalem and other Middle Eastern capitals call on citizens in the Middle East to avoid travel to the Middle East and be ready to depart due to the “potential for unforeseen escalation” in the conflict with Iran. “Due to heightened tensions in the Middle East, the security environment remains complex with the potential for unforeseen escalation,” embassies from Cairo eastward say in identical messages published on their respective websites. “The Iranian regime is unpredictable, as seen by its recent decisions to attack areas in the region without warning or provocations as well as to expand attacks to...

Amazon said this week that it received hundreds of millions of dollars in refunds from President Trump’s tariffs and pledged to return some of the profits to its customers. This follows a Supreme Court decision earlier this year that many of the Trump administration’s tariffs were illegal, prompting the U.S. government to start a process to refund billions of dollars in import taxes to affected companies. Brian Olsavsky, the chief financial officer of Amazon.com, Inc., said during a Thursday earnings call that the company is “participating in the tariff refund process” and received an amount of $600 million in its...

Key Points * Former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner’s AI hedge fund, Situational Awareness, collapsed from $45 billion to around $10 billion in assets on falling semiconductor stocks and mounting margin calls. * Driven by reported leverage of up to 400%, the 20-something manager was forced to sell off all his leveraged public stock bets — including hard-hit names like SK Hynix and CoreWeave — to Ken Griffin’s Citadel at a discount. * The crash marks a dramatic turn for Aschenbrenner, who launched the fund after gaining Silicon Valley fame with his 2024 AI manifesto, drawing scrutiny from critics over his...