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Americans have soured on ICE. According to Axios, a YouGov poll of over 2,600 U.S. adults conducted on January 7 -- the same day an ICE officer fatally shot 37-year-old Renee Good in Minneapolis -- found that 52 percent disapprove of how ICE is ...

For most of the past year, Democrats who floated impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem were on the fringes. Then ICE shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis. Good was a U.S. citizen, a mother of three, and according to city officials,

As a police officer in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Ross Walden represents the government and is invested with its power, authority and qualified immunity from criminal prosecution. Odd, then, that he would have a tattoo representing the Three Percenters,

Justin Salsburey, 43, of Bellefontaine, Ohio, and his wife, Ruthann Rankin, were arrested December 30 on charges of drug trafficking. With about 18,000 such cases a year in the U.S. this would not be newsworthy but for an interesting fact: he is, or ...

Very few images in modern politics have resonated like that of Jacob Chansley, better known as the QAnon Shaman, storming through the halls of power in his idiotic hat. He was the face of a conspiracy-fueled right-wing insurrection we're still ...

Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2257/94 -- the infamous "bendy banana law" -- really does exist. According to Wikipedia, the 1994 European Union regulation specified that bananas must be "free from malformation or abnormal curvature." British tabloids ...

Vice President JD Vance responded to the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis by blaming her for her own death. According to Newsweek, Vance posted on social media: "You can accept that this woman's death is ...

This video on circulating on Threads captures a moment at a Minneapolis protest that is difficult to watch and impossible to dismiss. A MAGA supporter openly celebrates the death of Renee Good, a mother of three killed by ICE, and threatens the crowd ...

A group of Buddhist monks are currently participating in a 2,300 mile "Walk for Peace" as they make their way on foot from Fort Worth, Texas to Washington, D.C. While the crowds who have come out to see them along their journey have been ...

President Trump addressed House Republicans at their annual retreat on Monday -- held at the Kennedy Center, recently renamed the Trump-Kennedy Center by its Trump-appointed board -- with a warning: win the midterms or watch him get impeached for a ...