US deports migrants, including Iranian
activist, to CAR
Posted By: sunset, 6/13/2026 11:49:26 PM
The US has deported a number of migrants to the Central African Republic, one of the world's poorest and most troubled states, under a controversial deal that allows Washington to deport migrants who cannot be sent back to their home countries. The flight that took off from Louisiana on Thursday night was carrying some two dozen migrants, including an Iranian pro-democracy activist, her lawyer has said. It landed in Bangui on Friday. Other migrants set to be on the flight included nationals of Jordan, Armenia, Turkey, Georgia and Afghanistan, according to Ali Rahnama, interim executive director of the Iranian American Legal Defense Fund.
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The US has deported a number of migrants to the Central African Republic, one of the world's poorest and most troubled states, under a controversial deal that allows Washington to deport migrants who cannot be sent back to their home countries.
The flight that took off from Louisiana on Thursday night was carrying some two dozen migrants, including an Iranian pro-democracy activist, her lawyer has said. It landed in Bangui on Friday.
Other migrants set to be on the flight included nationals of Jordan, Armenia, Turkey, Georgia and Afghanistan, according to Ali Rahnama, interim executive director of the Iranian American Legal Defense Fund.
The Postal Service proposed a new rule pushing states to turn over their mail-in and absentee voter rolls to the agency, a move in line with President Donald Trump’s March executive order tightening regulations on mail-in voting in federal elections. Since the start of his second administration, Trump has made election integrity and security a central issue, signing multiple executive orders to require proof of citizenship and crack down on mail-in voting fraud, essentially establishing a national voter verification system. His efforts have run into several legal hurdles, with judges ruling against requirements for proof of citizenship, and several Democratic states sue over the mail-in voting order.
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Bill Maher used Friday's "Real Time with Bill Maher" to criticize California Democrats over education and green energy, arguing that Mississippi and Texas are outperforming the deep-blue state on issues Democrats often campaign on. "Democrats, these are your issues: education, race, the environment," Maher said. "And I say this with love: you’re losing to the Waffle House, car-on-the-lawn states." Maher said California’s school outcomes were especially difficult to defend when compared with Mississippi, citing fourth-grade results for Black students. "Did you know that a Black fourth grader in Mississippi is two and a half times as likely to be proficient in math and reading as one in California?"
Mayor Karen Bass is being slammed as un-American for a last-minute decision to pull funding for a neighborhood group who wanted to close their main street for a Fourth of July Parade marking America’s 250th birthday.
The Sunland-Tujunga Fourth of July Parade, the longest-running Independence Day parade in the San Fernando Valley, has been canceled after organizers say the city withdrew support and left them facing at least $20,000 in traffic control and street closure costs. “The mayor’s office jerked us around for so long,” said Lydia Grant, president of the Sunland-Tujunga Neighborhood Council. “It’s devastating. We’ve been doing this parade for over 50 years.”
The United States has secured long-term access to one of the world's largest untapped rare earth deposits, a move that could reduce its future dependence on mineral-rich African nations as Washington races to build a critical minerals supply chain independent of China. REalloys, a Florida-based rare earth materials company, has signed a 15-year offtake agreement with Critical Metals Corp. covering 15% of Phase 1 production from the Tanbreez project in southern Greenland.
The deposit is among the world's largest known sources of heavy rare earth elements, including dysprosium and terbium, two minerals essential for fighter jets, missile systems, radar platforms, drones and other advanced defence technologies.
Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt said he’s focusing on laws that already exist to make “the streets safe.” “We are going to make sure that moms feel safe in Los Angeles,” Pratt said on Fox News’s Saturday in America. Pratt said current city Mayor Karen Bass and Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) made up statistics, calling it a “homeless industrial complex scam,” and accused them of laundering money to increase homelessness. “Anybody with eyeballs in the state of California, or Los Angeles, knows that there has not been a reduction in one homeless person,” Pratt said. “Actually, there’s been an increase of naked, drug addict zombies.”
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Deep in the vaults of the Reserve Bank of India, a quiet metamorphosis is unfolding. Over one decade, India’s gold reserves have doubled to $682 billion—the yellow metal’s share rising steadily. In Moscow, the Central Bank executed something more dramatic: a total liquidation of its $90-billion U.S. Treasury portfolio, replaced by 2,330 metric tonnes of physical gold now comprising 44 per cent of reserves—a sovereign reallocation without precedent in modern monetary history. These are symptoms of a tectonic shift reshaping global finance’s architecture
The FBI says it has seized a record-setting $8 billion in cryptocurrency and arrested hundreds of suspects as part of an intercontinental crackdown on "scam compounds" and organized crime, including one group known as the "Democratic Karen Benevolent Army." They have been blamed for a global wave of theft from Americans who fell victim to an online scam. The FBI confiscated more than 127,000 bitcoin during the arrest of one leader of a Cambodian enterprise called the Prince Holding Group. That's worth more than $8 billion — possibly more than $15 billion at the time of seizure — and officials are calling it the largest forfeiture in U.S. government's history.
Russia is concerned that Venezuela could allow Kyiv to tap into its vast and largely unused stockpile of Soviet-made weapons as it shifts its foreign policy focus. Sergei Shoigu, secretary of Russia’s Security Council and a former defence minister, warned on Wednesday during a meeting with his Venezuelan counterpart, José Adelino Ornelas Ferreira, against any attempt to involve Latin American states in arrangements that could ultimately support Ukraine. “We know about the activity of Western envoys who are trying to involve Latin American states in various schemes of arms supplies in the interests of Kyiv,” Shoigu said. Venezuela continues to operate significant quantities of Soviet- and Russian-origin military equipment.,
Feds seize $40M in gold bars, cash, Rolexes
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a Navy pilot 23 replies
from former CIA official who faked being
a Navy pilot 23 replies
A former senior U.S. government official with top secret security clearance was arrested after the FBI raided his Virginia home and discovered a staggering $40 million stash of gold bars, $2 million in cash and 35 luxury watches, court documents reveal. David J. Rush was arrested May 19 and is facing federal charges for theft of public money after allegedly swindling the government out of tens of millions of dollars while posing as a highly decorated Navy Reserve captain and Air Force test pilot. [T]he grift unraveled after Rush made multiple requests for a "significant quantity of foreign currency and tens of millions of dollars in gold bars."
‘Animal cruelty’ ballot initiative
criminalizing hunting and fishing moves
forward in Oregon 13 replies
criminalizing hunting and fishing moves
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A wild new “animal cruelty” ballot proposal would put hunters and fishermen on the hook.
Controversial legislation that would outlaw killing or “injuring” any animal — even while shooting or catching your dinner — is one step closer to landing on the ballot in Oregon, officials said Wednesday.
The measure, Initiative Petition 28, has garnered 120,000 signatures, more than the roughly 117,000 it needs to go to vote in November, The Oregonian reported.
Along with banning hunting and fishing, the legislation would also prohibit slaughtering livestock and using animals in rodeos and for scientific research.
It would also prohibit operating a commercial poultry business and castrating or neutering livestock, among other practices.
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