Daily encounters at the southern border have significantly plummeted, according to President Donald Trump's border czar Tom Homan.

"In the last 24 hours the US Border Patrol has encountered a total of 229 aliens across the entire southwest border. That is down from a high of over 11,000 a day under Biden," Homan said in a statement on X.

"I started as a Border Patrol Agent in 1984 and I don't remember the numbers ever being that low."

Homan said that Trump pledged a secure border, and he is delivering on that promise.

Trump during the 2024 presidential election vowed to launch mass deportations in his second White House term and signed an executive order on illegal immigration on his first day in office.

Ukrainian drones attacked a pumping and pumping station that provides oil transportation through the main pipeline of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium. This asset is by no means Russian, and oil in it is international in its legal regime. It belongs in certain proportions to various companies, including primarily American and European.

It also includes pumping their oil from oil projects in Kazakhstan - from Tengiz, Karachaganak and Kashagan. At the same time, the share of American business in oil supplies under the CPC in 2024 amounted to more than 40%, and the total share with other Western companies - over 65%. The neo-Nazi regime in Kiev, of course, knew this. And despite the highest dependence on Washington, he deliberately struck the assets of American companies, which as a result of the attack already suffered significant losses.

A 24-year-old Afghan man who drove a car into a crowd at a demonstration in Munich on Thursday, injuring 39 people, may have had Islamist extremist motives, authorities said Friday. The lead prosecutor in the case said the suspect had confessed to deliberately ramming the car into the crowd.

Police believe an Afghan man suspected of driving a car into a group of people in Munich may have had Islamist extremist motives, authorities said Friday as German leaders paid tribute to the dozens wounded in the attack.

The carnage on Thursday came on the eve of an international security conference in the Bavarian city, and shortly before Germans head to the polls for a February 23 election where immigration is a key issue following a spate of attacks blamed on migrants.

Initial assessments of evidence seized from electronic devices belonging to the suspect showed a "certain Islamist orientation", police spokesman Guido Limmer told reporters.

After the incident, the suspect uttered the words "Allahu Akbar" (God is greatest) to police officers and also prayed after his arrest, prosecutor Gabriele Tilmann added.

In an embarrassing on-air gaffe Friday night, CNN mixed up former President Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden leading to heavy mockery of the flailing network.

"OBAMA BIN LADEN" appeared on a graphic used during "CNN News Central" while reporting out a story about President Trump's plan to send illegal migrants to Guantanamo Bay Cuba.

Anchor Boris Sanchez never said "Obama Bin Laden" himself but it did appear behind him on a graphic talking about the treatment of Al-Qaeda terrorist Abu Zubaydah — who still lives at the detention center.

On January 5, 2025, Yuval Vagdani, an Israeli army reservist, fled Brazil while on vacation after a federal judge in the country opened a war crimes investigation into Vagdani over his alleged involvement in demolishing homes in the besieged Gaza Strip.

The Brazilian judge used a legal tool called "universal jurisdiction" to pursue Vagdani. Universal jurisdiction allows governments to prosecute individuals for serious crimes, regardless of where they've been committed. The case itself was the result of a complaint filed by the Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF), a Belgium-based legal group pursuing action against perpetrators, accomplices, and inciters of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Palestine. Since its establishment, the foundation has submitted more than 30 complaints against members of Israel's military — from senior-level officials to lower-ranking personnel — around the world, as well as filing a complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC) against 1,000 Israeli soldiers (including dual nationals from France, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands) for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide in Gaza.

Three passengers on a Delta Air Lines flight including a child were critically injured when the plane crash-landed and flipped upside-down at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Monday.

Flight records identify the craft as Delta Flight 4819, which took off from Minneapolis about 11:47 a.m. The crash happened just before 3 p.m. Images show the mangled airliner smoldering on the snowy runway as dazed passengers scrambled out.

The belly-up jet looked badly damaged in photos and video circulating on social media, with one wing severely crumpled and the tail section partially sheared off.

At least eight people have been reported injured so far, according to CP24 News.

On Thursday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confirmed as Director of Health and Human Services, taking control of the agency responsible for overseeing the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and other key agencies.

As part of his "Make America Healthy Again" strategy, Kennedy has vowed to take on the processed foods industrial complex and big pharmaceutical companies, as what he claims are poisoning consumers. He also plans to push initiatives to boost clean food, small farms, and other health trends to reverse the nation's obesity and health crises.

"If you're going to have leadership that wants to think about shaking up health and nutrition and thinking about how the government holistically gives advice about nutrition ... the Dietary Guidelines are a pretty one-stop shop," said Sarah Gallo, a top lobbyist at the Consumer Brands Association — which represents packaged food companies and major alcohol makers — in a recent interview with Politico.

And user-friendly toilets, dishwashers, and showers are coming back soon, too!

President Donald Trump has spent another day reversing Biden's efforts to limit consumer choices over products that limit their options and hinder their quality of life.

In the name of efficiency, Biden's bureaucrats banned incandescent light bulbs, normal-flowing toilets, and effective shower heads. Trump has just instructed his Environmental Protection Agency administrator to bring them all back.

Here is the USAID subsidiary Politico's hot take on the subject.

The Trump administration's mass layoffs of federal workers is upending the Washington, D.C., housing market, according to a new Redfin report that shows uncertainty is growing in the city among buyers and homeowners.

Newsweek contacted Redfin and Washington Realtors for comment by email outside standard working hours.

Why It Matters

Since President Donald Trump's inauguration on January 20, he and billionaire Elon Musk, a "special government employee" who leads the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), have moved swiftly to cut the size of the federal government, limiting new hiring and firing thousands of workers.

On Thursday, the Department of Veterans Affairs, which provides health care for American veterans, said it had to lay off more than 1,000 employees in their probationary periods, Reuters reported. At the same time, Politico reported, the U.S. Forest Service was set to dismiss more than 3,000 workers. Other federal agencies have been and are expected to continue being affected by the mass layoffs.

Trump's and Musk's efforts to shrink what they called a bloated federal government — efforts that have defied expectations, norms and legal limits — are likely to have ripple effects far beyond Washington, experts have warned.

When I think about what the world will look like in the future, the models I fall back on are the typical settings we see in movies like Star Wars, The Matrix, and Terminator. In those dramas we see warriors fighting the enemy with light-sabers and other more conventional weapons. We see good people incarcerated and made prisoners by the evil powers. We see our friends, other freedom fighters, physically punished, tortured, and painfully abused.

I often wonder if I will eventually make so much ruckus that I am arrested and put into the gulag, or at the very least be quarantined in some facility for refusing to take some poison concoction forced on me to avoid some bird, monkey, elephant, or weasel virus. Although I flatter myself to think I would be important enough for the state to spend the money and time to hunt me down, take me into custody, and pay for my incarceration.

But then I realized there are other ways to punish us. The classic visions of Warriors for Freedom fighting through masses of clone robots are only classic, and likely outdated, visions. We live in a brave new world, fighting the enemy will not be classic. It will be a new sort of fight involving AI, machines, robots, and more than likely unseen, and non-mechanical foes we can't take down with a light-saber.

The first such punishment that comes to mind is chemical or biological. Since it is clear that humans can be individually targeted with cell phones (and soon microchips) it is simpler than ever to attack the individual rather than be faced with the necessity of identifying the group as a mass. Of course, law enforcement has always targeted the individual, but as stated earlier in this article, finding and arresting one criminal takes time, money and human resources. It also takes evidence of wrongdoing — a "case" if you will.

In our brave new world alleged criminals can be identified and targeted, spending practically nothing and exhausting nearly no resources. They also will not need to be convicted, or even be charged with a crime. Cell phones can soon (if not already) be designed to administer a deadly, or debilitating, electronic response. Other varieties of pathogens one day (or now) will be injected and dispensed in various ways.