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23+ min ago (505+ words) It seems to me a prototypical case for the [Board of Immigration Appeals]," said Chief Justice Roberts. The U.S. Supreme Court appeared favorable to the Trump administration"s position in a high-profile asylum-related case before the bench on Monday. During the roughly hour-long hearing, the justices heard arguments in Urias-Orellana v. Bondi. The case centers around Salvadoran national Humberto Urias-Orellana, who fled his home country and illegally entered the United States with his family in 2021 after reportedly enduring targeted violence in El Salvador. The ruling was later upheld by the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), which prompted plaintiffs to appeal to the First Circuit Court of Appeals for review. The appellate court"s rejection of the petition led Urias-Orellana to appeal to SCOTUS, in which he asked the high court to address the question of "whether a federal court of appeals must…...

26+ min ago (181+ words) The presidential election is set for a knife edge finish with Nasry "Tito" Asfura narrowly leading a center-right candidate with 55 percent of votes counted. Conservative Backed by Trump Narrowly Leads Honduras Election Nasry Asfura, the Conservative National Party candidate backed by U.S. President Donald Trump, was narrowly leading Honduras"s closely contested presidential election with more than half of the votes counted, according to preliminary and partial results. The election was poised for a knife-edge finish, with early results showing that 67-year-old Asfura had captured about 40 percent of the votes counted so far, while Salvador Nasralla of the center-right Liberal Party was just behind on 39.78 percent. Rixi Moncada, of the ruling leftist LIBRE party, was trailing in third place with 20 percent. Zelenskyy"s Right-Hand Man Quits as Ukraine"s Corruption Scandal Escalates Bissau-Guinean President Accused of Staging Coup After Soldiers Appear…...

26+ min ago (181+ words) The presidential election is set for a knife edge finish with Nasry "Tito" Asfura narrowly leading a center-right candidate with 55 percent of votes counted. Conservative Backed by Trump Narrowly Leads Honduras Election Nasry Asfura, the Conservative National Party candidate backed by U.S. President Donald Trump, was narrowly leading Honduras"s closely contested presidential election with more than half of the votes counted, according to preliminary and partial results. The election was poised for a knife-edge finish, with early results showing that 67-year-old Asfura had captured about 40 percent of the votes counted so far, while Salvador Nasralla of the center-right Liberal Party was just behind on 39.78 percent. Rixi Moncada, of the ruling leftist LIBRE party, was trailing in third place with 20 percent. Zelenskyy"s Right-Hand Man Quits as Ukraine"s Corruption Scandal Escalates Bissau-Guinean President Accused of Staging Coup After Soldiers Appear…...

38+ min ago (503+ words) Cory Booker married a female woman over the weekend, closing the book on idle speculation about a man often described as "the Leonardo DiCaprio of American politics." The Democratic senator from New Jersey wed his recently acquired fianc'e, Alexis Lewis, at an intimate ceremony in Washington, D.C., over the weekend. The move satisfies a major public relations need for Booker and arrives with exquisite timing as he prepares to launch his 2028 presidential campaign. The post Cory Booker Obtains Female Wife in Boost to 2028 White House Bid appeared first on . The happy couple shared exclusive details about their relationship and "private" wedding ceremony with the New York Times. Booker, 56, and Lewis, 38, reportedly met in May 2024, several weeks after the senator pre-launched his White House bid with a record-breaking (and utterly pointless) filibuster that went viral on Bluesky. Most Democrats celebrated Booker's stunt…...

1+ hour, 47+ min ago (505+ words) A new study serves as a sobering warning to parents to avoid giving smartphones to their kids until absolutely necessary. A study released this week shows the real damage smartphones can cause to the developing brain of a preteen. It serves as a sobering warning to many phone-addicted adults to both lay off the electronics themselves and delay giving smartphones to kids. First, it found that most kids have smartphones. More than 95 percent of teens aged 13-17 have a smartphone; more than half (57 percent) of tweens aged 11-12 had a smartphone; and 29 percent of kids aged 8-10 had one. Any adult who has doomscrolled at 3 a.m. knows how addictive smartphones can be. What happens to a child's health when hours of screentime are added to his life? Researchers looked at 12-year-olds, comparing those with phones to those without a phone, and found that "smartphone…...

1+ hour, 54+ min ago (623+ words) Veronica Martinez woke up early one recent morning to make a fresh batch of cookies. She packed them in a box and headed to a community center in East Oakland, where a nonprofit called Trybe invites families to get the things they need " produce, milk, eggs and even diapers. Most of the families set up appointments first, but Martinez didn't have one, so she shared the box of homemade cookies with staff in exchange for access to the pantry. "They do a lot of hard work, you know, and I appreciate the community for helping us out," Martinez said. The longest-ever federal government shutdown delayed Martinez's monthly food benefits, and she needed help to feed herself and her teenage son and daughter. "When [the shutdown] happened, wow, it was a shock because I only get paid once a month, and…...

2+ hour, 4+ min ago (976+ words) More than 5,000 liquor and smoke shops were approved as retailers under SNAP, raising fraud concerns. There's no way to determine how much alcohol, tobacco, or other "non-compliant" goods have been sold nationwide. At least 20 states refuse to share data with the feds. Food stamps were first issued in 1939 as an assistance program to prevent starvation during the Great Depression. "But 86 years later, thousands of liquor stores and smoke shops have become approved retailers, increasing the possibility of fraud, new research shows." The longest ever government shutdown, which ended after 43 days of deadlock, thrust the federal food stamp program into the national spotlight as millions of recipients went without benefits. But, it also laid bare many abuses in the system." Even before the shutdown, the Trump administration planned to crack down on fraud in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) program…...

2+ hour, 4+ min ago (675+ words) Gov. Patrick Morrisey, R-W.Va., joins "The Sunday Briefing" to discuss the deadly D.C. shooting that targeted two National Guard soldiers and how the Trump administration says it is working to reverse Biden-era immigration policies. West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey and Maj. Gen. James Seward, adjutant general of the West Virginia National Guard, provided an update Monday on their operations in Washington as well as the condition of critically wounded guardsman, Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe. Wolfe, of Inwood, West Virginia, and Spc. Sarah Beckstrom, of Webster Springs, West Virginia, were shot " Beckstrom fatally " allegedly by Afghan evacuee Rahmanullah Lakanwal of Bellingham, Washington, on Wednesday as they patrolled outside the Farragut West Metro station not far from the White House. Morrisey said Wolfe has been upgraded to serious condition, a step down from the previously reported "critical" status. "I"m not the…...

2+ hour, 10+ min ago (156+ words) How Fuentes Does It... (Second column, 14th story, link) Related stories:Loomer Gets Desk at Pentagon...Milo leaks another tape... Drudge Report Feed needs your support!" Become a Patron If I were writing a glossary entry on the Streisand effect, I wouldn't put a picture of her next to it. I would put a picture of Nick Fuentes. Fuentes launched his career as a college freshman in 2017 with a barely watched show called America First. In Fuentes's telling, he was a mainstream Republican in high school. Then Donald Trump's rise radicalized him against immigration, and the experience of being ostracized by fellow Republicans for questioning Israel radicalized him against Jews as a whole. Whatever the truth of this origin story, it didn't take much for Fuentes to transform himself from a mainstream conservative into a lover of dictators (including Communist ones),…...

2+ hour, 35+ min ago (302+ words) Such instructions "would in essence be an order to show no quarter, which would be a war crime," former military lawyer Todd Huntley, "who advised Special Operations forces for seven years at the height of the U.S. counterterrorism campaign," told the'Post.'The second strike described by the Post also contrasts with what happened after subsequent attacks on suspected drug boats. The "armed conflict" that Trump describes does not meet these criteria. "This is not stretching the envelope," Geoffrey Corn, formerly the U.S. Army's senior adviser on the law of war,'told'The New York Times.'"This is shredding it." According to the OLC, in other words, the boats are legitimate military targets because the drugs they carry provide financial support for the cartels' "armed attack against the United States." But that "armed attack," according to Trump, consists of supplying Americans with the prohibited…...