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A federal appeals court found on Friday night that the Trump administration’s mass detention policy concerning illegal immigrants it is looking to deport can continue.
The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision, said the Trump administration properly reinterpreted a 2025 law in disqualifying illegal immigrants from being released on bond, in effect allowing illegal immigrants to continue to be detained en...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y, slammed President Donald Trump on Friday for posting a racist video of former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama pictured in the bodies of apes.
His response? “F—k Donald Trump,” said Jeffries in a video posted to Instagram on Friday, bleeping himself....

As the NFL was gearing up to kick its Super Bowl promotion into high gear, the latest Epstein files document release dumped a significant distraction into the middle of the fanfare.
Unfortunately for the league, the Trump administration’s long-delayed release of Epstein documents has become one of the moment’s biggest stories (and dare I say, much more interesting than the idea of discussing a Sam Darnold-Drake Maye gridiron matchup...

My family and I went horseback riding in some Arizona mountains a couple of months back. When we were on the trail, our guide made sure to tell us not to let the horses eat these little shrubs they like eating, because doing so will make them sick.
And because of the way my mind works, I’ve thought about that a lot these days as I’ve witnessed the Trump administration and its Republican allies attempt to run roughshod over civil rights and democracy itself....