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On June 6, 2025, Los Angeles changed. Federal agents (including 4,000 members of the National Guard and 700 Marines) poured in, targeting immigrants. A minimum of 2,792 people were taken in the 16 days that followed. During this period, David Huerta, president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) California was assaulted, arrested, detained, and charged with a federal felony while documenting an ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement) raid.

The Supreme Court recently heard arguments in a case that will decide whether the president overstepped his authority by invoking an old war law to justify imposing tariffs on seemingly every country and product under the sun. Though White House lawyers changed their tune in front of the justices, up till this point, one of the administration's defenses throughout this trade war is that these tariffs are needed because they bring in substantial revenue for the country,

(Screengrab via Truth Social) President Donald Trump unleashed a frenetic, late-night posting binge on Monday, flooding Truth Social with more than 160 posts in less than five hours, in a wild spectacle that saw him teeing off on political opponents and policies. From 7 p.m. to nearly midnight (ET), the president reposted an endless stream of clips, some of which were duplicated in what appeared to be an automatic loop, amplifying MAGA-friendly pundits and conspiracy theories.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.

Mike Kennealy has spent years strengthening our party - first as the MassGOP's finance chair and chair of its Legislative Support Fund, and now as a candidate for Governor. Kennealy was also the single largest donor to Republicans in the 2024 election cycle. Minogue's comments are deeply concerning, especially given that he only recently registered as a Republican and has

"This Fed went to sleep," El-Erian, president of Queens College at the University of Cambridge, told CNBC. He said the independent central bank needs to admit it made some mistakes: It needs to think about scenario analysis as opposed to point estimates, it needs to look more closely at supply-side economics, and it needs to improve its culture of compliance.

Costco has sued the U.S. government to ensure it will receive refunds if the Supreme Court rejects President Donald Trump's bid for sweeping authority to impose tariffs. In a complaint filed on Friday in the U.S. Court of International Trade in Manhattan, Costco said Trump's use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose tariffs left it uncertain whether businesses can recoup sums they should not have paid.

As we've said from the beginning, and in every statement, these highly effective strikes are specifically intended to be 'lethal, kinetic strikes.' The declared intent is to stop lethal drugs, destroy narco-boats, and kill the narco-terrorists who are poisoning the American people. Every trafficker we kill is affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization." That was part of a message from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last Friday evening on the social platform X,

It is plain that, in less than a year, we have entered the IDGAF period of the second Trump administration. In this period of time, the only relevant question is How much? As in, How much does it take to spring a convicted international drug trafficker to get out of prison after barely putting a dent in a 45-year sentence, especially while the government is committing war crimes all over the Caribbean under the cover of national anti-drug policy?

KAITLAN COLLINS: Tonight, President Trump just finished convening his top national security officials at the White House. The main topic, we are told, is Venezuela. And although the U.S. is not officially at war with that nation, the President has been hinting at U.S. military strikes on Venezuelan soil, he says, in an effort to combat large-scale drug trafficking. Now, that would be an escalation from the strikes that we've been seeing happening, offshore, in the Caribbean.

Tonight The Atlantic returns to its birthplace to launch an event series, The Atlantic Across America, that will eventually take it to all 50 states--at a moment in the country that Emerson could just as well be describing. Across the next three years, The Atlantic will hold events with its journalists in cities in every state to talk about the range of issues and ideas that the magazine covers, including the ideals of American democracy, the current administration, culture, technology, the environment, and more.

A very clear one. I can tell you that was definitely not artificial intelligence. I I watched it live! We knew exactly who was in that boat. We knew exactly what they were doing, and we knew exactly who they represented. And that was Tren de Aragua, a narco terrorist organization designated by the United States trying to poison our country with illicit drugs.

The OneGov agreement with SAP gives federal agencies access to new tools as they accelerate technology modernization, transition away from legacy systems, and unlock significant taxpayer savings.

The Social Security Administration reports that among beneficiaries ages 65 and older, 12% of men and 15% of women rely on their monthly checks for 90% or more of their income. But that's a problem. See, you can expect Social Security to replace about 40% of your pre-retirement income if two things hold true - that you're an average earner, and that benefits aren't broadly cut in the future. Most retirees, however, need more like 70% to 80% of their former income to maintain a comfortable lifestyle.

Over the holiday weekend in Washington, DC, two members of the West Virginia National Guard, 20-year-old Sarah Beckstrom and 24-year-old Andrew Wolfe, were shot at a short metro ride from my house. Beckstrom died from her injuries and, as of this writing, Wolfe remains in critical condition. The news quickly spread that the shooter was a CIA-trained Afghan man named Rahmanullah Lakanwal, who seems to have been psychologically ravaged by his experience in a death squad underwritten with our tax dollars.

What changed? Republicans long characterized Silicon Valley as a bastion of liberalism. But over the past half-decade, many of tech's wealthiest titans rebelled against the Biden administration's criticism and policing of their industry. Last year, many tech barons threw their support behind the GOP, which they saw as more aligned with their often-libertarian ideals and their companies' economic interests.

"Our forefathers built this nation on blood, sweat, and the unyielding love of freedom-not for foreign invaders to slaughter our heroes, suck dry our hard-earned tax dollars, or snatch the benefits owed to AMERICANS," Noem said. "WE DON'T WANT THEM. NOT ONE."

The White House's official TikTok is stirring controversy again. After using Wicked's "Defying Gravity" to celebrate the detention of people by ICE, it has now used Sabrina Carpenter's "Juno", which is about sex, in a bid to further promote ICE's work. Captioned, "Have you ever tried this one? Bye-bye", the 14-second clip shows people being pursued by ICE officers and handcuffed, while the lyric, "have you ever tried this one? repeats three times.

Our national holiday, Thanksgiving Day, is a time for football, friends, family, feasting, feelings of gratitude, celebration of our freedoms, and reflection on our foundation. A day of immersion in the physiology of communing, breeding, feeding, digesting, nesting, and resting, and a reprieve from the grind and the physiology of fortressing, fighting, fleeing, freezing, faltering, or, for some, even fainting.