When the Food and Drug Administration approved Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine, the first ever, two weeks ago, the pharmaceutical company that reaped billions from federal taxpayers with its mRNA COVID-19 vaccine didn’t wait for the agency to even publicly post the approval. Moderna rushed out the news at 10 p.m., with a 4% increase in its share price the next morning.It was a promising market signal for a drugmaker whose revenue cratered following the collapse in demand for COVID vaccines, which also led Pfizer to cancel a trial this spring for its own updated mRNA COVID jab. What Moderna left out of the release…
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As the conflict with Iran nears its six-month anniversary, President Donald Trump has traded bombs for a comprehensive economic blockade of the Islamic Republic, hoping to strangle the regime by cutting off its economic lifelines.This week, the president — frustrated with the Iranian leaders’ failure to agree to a deal to settle the conflict that includes ending the country’s illicit nuclear program — vowed to significantly ramp up the United States’ campaign to crush the Iranian economy. Trump: “Tremendous economic circumstances” On Wednesday, Trump announced the “most crushing economic operation ever taken” against the Iranian regime that would target Iranian…
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Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL. For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen † . Posted in Uncategorized
Molly Gillihan, the fiancée of retired Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte, is pushing back hard against claims by his ex-wife Kayla Reid that Gillihan helped destroy their marriage, insisting she never dated a married man and that Reid filed for divorce before the relationship began.Gillihan sat down with TMZ for an interview published Thursday, directly challenging a People magazine profile in which Reid accused Lochte of substance abuse and infidelity and portrayed Gillihan as a former friend who crossed a line. Gillihan rejected every piece of it, the friendship, the timeline, and the “home-wrecker” label Reid pinned on her, the New…
Dr. David Morens, a 78-year-old former senior adviser at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the United States by hiding federal records from public disclosure, a case that reaches toward the highest levels of the pandemic-era public health establishment.The Department of Justice announced the guilty plea this week, capping a federal investigation into Morens’s years-long scheme to evade the Freedom of Information Act and the Federal Records Act. Morens admitted he used a personal Gmail account to conduct government business related to controversial COVID-19 research grants, deliberately routing sensitive communications outside the…
Secretary of State Marco Rubio runs stronger than Vice President JD Vance against nearly every leading Democrat tested in a new Emerson College national poll, a finding that could reshape the early 2028 Republican presidential conversation.The Emerson College survey, published in August 2026, tested a series of hypothetical head-to-head contests pitting the two most prominent Republicans against a bench of Democratic contenders that includes former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Jon Ossoff of Georgia, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, former Vice President Kamala Harris, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York. The results paint a consistent picture: Rubio matches or outpaces…
A 23-year-old Tucson police recruit was shot and killed at his own home just eight days before he was set to graduate from the academy, and authorities are still searching for three suspects caught on surveillance video wearing ski masks and all-black clothing.Carlos Ramirez died around 6 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 19, after gunmen arrived at his residence in the 7700 block of South Enchanted Spring Drive, roughly 17 miles southwest of Tucson, Arizona. His fiancée, a 23-year-old Pima County corrections officer, was also shot. She was taken to a hospital in stable condition. The couple shared a child. The…
President Trump announced a 90-day tariff exemption on up to 300,000 metric tons of ground beef, a move designed to push retail prices down 25 percent while the shrinking American cattle herd rebuilds.Trump posted the announcement Friday morning on Truth Social, calling it a direct win for household budgets squeezed by record-high beef prices. The deal requires imported ground beef to be sold at 25 percent below current market prices for the duration of the exemption, though the administration has not named the country or countries supplying the beef or disclosed the enforcement mechanism behind that pricing commitment. The White…
A federal appeals court ruled that the Trump administration’s top prosecutor in Albany was never lawfully appointed, a decision that voids two grand jury subpoenas targeting New York Attorney General Letitia James and sends the Justice Department scrambling to the Supreme Court.The Second Circuit Court of Appeals issued a divided 2-1 ruling Friday finding that John Sarcone III, the U.S. attorney leading a federal investigation into James, held his position illegally. The decision upheld a lower court’s earlier conclusion and strips legal force from subpoenas Sarcone secured against the attorney general’s office, the New York Post reported. The ruling hands…
President Trump flew to South Carolina Friday night to throw his full weight behind Sen. Darline Graham in Tuesday’s Republican Senate runoff, brushing off a protester mid-speech with a quip that drew roars from the crowd.Trump took the stage at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center and delivered a pointed message to the thousands of supporters packed inside: treat this runoff like his name is on the ballot. The rally marked one of Trump’s most direct campaign interventions ahead of the midterm cycle, and it came just three days before Graham faces Rep. Ralph Norman in a Republican primary runoff for…
A 63-year-old New York grandmother who vanished during a Las Vegas visit was found dead in a drainage ditch near Harry Reid International Airport nearly two weeks later, and mysterious texts requesting Bitcoin from her phone have raised more questions than police have answered.Alisa Goods left a friend’s apartment near Maryland Parkway and Tropicana Avenue around 12:45 p.m. on August 8, headed to catch a bus to a nearby CVS to buy iron pills. She never came back. Her longtime friend Roger John, who she was staying with, began calling and texting her that same day. When she didn’t respond,…
Chief Justice John Roberts stepped in hours before lower-court orders would have shut down aboveground work on President Trump’s White House ballroom, handing the administration a temporary but significant win on the Supreme Court’s emergency docket.Roberts issued a one-page administrative stay on Friday blocking enforcement of a preliminary injunction that U.S. District Judge Richard Leon, a George W. Bush appointee sitting in Washington, D.C., first entered in April. That injunction had ordered a halt to all aboveground construction on the planned 90,000-square-foot ballroom and military complex rising on the site of the demolished East Wing. The stay keeps crews on…
Newly surfaced evidence from the murder trial of Karmelo Anthony, who stabbed 17-year-old Austin Metcalf to death at a high school track meet, paints a picture of a young man consumed by violent fixation long before the killing.Anthony, already convicted of murder and sentenced to 35 years in prison, told police after the stabbing exactly what he had done. A video released after the trial captured him speaking to officers without hesitation: “I’m not alleged. I did it.” He did not equivocate. He did not ask for a lawyer. He stated it as fact, and a Collin County jury agreed,…
Florida public schools are beginning the first year of a state law that substantially expands required instruction on the history and consequences of communism.The law requires age-appropriate instruction on communist movements in the United States, atrocities under communist regimes, Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution and other mass killings, conditions that preceded communist revolutions, and communism in Cuba and Latin America.Gov. Ron DeSantis signed Senate Bill 1264 in April 2024 and the State Board of Education approved the specific standards in November 2025, with instruction beginning this school year.Six districts—Orange, Osceola, Broward, Hillsborough, Escambia, and Duval—told The Epoch Times that instead of…
WASHINGTON—Drivers raced around the nation’s capital as fans cheered the kickoff to the Freedom 250 Grand Prix on Aug. 22, while International Race of Champions, better known as IROC, legends competed, and reigning IndyCar champion Alex Palou earned pole position during the qualifying trials.Drivers started the morning with practice sessions. Videos showed the impact of rain showers and bumpy roads on the performance vehicles, with tight, technical turns requiring lightning-quick precision and a stretch on Pennsylvania Avenue that allows for high-speed displays. Several vehicles touched the walls during the day as some drivers struggled to navigate the new track.Palou dominated…
This screen grab made from video provided by WCVB-TV shows a police officer standing guard over a home in Worcester, Mass., on Aug. 18, 2026. WCVB-TV via APWORCESTER, Mass.—An arrest warrant has been issued for a mental health advocate who remained missing Saturday, more than four days after police found the Massachusetts officer she had been married to dead in their home.Karen Solomon, 58, was last spotted in a doorbell camera video, walking down a street in a T-shirt, shorts and flip-flops early Tuesday morning, just minutes after Worcester police officers responded to a call from the home where Kurt…
Islamic charity really isn’t ‘charity’, unlike Judeo-Christian charity, it’s about expanding the Islamic presence and subjugating civil society to Islam. So weaponizing Islamic ‘charity’ to elect Islamic candidates to take over America is the essence of Koranic ‘charity’. To that end, Islamic organizers are advancing a nationwide plan to back Muslim and other Islamic-friendly candidates with financing from a potential political war chest of more than $140 million a year in mosque and other donations from the swelling Muslim-American community. Earlier this year, the Qadhi-led Fiqh Council of North America issued a legal ruling (fatwah) in coordination with the Assembly…
Screencap of Twitter/X video. Last night on his HBO show, Bill Maher blasted the Democrat Party for embracing antisemitism and basically becoming a party of Jew haters. The rise of the DSA had a lot to do with this, along with the new strain of Islamism in the party, with candidates like Abdul El-Sayed and influencer Hasan Piker. Maher is not Jewish but he can see where this is going and he knows that it will only get worse if it’s not stopped. In the clip, he is talking to CNN’s Dana Bash, who hilariously tries to paint James Talarico…
This NOAA satellite image taken Saturday, Aug. 22, 2026, shows Tropical Storm Moke advancing towards Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean. NOAA via APHONOLULU—Tropical Storm Moke advanced toward Hawaii on Saturday, likely bringing more heavy rainfall and strong gusts to the Big Island, where residents are still dealing with the aftermath of heavy flooding and damaging winds from Hurricane Lala.Moke, which formed Friday in the Pacific Ocean, was located about 425 miles (680 kilometers) southeast of Hilo and moving west-northwest at 12 mph (19 kph). Maximum sustained winds were around 50 mph (85 kph), the National Hurricane Center said.As with Hurricane…
SAN FRANCISCO—Waymo recently announced a major expansion of its autonomous ride-hailing service across the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles, to broader areas, including Sacramento and San Diego, but experts say it’s going to take time for the changes to reach riders for various safety and logistics reasons.“My expectation is that they won’t expand immediately,” Scott Moura, a professor and PATH (California Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology) faculty director at the University of California, Berkeley, told The Epoch Times in an interview on Aug. 18.“But at the same time, I would expect expansion on the order of not weeks,…
How did the Bondi Beach massacre happen? Much like in the UK, a political elite in Australia has been welcoming Muslim terror and defanging any attempts to stop it. I wrote in June about an Aussie judge, Judge Michael McHugh, who issued a ‘secret order’ blocking the use of a video in which Muslim medical personnel announced that they would kill Jews. (The decision has since been overturned.) Now another Aussie judge, Judge Desmond Fagan, decided to issue a ruling in the case of Mohommed Farhat, who had vandalized a Jewish area with graffiti reading “F___ Israel” and had a…
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, made his second push in two weeks to halt the Muslim foot washing facilities at his state’s airports on Friday.“DFW [Dallas Fort Worth International Airport] stopped plans to install additional Islamic wudu washing facilities after I threatened to withhold state grants to entities operating these airports,” Abbott wrote in an Aug. 21 X post.The governor also wants DFW to remove two foot washing stations in one interfaith chapel, and Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport to remove its more extensive foot washing facilities.Abbott wrote that he had “referred both government-owned airports to the U.S. Department…
Credit: Gage Skidmore / Flickr Elon Musk is apparently pouring hundreds of millions into the 2026 midterms to help Republicans defeat the crazy Democrats and retain control of the House and the Senate. It’s hard to believe that just a little over a year ago, Musk was talking about forming his own party. Luckily, he came to his senses. It is extremely important to keep the radical left away from the levers of power and Musk knows this. Townhall has details: Elon Musk Just Gave Republicans Unbelievable News Heading Into the Midterms Elon Musk, who briefly became the world’s first…
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While Muslim sex grooming gangs were freely allowed to prey on women and girls in the UK, and politicians and police colluded to protect the perpetrators from justice… they were cracking down on a major crime by women… not paying the BBC license fee. In the UK, everyone is obligated to subsidize the BBC state media with a television ‘license fee’. If you don’t have a TV, you don’t need to pay the fee. So that means there are inspectors going door to door and asking people if they have a TV and are dodging the fee. That’s the crime…
(Headline USA) Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is still under orders to pay more than $1 billion over his false claims surrounding the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre despite a Texas court reducing some of the money awarded to families.For the bombastic Infowars founder, the ruling that saves him more than $40 million was still a legal victory amid multiple punishing financial judgments that forced him and his company, Free Speech Systems, to file for bankruptcy. Sandy Hook families have yet to collect any money from Jones, who has left his Infowars platform amid numerous ongoing legal battles but is…
Screencap of Twitter/X video. As the Gateway Pundit recently reported, there is already a recall effort underway to oust Seattle’s socialist Mayor Katie Wilson, despite the fact that she has been in office for barely six months. She is losing support from members of the city council and even Starbucks is preparing to ship a huge number of jobs to a red state. Now the news is even worse for her, as a shocking percentage of Democrats want her to resign. Just a little over 6 months in office, 53% of Seattle Democrat voters who elected this moron, are trying…
The first wave of drug legalization at the state level, marijuana, was supposed to show that drug use could be safely normalized. Then other states like Washington and Oregon even tried decriminalizing hard drugs. That led to a wave of overdoses, but marijuana legalization is hardly a success story. Because states like California began cashing in on drug legalization, they now spend just as much time and money chasing illegal growers and sellers who are often members of Asian and Latin American organized crime groups that are far more dangerous than the old dealers, and they have far fewer legal…
Photo: Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 Please Follow us on Gab, Minds, Telegram, Rumble, GETTR, Truth Social, X, Youtube, Instagram Article via Mises Institute In a year as chaotic, violent, and economically destructive as this one has been, it is interesting that, to many Americans, the great villain of 2026 is turning out to be a traffic camera. But, indeed, we are seeing visceral, cross-partisan opposition to so-called Flock cameras—named after the leading manufacturer of these automated license plate readers—take hold in communities across the country. And that opposition is, to be sure, entirely legitimate. Flock’s camera networks are based…
Screencap of Twitter/X video. Last night on the Bill Maher show, one guest was Jeremey Peters, a journalist for the New York Times. When the subject of the DSA came up, Peters was surprisingly candid and came right out and admitted that the DSA wants to take out our Constitutional system. That is correct. Some Democrats and people in media are trying to soften the image of the DSA by saying they just want people to have healthcare. That is not true. Their own official platform includes the abolition of the Senate, the presidency, and the Supreme Court. They also…
Washington is tightening economic pressure on Iran while loosening domestic gasoline rules as U.S. drivers face pump prices above $4 a gallon, according to a report. The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday authorized an early switch to winter-grade gasoline, allowing sales of 10% ethanol blends beginning September 1 instead of the normal mid-September seasonal transition, according to agency officials. Average U.S. gasoline prices have remained above $4 per gallon since mid-July, about $1 higher than when the Iran war began, and the highest on record for this time of year, according to AAA. The war launched by the United States…
Comcast Activates WiFi Motion Detection on MILLIONS of Routers, Raising Privacy Concerns On Aug. 18, Comcast activated a motion detection feature on millions of its newer home routers. WiFi Motion is a free feature that turns newer Xfinity Gateways into motion sensors by detecting interruptions to the WiFi signal of the wireless network and sending a notification through the Xfinity app, according to TechCrunch [1]. Comcast unveiled the feature as part of Xfinity Shield, a home security platform built around the WiFi network, and it turns the leased gateway into a motion detector at no extra charge, according to a…
Letter Shows Protocol Lapses in Sanofi RSV Infant Vaccine Trial Paused After Participant Death French pharmaceutical firm Sanofi paused its clinical trial of an experimental respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine for infants and toddlers after a participating baby died, according to documents obtained through a Freedom of Information (FOI) request and published by Children’s Health Defense (CHD) and ActivistPost. The company later shut down the study, with documents showing it did not report safety issues with the vaccine and said it ended the trial because the vaccine was not as effective as hoped. [1][2] A letter obtained by British general practitioner…
Coinbase Global Inc. Chief Executive Officer Brian Armstrong said Thursday, Aug. 20, that Bitcoin will “very likely” trade between $300,000 and $400,000 by 2030. Armstrong made the remarks during his appearance that day on Fox Business Network’s “Varney & Co.” The projection came one day after President Donald Trump hosted crypto executives at the White House, according to officials. Bitcoin recently surpassed $72,000 per coin, up 10% over the past day, according to market figures. The gain followed the White House meeting, according to trading data. Bitcoin Price Prediction”I think over the next couple of years – if I say 2030 –…
Asian Water Tower’s Hidden Crisis: Groundwater Losing 24 Billion Tonnes Annually Groundwater reserves beneath High Mountain Asia, a region often called the “Asian Water Tower,” are declining by about 24.2 billion metric tons per year, according to a study published Aug. 20 in Environmental Research Letters. The research, led by Prof. Shudong Wang of the Aerospace Information Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, used satellite observations and an artificial intelligence-powered model to reconstruct roughly 20 years of groundwater storage changes from 2003 to 2020. The region provides water that supports farming, cities, and ecosystems across more than a…
A body of epidemiological research links pesticide exposure to Parkinson’s disease. Research at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) finds that pesticide exposure increases the risk of developing Parkinson’s disease, regardless of whether disease onset is idiopathic or genetic [1]. Although the exact cause remains unknown, epidemiological and toxicological research repeatedly identifies exposure to pesticides, as well as specific gene-pesticide interactions, as significant risk factors [2]. The findings nevertheless add to a broader pattern. About a third of the world’s population suffers from some nervous system disease, and growing evidence suggests that exposure to pesticides in all forms contributes…
A report published Aug. 17, 2026, by NaturalHealth365 described a study in which 20 healthy adults underwent functional MRI scans and blood draws before and after a seven-day meditation retreat at the University of California, San Diego. According to the report, the retreat combined intensive meditation, reconceptualization exercises, and open-label healing rituals, and the measurements were taken the same way researchers might test a medication. Key FindingsThe report said the participants were randomly selected from 561 retreat attendees. After the retreat, brain scans showed decreased integration in the default mode network, a region the article said “ties to internal mental…
Study: Single 75-Minute Weekly Session of Brisk Walking Produces Results Comparable to Three 25-Minute Sessions Researchers at the University of Hong Kong’s School of Public Health found that a single 75-minute weekly session of interval walking produced reductions in body fat comparable to three 25-minute sessions per week, according to study results published in Nature Communications. The four-month randomized clinical trial involved 315 adults with abdominal obesity and compared the two exercise schedules against a no-exercise control group [1]. Body fat percentage, total fat mass, and waist circumference were measured at baseline, immediately after the 16-week program, and again four months…
The sweet peril: Post-meal blood sugar spikes linked to higher Alzheimer’s risk A study finds strong genetic link between sharp rises in blood sugar after meals and 69% higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. The research focused on genetic variants that cause high post-meal glucose, suggesting a potential cause-and-effect relationship beyond simple correlation. The damaging mechanism is unclear, as these blood sugar spikes were not linked to visible brain shrinkage, pointing to subtler processes like inflammation or vascular damage. The findings shift the focus of prevention toward maintaining stable blood sugar through diet for the general population, long before diabetes…
Diet soda is marketed as a guilt-free alternative, but artificial sweeteners like aspartame are linked to increased risks of diabetes, kidney damage, high blood pressure, heart rhythm disorders and permanent tooth enamel erosion. Regular diet soda consumption is associated with a higher risk of type 2 diabetes (up to 67% higher with just one can per week) and paradoxically linked to increased waist circumference—frequent users saw waistlines grow five times more than non-users. Drinking more than two servings daily is tied to significant kidney function decline, while consuming over two liters per week raises the risk of atrial fibrillation by…
Sinaloa governor Ruben Rocha attends the inauguration of the Santa Fe bridge, in Culiacan, Mexico, on July 17, 2025. David Gaspar/ReutersThe governor of the Mexican state of Sinaloa has returned to his office after momentarily stepping aside in May, as U.S. prosecutors accused him of facilitating cartel activity in the state.“Today, I have resumed the exercise of my role as Constitutional Governor of the State of Sinaloa,” Rubén Rocha Moya said in a press statement on Aug. 21.On April 29, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York announced that it had obtained an indictment against Moya…
In 2023, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appeared on “Anderson Cooper 360” and said that then-President Joe Biden should ignore court rulings on abortion pills. (@IngrahamAngle / X screen shot) There is apparently a ‘Maoist’ faction of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), called the ‘Liberation Caucus’ and according to them, far left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is too ‘moderate’ to run for president in 2028. This is going to be news to the millions of Americans who see AOC as a leading figure of the radical left. She is still a member of the DSA chapter in New York City. If AOC…
Angel Studios has another hit with audiences on its hands, earning an A rating. Coming off the successful release of “Young Washington” earlier this summer, “The Brink of War” tells the story of Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev’s meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland, in October 1986 to decide the future of the world with regard to the nuclear arms race. Jeff Daniels portrays Reagan, while Jared Harris is Gorbachev, and J.K. Simmons is Secretary of State George Shultz. Audiences gave “The Brink of War” a CinemaScore A rating during its debut last weekend. Meanwhile, 86 percent of moviegoers gave it a…
Screencap of Twitter/X video. On Friday evening, Fox News’ Jesse Watters shared some of the disturbing plans underway in LA that will further make the city indistinguishable from a third-world city. The plans include homeless ‘love shacks’ so that they can partake in ‘private sexual relief.’ Watters shared, “Hakeem [Jeffries] has a lot of hookers…. in his district. There’s so many johns lined up for a piece of the action, Google Maps says there’s a traffic jam.” “Now, AOC had the same problem. Her home turf was packed with prostitutes last year. Neighbors called it a ‘red light district.’” “Out…
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Swedish police responded in force to the Brinell High School attack in Fagersta on Friday. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) Please follow us on Truth Social, X, YouTube, Minds, Telegram, Rumble, GETTR, Gab, Instagram In a “horrendous attack” a former pupil of Brinell High School in Fagersta, central Sweden stormed his old school armed with a sword killing one person and seriously injuring three others before being shot and arrested by police. According to Police Chief Tommy Alriksson, the 18-year-old attacker was shot during the arrest. The attacker, who was identified by police as an 18-year-old male, was a…
Photo: via Reuters Please Follow us on Gab, Minds, Telegram, Rumble, Truth Social, Gettr, X, Youtube, Instagram Posted Zero Hedge The Kremlin has newly said it is ready for dialogue with Washington and open to ideas for ending the conflict in Ukraine, but still says it will not compromise on Russia’s core aims. A senior Russian diplomat has stressed that any future talks must align with President Vladimir Putin’s position. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov stated in an interview published by national media on Friday that Russia is open to proposals that are in line with “realities on the ground.”…
Somali pirates – Montage by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jason R. Zalasky/US Navy/Wiki Media This latest attack is the second in just four days. In the game of ‘proxy groups in the Middle East’, Iran arms and equips the Yemeni Houthis, who in turn arm and equip the Somali pirates. This has transformed the crude attacks of a decade ago into much more dangerous affairs, with pirates much better armed and reportedly using satellite tracking intel to chase their prey. Somali Pirates Are Back, Using a Hijacked Cargo Tanker as a ‘Mothership’ to Attack Other Vessels off the Horn…
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests are ongoing nationwide, including in the southeastern states of Georgia and Mississippi.In this month alone, ICE officers have arrested more than 1,200 in the two states. Arrests were made through multiagency partnerships and ongoing investigations. Dozens of local law enforcement agencies, primarily led by sheriffs, have signed ICE 287(g) agreements. In Georgia and Mississippi, the majority have signed Task Force Model agreements. This is significant, ICE argues, because the TFM enables local law enforcement to make and assist with arrests. With new U.S. attorneys and a renewed collaboration among…