State placed migrant children in hotels with registered sex offenders, Globe investigation finds After the Globe identified sex offenders in hotels housing new migrants and homeless families, the state said it is moving the individuals. 05/17/2024 - 4:25 am | View Link
The 2024 Biden-Trump debates are scheduled. Here are 2020’s highlights The first of the 2020 presidential debates was so marred by personal attacks and accusations that mute buttons were added for the second Trump-Biden debate. 05/16/2024 - 3:10 am | View Link
Child Migration Through Darien Gap Reaches Alarming Levels, UNICEF Warns Chaiban recounted the harrowing experiences shared by children and parents, illustrating the perilous nature of the journey. 05/15/2024 - 7:20 pm | View Link
Migrant workers protest over family reunion policy Migrant workers have staged a protest at the Department of Justice calling for changes to current family reunion policies that they say are keeping them separated from their loved ones. 05/15/2024 - 3:08 am | View Link
White House asks judge to change protections for migrant children in government custody The Biden administration is asking a federal judge to partially terminate a decades-old agreement that set standards of care for unaccompanied migrant children held in U.S. custody. White House ... 05/14/2024 - 11:35 am | View Link
We can all agree that baby goats are cute. But what's even cuter is when those baby goats are hopping and frolicking around. It only gets better when it's baby goats in pajamas. But to reach true nirvana, it must be baby goats in baby giraffe pajamas.
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A new YouGov poll for Yahoo News shows that 52% of Americans now believe the central premise of Donald Trump’s hush money trial: that he did "falsify documents to conceal a hush money payment to a porn star." Just 22% say he did not, while roughly one-quarter say they don't know.
Nearly half of Americans said they were following the trial at least somewhat closely, at 48%, while 52% said they were not.
[Above: The last time Trump got a medal that DIDN'T include cheating at his own golf course, it was from the Saudis. -- eds.]
The first Congressional Gold Medal was struck in 1776 as a way of saying thanks to George Washington. Since then, the medal has been awarded just 184 times to hallowed figures including Mother Teresa, Rosa Parks, Nelson Mandela, and the Dalai Lama.
The disgraced former Republican Congressman, now CEO of Truth Social, Devin Nunes joined Real America's Voice. He claimed there's a massive conspiracy against Trump's media site, causing the stock to plummet.
It can't be that the site is losing millions of dollars while not having the kind of engagement a thriving social media site needs to survive.
Don't you love it when a couple of millionaire Fox News hosts weigh in on the homeless situation as if they are experts on the issue? Yeah, me neither. But that's what Jesse Watters and Jeanine Pirro did, according to Media Matters.
"A lot of these people, when they're asked and given a home, they don't want to go into the home," Watters insisted.
New York Times: “Two years into President Biden’s term, his aides began negotiating with Saudi leaders to have the kingdom establish diplomatic relations with Israel. But when the Israel-Hamas war began last October, the talks withered. American and Saudi officials have tried to revive prospects for a deal by demanding more from Israel — a cease-fire in Gaza and irreversible steps toward the founding of a Palestinian nation.”
“Now those officials say they are close to a final agreement on the main elements of what the Saudis want from the deal: a U.