Category: US

39 Senators Demand Answers as FBI Reportedly Stops Investigating Assaults on ICE Agents Independent Senator Angus King of Maine and 38 Democratic colleagues sent a letter Monday to Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin demanding an immediate, independent and transparent investigation into two recent fatal shootings by ICE officers, in Biddeford, Maine, and Houston, Texas, which…

Trump Tells Mamdani: Netanyahu “Will Not Be Arrested” on American Soil President Trump said Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “will not be arrested, in any way, shape, or form” while visiting the United States, pushing back after New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani suggested his administration was in “active conversation” about whether city…

Army Veteran Torches Entrance of NYC Federal Building Housing ICE and FBI Offices An Army veteran identified as 43-year-old Andrew Arrabaca allegedly arrived at the employee entrance of 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan around 8:30 a.m. Monday, ignited a large firework inside a canister, fired five to seven pellets from an airsoft rifle at…

Trump Vows Iran “Will Pay” as US Pounds Targets for a Ninth Straight Day After American Troops Killed U.S. forces carried out another wave of strikes against Iranian military command centers, missile and drone launch sites, maritime capabilities and air defense systems Monday night, marking the ninth consecutive day of American strikes on Iran. The…

Trump Slaps 50% Tariffs on Canada, Reigniting a Trade War With America’s Closest Ally President Trump signed an order Monday imposing 50% tariffs on a range of Canadian goods, including wine, dairy, cement, furniture and ice hockey gear, arguing that Canada has unfairly discriminated against U.S. automakers, alcohol producers and dairy farmers. The tariffs were…

Lebanon’s President Flies to Trump’s White House With a Hezbollah Disarmament Plan in Hand Lebanese President Joseph Aoun departed for Washington on Saturday to meet President Trump at the White House, the first visit by a sitting Lebanese head of state in nearly 20 years and his first face-to-face meeting with Trump [4]. Aoun, a…

ICE Agent’s “Troubled Past” Raises New Questions After Deadly Maine Shooting ICE officer David Brouillette, who fatally shot Colombian national Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero during a traffic stop in Biddeford, Maine, on Monday, is facing renewed scrutiny after relatives told the Associated Press he had a documented history of violent behavior and mental illness, including…

Trump Threatens to Tariff Canada Over Wildfire Smoke as Air Quality Chokes the Midwest President Trump threatened Friday to add the cost of wildfire smoke pollution onto existing tariffs on Canada, writing on Truth Social that Canada’s “Willful Negligence” in forest management has become “a yearly occurrence, costing the United States Billions of Dollars” [1,…

Deputy Used Police Spy Cameras to Track People He Knew — Now He’s in Jail DeKalb County Sheriff’s Sergeant Kabiru Salawu, who had worked for the agency since 2009, was fired and arrested Saturday on a felony charge of violating his oath of office and a misdemeanor charge of misusing license plate data, after an…

Two Dead, One Missing: Trump Vows to “Punish” Iran as Congress’s War Powers Vote Gets Ignored U.S. Central Command announced Saturday that two American service members were killed and a third remains missing in action after Iran launched ballistic missiles and drones at a base in Jordan, marking the first U.S. combat deaths from Iranian…