Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche heads to the Senate Judiciary Committee for two days of confirmation hearings. Senators are expected to press him on the Justice Department's independence and its handling of the Epstein files — two of the most politically charged issues facing the department.
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In a significant policy reversal, the Department of Homeland Security announced it would pause conducting traffic stops as part of its immigration enforcement crackdown. [1] — Sergio Martinez Beltran "Two men died during immigration enforcement traffic stops — one in Maine, one in Texas — and neither was the intended target. DHS has now p…" 02:36 The shift follows the deaths of two men: Juan Sebastian Duran Guerrero, killed in Maine, and Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, killed in Texas the previous week. Critically, NPR confirmed that neither man was the intended target of the enforcement operations. DHS claimed Duran Guerrero was a public safety threat and that Salgado Araujo used his car as a weapon against an ICE officer, but as of the broadcast, no video evidence had been presented to substantiate either claim — a notable gap that NPR's Sergio Martinez Beltran highlighted. White House border czar Tom Homan told reporters the agency will review whether ICE officers' training is adequate and whether they need additional safety support before the practice resumes.
The Department of Homeland Security announced it would pause conducting traffic stops as part of its immigration enforcement crackdown.
Two men died during immigration enforcement traffic stops — one in Maine, one in Texas — and neither was the intended target. DHS has now paused all such stops, with border czar Tom Homan ordering a review of ICE officer training, while no video evidence has been presented to support the agency's claims about the men.
Two men — Juan Sebastian Duran Guerrero in Maine and Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Texas — were killed by federal immigration agents during traffic stops, neither being the intended enforcement target.
No video evidence has been presented to back up DHS's claims that the two men killed during traffic stops posed public safety threats.
New York became the first US state to halt the development of large AI data centers, with Governor Kathy Hochul announcing a moratorium of up to one year.
Fei-Fei Li went back to Stanford from Google in 2018 specifically to build a multi-stakeholder governance framework for AI. Her argument: market forces are not societal norms. Just as biology uses IRBs and cars have safety laws, AI needs layered oversight from educators, governments, and the public — not just a few industry titans.
Andrew Santino's personal MCU of political villains is collapsing. He and Bobby speculated that a circulating photo of Mitch McConnell with a Chinese official was AI-generated compositing two separate images.
Mass surveillance is here to stay. The real battle isn't stopping cameras — it's ensuring judges and laws keep that data out of family court and civil disputes, admitting it only for violent crimes and national security. The surveillance economy currently yields more upside than downside, but only if we build the legal guardrails now.
When people cite Scandinavia as proof socialism works, Galloway says they've got it backwards. Northern Europe runs highly competitive free-market economies with more competition in many sectors than the US — they just make sure taxes are actually paid and redistributed. Billionaires and universal healthcare can coexist.
Two percent adjustments to income tax and stamp duty tweaks are deck-chair rearrangements. The UK's competitiveness hinges on four structural levers: currency valuation, energy costs, regulatory burden, and tax rates. Devalue the pound, build 56 nuclear plants, slash red tape, introduce a flat tax — and the country transforms.
Lisbon had one of Europe's worst heroin crises. Then Portugal legalised drugs and redirected all enforcement money into rehabilitation and housing. Crime collapsed. Addiction fell. Then politics moved the money elsewhere, and the problem started creeping back. Chesterton's Fence: you forget why you were spending that money.
Congress passed the Boland Amendment 411 to 0, explicitly banning CIA and Defense Department funds for the Contras. Reagan signed it — then immediately moved the operation deeper underground, essentially responding to a bipartisan prohibition by going more illegal.
The CIA planted mines in Nicaraguan commercial harbors, wrote the Contras' press releases taking credit, and promptly blew up ships from four allied nations. The Wall Street Journal broke the story, Congress erupted, and the Boland Amendments multiplied.
Oliver North was a decorated Marine and devout Catholic with zero covert operations experience. He ran the entire shadow war against Congress — planes, airstrips, arms shipments, shell companies — learning on the job. And by every operational measure, he crushed it.
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