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As the Trump administration ramps up its efforts to detain and deport undocumented immigrants across the country, it is increasingly relying on federal employees to take on new roles to supplement those enforcement efforts. Those efforts are spearheaded by Immigration and Customs Enforcement within the Homeland Security Department, but agencies within and outside DHS are soliciting employees to help ramp up the renewed crackdown. The initiative has led to raids at worksites, farms, nightclubs, residential areas and federal buildings where immigrants report for court hearings or check-ins. The efforts have led to widespread protests and, according to administration officials, increased...

Host Audie Cornish opened CNN This Morning's coverage of the arrest of the man suspected of assassinating a Minnesota state legislator and her husband, and wounding two others, with a clip of Gopher State Governor Tim Walz telling people that "rather than arguing, shake hands, find common ground." This is the same guy who recently boasted, speaking of Trump supporters, that he can "kick most of their ass." And just last month, here was Walz's proposal to fight back against Trump: "Be a little meaner, maybe it’s time for us to be a little more fierce. We have to ferociously...

A new study by Harvard and Ben Gurion University researchers found that nearly one-third of individuals who followed a healthy diet did not lose weight, but still saw meaningful improvements in cardiometabolic health. Credit: Stock Healthy eating can significantly improve metabolic health even without weight loss. ======================================================================== New research from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Ben Gurion University in Israel reveals that nearly one-third of people who stuck to a healthy diet didn’t lose any weight, but still saw impressive health improvements. Even without shedding pounds, participants experienced key benefits to their cardiometabolic health. These included higher...

The news media have failed again. Go to your favorite news sources to find accurate coverage of the May 20, 2025, Congressional hearing on the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. You will find that the overwhelming majority of news organizations ignored the hearing, which was held by the House Committee on Government Oversight and Reform’s Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets. The video of the hearing is here.

Singer Nezza has claimed the LA Dodgers tried to stop her singing a Spanish rendition of the American national anthem Saturday night, before she stunningly defied their request as a show of solidarity with ICE protestors in the city. Nezza, whose real name is Vanessa Hernandez, planned the poignant tribute on the day of 'No Kings' protests across the United States over Donald Trump's controversial immigration policies, which comes after a week of unrest in Los Angeles. Yet much to her dismay, she was told by the Dodgers to perform the anthem in English ahead of their game against the...

A woman has been arrested after allegedly assaulting and biting a Trump supporter at a “No Kings” protest in Upstate New York. Catherine Benincasa, 32, of Manchester, New Hampshire, was arrested Saturday after an argument escalated during an anti-Trump rally in Warrensburg, N.Y. She’s been charged with second-degree menacing, third-degree assault, and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon. Benincasa was arraigned in Centralized Arraignment Court, according to the Warren County Sheriff’s Office. She was released on her own recognizance and is due in Warrensburg Town Court at a later date. The Warren County Sheriff’s Office said Benincasa struck a man...

Global investors may be underpricing the impact of a conflict between Israel and Iran, market watchers warned on Monday, as stocks rallied despite escalating warfare in the Middle East. The two regional powers continued trading fire on Monday, marking the fourth consecutive day of fighting since Israel launched airstrikes against Iran last week. Despite the continued fighting — with hundreds reported dead — global stock markets sustained a positive momentum on Monday, seemingly shrugging off broader concerns about the conflict. Russ Mould, investment director at AJ Bell, warned on Monday that there was a risk markets were underpricing “the risk...

Trump did what a leader should do yesterday. He showed up, gave a speech, and celebrated the army, as did many across America watching from their homes. But that wasn’t the story the Democrats and their propaganda media wanted to tell. They needed it to be a distortion of reality because everything they do is a distortion of reality. Their well-funded protest drew about 11 million, so they say, becoming one of the largest protests in American history. As usual, it was not a grassroots protest by any means. It was an example of how well-funded, well-organized, and united the...

AI-driven ­vehicles stand the chance of being hijacked by terrorists and used to deliver mass casualty attacks without the need for a suicide bomber, a U.N. report warns. The report, Algorithms and Terrorism: The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence for Terrorist Purposes, details ways emerging AI technologies could be weaponised by extremists and was first covered by The Times. Self-driving cars, drones and other automated systems to target crowded public spaces could all be seized and remotely controlled by terrorists to deliver deadly consequences in crowded public spaces. U.N. Report Warns Terrorists Could Weaponize Driverless Cars as ‘Slaughterbots’ LOS ANGELES,...

The clip is nothing more than an excerpt from a video game, Arma 3. The realistic images, among other things, are cyclically re-proposed to document alleged jet shootdowns.

One of the more controversial arms of the government under the administration of former President Joe Biden could soon cease to exist as anyone knew it. Biden’s successor, President Donald Trump, has made that much abundantly clear. The embattled Federal Emergency Management Agency is going to be “wound down,” per the president’s orders, as described by Reuters. FEMA, which has an annual budget of about $30 billion, will start being phased out as its responsibilities get doled out to other departments. For example, federal disaster aid funds will now be distributed directly from the White House. Trump was speaking to...

J.J. Spaun has powered through the tough course conditions, terrible weather and heat of competition to win the 2025 U.S. Open at Oakmont Country Club on Sunday. Spaun, who turned pro in 2012 and has just one PGA Tour win under his belt, has captured his first major of his career at a course that consumed some of the game's biggest stars. He did so in dramatic fashion, too, as Spaun closed the door with a birdie at the 18th, a long, winding putt from 64 feet to secure the victory. ---SNIP--- Sunday’s start wasn’t at all what he had...

The US aircraft carrier the USS Nimitz has left the South China Sea and is heading west as the conflict between Israel and Iran descended into open warfare. Donald Trump has issued a warning to Iran, saying the country will experience 'the full strength' of the American military if it attacks the US. It comes amid reports he vetoed Israel's plans to assassinate Iran's Supreme Leader. The USS Nimitz had a planned port call in Vietnam later this week, but this has been called off as the conflict escalates. Tracking websites show the vessel moving west along with its strike...

Liz Shuler knows she has a long summer ahead of her. Over the past week, the president of the AFL-CIO, which has more than 15 million members, has seen organized labor’s ongoing battle with the Trump administration come under an even brighter spotlight. David Huerta, the president of the Service Employees International Union of California (SEIU), was arrested on June 6 during a demonstration against an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid in Los Angeles’s garment district. His detention set off alarm bells among unions across the country, and made it clear that organized labor would play a major role...

In a nutshell * Scientists successfully transmitted light through an entire adult human head for the first time, overcoming extreme attenuation of 10^18 to detect individual photons * The technique can potentially monitor deep brain regions like the midbrain and cerebellum that are currently unreachable with existing optical brain imaging methods * While limited to participants with fair skin and no hair, the breakthrough opens doors for future portable brain imaging devices to detect strokes and tumors without expensive MRI machines +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ GLASGOW — Doctors may be a step closer to peering deep into your brain to spot strokes or...

We Voted to Deport Every Single One of Them Kurt Schlichter Kurt Schlichter | Jun 16, 2025 It’s strange how I keep being told by the regime media and Democrat political flunkies, to the limited extent that those are different things, about how I didn’t vote for what Donald Trump is doing to illegal aliens. I keep hearing about how I don’t want ICE raiding Home Depots, factories, and non-Beatles strawberry fields or sending away 30-year illegal aliens or illegal alien honor students. I’m told that Donald Trump only promised to deport criminal aliens – in the sense that they...

By WAFB Staff Published: Jun. 15, 2025 at 9:14 PM CDT|Updated: 9 hours ago BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart went into cardiac arrest at his home Sunday morning and is in intensive care at a hospital, his son said Sunday evening. Jimmy Swaggart, 90, is one of the most well-known televangelists in the world. He is the founder of Jimmy Swaggart Ministries. His son Donnie says Swaggart went into cardiac arrest around 8 o’clock Sunday morning and “has never regained consciousness.” He said paramedics responded to Swaggart’s home and were able to get a heartbeat before rushing...

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem 🇮🇱(6/16/25)[Prayer]Water, Rivers, and Streams in the BibleDeuteronomy 3:16-1737 But in accordance with the command of the Lord our God, you did not encroach on any of the land of the Ammonites, neither the land along the course of the Jabbok nor that around the towns in the hills.Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.________________________

Over the years I have returned repeatedly to the subject of the New York City Housing Authority, or NYCHA. Begun with great optimism prior to World War II, NYCHA expanded rapidly in the 1960s and 70s, until it housed around 500,000 people. The economic model was always pure unmodified socialism — the government owns everything, rents are tied to income (“to each according to his needs”), and any shortfalls in paying costs fall on the taxpayers. But after all, we will save oodles of money because there will be no profits for the evil developers. For a few of my...

EXCLUSIVE: More than two months have passed since women's fencer Stephanie Turner went viral after being punished by USA Fencing for kneeling in protest of a trans opponent. And after nine weeks of immense public and federal scrutiny against USA Fencing in the aftermath of the incident, the organization amended two of its most controversial policies last weekend. The organization's board of directors changed its rule to de-prioritized states with laws deemed "harmful" to the LGBTQ population and a rule that did not guarantee the national anthem be played before every event. Turner reacted to USA Fencing's recent policy changes...