Trump praises ICE following killings:
'Doing a great job'
The felon-president called for traffic stops to resume, despite the administration ordering the agency to pause them on Tuesday
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Children’s health at risk in south Borneo as El Niño intensifies Indonesia wildfires https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/childrens-health-at-risk-in-south-borneo-as-el-nino-intensifies-indonesia-wildfires/
Nick Blair, a 40-year-old former football agent, and son of ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair,
is seeking funding for a military technology startup called “Pyra”
to the tune of 200 million dollars.
It’s not clear what, exactly, Pyra needs all that money to do:
its website only says “Deploying Summer 2026…Stand By.”
Blair is at the moment the only active officer of the company, according to UK government filings.
In an article published this week, an unnamed sour…
Filing: Shein says its US business is under FTC investigation and it is "cooperating", without giving specifics, as the company prepares for an IPO in Hong Kong (Gabrielle Fonrouge/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/28/shein-discloses-its-und…
"Nearly two-thirds of the U.S. population, over 213 million people, reside within the region that CBP considers falling within the 100-mile border zone, according to the 2020 census. Most of the 10 largest cities in the U.S., such as New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago, fall in this region." [per web search]
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Feds outed those fleeing Iran, lawsuit says
A lawsuit filed Tuesday alleges that the Trump administration’s immigration agencies have been sharing confidential information about Iranian asylum seekers with the Iranian government,
violating national immigration regulations and endangering countless Iranians, court filings argue.
The lawsuit depicts a coordinated campaign between the U.S. and Iranian governments
to identify Iranians in Immigration and Customs Enforcemen…
Videos show ICE’s pursuit of immigrant’s van before Houston shooting
Videos that capture the minutes leading up to and immediately after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot an undocumented Mexican immigrant in Houston early Tuesday morning
show agents aggressively following a white work van and then approaching the vehicle on foot.
Security camera footage from nearby businesses and residences, obtained and analyzed by The Washington Post, provides a n…
Graham Platner ends U.S. Senate campaign in Maine
Graham Platner,
the populist political newcomer who Democrats had hoped could flip a critical U.S. Senate seat in Maine,
ended his campaign Wednesday night
after a woman he previously dated publicly accused him of sexual assault.
“We believe for the movement to continue, it can’t be me
and for that reason, we are suspending campaign operations,”
Platner said Wednesday night.
The development, a…
Oil and gas prices jumped,
stock markets slid
and government bond yields rose after the US and Iran traded fresh strikes
and Donald Trump said the shaky ceasefire was “over”.
Brent crude, the global benchmark, climbed 5% to $77.86 a barrel.
In stock markets, the UK’s FTSE 100 fell 1%, or 110 points, to 10,556 while Germany’s Dax tumbled 1.6% and Spain’s Ibex lost 2%.
Speaking at a NATO summit in Ankara, Trump also said he was cutting off trade with Spain ov…