Category Archives: Breaking News

Federal authorities are searching for a man who fled an attempted immigration arrest on Monday after allegedly striking a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer with a vehicle, prompting the agent to fire his weapon. The incident occurred around 9:30 a.m. near Route 72 and Mermaid Drive in the Manahawkin section of Stafford Township, accordingContinue reading “FBI investigates after ICE agent struck by vehicle, fires weapon in New Jersey”

The bulldozers are moving dirt. The tenders are issued for mobile structures and a control tower. The Pentagon is building a large military base on the Gaza border, and nobody in Washington can say, with any certainty, what it is for. The facility is going up near the Israeli community of Re’im, just outside theContinue reading “US military building new base near Gaza border to support post-war plan”

The bright blue water is empty now. David Hockney, who painted that water better than any man alive or dead, died Thursday at his home in London. He was 88. His publicist said nothing more. No cause. Just the fact. The man who turned swimming pools into poetry could not swim himself. That irony wouldContinue reading “The pool of modern art lies still: David Hockney dead at 88”

The checks that nearly 70 million Americans count on to keep food on the table and the lights on are now on a collision course with catastrophe. Social Security’s trust fund will run dry by the end of 2032, according to the annual financial report released Tuesday by the program’s trustees. That is three monthsContinue reading “Social Security headed for 2032 cliff as Washington fiddles, new report warns”

The Trump administration is scrapping the $368 million network of scientific eyes and ears at the bottom of the ocean with the kind of deliberate ignorance that would make a mule look like a philosopher. The National Science Foundation says it will send ships in June to begin hauling up more than 900 deep‑sea instrumentsContinue reading “Trump destroys $368 million worth of scientific equipment to hide the climate crisis”

The seditious conspirators who plotted the overthrow of America’s 2020 election are scheming to break the law again by putting President Donald Trump’s face on a new $250 bill. And so you shall know them by their vanity. It appears that certain high-placed gentlemen in the current administration have been caught with their hands inContinue reading “Trump appointees tried to break the law against putting living man’s face on your money”

In the latest digital misfire of a troubled federal rollout, the very agency charged with safeguarding the health data of millions has instead lit a quiet fuse beneath the financial identities of the nation’s doctors. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, under the banner of President Trump’s push to modernize health care technology, inadvertentlyContinue reading “Trump’s incompetent Medicare agency exposed Social Security numbers”

Since the end of February, nearly three hundred attacks have been recorded against American diplomatic facilities, but the violence has not remained safely overseas. Iranian retaliation has come home. Micheál Martin avoided the trap that snared Germany’s chancellor by politely pushing back as Donald Trump slammed Keir Starmer, NATO and migration to Europe. There isContinue reading “Hard time for soft targets as Trump’s “America First” posture has left ‘America alone’”

In the grand, gilded ledger of American power, the names are often written in ink that refuses to dry. The latest installment of the Jeffrey Epstein files, a sprawling monument to human corruption, offers not a smoking gun but a lingering, sulfurous haze. It is a fog that obscures the faces of the powerful whileContinue reading “Latest Epstein dump has over 38,000 references to Donald Trump. Don’t expect justice.”

In a move that has ignited fury among the party’s grassroots, Senate Democrats on Thursday struck a deal with President Donald Trump and Republicans to avert a government shutdown, opting for negotiation at the very moment they held maximum leverage over the administration’s immigration crackdown. The agreement, which funds most of the government and providesContinue reading “Progressive New Jersey Democrat Lisa McCormick rails against the Capitulation Caucus”

A shooting at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Dallas, Texas, early Wednesday left one detainee dead and two others injured, prompting renewed scrutiny over the federal government’s responsibility to protect individuals in its custody. According to authorities, the gunman fired from an elevated position in an adjacent building around 6:40 a.m.Continue reading “Detainees on ICE at another U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility”