ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples' Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship  —  “You don't got no ID?” a Border Patrol agent in a baseball cap, sunglasses, and neck gaiter asks a kid on a bike.  The officer and three others had just stopped the two young men on their bikes during …

John Thune says he will engage ‘pretty soon’ with Democrats about ending shutdown  —  Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Wednesday he expects to engage “pretty soon” with a group of rank-and-file Senate Democrats about ending the 29-day-and-counting government shutdown.

DOJ places on leave 2 prosecutors who said ‘mob’ of ‘rioters’ carried out Jan. 6 attack  —  The prosecutors had filed a brief in the case of Taylor Taranto, sources said.  —  Pro-Trump supporters storm the U.S. Capitol following a rally with President Donald Trump on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC.

Biden Justice Department slow-walked key decisions in Trump legal probes  —  The picture of a hesitant Justice Department runs contrary to the GOP allegation that the indictments of Trump were the product of a Democrat-led plot.  —  Acting on a mix of principle and caution …

South Korea welcomes Trump with its highest award, a golden crown and ketchup  —  South Korea welcomed U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday with a replica gold crown and awarded him with the “Grand Order of Mugunghwa”, the country's highest decoration, the presidential office said.

DOJ indicts Democratic congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh over ICE protests  —  Abughazaleh called the charges “yet another attempt by the Trump administration to criminalize protest and punish those who dare to speak up.”  —  A special federal grand jury has indicted Democratic …

Trump administration uses misleading videos to portray chaos, push deportations … The Department of Homeland Security posted a swaggering montage to social media in August declaring it had triumphed in its takeover of Washington, D.C. It showed footage of federal agents fighting what a DHS official called a …

Choosing to let kids go hungry  —  The official website of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) claims that on November 1, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) will run out of funding.  The USDA asserts that Democrats are blocking funding to secure “health care for illegal immigrants” …

Charges Dropped: Tennessee authorities dismiss charges against man who posted Trump meme  —  A Tenn. sheriff claimed Larry Bushart refused to take down a meme after being told it was causing fear of school shooting but police video shows there was never any discussion of a school

Obamacare Prices Become Public, Highlighting Big Increases  —  The government website now shows consumers how much their health insurance costs will increase next year, as Congress remains at an impasse over the plans' subsidies.  — 1.1k  —  The Trump administration has released …

Jamie Lee Curtis: Charlie Kirk comments were a ‘mistranslation’  —  Actress Jamie Lee Curtis is clearing up comments she made about the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk following his assassination last month.  —  Curtis told Variety in an interview published Tuesday that her comments about Kirk …

De Blasio Impersonator Tricks British Newspaper With Fake Criticism of Mamdani  —  The Times of London briefly ran an article with quotes from someone who the paper said had falsely claimed to be the former New York mayor Bill de Blasio.  —  Former Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York …

Texas sues Tylenol for the dumbest reason  —  Attorney General Ken Paxton beclowns himself to get Trump to endorse his Senate run  —  In an unbelievably crowded field, the title of “Most Wretched Republican Bootlicker” is ultimately impossible to determine.

Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka says US revoked his visa  —  Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has said the US revoked his visa and banned him from the country.  —  The 91-year-old author, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1986, said the US consulate asked him to bring …

Virginia House Advances Democratic Plan to Counter GOP Gerrymandering  —  The Virginia House of Delegates moved one step closer Wednesday to redrawing the state's congressional map in an effort to counter GOP-controlled states that have gerrymandered this year at President Donald Trump's request.

Trump Suggests He Knows He Can't Run Again: 'It's Too Bad'  —  Despite the Constitution's two-term limit, Trump had mused for months about a third term.  —  President Trump seemed to concede on Wednesday that he was not eligible to serve a third term, lamenting that it was an unfortunate result …

Donald Trump Jr.'s Expanding Business: After Joining 2nd New Board, U.S. Contracts Followed  —  Topline  —  Unusual Machines is at least the second company that appears to have activated an advisory board specifically to give a Trump a role, placing Donald Trump Jr. on the board in November 2024 …

The moderation debate fiddles with 2% while democracy's dimensionality collapses  —  For months, analysts have been arguing over whether Democrats need to run more “moderates” in order to win more elections.  As a data nerd, I find this debate fascinating.  But as an alarmed citizen, I find this debate extremely frustrating.

A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats' Greatest Weakness  —  All you have to do is take a passing glance at Graham Platner, a progressive candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine, to understand why so many Democrats have been frothing at the mouth over his candidacy for months.

Tens of Thousands of White-Collar Jobs Are Disappearing as AI Starts to Bite  —  Layoffs at companies ranging from Amazon to Target are sending young and experienced workers alike into unwelcoming market  —  The nation's largest employers have a new message for office workers: help not wanted.

In Utah, Trump's Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape  —  State officials promise large-scale involuntary addiction and mental health treatment at Salt Lake City's edge.  Critics see “a prison, or a warehouse.”  —  To glimpse the future of homelessness policy in the age of President Trump …

Some evangelicals are “quietly quitting” Trump and MAGA … - “We've gotten more testimonials. … - Some pastors and their followers are angry that Trump's administration has lifted bans on immigration agents going into churches to make arrests.  — Others are dismayed by cuts to humanitarian aid programs at home and abroad.

Revealed: Pentagon orders states' national guards to form ‘quick reaction forces’ for ‘crowd control’  —  Pentagon memo details plan to train over 20,000 national guard members across the US to carry out Trump's order on subduing civil unrest  —  A top US military official has ordered …

Trump's Truth Social to allow trading on election results  —  US president's social media platform enters prediction market sector  —  Donald Trump's Truth Social platform is to offer users the chance to trade on the outcome of elections and sports games, extending the US president …

ADL removes ‘Protect Civil Rights’ from website as it narrows its mission amid right-wing attacks  —  The Anti-Defamation League has removed entirely from the “What We Do” page of its website a section called “Protect Civil Rights.”  —  The removal eliminated a passage that read …

The Empty Promises of Trump's Imperial Presidency  —  As it now stands, approximately 42 million Americans will lose access to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program when its funding runs out on Saturday.  Most are children, seniors and the disabled.

Karine Jean-Pierre's book tour is non-stop cringe.  Her former colleagues can't look away. … Most just hope that she will be ignored, another bad news cycle with a short shelf life that doesn't do lasting damage to an already tarnished brand.  —  “The truth is that Karine has always …

Top Republicans slam Trump administration's troop drawdown in Romania  —  A pair of senior Republican defense hawks are denouncing a move by the Trump administration to scale back the U.S. military presence in Europe on NATO's eastern edge, saying the decision “sends the wrong signal” to Russia.