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A US senator says he was pepper-sprayed during a rally held in support of detainees in New Jersey US federal agents have used tear gas against protesters outside the immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey after days of unrest.The rally was held on Monday in solidarity with detainees reportedly staging a hunger strike at the Delaney Hall facility.A sweeping immigration enforcement campaign launched by US President Donald Trump shortly after taking office has led to thousands of arrests across the country. Public support for the crackdown has steadily declined, with most Americans saying the tactics used by the Department…

A Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) trooper recovered 20 illegal aliens, including four minors, hidden inside the sleeping compartment of a truck tractor on Monday evening. The stop took place near Laredo, Texas, close to where a group of illegal aliens was found dead, locked inside a Union Pacific railcar. According to DPS, the stop occurred on May 18, 2026, just after 6:00 p.m., when a Trooper pulled over a white Volvo tractor-trailer on IH‑35 near mile marker 28 in Webb County as part of Operation Lone Star. As the Trooper approached, the driver attempted to flee on foot…

Democrat Texas candidate for U.S. Senate James Talarico asked supporters of the defeated Republican incumbent, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), to join his campaign as he prepares to face the GOP nominee, Attorney General Ken Paxton. The Tuesday night Republican runoff was called by the Associated Press for Paxton at 9:00 p.m., giving Cornyn the boot after serving in the U.S. Senate for over two decades. As of 10:00 p.m., Paxton had 63.2 percent of the vote over Cornyn’s 36.8 percent, with 60 percent of the votes counted.  Talarico, the far-left state legislator who beat U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett (R-TX) in…

Donald Trump just ousted another Republican he viewed as insufficiently loyal. Two years from now, his revenge list could be even longer. The president has already lashed out at two House Republicans due to perceived slights, with the White House floating a longer list of potential targets over the past year. Trump could also take aim at several GOP senators up for reelection in 2028 — including Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski, Kentucky’s Rand Paul and Indiana’s Todd Young — as he seeks to make a lasting mark on the Republican Party in the final stretch of his presidency. The prospect that…

The former president is seeking to block the release of interviews with his ghostwriter Former US President Joe Biden is suing the US Department of Justice (DOJ) in an effort to block the release of interviews he gave to his ghostwriter, which later became part of a special counsel investigation into the mishandling of classified documents.According to the Daily Intelligencer, the records include 70 hours of audio recordings and transcripts of conversations between Biden and ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer, recorded while Zwonitzer was working on Biden’s 2017 memoir.The recordings were obtained by special counsel Robert Hur, who was appointed to investigate…

There is no “alternative” for Ukraine other than a fast-tracked E.U. accession process and full membership into the bloc. Taras Kachka, Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, made the declaration of alignment on Tuesday. Speaking with Euronews, Kachka asserted that E.U. membership for Ukraine is a “starting point” for all discussions about the country’s figure. He argued that there are “no alternatives for the fast, merit-based, but full membership in the European Union.” “Any type of alternative is simply not acceptable and not worth any discussion,” he stressed. Kachka delivered his assertions referring to a proposal from…

Tuesday on MS NOW’s “The Briefing,” Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) made the absolutely flabbergasting claim that President Donald Trump was the “most corrupt president in American history.” Booker said, “What President Trump is doing is a moral outrage from his corruption, his crypto schemes, his ballroom, the monuments to his ego, to all the kleptocracy he’s doing and many of the incompetent people he’s putting in very important places. Now, it’s not just a democratic thing that believes that many of us have private conversations with folks who will express their disdain, their outrage in private, but do nothing in…

Iran’s push to tax Strait of Hormuz undersea cables shows how they are becoming a new front in pressure tactics and tech risk Iranian Armed Forces operational command Spokesman Ebrahim Zolfaghari has recently announced that Iran intends to charge fees for the use of undersea cables passing through the Strait of Hormuz. While this news didn’t come as a surprise, it certainly heightened tensions surrounding the digital infrastructure of the Persian Gulf.Since May 18, the Persian Gulf Strait Authority has controlled the situation in the Strait of Hormuz. This new body was established by the Supreme National Security Council of…

On Tuesday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) said that picking up Raul Castro in Cuba wouldn’t be difficult, but he thinks that, due to a desire by Castro to avoid dying in prison, “Raul Castro is going to leave the country, along with his family” “before we pick him up.” Scott said, “Well, let’s remember, the Cubans were supporting — were defending Maduro, and that took, what, seven minutes to take out Maduro? So, it won’t take much to pick up Raul Castro. And the people of Cuba are already –.” Co-host Kailey Leinz then cut…

The government of Iran criticized Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday through one of its Indian consulates, condemning the American diplomat for visiting the Taj Mahal, widely considered the most breathtaking architectural achievement in India. The Iranian consulate in Hyderabad published a message on the social media site Twitter reproducing an image of Secretary Rubio and wife Jeanette in front of the Taj Mahal mausoleum, claiming the structure was an Iranian achievement in an apparent attempt to link the site, built in 1631, to the current Islamist terror regime subjugating Tehran, which came to power in 1979. “If Rubio knew…