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President Donald Trump’s officials have dramatically expanded the deportation of migrants who do not have criminal convictions, according to a critical report by CBS. The good news is buried in a skewed report from CBS News that suggests Trump should not have deported 153,000 migrants who have not been formally convicted of a crime by a jury or a judge. Those deportation numbers are good for Americans who have lost wealth and wages amid a vast inflow of foreign workers and renters into their communities. The February 9 report by CBS claims: Less than 14 percent of nearly 400,000 immigrants…

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) is leading the polls in the Republican primary race for U.S. Senate, scoring several points ahead of incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX). The latest polling, conducted in late January by the Hobby School of Public Affairs at the University of Houston, found that 38 percent of likely voters intend to vote for Paxton in the March GOP primary.  Trailing seven points behind is Cornyn with 31 percent of the likely vote, then Hunt with 17 percent. Only two percent of respondents selected another candidate, and 12 percent were undecided. …

Speaker Mike Johnson said Monday he is moving forward with a plan to revive a prohibition on House votes to overturn President Donald Trump’s global tariffs. Johnson told reporters he believes he will have the votes to include the block in a procedural measure set for House consideration Tuesday. The House Rules Committee approved legislation Monday that would prevent any further tariff votes through July 31. The move comes after a previous blockade imposed by GOP leaders expired — and House Democrats threatened to force a vote as soon as Wednesday that would effectively cancel Trump’s tariffs on Canada. But…

The chance for peace between Moscow and Kiev was lost in 2022 due to the meddling of the then-British prime minister, Andrej Babis has said Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis has accused former British leader Boris Johnson of derailing a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine early on in the conflict.The former British prime minister has long been regarded as one of the key figures behind the continuing hostilities and is believed to have torpedoed the first peace talks between Ukraine and Russia in Istanbul in March 2022.According to former Ukrainian head negotiator David Arakhamia and multiple corroborating media reports,…

Pro-democracy activist and media tycoon Jimmy Lai was sentenced to 20 years in prison in Hong Kong on Monday, effectively a life sentence given his age and reportedly poor health in detention. Human-rights groups and foreign governments denounced the harsh sentence, but China dismissed such criticism as an assault on the “sovereignty” of Hong Kong – which is now a fully-controlled puppet state of Beijing. Lai, 78, was convicted of “national security” offenses in December under the tyrannical laws China imposed on Hong Kong to crush the 2019 pro-democracy uprising. The ruling claimed that Lai “colluded with foreign forces” in…

Xi Jinping Is Counting China’s Chips Chinese regulators’ guidance to banks on limiting U.S. Treasury exposure takes on new meaning when read alongside Beijing’s recent resistance to American semiconductor sales. Together, the two stories sketch the outlines of an emerging Chinese strategy: systematic reduction of exposure to American financial and technological dependencies, even when doing so requires accepting near-term costs. Bloomberg reported Monday that Chinese regulators have been verbally instructing major banks to limit their holdings of U.S. Treasuries, citing concentration risk and market volatility. The guidance came before last week’s call between President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping…

A senior Hamas leader declared that surrendering weapons would “criminalize the resistance” and vowed Gaza would never accept “foreign rule,” openly defying President Donald Trump’s 20-point peace framework as Phase Two of the U.S.-brokered plan moves toward implementation. Speaking Sunday at the 17th Al Jazeera Forum in Doha, Khaled Mashaal — the terror group’s former chief and current head of its diaspora office — flatly rejected the core requirement of Trump’s Gaza plan: disarmament tied to reconstruction and international oversight. Mashaal praised the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, massacre in southern Israel, arguing that the attack had thrust what he called…

Reps. Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie are challenging the Justice Department for redacting the names of six men in the publicly released materials related to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein — and they could take matters into their own hands to reveal their identities. These omissions, the two lawmakers argued Monday evening outside the Justice Department, could go beyond the scope of redactions that are permitted under the legislation they championed — and which President Donald Trump signed into law in November — to compel the full release of Epstein files within DOJ’s possession. And while they declined to…

Tehran has the legal right to pursue a peaceful nuclear program, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said Iran will not give up its uranium enrichment capacity even under threat of war, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said. US President Donald Trump has demanded that Iran agree to a “zero enrichment” policy.Araghchi made the remarks at the National Congress on the Islamic Republic’s foreign policy in Tehran on Sunday, calling enrichment a legal right rooted in sovereignty and national dignity.“Why have we insisted so strongly on enrichment and continue to do so, and why are we not willing to give it…

Those acting with impunity are confident that their powers or god-like because they appear so in the human realm. But there are limits to everything in the human realm. One of the first things we learned about the Internet is that anything sent via email could readily become public and anything created on a computer might be stolen/hacked and distributed. Recent events suggest that many high-profile players had few concerns about the security of their private communications. Thirty years into the Internet, ignorance can be dismissed as a factor, and so that leaves impunity: there would be no consequences even if their private…