Loads of human remains were found buried in Mexico City near where the World Cup games will take place later this year.
The discovery of the makeshift graves comes amid an upsurge in cartel violence, with over 20 grave sites being discovered around Guadalajara since last year, per the New York Post.
On Thursday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “Carl Higbie Frontline,” Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Harmeet Dhillon discussed a settlement by the DOJ with a company over allegations that it used AI-generated ads excluding American workers and said that “the current federal maximum penalty for these types of offenses is under $5,000 per ad. Congress could certainly help me do my job by increasing those penalties.”
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Thursday on MS NOW’s “The Last Word,” actor Morgan Freeman said President Donald Trump was leading the country “down a shithole.”
Host Lawrence O’Donnell said, “How would you describe where we are now?”
Freeman said, “Can I use profanity?”
WNBA star Caitlin Clark was seen partying with Olympian Eileen Gu, an American who competed for China in both past winter Olympics, during Milan Fashion Week.
Both Clark and Gu posted photos of themselves enjoying the Prada show on their Instagram Stories on Thursday.
Thursday on MS NOW’s “The Last Word,” Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said President Donald Trump was building Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) into an army “that’s going to be policing American streets.”
Schiff said, “We wanted to go through DHS contracting records and document just how much they’re spending to militarize this new, you know, effectively new police forces, palace guard of the presidents that is wreaking such havoc in our cities. And we found dramatic increases in spending on weapons, as you said, ICE agents will be equipped with now 3 to 4 times the amount of weapons as the previous year. Customs and Border Protection doubling their expenditure on the same.”
Thursday on MS NOW’s “The Briefing,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said that President Donald Trump “has no role constitutionally” in administering midterm elections.
Raskin said, “Everything we’re hearing about today is an echo of what took place in 2020. Write me a memo. Explain how we can steal the election. Why? Because their policies are tremendously unpopular. They’re plummeting in the polls. So they don’t have a program of policies for the country. They’re just going to try to shrink and reduce the electorate and somehow rig the electoral result.”
The legitimacy of the hotly contested by-election in Gorton and Denton was thrown into doubt on Thursday as independent election observers claimed to have witnessed illegal “family voting” practices in which multiple people enter the voting booth, which some have tied to the constituency’s large Muslim population.
On Thursday’s “Spectrum News One,” Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said all of our Democratic and Republican presidents have been patriots, except for President Donald Trump.
Discussing the House possibly flipping control in the midterm elections, Pelosi said, “We only need a handful, but I would rather have at least 30 now. But it doesn’t matter if I want to win more than we need, because I think the Republicans will try to play a stunt and challenge if it’s just a few seats. So it’s good to have the insurance of having many more. That’s the way I like it.”
On Thursday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) argued that there is a DHS shutdown “because this administration is insisting on a false choice to the American public.” And said that Democrats are “not going to back down on this.”
Former first lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told the House Oversight Committee on Thursday that she had no idea about Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes.
In her opening statement, which she later posted on X, Clinton said she had no idea of Epstein’s criminal activities.
The United States has positioned its first dedicated “one-way” kamikaze drone unit for potential use against Iran, as the latest round of nuclear negotiations in Geneva wrapped without a deal and Tehran reportedly rejected Washington’s core demands.
A 25-year-old Texas man is accused of drugging a pregnant woman with abortion pills and causing her to have a miscarriage.
Jon Demeter was arrested and is facing a charge for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, although legal experts told local news outlet KHOU he could end up being charged with capital murder depending on how the district attorney’s office approaches the case.
