Pakistan Forces Kill Three Militants in Karachi Camp Attack
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Pakistan’s security forces have foiled a militant attack on a camp in Karachi Saturday night, killing three assailants and capturing one injured attacker, according to government statements.
With “little fanfare,” the Supreme Court is quietly working to double its own police force, Politico’s Josh Gerstein reported on Sunday, a push that justices and court officials apparently “loathe” discussing.“The push for a rapid security buildout stems from the substantial threats to the justices at a moment of growing political violence in the U.S. and the sense that the system has just not been up to the task of keeping them safe,” Gerstein wrote. “That’s a belief that appears to be shared by at least some of the justices themselves.”While a Supreme Court spokesperson declined to respond to Gerstein’s request for comment, an “in-depth review” of budget documents and interviews with “court insiders” revealed that the Supreme Court Police Department, which for years had less than 200 officers, may soon double its ranks amid the court’s plummeting favorability among Americans.“It’s often said that the Supreme Court has no army,” Gerstein wrote. “Yet, with little fanfare, the size of the Supreme Court’s police force has begun mushrooming.”The growing taxpayer expense from the Supreme Court’s ballooning security budget has even roiled some lawmakers, including Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), the leading Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee.“We provide money for the Supreme Court,” DeLauro said back in April. “I’ve been here a long time – they’ve never come up and tell us what they’re doing with the money that we appropriate. I want to give them all the security they need, but the court has to come up here [and] tell us what [they’re] doing.”
Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance praised Justice Elena Kagan's dissent in the Supreme Court's recent ruling on Temporary Protected Status as a devastating rebuke of the conservative majority — one that forced into print the very comments her colleagues "cannot even bear to repeat."Writing in her newsletter, Civil Discourse, Vance broke down the 6-3 decision, authored by Justice Samuel Alito, which held that courts cannot review a president's decisions about TPS. The ruling cleared the way for the Trump administration to end protections for roughly 336,000 people legally present in the U.S. due to natural disasters and armed conflict in their home countries, including Haitians and Syrians.Vance noted the decision's striking detail that Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who has two adopted children from Haiti, joined the majority.The heart of Vance's analysis centered on the majority's handling of a claim that the administration's decision was impermissibly based on race. Vance argued the Court's willingness to disregard the evidence was "so transparently in contravention of the facts" that it suggests the exception for constitutional claims "exists on paper" but will never carry weight with this Court.It was Kagan's dissent, joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson, that Vance singled out as essential reading. She highlighted Kagan's pointed observation that the evidence of racial motivation was "plain to see, in the President's statements, which the majority (and for that matter, his own lawyers) cannot even bear to repeat.""Ouch," Vance wrote.Vance walked through the legal standard at issue, drawn from the 1977 case Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp., under which plaintiffs need only show that a discriminatory purpose was "a motivating factor" in the decision. She emphasized Kagan's accounting of the remarks the majority declined to reproduce — including President Donald Trump's claims about Haitians eating pets, his description of Haiti as a "s---hole country," and his assertion that Haitian immigration was "like a death wish for our country" and "poisoning the blood" of the nation.Vance underscored Kagan's blunt conclusion that the references "of filth, disease, and primitiveness — are shot through with racial stereotypes and tropes," and that it was "hard to imagine the statements being made today of any White community."Quoting Kagan's assessment that the statements "fairly shout, in their racial undertones and overtones alike, that race entered into the President's resolve to remove Haitians from this country," Vance argued the majority chose to ignore them in order to hand still more power to a president willing to abuse it.Vance also drew attention to the human stakes Kagan foregrounded, recounting the case of plaintiff Fritz Emmanuel Lesly Miot, a Haitian national who has held TPS for 15 years and works in a California laboratory researching Alzheimer's. Miot, who suffers from Type 1 diabetes, would face what Vance described as potentially fatal consequences if forced to return to Haiti's collapsed healthcare system.Looking ahead, Vance cautioned readers not to celebrate if the Court rules against Trump in the separate birthright citizenship case expected this week, arguing that rejecting such a "boldly illegal" effort to rewrite the Constitution is "a low bar for the Supreme Court to clear."She closed by placing the TPS ruling in grim historical company, predicting it would join decisions like Dred Scott and Korematsu in what she called "a Supreme Court walk of shame."
When President Donald Trump’s acting director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Todd Lyons, received an angry email from a man named David Streever, they personally confronted him to give a warning.“A picture showed up on his phone from the door camera,” wrote Syracuse.com’s Michelle Breidenbach on Sunday. “Two people stood among the childrens’ toys on his porch. A woman, wearing an ordinary windbreaker and slip-on sneakers, held a bunch of papers.”Breidenbach added, “Streever was not there. He was with his seven-year-old daughter at Moominworld in Finland – an amusement park in the happiest country in the world.”Syracuse.com went on to report that Streever’s wife was told by the pair of federal agents that they were delivering a warning letter to Streever. The New York resident had emailed Lyons in January about the federal government shooting to death two protesters, Alex Pretti and Renee Good, during anti-ICE protests in Minnesota. When he and his daughter returned from a trip to Finland and settled in a New York City hotel room, he was contacted by ICE.“At 9:55 p.m., the front desk rang his hotel room,” Syracuse.com reported. “A special agent named Trevor Pitts had come looking for him, the staff said. The hotel staff did not tell the agent that Streever and his daughter were upstairs, Streever said. The agent left his card.”Breidenbach continued, “Now Streever was really creeped out: How did the U.S. Department of Homeland Security know he was in a hotel in New York City? And why was his email from January suddenly so urgent? And what would he tell his daughter?”In the email, Streever wrote to Lyons that “you are a monstrous human being and will go down in history as America’s Reinhard Heydrich, the butcher.”It continued, “The way you are protecting the obvious execution in Minnesota, even as we see the videos, will lead to your downfall. Even Trump will turn on you before the end, and you will be a sad, despised man who eats himself alive with shame at your own pathetic weakness.Streever closed, “You will never know peace. You will seek to lose yourself, to escape the burden of knowing the truth about yourself. But wherever you go, you will find yourself. You will torment yourself until your last day on Earth.”He is not the only Syracuse resident to receive a warning letter. Upon doing further research, Streever discovered a story on Syracuse.com about Paigelynne Gonyea, who was similarly warned by ICE after she criticized them. In her case, the ICE agents delivered their warning while she was working at a polling station for the recent primary election. They claimed she had threatened Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who shot Good to death, by posting his address online. Gonyea claims she criticized Ross online but never doxxed him.Streever believes the agents who warned Gonyea were the same ones who targeted him.“A threat is when someone tells someone else that they’re going to do a thing to them, and there’s nothing in the email of what I will do to him,” Streever said. “It’s really about how he will feel and what his boss will do, which I think was right on both counts.”He later explained that he does not view himself as a particularly political person, at least in terms of his public profile, but is proud that his letter to Lyons clearly upset the government.“I feel like that front desk person, just some random person, stood up to this agent and that impressed the hell out of me,” Streever said. “That little act of bravery. If he had come and banged on my door at 10 p.m. I don’t know. That’s a scary thing to think about.”Streever’s story is part of a larger pattern of Trump targeting people who speak critically of his administration. Last month, Bloomberg reported that the Department of Justice had sued social media companies to obtain names, addresses and banking information of X and Reddit users who have criticized Trump’s mass deportation program.“The anonymous users, who learned of the subpoenas from the platforms and hired lawyers to challenge the government’s demands for information, haven’t been told what possible offenses are being probed,” Bloomberg wrote. “Their lawyers believe the investigations could relate to allegations of revealing a federal officer’s location data or other types of perceived threats, but dispute that their clients committed crimes. Even if no charges ultimately are filed, the attorneys contended in interviews that rooting out identities of dissenters is at the very least an intimidation tactic.”
The July 2026 Supplemental Security Income payments, worth up to $994, will be sent to recipients in three days. SSI payments are typically issued on the first day of each month. The program supports people with limited income who are blind, age 65 or older, or have another qualifying disability. The amount beneficiaries receive varies […]
The US conducted a fresh round of attacks on multiple targets in Iran, while the Islamic Republic launched strikes against eight key American military infrastructure sites in the Middle East, as both sides accused each other of violating a ceasefire that underpins peace talks.
The potential heir to Nancy Pelosi's congressional seat broke his silence about two awkward confrontations with pro-Palestinian protesters unhappy about his record on Israel.
