The U.S. Department of Defense conducted a maritime interdiction and boarding of the vessel Veronica III, which tried to defy President Donald Trump’s quarantine, the department said on Sunday. "Overnight, U.S. forces conducted a right-of-visit, maritime interdiction and boarding of the Veronica III without incident in the INDOPACOM area of...
Shivering Americans Snap Up Firewood as Winter Grinds On
In Nashville, Tennessee, which is still recovering from an ice storm last month that caused widespread power outages, business has been booming for Bradley Hite, a firewood supplier who said there was a wait of up to two weeks for delivery. And in North Carolina, Jason Loflin had to recruit...
Israeli Cabinet Approves West Bank Land Registration, Palestinians Condemn ‘De-Facto Annexation’
Israel's cabinet on Sunday approved further measures to tighten Israel's control over the occupied West Bank and make it easier for settlers to buy land, in a move Palestinians called "a de-facto annexation". The West Bank is among the territories that the Palestinians seek for a future independent state. Much...
US Deports Nine Migrants in Secret, Ignoring Legal Protections
In a secret deportation arrangement, the Trump administration flew nine people, nearly all of whom had been granted U.S. court protections from being sent back to their home countries, to the African nation of Cameroon in January. None of them are from Cameroon, according to government documents obtained by The...
Board of Peace Members Have Pledged More Than $5 Billion for Gaza, Trump Says
President Donald Trump said Board of Peace member states will announce at an upcoming meeting on Thursday a pledge of more than $5 billion for reconstruction and humanitarian efforts in Gaza. In a post on Truth Social on Sunday, Trump wrote that member states have also committed thousands of personnel...
Sanger Police Arrest Man on Probation in Assault Case, Recover Firearms in Kerman
A 29-year-old man on felony probation was arrested in Kerman after Sanger police said he assaulted his girlfriend and fled the area earlier this week. Officers responded Wednesday to a reported disturbance in the city of Sanger and contacted a female victim with visible injuries, according to the Sanger Police...
How Newsom’s Spending Binge Outstripped Revenues, Creating California’s Chronic Deficit
This commentary was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. An array of charts buried in the fine print of the state budget, unknown to all but a few fiscal nerds, details what California has collected in revenues and spent over the last half-century. The current charts in...
Ring Ends Deal to Link Neighborhood Cameras After Super Bowl Ad Backlash
The Amazon-owned Ring home security company created a Super Bowl commercial around the tale of a lost dog being reunited with his family through information harvested from a web of doorbell cameras. Days later, after critics warned that the commercial felt more invasive than heartwarming, Ring said it was ending...
ICE Tried to Justify a Minneapolis Shooting. Its Story Unraveled.
When an immigration agent shot Julio C. Sosa-Celis in the leg last month in Minneapolis, the Trump administration rushed to sell a version of events that demonized the wounded man and defended the agent. A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson claimed that three people had attacked an agent with a...
Kamala Harris Sold Her Email List to the DNC, Then Paid Off Old 2024 Debts
The Democratic National Committee, which began 2026 in debt and nearly $100 million behind its Republican counterpart, made a $6.5 million bet in the final weeks of 2025 to buy former Vice President Kamala Harris’ old email list of supporters. That money almost immediately went to help Harris pay off...