“Immigrants are grubby, filthy pieces of s***.” This is the kind of statement that Meta will no longer be flagging as hate speech on their Facebook and Instagram platforms, according to policies announced in a leaked document circulated by the company days before the inauguration of Donald Trump. The policies are supposedly necessary because classifying…

NewsFeed Florida police catch suspected drug dealer on horseback ‘Get that bad man.’ Newly-released bodycam video shows police on horseback in Jacksonville, Florida chasing a suspected drug dealer on foot for around 500 metres before they could apprehend him. Published On 9 Feb 20259 Feb 2025

Warning: This story contains references to child sexual abuse that some readers may find disturbing. Lacey, Washington, United States – Robert Shilling has seen many terrible things. Too much for him to forget. Too much to do anything other than file it away in part of his brain and try to keep it there. This…

Inside Story What are the implications of Trump’s sanctions against ICC? The International Criminal Court receives a wave of support after it’s hit with US sanctions. Read more Donald Trump’s executive orders are coming thick and fast. The latest being sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC). Trump claims the ICC abuses its power, taking…

The Listening Post Trump’s blitzkrieg: Overwhelm, confuse, confound Read more It’s an alarming moment in US politics. Developments have been fast and furious, with Donald Trump flooding the news space at a rate journalists find hard to handle. His plan for an American takeover of the Gaza Strip, the reshaping of federal agencies and the…

The Department of Government Efficiency – the Trump administration’s cost-cutting agency, headed by billionaire business owner Elon Musk – has put hundreds of federal officials on leave, gained access to sensitive federal payment systems and led the charge to shutter federal agencies. The pushback against DOGE, as it is called, has been swift, as legislators…

Court judgements in the United States have blocked efforts by President Donald Trump’s team to access Treasury Department records and lay off staff at the US Agency for International Development (USAID). Early on Saturday, US District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer blocked Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, also known as DOGE, from accessing Treasury Department…

The wreckage of a small plane that went missing in the United States with 10 people on board has been found with no survivors, authorities have said. The United States Coast Guard in Alaska said on Friday that it had found the wreckage of the aircraft near Nome, about 885 kilometres (550 miles) northwest of…