{beacon} Technology The Big Story TikTok saga comes to a close TikTok said Thursday that it has established a new U.S. venture as part of an agreement to allow the popular social media platform to continue operating in the U.S. © Jeff Chiu, Associated Press The deal brings
{beacon} Energy & Environment The Big Story DOE cancels $30B in green loans The Trump administration is canceling $30 billion in green loans and revising another $53 billion. © Photo Credit The administration on Thursday night said the changes or eliminations from the $83
Tensions between the United States and Canada have rapidly escalated this week after Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a rousing speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Tuesday, declaring a "rupture" in the old world order and calling on "middle
A nurse at a South Florida hospital has been fired for a social media post in which she appeared to make profane remarks about White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s pregnancy. A spokesperson for Baptist Health South Florida confirmed in a Friday statement that a “nurse
The Senate will instead hold its first vote of the week on Tuesday as Washington prepares for a weekend snowstorm.
The massive measles outbreaks of 2025 are officially spilling over into the new year. Fourteen states have reported new cases of the virus since the start of 2026, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday.
ICE beat, cuffed, and jailed an army veteran and Purple Heart recipient for protesting in Minneapolis—and then the Department of Homeland Security lied about his charges. On Friday, ABC News reported that 39-year-old William Vermie was arrested while watching ICE agents go
Grammy Award-winning opera singer Renée Fleming will no longer participate in a pair of symphony performances at the Kennedy Center this spring, according to a message on the center’s website. Fleming was scheduled to appear with the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) on May
More than half of the United States is under some sort of winter weather watch or advisory, bringing frigid temperatures to the south of the country and heavy snow to the northeast.
A federal judge on Friday rejected a request from DoorDash and Uber to block two New York City laws requiring food delivery companies to include certain tipping options and prompt customers to tip delivery workers before or during checkout. U.S. District Judge George Daniels
A top Homeland Security official is insisting that the American public trust the Trump administration with their children—even as reports circulate that ICE and Customs and Border Protection have detained multiple children in Minnesota. Greg Bovino, a senior tactical commander
A winter storm is set to hit much of the country this weekend, and naturally, the Federal Emergency Management Association is sending out warnings to make sure people are safe. But they aren’t allowed to use the word “ice” in any of their messaging because their superiors at
The top Democrats on the House Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform committees have requested a visit to the prison where Ghislaine Maxwell is being held, alleging preferential treatment toward Maxwell and a cover-up of sexual abuse at the facility. Reps. Robert
“You can basically put it in a drink and more or less mask it completely,” he said of the idea.
The Dropkick Murphys, an Irish American Celtic punk rock band, are showing their support for former D.C. Metropolitan Police officer Michael Fanone after a clip of him confronting a Jan. 6, 2021, supporter while wearing the band’s T-shirt went viral. The band reposted a video
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced on Friday that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has deployed teams to three states with a dozen others on standby, as an incoming winter storm threatens much of the country. “The time to prepare is now,” Noem said
ICE detained a 2-year-old girl in Minneapolis on Thursday, just two days after using a 5-year-old as bait—once again proving that claims that federal agents are only going after the worst of the worst are outright lies. A district court judge ordered that the child be released
Dozens of faith leaders were arrested during a massive peaceful protest Friday at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. A group of clergy members were among thousands who gathered at the airport to urge airlines working with ICE to stand with them against the Trump
The Trump-appointed head of the federal panel that recommends vaccines is saying that polio and measles vaccines—and perhaps every vaccine—should be optional. Dr. Kirk Milhoan, who heads the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices at the Centers for Disease Control and
A person no longer needs to commit a crime in order to be considered a criminal in Donald Trump’s America. A masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent warned a woman in Portland, Maine, that her information would be entered into a “nice little database” that would label
Even in temperatures above freezing, the danger chilblains can still be a concern.
The state of Michigan is suing major oil companies and an industry association, alleging that they colluded to hamper the adoption of renewable energy and electric vehicles (EVs). In a lawsuit announced Friday, Michigan sued BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell and the American
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced just one day after the U.S. officially withdrew from the World Health Organization (WHO) that his state would become the first to join the organization's Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, in a seeming rebuke of the Trump
The Treasury Department announced its Office of Foreign Assets Control will target and place sanctions on nine Iranian shadow fleet vessels and their owners who allegedly transported hundreds of millions in Iranian oil and petroleum to foreign markets. “Today’s sanctions target
You can see how Democrats got the wrong idea. When President Trump was sworn into his second term one year ago, it was not unreasonable for the opposition to feel somewhat cowed. Though his victory was narrow, Trump won the popular vote and made significant enough inroads into
Police officials in Lafayette, Ind., said they have arrested five people in the nonfatal shooting of an Indiana judge and his wife at their home that prompted concerns about escalating threats against the judiciary. Tippecanoe Superior Court Judge Steven Meyer was shot in the
Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) called for an investigation Friday into a deal that saw TikTok's American business spun off into a separate entity in order to allow the app to continue operating in the U.S. The deal was finalized Thursday, with TikTok announcing it had officially
President Trump and Vice President Vance each addressed the annual March for Life rally in Washington on Friday, touting the administration’s record in the anti-abortion movement. “In my first term, I was honored to appoint judges and justices who believed in interpreting the
NATO has drifted from its original purpose of preventing Soviet expansion in Europe to a moralizing, expansive alliance that has been involved in numerous interventions and proxy wars, making it an unaccountable and ineffective force for peace.
When a president threatens pollsters instead of grappling with what voters are actually saying, that’s a problem.
Governors in multiple states have issued emergency declarations ahead of expected severe winter weather this weekend. A forecast report issued by the National Weather Service (NWS) early Friday morning warned of an impending “significant, long duration winter storm” from the
In an administration that sometimes seems to lack a well-defined institutional role for JD Vance, he appears to be taking on a new function: putting a softer, more reasonable face on Stephen Miller’s authoritarian police state. The vice president journeyed to Minneapolis on
Corporate America is bracing for another proxy season filled with politically charged shareholder proposals, but companies can take control of the process by adopting tailored bylaws that limit repetitive proposals and exclude matters unrelated to the company's business.
ICE agents in Maine arrested a Black law enforcement officer, even after he repeatedly told them he was a legal immigrant. Cumberland County Sheriff Kevin Joyce confirmed to reporters Thursday that a viral cell phone video of a man being detained by ICE agents in a Portland
Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers are “experts with children” when asked about the agency's detainment of a 5-year-old boy and his father in Minnesota this week. “I will say unequivocally that we are experts in
Happy Friday! I made the mistake of going to Costco yesterday and it was a madhouse. Everyone in the DMV seemed to be there stocking up for the winter storm. Here’s the latest forecast for the storm. In today's issue: 🌨️ WINTER STORM FERN More than half of America braces for a
Federal judges in Minnesota are rejecting arrest warrants for some anti-ICE protesters because federal officials haven’t actually backed up claims that demonstrators have broken any law. Federal immigration agents have repeatedly failed to provide sufficient evidence that
The government has introduced two bipartisan bills to give states the flexibility to use contracted support to help process SNAP and Medicaid applications quickly and efficiently, while protecting public employees and preventing financial conflicts of interest.
MAGA operative Corey Lewandowski—who has long been rumored to be having an affair with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem—will be extending his stay as her de facto chief of staff. Despite being classified as a temporary employee, Lewandowski has been playing a shadow role
A pair of foreign policy-focused Republican lawmakers expressed alarm over a recent report of the U.S. potentially withdrawing its troops from Syria, warning that a decreased presence in the country would be to the benefit of ISIS. “Wow, if true, ISIS would love that. A small
Rep. Angie Craig (D-Minn.) slammed the Trump administration after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities detained a 5-year-old boy in Minnesota while targeting his father, who officials said was in the country illegally. The child was detained in the driveway of
The age of smooth globalization, unipolarity and middle-power brokerage is over.
A new survey found that a majority of respondents disapprove of how Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is handling its job. A New York Times/Siena poll released Friday found 63 percent of registered voters disapprove of how ICE is handling its job, while 36 percent said
Various groups opposed to the Trump administration's aggressive operations targeting immigrants in Minnesota are planning mass demonstrations and an "economic blackout" on Friday in an attempt to pressure Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to leave the state.
Americans have booed, jeered, and chased Greg Bovino out of their communities—but the Customs and Border Protection boss still hasn’t gotten the message that the country does not like him. In a bizarre interview with News Nation Thursday night, Bovino claimed that despite the
U.S. air traffic control infrastructure is straining under decades of neglect.
It’s official: ICE abducted a Tufts University student over an op-ed. Rümeysa Öztürk, a Turkish Ph.D. candidate, was snatched off the street by six masked federal officers in March last year, even after the State Department had determined that the Trump administration had no
The Trump administration is canceling $30 billion in green loans and revising another $53 billion, it said Wednesday night. The administration said the changes or eliminations from the $83 billion in total funding come after its review of $104 billion in loan obligations issued
Kash Patel is firing senior agents and directors at the FBI with connections to investigations into Donald Trump. MS NOW reports that the FBI has removed the special agent in charge in Atlanta, the acting assistant director of New York’s field office, and up to six agents in
