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...
Trump, Netanyahu Agreed US Should Press Iran to Cut Oil Sales to China, Axios Reports
Feb 14 - President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed at a White House meeting on Wednesday that the U.S. would work to reduce Iran's oil exports to China, Axios reported, citing two U.S. officials briefed on the issue. "We agreed that we will go full force...
Investigators Focus Overnight on Car and Residence Near Nancy Guthrie’s Home
Investigators searching for answers in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie descended on two locations near her home overnight, as they continue to sift through the thousands of potential leads that have arrived since she vanished Feb. 1. Law enforcement officers first shut down a street to investigate a residence a...
Democrats’ Debate: ‘Abolish ICE,’ or ‘Abolish Trump’s ICE’?
WASHINGTON — The three-way battle among Democrats running for Senate in Illinois has evolved into an argument about the best way to combat President Donald Trump’s deportation agenda. A Party Divided on Immigration Strategy Is it better to “abolish ICE,” as Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton offers, or to “abolish Trump’s...
Inside the Debacle That Led to the Closure of El Paso’s Airspace
WASHINGTON — Last spring, in the early months of Steve Feinberg’s tenure as deputy defense secretary, Pentagon staff members briefed him on plans to employ new high-energy laser weapons to take out drones being used by Mexican cartels to smuggle drugs across the southern U.S. border. But their use was...
Zelenskiy Says US Too Often Asks Ukraine, Not Russia, for Concessions
KYIV, Feb 14 - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy voiced hope on Saturday that U.S.-brokered peace talks in Geneva next week would be substantive, but he said Ukraine was being asked "too often" to make concessions. He also accused Moscow of seeking to delay decisions by changing its lead negotiator. Ukrainian,...
US Military Says It Struck a Vessel in Caribbean, Killing Three
Feb 13 - The U.S. military said in a social media post that it had struck a vessel in the Caribbean on Friday, killing three people, the latest such incident in recent months. President Donald Trump's administration has touted its success at taking out suspected drug trafficking vessels in the...
Staggering Complicity of World’s Elite Saturates the Epstein Files
WASHINGTON — Journalists and researchers will spend the next months ferreting through the Epstein files in search of further criminal conduct or a new conspiratorial wrinkle. But one truth has already emerged. In unsparing detail, the documents lay bare the once-furtive activities of an unaccountable elite, largely made up of...