3 h. ago Kash Patel denies rumors he’s quitting the FBI over DoJ ruling on Epstein files

Agency director says ‘conspiracy theories aren’t true’ amid backlash against FBI-DoJ decision to block release of filesFBI director Kash Patel has denied swirling resignation rumors over reported unhappiness at a justice department decision to close the book on Jeffrey Epstein after administration officials teased a big reveal earlier in the year.In a Saturday social media post, the agency director said: “the conspiracy theories just aren’t true, never have been. It’s an honor to serve the President of the United States – and I’ll continue to do so for as long as he calls on me.” Continue reading...

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12 h. ago Trump authorizes Ice agents to protect themselves using ‘whatever means’ necessary

Order comes after California raids resulted in clashes with protesters and a shooting outside a Texas detention centerDonald Trump has given “total authorization” to federal immigration agents to protect themselves after a series of clashes with protesters, including during a enforcement raid on a California cannabis farm.“I am giving Total Authorization for ICE to protect itself, just like they protect the Public,” Trump posted on Truth Social on Friday, adding that he was directing the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, and border czar, Tom Homan, to arrest anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) protesters who impede immigration enforcement operations. Continue reading...

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15 h. ago 2024 book review: Trump, Biden, Harris and a turbulent election full of what

Deeply sourced narrative charts the delusions of the main players and the disastrous debate that reset the campaignDonald Trump is on a roll. The “big, beautiful bill” is law. Ice, his paramilitary immigration force, rivals foreign armies for size and funding. Democrats stand demoralized and divided. 2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America, by Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager and Isaac Arnsdorf, is a book for these times: aptly named, deeply sourced.Kamala Harris declined to speak. Joe Biden criticized his successor in a brief phone call, then balked. Trump talked, of course.2024 is published in the US by Penguin Random House Continue reading...

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28 h. ago Trump team defends ICE raid at California marijuana farm where children were allegedly found working

At least one worker has died after he was chased by federal agents, according to United Farm Workers

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40 h. ago Inside the ICE offices where morale is ‘miserable’ and the deportation push has become ‘mission impossible’

‘Morale is in the crapper,’ one former agent said

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55 h. ago Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil seeks $20 million from Trump over ‘political retaliation and abuse of power’

Palestinian student activist accuses administration of carrying out targeted arrests designed to ‘terrorize’ him and his family

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56 h. ago Mahmoud Khalil files $20m claim against Trump administration for false imprisonment

Precursor to a lawsuit also claims the Palestinian activist was maliciously prosecuted and smeared as an antisemiteLawyers for Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University graduate and Palestinian activist who was detained by the Trump administration for months, have filed a claim for $20m in damages against the administration, alleging Khalil was falsely imprisoned, maliciously prosecuted and smeared as an antisemite as the government sought to deport him over his prominent role in campus protests.The filing – a precursor to a lawsuit under the Federal Tort Claims Act – names the Department of Homeland Security, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the state department. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Trump wants 10,000 more deportation agents. Experts say it’s an impossible goal — and dangerous

The administration hopes an historic injection of taxpayer cash can fix hiring challenges for an agency facing intense political and legal scrutiny, Alex Woodward reports

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3 d. ago Ice is about to become the biggest police force in the US | Judith Levine

Trump’s budget bill is creating a colossus with more resources than many national militariesOn Thursday, congressional Republicans passed Trump’s 1,000-page budget, and the president signed it on Saturday. The rich will get obscenely richer. The poor will be hungrier and sicker, work more precarious, and the planet unrelentingly hotter. The symmetry is elegant: cuts to healthcare and food programs average about $120bn each year over the next decade, while the tax cuts will save households earning more than $500,000 about $120bn a year.Trump got what he wanted. But enriching himself and his wealthy friends at the expense of everyone else has long been his life purpose. It was not until he became president, with the Heritage Foundation’s wonks, the deportation czar Stephen Miller, and six loyal supreme courtiers behind him, that he could reshape the US in his own amoral, racist, violence-intoxicated image. In fact, the latter goal may be dearer to him than the former. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Iranian woman living in US for 47 years released by ICE after Republican House Majority Leader intervenes

Mandonna ‘Donna’ Kashanian, 64, was detained by ICE officers last month as she gardened in the yard of her New Orleans home

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5 d. ago Mark Ruffalo calls out Joe Rogan’s criticism of Trump’s ICE raids: ‘It’s a little late now’

‘You are either not that smart or not that dumb,’ said the actor in a scathing post

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7 d. ago Carnage breaks out at Portland ICE detention center as woke crowd tries to storm holding cells

Tear gas, flares and mass arrests rocked Portland, Oregon as protesters stormed an ICE detention center just hours after Trump signed his sweeping immigration bill into law.

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7 d. ago Julio César Chávez arrested in US over cartel ties less than a week after Jake Paul fight

Son of legendary boxer arrested less than a week after losing fight to Jake Paul

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9 d. ago Shocking moment boxer Julio Cesar Chavez Jr is arrested and shackled by Trump's ICE is revealed in new footage

The 39-year-old was taken into custody in the Los Angeles area on Thursday and is being processed over alleged connections to the Sinaloa Cartel.

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9 d. ago Husband says he will continue to back Trump despite ICE detaining his Iranian wife

Federal agents targeted dozens of Iranian nationals legally in the United States in the wake of Trump’s airstrikes

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1 week ago Diddy won't be released as judge denies bail until sentencing: Live updates

The 55-year-old music mogul faced life in prison if convicted of the top charge - racketeering conspiracy.

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1 week ago White House posts bizarre AI ICE agent photo as Trump visits 'Alligator Alcatraz'

Donald Trump joked detainees at the new Alcatraz facility in the Florida Everglades would have to 'know how to run away from an alligator' to escape - as he toured the site on Tuesday

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1 week ago Meet ICEblock: The app that lets residents know when immigration agents are in their community

A grassroots network of apps, text threads and forums are sharing real-time ICE location data. The Trump administration says that’s illegal, Alex Woodward reports

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1 week ago Did Trump nab his Hannibal Lecter? At ‘Alligator Alcatraz’, Kristi Noem says ICE ‘detained a cannibal’

A DHS spokesperson says the alleged flesh-craving detainee was deported to Guatemala recently

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1 week ago Trump's 'Ice Maiden' Susie Wiles and Stormy Daniels hacked by Iranian group threatening private emails release

FBI Director Kash Patel is warning that anyone associated with a national security hack 'will be fully investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.'

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