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Susie Wiles confirms Trump’s ‘war on drugs’ is really about regime change in Venezuela

Susie Wiles confirms Trump’s ‘war on drugs’ is really about regime change in Venezuela

Chris Whipple writes: During my first visit with Wiles at the White House in November, Trump’s revenge tour against his domestic enemies was in full swing. So was his lethal campaign against Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, who, Trump was convinced, headed a powerful drug cartel. Over lunch, Wiles told me about Trump’s Venezuela strategy: “He wants to keep on blowing boats up until Maduro cries uncle. And people way smarter than me on that say that he will.” (Wiles’s statement…

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After Bondi Beach shooting, Republicans are calling for a purge of Muslim immigrants

After Bondi Beach shooting, Republicans are calling for a purge of Muslim immigrants

The New Republic reports: MAGA world is calling for a mass deportation of Muslims, following a mass shooting in Australia—ignoring the reality that it was a member of the local Muslim community who intervened and stopped the violence. At least 15 people were killed Sunday in a horrific attack at Sydney’s Bondi Beach. Two men—a father-son duo—allegedly opened fire on a crowd of Jewish Australians on the first night of Hanukkah. The country’s leadership has declared the incident a terrorist…

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BBC will fight Trump’s $10bn lawsuit, saying it should be dismissed

BBC will fight Trump’s $10bn lawsuit, saying it should be dismissed

The Guardian reports: The BBC is preparing to argue Donald Trump’s $10bn court case against it should be dismissed, arguing it has no case to answer over the US president’s claims he was defamed by an episode of Panorama. The development comes after Trump filed a 33-page complaint to a Florida court on Monday, accusing the broadcaster of “a false, defamatory, deceptive, disparaging, inflammatory and malicious depiction” of the president in the documentary. On Tuesday, the BBC said it would…

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John Roberts has been working to neuter the Voting Rights Act since the beginning of his career

John Roberts has been working to neuter the Voting Rights Act since the beginning of his career

David Daley writes: In 1982, when the Voting Rights Act was up for reauthorization, the Reagan Justice Department had a goal: preserve the VRA in name only, while rendering it unenforceable in practice. A young John Roberts was the architect of that campaign. He may soon get to finish what he started. Last month, at the oral argument in Louisiana v. Callais, a majority of the conservative justices seemed to signal their willingness to forbid any use of race data…

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Praise for Syrian-Australian man who tackled Bondi Beach shooter

Praise for Syrian-Australian man who tackled Bondi Beach shooter

Middle East Eye reports: Praise has flowed in for a Syrian-Australian businessman who tackled the Bondi Beach gunman during his rampage at a Hanukkah event on Saturday that left at least 11 dead. Ahmed al-Ahmed, a 43-year-old fruit shop owner from Idlib in northern Syria, was shot twice while confronting the attacker but managed to grab the shotgun off him and aimed it at the shooter as he retreated. Video showed Ahmed ducking behind a car before jumping at the…

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New Yorkers band together to protect street vendors from ICE

New Yorkers band together to protect street vendors from ICE

The Guardian reports: On a December day when temperatures dipped below 20 degrees, Street Vendor Project staff walked along a busy commercial street in the Bronx, handing out “know your rights” information to vendors selling fruits and vegetables. Several vendors mentioned they were scared after watching videos of immigration raids across the city. “We used to go around helping vendors apply for permits so they wouldn’t get fined,” said Eric Nava-Pérez, Street Vendor Project’s Spanish-speaking member organizer. “But now, we’re…

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Federal grand jury indicts Cincinnati ICE officer for sexually assaulting immigrants under his care

Federal grand jury indicts Cincinnati ICE officer for sexually assaulting immigrants under his care

CityBeat reports: A former Cincinnati-based officer with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency was indicted Dec. 8 for allegedly sexually assaulting detained immigrants under his care. Documents from the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of Ohio show that Andrew Golobic, 51, was arrested Dec. 7 for allegedly coercing sex from vulnerable immigrants. Golobic was an ICE officer between 2006 and 2020, operating from the agency’s office in Blue Ash. A federal grand jury charged Golobic with…

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Cincinnati ICE supervisor accused of strangling woman held on $400k bond

Cincinnati ICE supervisor accused of strangling woman held on $400k bond

CityBeat reports: A Cincinnati-based Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) supervisor is being held in Hamilton County Jail on $400,000 bond after allegedly strangling his partner. ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations official Samuel Saxon, 47, was arrested on Dec. 5 after police say he attacked a woman he lives with in their Corryville apartment. In court Monday, an officer testified that police have been called to the apartment roughly two dozen times in the last year and a half. Prosecutors also…

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ICE is holding a Chinese man who documented Uyghur prison camps

ICE is holding a Chinese man who documented Uyghur prison camps

The Wall Street Journal reports: A Chinese citizen who fled the country after gathering evidence of alleged human-rights violations against the nation’s Uyghur population is at risk of being returned there after being detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, his supporters said. Heng Guan is jailed in upstate New York awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New…

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What’s at stake in Trump’s executive order aiming to curb state-level AI regulation

What’s at stake in Trump’s executive order aiming to curb state-level AI regulation

President Donald Trump displays his executive order countering state laws regulating AI. Alex Wong/Getty Images By Anjana Susarla, Michigan State University President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Dec. 11, 2025, that aims to supersede state-level artificial intelligence laws that the administration views as a hindrance to innovation in AI. State laws regulating AI are increasing in number, particularly in response to the rise of generative AI systems such as ChatGPT that produce text and images. Thirty-eight states enacted…

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Tina Peters, the last MAGA prisoner

Tina Peters, the last MAGA prisoner

Yvonne Wingett Sanchez writes: Tina Peters is supposed to spend the next eight years of her life in prison. The former Colorado county clerk was convicted last year of charges tied to tampering with voting equipment under her control in 2020. President Donald Trump has repeatedly called for Peters’s release, warning of “harsh measures” if she remains incarcerated. But even a president obsessed with retribution, who granted blanket clemency to people convicted of federal offenses connected to the January 6,…

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How Andrew Tate, a manosphere star accused of rape and trafficking, was freed

How Andrew Tate, a manosphere star accused of rape and trafficking, was freed

The New York Times reports: Days before Donald J. Trump’s return to the White House, Andrew Tate got some good news. Mr. Tate and his brother, Tristan, swaggering influencers in the so-called manosphere, had been under criminal investigation in Romania since 2022, accused of coercing women into pornography. Andrew was also accused of rape and of having sex with and beating a 15-year-old. The brothers, American and British citizens, had been barred from leaving Romania while prosecutors built their case….

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Trump’s new social media rule poses threat to World Cup and U.S. tourism industry

Trump’s new social media rule poses threat to World Cup and U.S. tourism industry

Politico reports: U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to require tourists to hand over their social media data ahead of next year’s World Cup generated outrage on Wednesday. An elected European official, human rights groups and fan organizations condemned the move and urged the world football governing body, FIFA, to pressure the Trump administration to reverse course. Visitors to the U.S. — including those from visa-free countries such as France, Germany and Britain — would have to submit five years of…

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Authorities monitor online criticism of New Orleans immigration crackdown

Authorities monitor online criticism of New Orleans immigration crackdown

The Associated Press reports: State and federal authorities are closely tracking online criticism and protests against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in New Orleans, monitoring message boards around the clock for threats to agents while compiling regular updates on public “sentiment” surrounding the arrests, according to law enforcement records reviewed by the Associated Press. The intelligence gathering comes even as officials have released few details about the first arrests made last week as part of “Catahoula Crunch”, prompting calls for…

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Status: Venezuelan

Status: Venezuelan

  By Mauricio Rodríguez Pons This story was originally published by ProPublica It was a chilly afternoon in January, just a week after President Donald Trump returned to the White House, when I met Yineska, a Venezuelan mother who had been living in the United States for nearly two years. Trump’s election, she told me, had put her in a bind. On his first day back in office, Trump announced that he planned to end the humanitarian parole program that…

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CIA torture techniques were used to punish migrant detainees at Alligator Alcatraz

CIA torture techniques were used to punish migrant detainees at Alligator Alcatraz

Spencer Ackerman writes: One of the most horrific torture methods that the CIA employed in its post-9/11 incommunicado “black site” torture chambers was the Confinement Box. Not many detainees in CIA custody experienced the Box. The most prominent of them is the man known as Abu Zubaydah, the first CIA detainee post-9/11 and someone the agency used as a guinea pig for all who came into their custody later. What follows is not pleasant reading. For 20 days in August…

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