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ICE officers deploying to airports amid TSA staffing shortage but won't assist with screening operations: Homan
- ( The Hill ) – White House border czar Tom Homan said Sunday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers will not be directly involved in security measures at airports, a day before agency officials will begin assisting Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees.  "Wherever we can provide extra security, I don't see an ICE agent looking at an X-ray machine, because we're not ...

Source: wfla.com
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Did Israel miscalculate Iranian military capabilities?
- Iranian missiles have struck the towns of Arad and Dimona near an Israeli nuclear research centre in what Iran says was a response to an Israeli attack on its Natanz nuclear facility in Isfahan province. At least 180 people were wounded in Saturday's attack, and hundreds of people have been evacuated from the strategic towns as the Israeli-United States war on Iran is seemingly entering a new, more lethal phase of ...

Source: aljazeera.com
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Robert Mueller Never Should Have Been a Liberal Hero
- The cult of Mueller foolishly prioritized legal prosecution over political organizing. Bluesky For most of his life, Robert Mueller was a pillar of bipartisan comity, an institutionalist respected by both major US political parties, but in the last decade, he became emblematic of polarized politics. Liberals lionized Mueller as a patriotic public servant who bravely tried to defend the rule of law, while MAGA ...

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Cuba left in darkness after third power cut in a month | World News
- Country suffers total blackout The Cuban Electric Union says. The power grid collapse comes as Cuba deals with an oil blockade and decaying infrastructure. Cuba's power grid has collapsed for the third time this month, leaving the country in darkness with no electricity. The cut came as the communist government continued to battle with a US imposed oil blockade and decaying infrastructure. The Cuban Electric Union, ...

Source: news.sky.com
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Supreme Court to consider deadlines for late-arriving mail ballots, as Trump continues attacks
- Washington — As voters gear up for the midterm elections in November that will decide control of the House and Senate, the Supreme Court is set to weigh Monday whether states can count mail ballots that are postmarked by, but arrive after, Election Day. The dispute before the high court, known as Watson v. RNC, involves Mississippi's deadline for late-arriving mail ballots and whether its law — and ...

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Minnesota Wild reporter Jessi Pierce and her 3 children found dead in house fire, league says
- NHL reporter Jessi Pierce and her three children were killed Saturday in a weekend house fire in Minnesota, the league announced Sunday. Pierce, 37, covered the Minnesota Wild as the correspondent for NHL.com for the past decade. "The entire NHL.com team is devastated and heartbroken by the loss of Jessi and her children," said Bill Price, vice president and editor-in-chief of NHL.com, in a statement. "Jessi's love ...

Source: apnews.com
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Israeli settlers smash cars and set fires in the West Bank as 4 Palestinians killed in Gaza
- – At least 10 Palestinians were injured Sunday night in attacks in the occupied West Bank by Israeli settlers, who rampaged through nearby villages after holding a funeral for a settler killed in a car crash a night earlier. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said the wounded in Deir al-Hatab included a 45-year-old man shot in the foot and a woman suffering from smoke inhalation. Videos obtained by The ...

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Hawaii's worst flooding in 20 years threatens dam, prompts evacuations as more rain looms
- HONOLULU — As Hawaii endures its worst flooding in more than 20 years, officials are urging people in hard-hit areas to "LEAVE NOW." The warning early Saturday came after heavy rains fell on soil already saturated by downpours from a winter storm a week ago. Still more rain was expected during the weekend, officials said. Muddy floodwaters smothered vast stretches of Oahu's North Shore, a community ...

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