Author: Robert Jones

Footage of what initially appeared to be a man passing pillows and food down to an individual seemingly taking refuge in a storm drain has turned out to be a kitten rescue.The moment was captured in footage taken on a cell phone in Jacksonville and obtained by local news outlet News4JAX.In the video, a man can be seen sitting next to a drain passing down belongings, apparently pillows and food parcels, to someone inside the drain—all that was visible from the clip was a person’s hand reaching up out of the drain.A woman was initially initially quoted by News4JAX saying…

CEDARTOWN, Ga. (AP) — A federal receiver is on the hunt to recover $140 million lost in an alleged Ponzi scheme that benefited some Republicans in the top ranks of their party in Georgia and Alabama. He’s looking to claw back funds, including almost 1,000 political donations totaling more than $1 million, that often backed far-right Republican insurgents.Some of these same politicians say they too lost money, but others left holding the bag for First Liberty Building & Loan are rank-and-file conservatives, swayed by talk show pundits who promoted it as an opportunity for Christians and “America First MAGA patriots.”“I…

President Donald Trump has announced that he is endorsing Florida State Senator Joe Gruters as the next Chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC).Gruters, who is a close ally of Trump but has long had a fractured relationship with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, is running to succeed former chair Michael Whatley, who just launched his campaign for the North Carolina U.S. Senate seat.In a Truth Social post, the president threw his support behind “MAGA Warrior Joe Gruters.””As State Senator and Chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, Joe helped us deliver massive and historic Victories across the State, including my…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — In the final moments of a life defined by violence, 60-year-old Edward Zakrzewski thanked the people of Florida for killing him “in the most cold, calculated, clean, humane, efficient way possible,” breathing deeply as a lethal drug cocktail coursed through his veins.With his last breath, strapped to a gurney inside a state prison’s death chamber, Zakrzewski paid what Florida had deemed was his debt to society and became the 27th person put to death in the U.S. so far this year, the highest number in a decade.Under Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida has executed nine people…

Christopher Landry, a supporter of President Donald Trump with a green card who has been living in New Hampshire for decades, returned to the United States on July 30 after previously being denied reentry from Canada earlier in the month, his attorney Ronald Abramson told Newsweek.His return comes after a New Hampshire judge vacated his prior misdemeanor convictions.Why It MattersLandry’s blocked reentry and legal limbo come amid the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. The president has pledged to launch the largest mass deportation operation in U.S. history.Immigrants residing in the country illegally and legally, with valid documentation such as green cards…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal appeals court ruled Friday night to uphold a lower court’s temporary order blocking the Trump administration from conducting indiscriminate immigration stops and arrests in Southern California. A three-judge panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held a hearing Monday afternoon at which the federal government asked the court to overturn a temporary restraining order issued July 12 by Judge Maame E. Frimpong, arguing it hindered their enforcement of immigration law. Immigrant advocacy groups filed suit last month accusing President Donald Trump’s administration of systematically targeting brown-skinned people in Southern California during the…

Facebook Tweet Email Link New York  —  President Donald Trump last week suspended a global trade loophole allowing smaller parcels into America duty-free. This closes a backdoor into the United States for Chinese mega-shippers like Shein and Temu, who could potentially pass the cost of those duties down to consumers. Trump eliminated the so-called “de minimis exemption,” which had admitted duty-free shipments of goods worth $800 or less into the United States. Giant e-commerce sites used the loophole when shipping hundreds of millions of packages to US consumers. The administration did away with the exemption for goods coming out of…

The FBI redacted Donald Trump’s name, along with the names of other prominent public figures, from references in the Jeffrey Epstein files, three people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg’s Jason Leopold.Internal directives instructed about 1,000 FBI agents to flag any mention of Trump during a March review of roughly 100,000 pages of records, people familiar with the process told Bloomberg.The Justice Department said the review turned up no “client list” or evidence linking Trump to criminal activity, despite his name appearing in Epstein’s contact book and flight logs.Newsweek has reached out to the FBI via email on Friday morning…

Ukrainian drone attacks overnight into Saturday killed three people, Russian officials said Saturday, as the two sides continued to trade airstrikes.Russia’s Defense Ministry said air defenses intercepted or destroyed 112 drones across eight Russian regions and the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula.A drone attack on the Rostov region, on the border with Ukraine, killed one person, acting governor Yuri Slyusar said. Further from the front line, a woman was killed and two other people wounded in a drone strike in the Penza region, according to regional governor Oleg Melnichenko. In the Samara region, falling drone debris sparked a fire that killed an…

The United States has sharply rejected Iran’s call for financial compensation following recent American strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, calling the request “ridiculous” and urging Tehran to end its destabilizing activities if it hopes for economic relief or sanctions relief.Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told the Financial Times that Washington must accept responsibility for the attacks and provide financial redress before nuclear negotiations could resume. U.S. State Department Principal Deputy Spokesperson Tommy Pigott dismissed that position in a press briefing, saying the U.S. remained open to diplomacy but insisted the burden of progress now lay with Iran.Newsweek has reached out…