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The Department of Homeland Security has doubled the arrest rate of illegal migrants to 2,000 per day, according to the New York Times. The paper reported Wednesday night federal immigration officials have detained more than 10,000 people since Friday. The push was prompted by the White House and aimed at identified targets, including some of the migrants who have already been ordered home by judges, the paper said, adding: ICE officials were told that the White House wanted an increase in arrests, according to three officials with knowledge of the conversations. One of the officials said that it was unclear how…
Four years after Gov. Mike DeWine (R) signed legislation allowing school boards to choose to allow teachers and other employees to be armed, 116 school districts have chosen to allow armed employees for classroom defense. WOWO reported that the figure of “116 school districts” is derived from state data “as of June 17.” The Ohio Capital Journal noted that the 116 districts include “more than 70 Ohio school districts and 15 Christian schools…[with] staff members who are authorized to carry weapons on school grounds.” Ohio Federation of Teachers President Melissa Cropper criticized the training requirements for the growing number of armed school…
House conservatives bristled this week over the Senate’s refusal to pass the SAVE America Act — the GOP elections bill that President Donald Trump has called his “No. 1 priority” in Congress — and shut down the floor in protest. Their outrage has obscured an inconvenient truth for the Republicans locking arms with the president to push for the bill: It can’t even pass the House — at least not the version Trump is pushing. Speaker Mike Johnson acknowledged as much this week, appearing to concede he does not have the votes to move forward with a drastic crackdown on…
The bloc has signed off on a €70 billion military package for 2026 but Rome is against locking in similar aid for next year, according to reports in Germany Italy is stalling a NATO aid commitment to Ukraine for 2027 after the bloc signed off on a €70 billion ($80 billion) military package to Kiev this year, Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) reported on Tuesday.While NATO envoys agreed on the terms of this year’s assistance on Tuesday in Brussels, Italy is refusing to accept a follow-on clause committing the bloc to “maintain at least a comparable level” of support down…
Weird Al Yankovic has his limits and music generated by artificial intelligence (AI) is one of them. He wants nothing to do with it. The five-time Grammy winner told Syracuse.com he’s “not down” with it, revealing he rejected “a nice pile of money” to star in an advertisement for an undisclosed AI company. He said: I’m not a fan of AI. I was offered this commercial before the tour. I’m not going to mention any names, but they told me it was for a business. It was business software that would increase productivity. And they offered me a nice pile of…
A group of Venezuelan women caught local police officers pillaging the rubble of a collapsed building in the state of La Guaira and attempting to steal a box with U.S. dollars in it, the Venezuelan outlet El Pitazo reported on Tuesday. The women, outraged at the actions of the police, tore apart the money to prevent the officers from stealing it. Four police officers were reportedly fired and arrested over their involvement in the incident. El Pitazo explained that the women are relatives of missing people and survivors of the devastating magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 earthquakes that struck Venezuela in the evening…
President Donald Trump visits the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, North Dakota, on Wednesday, July 1. The president is expected to deliver an address at the presidential library before returning to Washington, DC, this afternoon. Earlier Wednesday, Vice President JD Vance addressed service members at the Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Read the full article here
The Republican congressional agenda is melting in the summer heat. Intraparty fights, tight margins, election-year pressures and an indifferent president have grounded the pre-midterm legislative plans of GOP leaders on Capitol Hill, with just a handful of days left to do anything about it. House leaders, in particular, appear to have lost control of their chamber with just eight session days before a planned five-week summer recess. They discarded two of those days this week, sending members home early for Independence Day after a member rebellion left them unable to move major bills. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump’s demands for action…
The remarks follow a Five Eyes spy alliance warning that cyberwarfare could become a critical threat within months AI-driven cyberoffensive tools can be compared to “digital nuclear weapons,” CIA Director John Ratcliffe has said, warning that they could fuel rivalries among global powers.Ratcliffe made the comparison on Tuesday in a speech at the Amazon Web Services summit in Washington, where he discussed the spy agency’s efforts to speed up the acquisition of private-sector products for its own use.“AI tools will only continue to raise the stakes in our competition with all of America’s adversaries,” Ratcliffe said. It would be “not…
The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) is reporting publicly that Ukraine is helping Mexican drug cartels move into the European market through its poorly guarded borders. The move is aimed at helping drug cartels move into new markets in response to increased enforcement and operations in Latin America by the U.S. government. The information was published this week by the SVR through its press office. In their short statement, Russian officials did not specify which Mexican cartels were connected, nor did they provide specific details of their activities. The Russian officials claim that the move is a revenue source for…