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A new decision from the Fifth Circuit Court has opened the door for the state of Texas to begin conducting their own immigration enforcement.Senate Bill 4 had made it a state-level crime to enter Texas illegally. It further prohibited state and local agencies from refusing to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement, and required magistrates to pursue criminal prosecutions for violators even if the perpetrator had an outstanding federal immigration case. Above all, it allows the state judiciary to carry out deportations independent of the federal government.In May, a district court blocked several key provisions of the law from going into effect, notably the ability for the state to issue its own orders of removal and the criminality for refusing to comply with such removal orders. That decision was reversed by the latest.
Democratic lawmakers complained in late May about employers not providing paid leave for painful menstruation cycles, calling it "economic violence.""Forcing a worker to choose between paying her rent or losing a day's pay to recover from a grueling gynecological procedure is not a choice. It’s economic violence," Rep. Adelita Grijalva, D-Ariz., said during a press conference on May 21.Grijalva was joined by Reps. Yassamin Ansari, D-Ariz., and Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., who are backing Ansari's Reproductive Healthcare Leave Act, which is a part of her "H.E.R." (Healthy, Equity, Rights) Agenda.
DALLAS — Texas has emerged as the biggest winner in corporate America’s flight from high-tax blue states, attracting a wave of headquarters relocations as companies increasingly abandon costly coastal hubs for lower-tax Republican strongholds.The relocation wave is reshaping the balance of economic power in America, boosting red-state economies while raising fresh questions about whether high taxes and regulation are driving companies out of blue-state strongholds.Dallas-Fort Worth led the nation with 111 headquarters relocations between 2018 and 2025, according to a CBRE report, while Austin added 88 and Houston gained 31. Together, the three Texas hubs have became one of the nation’s biggest magnets for corporate relocations....Meanwhile, California suffered the nation’s steepest corporate losses.The San Francisco Bay Area posted a net loss of 163 headquarters during the same period Texas posted gains. Companies leaving California frequently cited taxes, labor rules and soaring living costs as reasons for relocating elsewhere, CBRE found.
New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill said Saturday that people are coming from out of state to protest at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Newark and creating a dangerous situation.“We know that people from outside of the state have been interfering in the protests and escalating them,” Sherrill said at a press conference. “Five of the six people arrested last night by state police were from outside New Jersey.”Masked individuals attacked the barrier in the protest area and took “aggressive and dangerous actions” against the Newark police and state police, Sherrill said in a post on X on Sunday.The protesters threw projectiles at police and used the barriers as weapons and lit tires on fire in the streets, the governor said.Sherrill said that “some national extremist groups” have become involved in the protests.
Sherrill said that “some national extremist groups” have become involved in the protests.
Mel Gibson has revealed the first official look at The Resurrection of the Christ, a sequel to his 2004 film The Passion of the Christ, signaling that the long discussed project is now moving forward.The image (above) shows Finnish actor Jaakko Ohtonen portraying Jesus as he leads a crowd up a hill. The still marks the first public glimpse of a production that has been in development for years and is expected to draw strong global attention.The sequel features a full recast of the original film’s lead roles. Ohtonen replaces Jim Caviezel as Jesus, while Cuban actress Mariela Garriga takes over the role of Mary Magdalene from Monica Bellucci. A source close to the production said Gibson weighed using digital de-aging to keep the original cast but rejected the idea due to cost and complexity.\...The film will be released in two parts. The first installment is now set for May 6, 2027, after moving from an earlier March release date. The second part is scheduled for May 25, 2028. The split release signals a large scale production effort and a long term rollout strategy aimed at sustaining audience interest.
A large nonprofit that defends Jewish and Israeli teachers in America recently filed a complaint alleging the National Education Association discriminates against them because of their ethnicity, identity, and heritage. “NEA’s discrimination against Jewish members and its toleration and promotion of a hostile environment for Jewish members” is the central allegation in the complaint, filed in early May.It was filed with the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission by the Louis D. Brandeis Center Coalition to Combat Anti-Semitism. It alleges the NEA, the largest teachers’ labor union in the country, is violating federal discrimination laws by effectively prohibiting Jewish people from higher level positions, said Marci Miller, the Brandeis Center’s Director of Legal Investigations, in an interview with The College Fix....Miller told The Fix that the NEA has effectively prohibited Jewish people from higher level positions and has fostered hostile environments against them, including the rewriting of history to exclude Jewish identity and heritage.” “The NEA’s written policies require the use of unlawful racial and ethnic classifications and preferences to exclude members, and as many Jewish members do not fit into one of the NEA’s preferred minority categories – the NEA classifies them as ‘white’ – they are excluded from governance positions and deprived of other NEA benefits,” a news release from the Brandeis Center states.The complaint also alleges Jewish NEA members have been “harassed and intimidated by other members in the presence of NEA leadership without intervention,” the release states.Even within the NEA’s list of policies, it states in Article II of the Constitution that the group will “take steps to achieve ethnicminority representation on elective and appointive bodies at least proportionate to the ethnic-minority membership of the affiliate.” Despite this, Jewish members were consistently denied higher-level leadership positions and mentorship opportunities at NEA, according to the complaint.
On Monday’s CBS Mornings, correspondent Adam Yamaguchi spotlighted one man convicted of having stolen over a quarter billion dollars to fund a life of luxury in Democrat Gavin Newsom’s California.“Over the last several months, the CBS News investigative unit has followed the government crackdown on criminals who steal from taxpayers. That’s not nice. They commit fraud, targeting hospice, daycare, and food assistance programs,” co-host Gayle King began, offering a very brief recap.“So, this morning, we’re taking a look at how prosecutors are trying to figure out where is all that money going. Adam Yamaguchi takes us inside the case of one convicted fraudster,” she added.Immediately, Yamaguchi sought to capture the viewers’ attention: “In the Southern California warehouse, a fresh haul of exotic cars paid for by defrauding American taxpayers. I’ve seen over a dozen Ferraris, Lamborghinis, a Bugatti, Lotus. ...”Yamaguchi later explained he also used fraudulent entitlement dough to buy “Kobe Bryant game-worn sneakers, baseball cards of Jackie Robinson and Mickey Mantle,” and seven homes, including an eight-bedroom, ten-bathroom mansion on a private road in Orange County.He explained they were all previously “owned by Paul Randall, who pleaded guilty this year in one of the largest Medi-Cal fraud cases in California history,” which First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli said amounted to “over $270 million worth of claims to the state of California” and a scheme that “should offend every American taxpayer[.]”
As the media turned back to cover immigration after Iran’s domination of the news cycle, Friday’s Morning Joe went all in on comparisons of detention facilities as internment camps. Co-host Joe Scarborough made the most direct comparison, stating detainees were being treated worse than the Japanese in their internment camps, as he asked if Republicans knew how this “will haunt the country.”Before Scarborough’s Japanese comparison, which never mentioned how it was the Democratic Party’s idea, his wife and fellow co-host Mika Brzezinski hit on ICE with multiple references to ICE and internment camps.Reading partly from her “note” in yesterday’s Morning Joe newsletter, The Tea, Brzezinski described a detainee, who committed suicide, as “an interned young man,” while she also called detention centers “gulags” that “have turned into grotesque money-making machines for the well-connected.”
