Democratic Senator Alex Padilla handcuffed and forcibly removed from Kristi Noem’s immigration press conference

Thursday, June 12, 2025

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Democratic Senator Alex Padilla is handcuffed and forcibly removed from Kristi Noem's immigration press conference, Sean Combs's ex-girlfriend 'Jane' breaks down describing 'freak-offs,' trips with famous rapper as mammoth testimony ends, and a passenger miraculously survives plane crash disaster as death toll rises to 290.

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1 | Democratic Senator Alex Padilla handcuffed and forcibly removed from Kristi Noem's immigration press conference

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2 | Sean Combs's ex-girlfriend 'Jane' breaks down describing 'freak-offs,' trips with famous rapper as mammoth testimony ends

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3 | British passenger miraculously survives plane crash disaster as death toll rises to 290

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4 | CIA releases 1,400 new pages of investigative file into RFK assassination, including chilling note from his killer

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5 | Remains of couple who went missing off Cape Cod found after crews locate their missing fishing boat

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The Big Question 

In conducting a coup in an impoverished, undeveloped nation, there is a basic to-do list. You capture the presidency, the courts, take over the international airport, emasculate the legislature, decapitate the military of potential opponents, storm the local TV station and declare a new dawn.

Bigger countries require more effort, like the mass mobilization of xenophobia through false-flag attacks and terror scares, but from Moscow to Monrovia, the patterns are the same – an autocrat takes power in the name of national salvation.

With Donald Trump in power for a little over four months, questions are swirling as to whether this process is happening to what was the most powerful democracy on Earth.

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$5 million

Trump has officially launched his promised gold card which will grants U.S. residency to foreign investors for $5 million – but instantly faced mockery for the supposedly cheap-looking website he's selling them on.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY

"He's not all there."

California Governor Gavin Newsom raised concerns about President Donald Trump's mental acuity on Thursday, saying the president fabricated details of a conversation about federalizing the state's National Guard in Los Angeles.

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