A group of immigration attorneys filed a lawsuit late Friday, June 20, aimed at blocking the Trump administration from ending a program that protects immigrant children while they’re held in federal custody. The lawsuit is peppered with testimony from both adults and children who describe the conditions at two detention facilities in Texas. The lawsuit […]
The United States military struck three nuclear sites in Iran, President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social Saturday, June 21. Trump stated that the attack targeted Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan. “All planes are now outside of Iran air space,” Trump wrote in the post. “A full payload of BOMBS was dropped on the primary site, […]
Ten months after it sank, Mike Lynch’s superyacht was lifted from the seafloor on Saturday, June 21. The “Bayesian” yacht went down off the coast of Sicily, killing Lynch, his daughter and five others in 2024. Fifteen people, including a one-year-old child, were rescued from the scene. The ship sank after a waterspout hit it. The superyacht went down […]
Vance Boelter, the man accused of shooting and killing Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, claimed in a letter to the FBI that Gov. Tim Walz told him to kill U.S. Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar so he could run for Senate, according to the Star Tribune. The newspaper in its Friday, June […]
NATO leaders are expected to gather in the Netherlands on June 24 and 25 for what some policy watchers are already calling a “nothingburger” summit. But behind the stripped-down agenda lies a debate that could reshape defense spending across Europe. A stripped-down agenda and some serious side dishes The NATO summit in The Hague could […]
As the saying goes, war is hell — but it’s also expensive. The conflict between Israel and Iran continues to escalate, driving up the costs. With every volley of missiles fired, sortie launched and bomb dropped, military operations are costing millions of dollars. The expense of defense systems One of the most significant expenses is […]
China sharply increased military activity near Taiwan this week. Beijing sent dozens of warplanes across the median line of the Taiwan Strait just days after a British warship passed through the sensitive waterway. Taiwan’s Defense Ministry reported Friday, June 20, 50 Chinese military aircraft operating around the island, with 46 crossing the median line that […]
U.S. Border Patrol agents have shut down a more than half-mile tunnel linking Tijuana to San Diego with the help of U.S. Department of Homeland Security agents and Mexican law enforcement. Authorities have discovered nearly 100 illicit tunnels in the San Diego area since 1993. Federal officials said gangs used the tunnel — 50 feet […]
A scooter and e-bike rental company has reprogrammed its vehicles so they can’t be parked outside Seattle’s immigration court, where protesters used them to impede Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, Straight Arrow News has learned. Lime changed GPS settings on its scooters and bikes to create a no-parking zone outside the Henry M. Jackson […]
It’s become a rite of passage this time of year in cities, towns and suburbs across the country. Complaints, arguments, confrontation and lawsuits over the cacophony created by pickleball, the fastest growing sport in America. While the sport’s expansion shows no signs of slowing, there are definitely growing pains. A persistent demand to build more courts […]
