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https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/ice-in-minnesota/man-deported-from-minnesota-weeks-after-being-pardoned-by-gov-walz-to-avoid-removal/89-d4d1f9e8-37ba-4993-807f-a2309e6c9782

ST PAUL, Minn. — The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced Friday morning has deported a Minnesota man convicted of criminal sexual abuse of a minor 20 years ago, despite a pardon last month by Gov. Tim Walz and other top state officials.

The statement said 42-year-old Tou Lue Vang was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers and deported. The statement did not explicitly say where Vang was taken, but implied he'd be sent back to his native Laos.

Vang was first arrested and detained by ICE in early December, but two months later, a judge ordered his release from federal custody. Vang was convicted of felony sex crimes against a girl under the age of 13 in 2006 and sentenced to 30 years of probation.

In October of that year, a judge issued a final order of removal to deport Vang.

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Well fuck, I was looking forward to democrats voting in a nazi on their "Vote blue no matter who!" trend.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/10/graham-platner-maine-senate-officially-withdraws

Graham Platner, the Democratic nominee for US Senate in Maine, officially withdrew his candidacy on Friday afternoon, ending a campaign laden with scandals.

Maine’s secretary of state confirmed Platner had filed the paperwork to remove his name from the November ballot, two days after Platner publicly said he planned to exit the race.

In a letter shared on social media outlining the populist ideals that underlined his meteoric rise to the national political stage and drew widespread support in the state, Platner called for the movement built under his name to continue. He expressed gratitude to those who supported him, and called for “a new kind of politics”.

“People are desperate for change. For this broken system to be righted. For the American experiment to be furthered,” he wrote, noting the more than 156,000 votes he received in the 9 June primary. “My name may have been on the ballot, but that ballot line belongs to the people of Maine.”

Platner’s letter did not include a mention of the sexual assault allegations made against him this week, which led to his decision to suspend his candidacy. In an 11-minute video posted on Wednesday, he denied the allegations and said the Democratic establishment was “using these allegations to take away all of the things we need to run a campaign”.

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-10/dhs-wants-to-create-its-own-round-the-clock-deportation-airline

The US government is moving ahead with plans to create its own fleet of government-owned aircraft to bolster deportations.
The Department of Homeland Security is beginning a search for a company to operate planes that would help carry out deportation flights, respond to emergencies and transport senior officials. The department asked aviation companies this week to describe how they would operate and maintain the fleet, which would include two C-37B or equivalent Gulfstream 650ERs and seven Boeing 737-700s or similar models.
The post outlines an operation capable of flying around the clock — even on short notice — with domestic and overseas missions supported through what DHS describes as a hub-and-spoke network. Contractors would provide pilots, co-pilots and flight attendants and, when needed, flight nurses and security personnel. The request is part of the government’s market research before a formal competition would go out for the contract.
The aircraft would support deportation and voluntary repatriation flights, transport crisis-response teams, conduct medical evacuations and other high-risk missions, and carry senior department officials on continuity-of-government and diplomatic trips, according to the notice.

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https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/7/9/trump-airport-name-change-sparks-backlash-in-florida

Palm Beach International Airport has officially been renamed President Donald J. Trump International Airport, with new signage installed throughout the terminal. The move has prompted mixed reactions, with supporters welcoming the tribute while critics argued it was ‘in poor taste.’

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https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5960254-secret-service-advised-trump-to-not-fly-qatari-gifted-air-force-one/

The Secret Service advised President Trump not to leave the NATO Summit in Turkey on the newer Qatari-gifted Air Force One, according to a Wednesday report.

Sources familiar with the matter said the president flew out of Ankara on the older Air Force One out of an abundance of caution for a potential threat from Iran, although no threats were explicitly identified, The New York Times reported.

The Secret Service referred The Hill to the president’s Truth Social post made earlier in the day when asked about the assessment from officials.

Trump wrote that the Qatari plane “was sent earlier to RAF Mildenhall, so we could show the wonderful Servicemembers, as per the entire Base’s request.”

“They were very excited, picture enclosed. It was on our way back to the States from Turkey, with virtually no deviation of flightpath,” he added.

Trump picked up the last leg of the trip on the newer plane during a stop at Royal Air Force Mildenhall, a base used by the U.S. military in Holywell Row, England.

The newer Air Force One is a modified commercial passenger jet from Boeing 747-8 gifted to Trump from Qatar.

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Has anyone seen the stuff about "chat control" in europe ?
https://es.euronews.com/next/2026/07/10/chat-control-10-supera-el-tramite-en-el-parlamento-europeo-por-la-puerta-trasera

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https://time.com/article/2026/07/08/trump-zelensky-ukraine-patriot-missile-interceptors-russia-nato/

So much for Putin's puppet, eh?

President Donald Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that the U.S. would extend Ukraine a license to manufacture Patriot missile interceptors as the country continues to defend itself against Russia.

“We'll give them the right to make Patriots. We'll show them how to do it,” Trump said on day two of the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey. “It's very complex, actually, but you'll figure out the complexity quickly.”

"It's a defensive weapon, which I like better than an offensive weapon," he added.

The verbal assurance of a license commitment was vague, with several key details left unaddressed.

Trump said he had not yet informed defense manufacturers of his decision, but expressed hope “that'll work out alright.”

Asked whether the United States would immediately provide the air defense systems, Trump said “some” could be sent swiftly, yet emphasized “we have Patriots, but we don't have that many. We need them for ourselves, too.”

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https://tiffinohio.net/posts/pepper-lima-unions-criticize-ramaswamy-jobs-cost-living/

David Pepper joined Northwest Ohio union leaders in Lima on Tuesday to criticize Republican gubernatorial nominee Vivek Ramaswamy over jobs and the cost of living.

Gary McPheron, secretary-treasurer of the Lima Building Trades, said “Our members are watching to see which candidate will stand alongside them in good and bad times, and that’s not Vivek Ramaswamy. Instead of fighting for Ohio workers, Ramaswamy would take away our jobs and make already high costs even worse, Ramaswamy is an out-of-touch billionaire who can’t be trusted to keep jobs in Ohio or lower costs for working families. Our members and Ohioans across the state are working harder than ever. We can’t afford Vivek Ramaswamy.”

In a December 2024 social media post Ramaswamy argued that top U.S. technology companies often hire foreign-born and first-generation engineers because, he wrote, American culture “has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long.”

A biotech fortune built on a failed drug

Much of the “billionaire” framing the union leaders used traces to how Ramaswamy made his money. In December 2014, a company under his Roivant Sciences umbrella bought the experimental Alzheimer’s drug intepirdine from GlaxoSmithKline for $5 million, after GSK had run four failed trials on it.

Ramaswamy built a subsidiary, Axovant, around the drug and took it public in 2015 in what was then the largest biotech IPO on record, raising about $315 million and reaching a valuation near $3 billion — even though the company had about eight employees at the time, two of them Ramaswamy’s mother and brother.

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a Yale School of Management professor who tracks Ramaswamy’s business dealings, told Fortune that “everything about him is a scam,” and told the Associated Press that his biotech record was “classic ‘pump and dump.’"

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/08/trump-e-jean-carroll-payment

Donald Trump’s latest effort to delay the release of more than $5m in court-held funds that he owes E Jean Carroll failed on Wednesday.

The US president asked Manhattan federal court judge Lewis Kaplan late on Tuesday not to order the release of these court-held funds, which a jury awarded Carroll in her successful 2023 sexual abuse and defamation civil trial against him; this money also includes interest. Trump has denied all wrongdoing.

Less than 24 hours later, Kaplan issued an order directing the disbursement of this money. Within an hour, Trump filed paperwork indicating that he is appealing this decision.

“The Clerk is respectfully directed to disburse … the value of the principle Judgment, which amounts to $5,000,000.00,” Kaplan’s order said. “The Clerk is further respectfully directed to disburse … the value of the post-judgment interest”.

Trump had deposited this multimillion jury award, plus 11% interest, into a court-controlled account about six weeks after Carroll’s win. For this money, which now totals about $5.8m, to be released, Kaplan had to order directing the court-controlled fund to do so.

Trump’s failed request stems from the supreme court’s 29 June decision not to review his appeal of this case. Trump had asked for the supreme court to weigh his appeal after lower courts repeatedly rejected his fight against this verdict.

After the supreme court denied hearing his appeal, Carroll’s legal team asked Manhattan federal court judge Lewis Kaplan to issue an order directing the release of these funds.

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Farage resigns as MP for Clacton, triggering by-election which he says he will stand in

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn0v9l9x0g8t

Reform UK's leader Nigel Farage has resigned from his parliamentary seat of Clacton, triggering a by-election in the area that he will stand in.

The Sunday Times reported over the weekend Farage had not properly declared support from long-time ally George Cottrell, which reportedly included payment for security and social media staff.

He also remains under investigation by Parliament's standards commissioner for not declaring a £5m gift he received from Christopher Harborne, a Thailand-based British cryptocurrency investor, before his election.

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https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/07/09/congress/chuck-grassley-kash-patel-fbi-spending-00991819

Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) asked FBI Director Kash Patel to provide more details on his use of taxpayer resources in May, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) and Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) revealed in a letter this week, as questions continue to swirl over Patel’s financial stewardship of the agency.

The embattled FBI director has long faced allegations that he is using the perks of his office for personal gain, after news outlets reported last year he used government jets for personal travel and surrounded his girlfriend, country music singer Alexis Wilkins, with SWAT team protection at public events.

Patel’s trip via agency jet to the Winter Olympics in Milan this February, in which he partied with the American men’s ice hockey team after they won gold, led to yet more questions.

Patel has repeatedly publicly denied that his use of government resources is inappropriate.

“This abuse obviously comes at the expense of the American taxpayer and ongoing Bureau operations as it ties up Bureau aircraft, Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) teams, and agents in ways so outrageous that even congressional Republicans can no longer ignore them,” Durbin and Raskin wrote in their letter.

In a letter from Grassley sent in May, which was viewed by POLITICO, he asked Patel to “provide a list of each flight you took on an FBI aircraft, including the departure and destination,” as well as the cost of each. He also asked Patel to explain why the bureau purchased BMWs rather than Chevy Suburbans for personal transport — and to provide a full cost breakdown of the financial impacts of the maneuver.

Raskin and Durbin — the ranking members on the House and Senate Judiciary Committees — are seeking answers to many of the same questions highlighted by Grassley, they wrote in their letter.

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https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/execs-confused-horrified-huge-ai-135718505.html?guccounter=1

By now, it's clear that the only way the tech industry can justify the cost of AI is if it replaces vast swaths of the human workforce with machines that run 24/7.

The bad news is that this situation has created a world-historic financial market that, by some metrics, is looking worse than the run-up to the Great Depression. The good news is that this future of an AI takeover is looking increasingly unlikely, at least at the industry's current pace, a fact which is now dawning on some of the biggest rubes and dupes in the corporate world.

According to a new survey from "Big Four" accounting firm KPMG, a significant number of corporate executives are reeling from sticker shock over new usage-based AI pricing schemes. Though enterprises could once count on AI companies to subsidize the price of large language models via flat-rate contracts, that's no longer a given, as the rising cost of computational power forces the entire tech sector into a defensive posture.

The KPMG report, initially flagged by the Register, surveyed 2,145 senior execs across 20 countries, finding that an astonishing 29 percent of them had no idea where the growing costs associated with AI were coming from.

A further third confessed that their own cluelessness about AI economics was a barrier to successfully deploying AI in the workplace, the Register notes.

"As usage-based pricing models become more common, many organizations are still building the capabilities required to forecast, monitor, and manage AI spending effectively," the report authors write. Translation: one third of execs had no plan for how to actually use AI productively, a fact which is becoming increasingly clear now that the meter is running.

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https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/dna-evidence-from-charlie-kirk-assassination-disputed-by-defendants-lawyers

PROVO, Utah (AP) — Lawyers for the suspect accused of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk are expected to keep questioning the reliability of DNA testing that prosecutors said links the defendant to the suspected murder weapon when a weeklong hearing continues Wednesday.

A member of Tyler Robinson's defense team interrogated a DNA analyst from the FBI on Tuesday about the techniques she used to connect Robinson to a rifle found wrapped inside a towel at Utah Valley University, where Kirk was shot in September while speaking to a crowd.

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https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/houston-deadly-ice-agent-shooting/285-e7f8edab-ef71-4de3-a748-933bc6308453
HOUSTON — A man was shot and killed Tuesday morning by federal agents in Houston's East End, according to United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.

They said the incident unfolded just before 7 a.m. near the intersection of Canal Street and Wayside Drive.

An ICE spokesperson said officers were trying to pull over a vehicle as part of a "targeted enforcement operation to arrest an illegal alien."

They said the driver of the vehicle they tried to pull over, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, tried to get away. ICE officials said Araujo is here illegally from Mexico.
Investigators said Araujo rammed into an ICE vehicle and refused to follow orders. They also said he tried to "weaponize" his vehicle and run over an officer.

Federal officials said the officer opened fire in self-defense during the incident, and Araujo was struck. He was taken to an area hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.

KHOU 11 News obtained surveillance video that shows part of the interaction. The video shows what appears to be ICE agents around a man on the ground next to a white truck. The video doesn't show what happened beforehand.

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I'm not talking about the soldiers dying from easily preventable diseases either

This is probably related to why we can't penetrate Iran

https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/07/07/pentagon-erectile-dysfunction-pills/

The US military prescribed a record-breaking number of erectile dysfunction drugs to active-duty troops in 2025, despite upholding a ban on gender-affirming care for trans service members.

Newly released data from the Pentagon, obtained by the New York Post through a Freedom of Information Act request, shows 108,332 prescriptions for erectile dysfunction were dispensed to active military personnel last year.

More were provided to the wider military community, which includes dependents of service members and veterans, with 639,355 prescriptions in 2025.