Tennessee bodycam of ‘Maryland man’ traffic stop shows troopers’ hands tied despite smuggling clues

The Tennessee Highway Patrol released body camera footage of its 2022 encounter with Kilmar Abrego-Garcia, where state troopers suspected he was involved in human trafficking. Garcia, 29, is a Salvadorian who illegally entered the United States in 2011 and in 2019 was issued a deportation order. Two previous judges concluded that Abrego-Garcia was likely affiliated…

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’60 Minutes’ Kamala Harris interview at the center of Trump’s CBS lawsuit receives Emmy nomination

The controversial “60 Minutes” interview at the center of President Donald Trump‘s high-stakes lawsuit against CBS News is now an Emmy-nominated program.  The nominations for the 46th News & Documentary Emmy Awards were announced Thursday. “60 Minutes” landed several nods, most notably in the Outstanding Edited Interview category for its primetime special featuring then-Vice President…

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EXCLUSIVE: DHS fires back at claims ICE raided ‘wrong home’ in Oklahoma smuggling investigation

EXCLUSIVE: The Department of Homeland Security is setting the record straight after media reports claimed ICE raided “the wrong home” and targeted U.S. citizens, setting Democrats fuming. The Independent ran a headline on Wednesday reading: “ICE raids wrong Oklahoma home, seizes life savings and leaves family ‘traumatized for life’” writing that an Oklahoma mother and…

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Reporter’s Notebook: Alcohol, not coffee

Republicans control the House and Senate. But characterizing it as the “Republican Congress” doesn’t do justice to the present circumstances. This truly is “President Trump’s Congress.” The president’s relationship with Republican lawmakers is light-years away from the fraught, shotgun marriage of 2017 after he unexpectedly captured the White House. Republicans on Capitol Hill didn’t know…

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