Los Angeles County has agreed to pay $2.7 million to a teenager who says he was forced to fight in what prosecutors have described as staged “gladiator-style” brawls inside a juvenile detention center. The move comes as 30 correctional officers face charges for allegedly orchestrating and allowing the attacks to happen. Where does the case […]
President Donald Trump’s middle-of-the-night social media post suggests trade talks between the United States and China are floundering. Trump logged onto Truth Social at 2:17 a.m. ET on Wednesday, June 4, to lament the toughness of Chinese leader Xi Jinping. “I like President Xi of China, always have, and always will, but he is VERY […]
A man originally from Mexico is undergoing deportation proceedings, despite investigators saying that a letter threatening Trump’s life ostensibly sent by him was in fact a set-up by someone looking to keep him from testifying in another trial. Ramon Morales Reyes, 54, an immigrant living in the U.S. illegally, is currently being held in Immigration […]
Electricity once sparked fears of widespread electrocution. Nuclear power brought warnings of total annihilation. Commentators claimed that the internet would usher in an era of global surveillance, while critics raised alarms about cloning and “playing God” as biotechnology advanced. Each time, people predicted the end of the world, but it never arrived. Now, artificial intelligence […]
U.S. authorities charged a pair of Chinese nationals with smuggling a “potential agroterrorism weapon” into the United States. Investigators said the two people accused of the crime were a couple, and one of them works at the University of Michigan. The charges In a press release on Tuesday, June 3, the United States Attorney’s Office […]
President Donald Trump signed a memorandum on Wednesday, June 4, ordering a formal investigation into whether former President Joe Biden’s aides unlawfully exercised executive authority during his time in office by using a mechanical autopen to authorize major policy decisions. The probe will examine who authorized the autopen, what documents it signed and whether Biden […]
A Russian drone strike on the town of Pryluky in Chernihiv Oblast killed five people overnight, including the wife, daughter and infant grandson of a local firefighter, Ukrainian officials said. Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed that the drone hit the firefighter’s home while he was responding to drone strikes in the […]
President Donald Trump revives a controversial travel ban, targeting a dozen mostly Muslim nations. Why now, and who’s pushing back? Plus, a judge has placed a hold on the deportation of the family of the Colorado firebombing suspect. What the judge ruled and what comes next. Lastly, Trump examines former President Joe Biden’s alleged use […]
Did you know the Defense Department has worked with Hollywood for nearly 100 years? Here are some details of that relationship.
Journalists at El Faro knew the risks when they published a series of interviews with gang members alleging long-standing ties between Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele and criminal groups. They didn’t know how quickly the crackdown would escalate. Within days of publication last month, sources close to El Salvador’s attorney general’s office warned that arrest warrants […]
