A government contractor says White House adviser Stephen Miller “wanted it to be cruel” when the administration planned to turn warehouses into immigrant detention centers.The contractor, whose company was approached to convert several warehouses into Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, …
Year: 2026
On Monday night in Grand Island, Nebraska, Donald Trump was trying to convince a tiny rally crowd to vote Republican when, as he is wont to do, he wandered off-prompter into a riff about what Iran could do to two American cities and the crowd cheered:“They can take out a city. Let them take out Los …
Alarms are blaring as the United States Postal Service orders an influx of contracted-out armed security at facilities just weeks before the midterm elections.Nearly 1,000 armed security officers (ASOs) have been deployed in at least 55 USPS facilities through a private contractor, multinational sec…
A federal judge received a paper trail showing how President Donald Trump’s administration turned $20 million meant for border-security ceremonies into TV ads promoting himself.The records appear in a lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court in Manhattan by the government watchdog group Common Cause…
Who among us hasn’t been fascinated with the relationship between Donald Trump and Natalie Harp? Well, at least those of us who are obsessed with politics and palace intrigue.Why, only this week their relationship faced renewed scrutiny following a Nebraska rally where onlookers criticized Trump for…
A massively untapped voting bloc made up of millions of Americans — and which skews blue — is being mobilized in a frantic effort to deliver a decisive blow against Republicans next month.Historically, of an estimated six-and-a-half million voting-age Americans living outside the country, only a tin…
The head of New York’s Democratic Party is asking state officials to stop public funds from flowing to Bruce Blakeman’s governor’s race, arguing his campaign finance reports can’t be trusted, according to Newsday.State Democratic Chair Jay Jacobs filed the complaint Wednesday with the Public Campaig…
As a human being, I was appalled.As an American, I was embarrassed.As a Californian, I was alarmed.As a citizen, I was unsurprised.It’s apparently OK now for the President of the United States to threaten two of the most populous cities in the union, Los Angeles and San Diego. It’s even permissible …
The United States Postal Service is hiring armed security guards through a multinational private contractor with a history of alleged human rights abuses and price fixing, according to a Raw Story investigation.USPS has a contract with Prosegur, a multinational security firm, to provide armed guard …
President Donald Trump has joked that he turned Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent into a “monster,” and a new report details the temper behind the punchline.The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that Bessent’s outbursts helped drive an unusual wave of departures from the top ranks of the Treasury …