https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-impersonators-immigrants-raids-violence-trump-administration-rcna265653

>A Noticias Telemundo investigation documented a marked increase in cases of people posing as federal agents to rob, intimidate and even injure or rape immigrants.

The new Ferrari LUCE Effect on the Automotive Industry. https://www.ferrari.com/en-US/auto/ferrari-luce

https://www.thedailybeast.com/rogue-republican-massie-drops-melania-epstein-files-bomb/
>Rep. Thomas Massie has claimed that Melania Trump “knows” Jeffrey Epstein wasn’t running his child sex abuse ring alone.

>Massie, 55, appeared on Meet the Press Sunday, and confirmed that he planned to personally reveal more names from the Epstein files after a lack of clear action from the acting attorney general.

>“Todd Blanche is violating the law. There’s still millions of files they haven’t released,” he said.

>“We know from talking to the victims’ lawyers that their own 302 forms haven’t been released. We know the files have been over-redacted. I have released at least three names of billionaires who are implicated in this.”

>The Republican, who lost his House primary last week, added: “I don’t think it’s possible to get to convictions with Todd Blanche at the top and with the FBI director, Kash Patel, at the top, because they have effectively both perjured themselves by saying there’s nobody else in the files.”

>He then claimed of Donald Trump’s wife: “Even Melania doesn’t believe that. The first lady knows that Jeffrey Epstein didn’t act alone.”

>Massie concluded that the truth he—and, supposedly, Melania Trump—knows will ultimately come to light. “And here’s the great thing, Kristen. Whether I’m in Congress or not, the Epstein Files Transparency Act is a law, and it goes on for years,” he said.

>“So, if we can’t get this attorney general and this FBI director to do the right thing, the next ones who take those seats are obligated by law to release the files that these individuals are not releasing now.”

>The first lady’s office did not immediately respond to request for comment.

>Melania has also called for further investigation into the events surrounding Epstein, after professing her own lack of relationship with the man during a surprise public address last month.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/22/tulsi-gabbard-resigns-intelligence-trump-husband.html

Tulsi Gabbard is resigning as President Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence, becoming the latest Cabinet official to leave his administration, she announced Friday.

Gabbard, in a resignation letter addressed to Trump, said she has to step down in order to support her husband, Abraham Williams, who has “recently been diagnosed with an extremely rare form of bone cancer.”

“I cannot in good conscience ask him to face this fight alone while I continue in this demanding and time-consuming position,” she wrote in the letter dated Friday.

Her resignation is effective June 30, she wrote.

Trump confirmed later Friday that Gabbard was “unfortunately” departing, writing in a Truth Social post that she has “done an incredible job, and we will miss her.”

Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence Aaron Lukas will take over from Gabbard in an acting capacity, Trump wrote in the post.

Fox News first reported Gabbard’s resignation.

Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii who fell out with her party and later joined the GOP, was confirmed as national intelligence chief less than a month after Trump’s second term began. As DNI, she led the U.S. intelligence community, a sprawling coalition of 18 agencies and organizations.

> Thread theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDCrtVMj_8Y

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/gunshots-reported-near-white-house-rcna346671

WASHINGTON — The White House was briefly locked down on Saturday evening after gunfire erupted nearby, injuring at least two people, according to four law enforcement officials briefed on the matter.

One person is in grave condition, the officials said.

One of the individuals is believed to be a suspect, but it isn’t clear if the second person is also a suspect or a bystander, the officials said.

The investigation shows that the U.S. Secret Service engaged with the suspect and fired at the person, according to two senior officials briefed on the matter.

Those officials say that at this early juncture there doesn’t appear to be any injuries to Secret Service agents.

The Secret Service said on X it was aware of reports of shots fired near 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW and is “working to corroborate the information with personnel on the ground.”

An NBC News team at the White House heard between 20 and 30 gunshots around 6:04 p.m., and Secret Service agents urged reporters who were gathered outside on the North Lawn to run inside the press briefing room.

The Secret Service was posted just outside the room with guns drawn as the White House went into lockdown.

The lockdown, which included the White House grounds, was lifted at 6:46 p.m.

FBI Director Kash Patel said on X that the FBI is on the scene and supporting the Secret Service.

President Donald Trump is in the White House. Vice President JD Vance was confirmed to be at the White House earlier today, but it is unclear if he is still there or if he had left prior to the incident.

The U.S. Capitol Police did not immediately respond to a request for information on the situation.

>China is restricting overseas travel for top professionals involved in advanced and strategically important AI work at firms like Alibaba Group Holding and DeepSeek, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
>The professionals would need approval from relevant authorities before taking a trip abroad, the report said.
>https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/china-restricts-overseas-travel-top-ai-talent-alibaba-deepseek-bloomberg-news-2026-05-26/

This is AI doomsday clock ticking closer to midnight, no?

The basics
2.8M

New immigrant arrivals (FY 2024)
>99%

Decrease in refugee admissions between Jan to Feb 2025
86%

Decrease in apprehensions at the border from Dec 2024 to Dec 2025

https://usafacts.org/reports/state-of-the-union/immigration/

This is evil

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/us/how-prediction-markets-and-crypto-firms-steamrolled-a-watchdog-agency.html

Last fall, a high-stakes struggle unfolded inside the red brick walls of an obscure federal agency.

Three companies — each with ties to the Trump family’s business empire — needed the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to bless their ambitions in the white-hot field of prediction markets.

A growing portion of the agency’s portfolio, prediction markets allow Americans to bet on everything from whether the United States will take over Cuba to what color tie President Trump will wear next. The moneymaking opportunities were breathtaking, but the companies’ practices were causing a stir.

Senior career officials worried about whether Crypto.com was treating small bettors fairly. They feared that a second firm, Polymarket, did not have strong enough protections against fraud. A third, an offshoot of the crypto firm Gemini, had yet to pass the agency’s required review to open for business.

Despite these concerns, Caroline D. Pham, then acting chairman of the commission, and her senior counsel intervened to help the firms get what they wanted, according to people familiar with the situation who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of repercussions.

By Christmas, the agency had put two top officials who had raised questions about the companies on leave, barred them from the office and placed them under internal investigation. Three other senior officials who had enforced laws involving cryptocurrencies — another industry linked to the Trumps — suffered the same fate.

None of those officials were told what they had done wrong. But current and former agency staffers said in interviews that the commission’s work force took away a clear message: Don’t cause trouble for those industries.