Trump Says U.S. Will Hold Migrants at Guantánamo Bay
President Trump on Wednesday ordered his administration to prepare to house tens of thousands of “criminal aliens” at the Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, the latest prong in his widening…
White House: Mysterious New Jersey drones were ‘not the enemy’
The mysterious drones that lit up skies across the US late last year were authorised by federal regulators and “not the enemy,” the White House has announced. The Federal Aviation…
Buttigieg Says Maybe, Whitmer Says No Way to Michigan Senate Race
Senator Gary Peters’s decision to retire has opened up a marquee Senate race in Michigan, a pre-eminent battleground state that President Trump flipped in November. The announcement this week from…
Republican Lawmakers in Florida Rebel Against DeSantis in Rare Power Move
For six years, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida could count on Republican state lawmakers bending to his will, giving swift approval to his ambitious legislative priorities with hardly a whiff…
Kentucky’s Strip Mines Get Turned Into Neighborhoods
The wooden cabinets and gray walls, still smelling of fresh paint, could be found in the kitchen of any suburban home. From the window, the neat row of houses in…
Trump Seeks to Assert More Control Over California’s Water
The White House on Sunday released an executive order by President Trump that laid out a plan to exert the federal government’s role in California’s complex water management operations and…
Giant pandas make public debut in Washington DC
Giant pandas Qing Bao and Bao Li have made their public debut on Friday after three months of adapting to their new life in Washington DC’s Smithsonian National Zoo. They…
U.S. Military Planes Carrying Migrants Land in Guatemala
Two military jets landed in Guatemala City on Friday carrying deported migrants from Tucson, Ariz., and El Paso, according to local migration authorities and the American Embassy in Guatemala. Guatemala…
More Kentucky Dirty Dealings: Attorney General Schemes to Leave Hundreds of Millions in Pension Recovery on the Table, Give Sweetheart Payout to Attorneys, To Settle Claims Against Private Equity Kingpins KKR and Blackstone, Including Ones by Plaintiffs the AG Does Not Represent | naked capitalism
Just when the long-running Kentucky Retirement Systems case against three (in)famous investment firms, KKR, Blackstone, Pimco, and critically, the top executives of KKR and Blackstone personally, was closing in on…
In California Fires, Trump Blames Newsom for Withholding Water. Experts Disagree.
President Trump has repeatedly blamed Gov. Gavin Newsom and other California leaders for the fires that devastated Los Angeles. The president has charged that the state’s Democrats have stubbornly refused…