2 h. ago DHS chief Kristi Noem claims cartels have put $10,000 bounties on heads of specific ICE agents

Homeland Security secretary did not specify which ‘gangs’ or ‘cartel members’ had put a hit out for individual law enforcement agents

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3 h. ago Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest city

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7 h. ago Kristi Noem calls Chicago a ‘war zone’ after federal agents shoot woman

Homeland security secretary takes aim at city’s mayor who has called deployment of national guard ‘unhinged’Kristi Noem, Donald Trump’s homeland security secretary, called Chicago “a war zone” on Sunday after federal agents shot a woman and the governor of Illinois accused the administration of fueling the crisis rather than resolving it.Speaking on Fox News Sunday morning, Noem took aim at the city’s mayor, Brandon Johnson, who has been a vocal critic of the Trump administration’s Ice raids and deployment of the national guard in Illinois, a measure he called “unhinged and unhealthy”. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago Bad Bunny pushes back on Kristi Noem threat that immigrants stay away from Super Bowl

Singer jokes on SNL that everyone was happy about his planned half-time show, ‘even Fox News’Bad Bunny responded to homeland security secretary Kristi Noem’s threats to send federal immigration enforcement agents to the Super Bowl next year, joking during Saturday Night Live that everyone was happy about his planned half-time performance, “even Fox News”.The 31-year-old Puerto Rican singer who has criticized the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration policies hosted the season premiere of Saturday Night Live, using his opening monologue to address controversy around his 2026 Super Bowl performance. Continue reading...

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21 h. ago Judge blocks Trump from sending National Guard into Portland as protesters clash with federal agents outside ICE facility

An Oregon federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from sending the National Guard into Portland, as the city contends with hundreds of protestors at an ICE facility.

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25 h. ago Armed woman who 'doxxed' law enforcement is shot by ICE agents in Chicago after patrol was 'rammed by 10 cars'

Authorities were on patrol in the Windy City's South Side near 39th and Kedzie on Saturday when officials said they were 'rammed by ten cars'.

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26 h. ago Kristi Noem blames JB Pritzker after she’s refused access to a bathroom during visit to Illinois ICE facility

Video showed Noem and her team approaching the Village of Broadview Municipal Building, located in a suburb of Chicago, but being loudly refused by the staff inside

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34 h. ago MIKEY SMITH: 10 unhinged Donald Trump moments as museum boss fired for refusing King Charles gift demand

Trump wanted to give the King a very special artefact, owned by the US government, during his state visit. A museum director who refused the request was fired this week. Also, Trump's branded Gaza deal, Kristi Noem's bathroom breaks and more

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50 h. ago Portland braces for federal troops as protests escalate and conservative influencer is arrested

Five years after protests roiled Portland, Oregon, the city known for civil disobedience is again at the center of a political maelstrom as it braces for the arrival of federal troops promised by President Donald Trump

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52 h. ago Noem visits Chicago area ICE facility as agents detain multiple protesters outside

Federal agents have detained several people near an immigration facility outside Chicago

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4 d. ago Lawsuit filed against immigration authorities after U.S. citizen's arrests in raids

A U.S. citizen who is a construction worker in Alabama has filed a federal lawsuit after he says he was detained twice by immigration agents within just a few weeks

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5 d. ago Stunning pic of town left like a 'war zone' after drink driver overturns car at 80mph

One man left a scene of destruction and carnage in his wake as he jumped into his car after taking drugs and drinking before hand, with photos showing an otherwise sleepy town completely overturned

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5 d. ago Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon review – his first novel in 12 years tunes into rising fascism in the US

The 88-year-old’s jaunty whodunnit, set during the prohibition era, features clowns, Nazis and a missing cheese heiressEverything is connected in Shadow Ticket, Thomas Pynchon’s fleet-footed noir fiction about a lindy-hopping detective in prohibition-era Wisconsin. The homemade bomb connects to the runaway cheese heiress, the cheese heiress to the federal agents, and the feds to the pro‑Nazi leagues at the bowling lanes outside town. Early-30s Milwaukee, in turn, is connected to powder-keg central Europe, where paramilitary groups have pitched camp on the Hungaro-Croatian border and guest speakers wax lyrical about “our immense fascist future”. Most likely it connects to the current moment as well, albeit wryly and slyly, with a nonchalant swing. That’s the implied final move of this merry dance of a book: the point where the past links its hands with the present.Shadow Ticket is a Pynchon novel – the 88-year-old’s first in 12 years; his ninth overall – and so it naturally connects ...

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5 d. ago At Catholic colleges, student activists go underground to boost access to contraception

At DePaul University, a Catholic school in Chicago, students have created a covert contraceptive delivery network called “the womb service.”

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6 d. ago FACT FOCUS: Alleged FBI documents do not prove federal agents incited Jan. 6 Capitol attack

President Donald Trump buoyed the revival of a years-old conspiracy theory over the weekend, claiming that 50 pages of alleged FBI documents recently made public prove that 274 FBI agents at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, were there to incite the attack

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7 d. ago Three women face federal charges for ‘doxxing’ ICE agent by posting their home address online

If they are convicted, each woman could face a maximum of five years in prison for each count.

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7 d. ago Officials place Des Moines schools leader on leave after his arrest by immigration agents

Officials have put the leader of Iowa’s largest school district on administrative leave a day after federal immigration agents arrested him because they said he was in the country illegally

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8 d. ago Drunken pyromaniac who turned rural market town into 'war zone' by torching 18 cars in one night is jailed for nearly five years

David Giddins, 45, went on a drug-fuelled rampage when he began setting parked cars in the rural market town of Wimborne, Dorset on fire.

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8 d. ago Lulu: ‘I had such terrible shame. I never wanted to look at myself and know that I too was an alcoholic.’

The Glasgow-born singer talks to Claire Allfree about growing up in a war zone, living inside the ‘Lulu’ persona, working with Take That, succumbing to alcoholism in her sixties and finding the courage to write about it in her new memoir

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9 d. ago Des Moines, Iowa, public school leader detained by immigration agents, school board says

Federal immigration agents have detained the head administrator of Iowa’s capital city public schools

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