The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine  —  Juan Orlando Hernández, whom Mr. Trump called a victim of persecution, helped orchestrate a decades-long trafficking conspiracy.  It ravaged his Central American country.  —  He once boasted that he would “stuff the drugs up the gringos' noses.”

Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence  —  David Gentile had been found guilty for his role in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded thousands of investors.  —  President Trump has set free a private equity executive who had served less …

Make Money Not War: Trump's Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine  —  The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business.  To Europe's dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.  —  Three powerful businessmen—two Americans and a Russian—hunched over a laptop in Miami Beach last month …

‘Appalling spectacle’: Ex-GOP insider accuses Republican senators of being ‘compromised’  —  Republican senators are “compromised,” according to a GOP strategist.  —  Stuart Stevens, Chief Strategist of Romney's 2012 presidential campaign, wrote an article on Saturday called None Dare Call It Treason …

Silicon Valley's Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends … In July, David Sacks, one of the Trump administration's top technology officials, beamed as he strode onstage at a neoclassical auditorium just blocks from the White House.  He had convened top government officials …

OpenAI is a loss-making machine, with estimates that it has no road to profitability by 2030 — and will need a further $207 billion in funding even if it gets there  —  Don't call it a bubble!  Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments …

Several Arrested as Protesters Block Federal Agents in Manhattan Garage  —  The confrontation appeared to foil a possible ICE raid nearby, underscoring the numerous challenges the federal government faces in trying to stage raids in a dense city like New York.

Media Offenders  —  Explore the Media Bias Tracker that fact checks and holds Fake News accountable.  False claims debunked, Hall of Shame for serial offenders, Leaderboard of networks ranked by Repeated Lies.  Stay informed, stay accurate.

Experts say top FDA official's claim that Covid vaccines caused kids' deaths requires more evidence  —  Vinay Prasad ties 10 deaths to the shots, calls for stricter vaccine regulation, in leaked memo  —  The Food and Drug Administration's top vaccine regulator asserted in an email …

Disappeared to a Foreign Prison  —  The Trump Administration is deporting people to countries they have no ties to, where many are being detained indefinitely or forcibly returned to the places they fled.  —  One Saturday morning in early September, I got a WhatsApp video call …

France's far-right leader hit by egg, days after flour attack  —  'I'm relieved:' Blind Ontario man awarded $28,000 for facing discrimination  —  17-year-old in hospital following stabbing in Scarborough  —  Crash seriously injures pedestrian in Langley, RCMP say

DHS swept Chicago to get ‘the worst’ criminals.  Many have no record.  —  Aggressive tactics have been deployed to round up more than 4,000 people, only a small portion of whom have major criminal records.  —  CHICAGO — Juan Manuel Armenta was at a bus stop en route to pick up his paycheck …

‘We Intended the Strike to Be Lethal’ Is Not a Defense  —  An explosive Washington Post report, the subject of so much discussion the past two days, says that, in the first missile strike the Trump Defense Department carried out against operatives of a boat suspected of transporting narcotics …

“The Order Was to Kill Everybody.”  —  Pete Hegseth's murders.  And our War Crimes President.  —  Before the first Caribbean boat strike on September 2, Secretary of War Defense, Pete Hegseth reportedly issued a blunt order: Kill them all.  According to the Washington Post …

We Have Descended into Utter Madness  —  A new sense of urgency is needed.  Our national crisis has grown much more acute.  —  We have descended into utter madness.  —  We knew we were at risk of it.  We struggled against it as it was happening.  We called out the warning signs and its first manifestations.

Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard dies at 88  —  Sir Tom Stoppard, one of the UK's best-known playwrights, has died aged 88, his agents have announced.  —  Sir Tom, who won an Oscar and a Golden Globe for the screenplay for Shakespeare In Love, “died peacefully at home in Dorset, surrounded by his family”.