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President Donald Trump will continue deporting migrants who have not committed violent crimes, White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt told a disappointed media corps on Tuesday. “The Trump administration will continue our focus on deporting all illegal aliens present in our country, with a focus on the worst of the worst criminals,” Leavitt scolded the reporters. The White House reporters were disappointed because they had learned on Monday from CBS that Trump is following through on his campaign pledge to deport all categories of illegal migrants, not just the foreign murderers and rapists that he spotlights in his speeches. The appalling…

Tuesday on MS NOW’s “Katy Tur Reports,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said unless Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is “reined in,” the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will shut down on Friday. Jeffries said, “The ball is in the Republican’s court right now. We’ve made clear that taxpayer dollars should be used to make life more affordable for the American people, not brutalize or kill them. That shouldn’t be a controversial proposition. We know that Ice is completely and totally out of control. They’ve gone way too far, and they need to be reined in so that immigration enforcement…

The US agency has reportedly not found sufficient proof to corroborate claims that the disgraced financier ‘lent out’ girls to his friends The FBI has found no evidence indicating that disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein was running a sex-trafficking ring, the Associated Press has reported.Epstein was found dead in his New York jail cell in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, having been found guilty in 2008 of soliciting a minor for prostitution. His death was ruled a suicide, but sparked speculation that he had been killed to prevent testimony implicating the multiple powerful figures he fraternized and did…

China’s National Development and Reform Commission estimates that 9.5 billion trips will be made during the 40-day Lunar New Year travel rush this year. Lunar New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, has long been China’s biggest travel season, and is often described as the world’s largest annual human migration. The actual holiday falls on February 17 this year, beginning the Year of the Horse in the Chinese zodiac, but vacations always begin a few weeks earlier, so the travel season known as chunyun officially began on February 2. State planners anticipated some 540 million train tickets would be…

The House on Monday passed a bipartisan housing bill aimed at lowering costs and increasing homeownership. The House overwhelmingly passed the Housing for the 21st Century Act, 390-9. House Financial Services Chairman French Hill (R-AR) and ranking member Maxine Waters (D-CA) sponsored the legislation and it passed out of committee last December. “Housing costs have soared beyond the reach of millions of American families thanks to Bidenflation, while outdated and burdensome red tape has constrained our nation’s affordable housing supply and limited our ability to expand it,” Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said in a statement applauding the bill’s passage. “Today’s…

New satellite imagery shows Iran has buried the entrances to a hardened tunnel complex at its Isfahan nuclear site — a move a U.S.-based watchdog said signals Tehran is “seriously concerned” about a U.S. or Israeli strike or raid. High-resolution imagery taken Monday shows the extent to which Iran has covered the tunnel entrances at the Isfahan nuclear complex with soil, the Institute for Science and International Security reported, saying the middle and southern entrances are now “unrecognizable and fully covered” and the northernmost entrance has also been backfilled. The institute said no vehicle activity is visible around the three…

The Royal Navy is reportedly mulling a drone flotilla to gather intel on Moscow’s alleged “shadow fleet” Britain is planning to launch a seaborne drone fleet to seize oil tankers it claims are linked to what it calls a Russian “shadow fleet,” the Sunday Times has reported.London banned the import of Russian crude and oil products in 2022, along with related maritime transportation, insurance, and financing, imposing sanctions on over 500 vessels.Despite those measures, Moscow has shipped 550 million tonnes of oil legally through the English Channel with an estimated value of $326 billion, according to the outlet, which said…

A Silver Lining in a Soot-Soaked Retail Sales Report Analysts had visions of sugar plums dancing in their heads for December retail sales. Instead, they got a lump of coal. The Census Bureau said Tuesday that retail sales were flat in December, well short of the consensus forecast for a 0.4 percent gain. That was a pretty serious retreat after the solid 0.6 percent increase in November. There are two competing narratives explaining this. Optimists say that holiday demand just showed up earlier than expected, and so consumers did not have as much leftover on their shopping lists in December.…

Former foreign service officer Simon Hankinson, who served at consulates in Ghana and Nairobi, among others, says Somali nationals routinely lied in their immigration applications to secure visas in the United States. “In my consular assignments, I was lied to many times a day about every aspect of applications, including their age, name, identity, marital status, occupation, purpose of travel, wealth, income, relatives in the U.S., and intent to return home,” Hankinson, a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, told the Senate Judiciary Committee. “It’s an unfortunate fact: People lie to get visas and immigration benefits,” Hankinson said. Hankinson, who…

Senate Republicans are facing a full-circle moment on the filibuster. Four years ago, the GOP stood united against a failed attempt by Democrats to sidestep the chamber’s 60-vote supermajority requirement and pass a voting-rights bill demanded by their party base. Now — with their own trifecta and their own elections bill at issue — Republicans are under pressure to do much the same. The shoe-on-the-other-foot moment is being fueled by a cadre of hard-right senators arguing forcefully for tactics once embraced by Senate progressives. Many Democrats, meanwhile, are keeping silent and watching as the GOP undergoes similar internal turmoil to…