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It seems the city that rose up to protect its neighbors from Immigration and Customs Enforcement is similarly protective of its protesters—especially when they’re being tried on trumped-up charges. Donald Trump’s federal prosecutor in Los Angeles is struggling to get indictments for protesters arrested in anti-ICE demonstrations earlier this summer, the Los Angeles Times reported. Grand jury indictments only require probable cause that a crime has been committed—a lower bar than the standard for a criminal conviction. And even so, out of the 38 felony cases filed by Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli, only seven have resulted in indictments. In a recent case, the grand jury refused to indict a protester accused of attacking federal law enforcement officials. And Trump’s prosecutor was not happy: The Times described “screaming” that was “audible” from outside the grand jury room coming from Essayli. According to legal experts interviewed by the Times, it’s incredibly rare that a grand jury wouldn’t indict in cases like these—which indicates weak cases brought by an attorney whose goal may be to promote Trump’s anti-immigration agenda rather than go after real crime. Meghan Blanco, a former federal prosecutor in L.A., said the cases are “not deserving of prosecution.” Some

In a heart-wrenching and disturbing case out of Maryland, three-year-old Nola Dinkins' life was tragically cut short, and her remains were discovered in a suitcase wrapped in Saran Wrap. Authorities are now pursuing murder charges against her mother, Darrian Randle, and her boyfriend, Cedrick Antoine Britten.

Even Donald Trump’s most sycophantic followers are turning on the president. Jacob Chansley—better known as the QAnon shaman—denounced the MAGA leader Wednesday morning, responding to a post of Trump’s 2023 mugshot by decrying the president as a “fraud.” “Fuck this stupid piece of shit,” Chansley wrote in a since-deleted post that accrued more than 34,000 views. In a follow-up post , Chansley wrote: “Oh yea & Fuck Israel! And Fuck Donald Trump!” Chansley captured national attention when he stormed through the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, in an elaborate, horned fur headdress. In the aftermath of the attack, a face-painted Chansley emerged as one of the central figures of the revolt. Once at the Capitol building, Chansley was in the first group of rioters to break inside. Wielding a bullhorn, he worked to “rile up the crowd and demand that lawmakers be brought out,” according to a sentencing memo . In late 2021, a federal judge sentenced Chansley to 41 months in prison for his role in the January 6 insurrection. But that was undone hours after Trump was inaugurated at the start of this year, when he included Chansley in a clemency order for some 1,600 of his

People wonder why AMBER Alerts are not issued for every missing child. It's because they are issued for the most serious child-abduction cases. Go here for more information. As of July 11, 2025, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), there are 25 missing children in Missouri, including a recent missing teenager since July 4, 2025.

As federal immigration agents attacked a U.S. citizen, they warned him: “You’ve got no rights here.” What began as a simple traffic stop for Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio, an 18-year-old Floridian, in May, turned into a traumatizing arrest when U.S. Customs and Border Protection arrived at the scene. Alongside his mother and two undocumented male companions, Laynez-Ambrosio was laughed at, ridiculed, and violently detained by a group of officers, according to video footage secretly captured by the teenager, first reported on by The Guardian . “Wait, hold up,” Laynez-Ambrosio said when agents opened the door of their company work van. “You guys have no rights to do that.” “We don’t have rights to do that?” one agent said, laughing. The video footage, panning upward, then shows the border patrol agents restraining one individual in a chokehold. All three men were forced out of their vehicle and onto the ground. As another companion is manhandled by three officers in tactical gear, the sound of a stun gun is heard going off, sending the man crashing onto the floor as he cries and shakes in agony. “You can’t be doing that,” Laynez-Ambrosio said. “Get on the ground,” an officer screams at him. “I’m not

The Trump administration on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against all 15 federal judges in Maryland over an order blocking the immediate deportation of migrants challenging their removals, ratcheting up a fight with the federal judiciary over President Donald Trump’s executive powers.

National Weather Force’s Northern Plains Weather Force sector is monitoring an upper-level low coming out of the Pacific Northwest for Friday, June 27, 2025. This system is similar in zonal-flow and upper divergence (lift) to one earlier this month across North Dakota.

Bipartisan interest in publicizing the Epstein files has brought together the most unlikely of allies. Representatives Nancy Pelosi, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Jamie Raskin, Lauren Boebert, and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez are just some of the names who have co-sponsored H.Res.581, dubbed the Epstein Files Transparency Act . Introduced by Representative Thomas Massie, who has a habit of actually standing up to Donald Trump, the bill aims to “make publicly available in a searchable and downloadable format all unclassified records, documents, communications, and investigative materials in the possession of the Department of Justice, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation and United States Attorneys’ Offices” relating to child sex traffickers Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. The text of the bill specifies the release of flight logs, travel records, the names of individuals and government officials connected to Epstein’s “criminal activities, civil settlements, immunity or plea agreements, or investigatory proceedings,” the names of corporations or organizations tied to Epstein’s trafficking networks, potential immunity deals or sealed settlements, as well as “internal DOJ communications.” A dozen Republicans have signed on to the effort in total, including Representatives Tim Burchett, Eric Burlison, Jeff Van Drew, Eli Crane, Cory Mills, Tom Barrett, Max Miller, Nancy Mace, and

In a heart-stopping act of bravery, a Good Samaritan in Sun Valley, Nevada, is being hailed as a hero after saving a newborn baby who was abandoned in a dumpster. The rescue occurred on July 5, when the unidentified citizen heard the cries of an infant coming from a parking lot and immediately dialed 911, according to the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office (WCSO).

Leigh Haldeman, a nurse at a hospital in Seattle who is 32 weeks pregnant with her second child, was advised in early June by her medical team to get vaccinated for Covid. This was not idle medical advice: She’d had complications in her first pregnancy that made her high risk if she were to get Covid. Her midwife advised her to get the vaccine while she was still pregnant, to avoid getting Covid in her third trimester and to protect her newborn . What should have been a straightforward vaccination turned into a Kafkaesque runaround—one that portends the chaos to come for people trying to get Covid vaccines now and come the fall. The result will be lower rates of Covid vaccination and higher rates of transmission, long Covid, hospitalizations, and deaths with a summer surge already underway. In late May, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had taken to X to announce that Covid vaccinations would no longer be recommended to pregnant people or healthy children, although long Covid is now the most common chronic condition among children .* A week before, the Food and Drug Administration had also announced that healthy people under

Los Angeles police are investigating a heartbreaking crime after the body of a young boy, believed to be between 3 and 4 years old, was discovered early Saturday morning, July 12, near dumpsters in a Panorama City parking lot on the 8200 block of Van Nuys Boulevard.

The Department of Homeland Security is urging Americans to dish the dirt on their undocumented ex-lovers. “From domestic abuser to deported loser,” the official X account for the agency posted Tuesday, sharing the contact number for Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s tip line. The unsavory ploy was in response to Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier , who recounted a recent incident in which he said his office “got a tip from someone whose abusive ex overstayed a tourism visa.” “He is now cued up for deportation,” Uthmeier wrote. ICE handles more than 15,000 calls per month, according to the agency’s tip line FAQ . Federal authorities have been tasked by White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller to arrest 3,000 undocumented immigrants per day—but actually doing so has forced the agency to seek out immigrants that the administration did not advertise targeting, such as noncriminals and even lawful temporary residents possessing visas or green cards. But the new urgency behind deportations under the Trump administration has not brewed a happy scenario behind the scenes for federal immigration agents. Former Immigration and Customs Enforcement prosecutor Veronica Cardenas told MSNBC Sunday that many ICE agents are “unhappy” and experiencing “very low” morale

It’s HOT outside, so the last thing anyone wants to do is turn on the oven. And with fast food prices climbing lately, we’re loving this incredible deal!. Pizza Hut is offering one-topping personal pan pizzas for just $2 for the remaining Tuesdays in July! You read that right—two bucks!

Donald Trump’s approval rating has officially reached an all-time low—for his second term in the White House, that is. “The USS Donald Trump is taking on a lot of water,” said CNN’s chief data analyst Harry Enten Wednesday. He reported that Trump’s net approval rating had sunk to -11 points. “His net approval rating has dropped nearly 20 points in the aggregate since the beginning of his presidency,” Enten said. “The American people do not like what they’re seeing, and Donald Trump’s administration is in a ton of trouble at this point, in the minds of the American voters.” Enten reported voters had come to disapprove of Trump on practically every single issue of the day. Trump had a net approval rating of -14 points on the economy and foreign policy, with his never-ending tariff negotiations earning him a -15 point approval rating on trade. On immigration, which is arguably Trump’s best issue, his net approval rating was only -5 points. But Enten did have one piece of good news to offer. “There is one other presidency that has a lower net approval rating at this point than this one,” Enten said. “The bad news is that it was Donald

Well, folks, it’s official — starting July 1st, modifying the weather in Florida is banned. That’s right. No more amateur cloud whispering. No more budget Dr. Evils trying to tweak the thermostat or juice the humidity. The dream is dead. RIP Florida’s Supervillain Starter Kit.

Well, The Wall Street Journal has confirmed what has been apparent for quite some time: President Donald Trump’s name is in the Epstein files multiple times. An exclusive Wednesday report in the Journal states that Attorney General Pam Bondi notified the president that his name was in the files back in May. The report directly contradicts Trump’s claim that Bondi told him he was not in the files, which he told reporters last week. This revelation offers some explanation as to why the Trump administration, after years of promising to release the files, abruptly decided that there was no further work to be done on the matter. It also may explain why the president himself has been so quick to anger and defensiveness in recent days any time the subject of his friendship with the defamed sexual predator has come up. The confirmation of Trump’s presence in the infamous documents comes just as Speaker Mike Johnson ended a legislative session early just to avoid voting on whether to release more files. All of the internal uproar over this, from FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino going AWOL at work, to Trump calling anyone who is still worried about this code red–level

Whether you’re a drive-thru devotee or someone who swears they “never” eat fast food, chances are you’ve heard at least one wild rumor about the Golden Arches. From indestructible burgers to mysterious “pink slime,” McDonald’s folklore spreads faster than a six-piece Nugget disappears at midnight.

CALIFORNIA – The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office (LADA) announced that fast fashion retailer Shein will pay $700,000 to settle a civil lawsuit alleging it took over a month to ship orders and failed to notify or refund customers as required by California law.

In the last few days, we seem to have crossed a threshold. President Trump is ratcheting up the authoritarianism and threatening to prosecute his enemies in a new kind of way. In a series of angry new rants, Trump accused Barack Obama and other members of Obama’s administration of serious crimes . He’s also calling for Senator Adam Schiff to be put in “prison.” Critically, all this has been accompanied by unabashedly corrupt manipulation of the bureaucracy that’s designed to manufacture pretexts for the prosecutions of those enemies. Ryan Enos, a professor of government at Harvard, put it very starkly on Bluesky, saying that authoritarianism is “right here in front of us.” So we invited Enos on the show. He explains why “we’re in real trouble in the short term,” how Trump compares to other authoritarians around the globe, and why our only choices now are to fight the takeover or “accept that this is our future.” Listen to this episode here . A transcript is here .

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Over 110,000 cases of Rich's Ice Cream Bars have been recalled across 23 states because of potential Listeria contamination. On July 17, the Food and Drug Administration Authority (FDA) announced a Class II recall of several varieties of Rich's Ice Cream bars. Since June 27, over 110,000 cases of the Florida-based ice cream brand’s popular treats have been voluntarily recalled due to potential contamination of Listeria monocytogenes.

Earlier today, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in favor of the Trump administration, limiting the ability of federal courts to issue nationwide injunctions against Trump’s birthright citizenship Executive Order. The Supreme Court also ruled that the Executive Order — which aims to strip birthright citizenship from children of undocumented and temporary residents — cannot go into effect for at least 30 days.

The dollar cost of climate change usually comes in the form of numbers so big they’re nearly impossible to understand. The price of global warming will add up to $38 trillion by 2049, one study projected. By 2090, it might reduce global gross domestic product by 70 percent , experts in risk management have calculated. These figures are mind-numbingly huge. They’re also abstract—as abstract, you might say, as pledges to cap emissions at 1.5 or two degrees Celsius, or achieve “net-zero” emissions sometime in the future. If we don’t start doing something now, the numbers suggest, then someone at some point will have to pay a lot of money to deal with the problem. But these stupendous losses are not something we’ll begin to feel at some distant point in the future: They’re already here. Day by day, we’re experiencing them incrementally—and painfully—at the grocery store. On Monday, an interdisciplinary team of researchers in Europe and the United Kingdom published a study in Environmental Research Letters tracking the impact of 16 climate-fueled extreme weather events on rising food prices around the world from 2022 to 2024. After the Horn of Africa’s worst drought in 40 years , which occurred in

CALIFORNIA – The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that a former AME Zion church bishop pleaded guilty, July 15, to federal fraud and conspiracy charges for using deception and forged documents to seize control over church properties in California.

CALIFORNIA – Del Monte Foods announced July 1, that it has filed for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The company, headquartered in Walnut Creek, California is working to sell all or most of its assets for the best value as a part of a financial restructuring.

In an apparent effort to get out ahead of Ghislaine Maxwell’s testimony, Donald Trump’s media allies have decided to saddle up beside the prolific sex trafficker. The Justice Department is reportedly meeting with Maxwell on Thursday and Friday, ahead of her scheduled deposition with the House Oversight Committee on August 11. The interviews follow weeks of mounting pressure on Trump from his base, who have clamored for more transparency regarding the Epstein files after the Justice Department contradicted prior statements from Attorney General Pam Bondi on the existence of Jeffrey Epstein’s supposed client list. Offering Maxwell as fodder to Trump’s hungry followers is a fascinating carrot-and-stick option to alleviate some of that tension, but convincing her to talk would almost certainly require some kind of deal —an option that pro-Trump conservative media networks started to imagine this week. On Monday, Newsmax host Greg Kelly had already started to dabble in the new media line, suggesting on air that Maxwell didn’t deserve her 20-year prison sentence and openly embracing the idea that the Epstein associate could be wrongly convicted. “And then he’s got that girlfriend, Ghislaine—Ghislaine Maxwell,” Kelly said . “Right? She’s in jail right now for, like, 40 years or

If you’ve never sailed before, packing for a cruise can be a bit daunting. That’s because a cruise is a unique vacation. Where else do you have to pack for the pool, the theater, formal dining, and walking around in port?

People wonder why AMBER Alerts are not issued for every missing child. It's because they are issued for the most serious child-abduction cases. You can go here for more information as to why there isn’t an AMBER Alert for each child that goes missing.

Polk County, Florida—where the weather is hot, the gators are bold, and apparently, the deputies are running side hustles out of the squad car. Meet Justin Register, a now-former traffic enforcement deputy who decided that law enforcement just wasn’t lucrative enough… so he allegedly started a little freelance wallet-lightening business right there on the shoulder of the road near Fort Meade.

A Canadian fisherman is sounding the alarm to stay far, far away from the United States-Canadian border, alleging that the U.S. Coast Guard detained him in Canadian waters, CTV News reported. Sixty-year-old Eduoard Lallemand borrowed his friend’s fishing vessel near Venise-en-Québec, about nine miles north of the U.S. border at the northern end of Lake Champlain, where he has been fishing for decades. Lallemand said he was surprised when he was approached by the U.S. Coast Guard, who instructed him to turn off his engine and told him he’d ventured into U.S. territory. He complied, but maintained that he was in Canadian waters. “I said, ‘No, I’m very sorry, I’m in Canada,’” Lallemand recalled to CTV News. “And I said I’m polite enough to talk to you guys but you cannot arrest me. ‘You can’t come across the border and pick me up,’ but they did.” Lallemand said that he told the agents he’d like to talk to them by the shore, starting up his engine again. He claimed that the Coast Guard then attempted to push his boat closer to U.S. waters, causing his boat to capsize and sending him into the waters of Lake Champlain. Lallemand said the