BORDERLINE: President Biden’s executive order limiting immigration for asylum went into effect at 12:01 this morning. Biden’s order used the same obscure clause in the federal asylum law as Donald Trump to close the border.   Under political pressure in an election …

June 4, 2024 Vol. 13, No. 2100 BORDERLINE: President Biden is expected today to issue an executive order that would seal the southern border and shut down asylum requests after the average number of daily entries hits 2,500, allowing for immediate deportations.  The order …

MEXICO FIRST: Mexico yesterday elected its first woman and not only its first woman, but also its first Jewish person to be President of the country.   Claudia Sheinbaum, 61, is a climate scientist and former mayor of Mexico City. She prevailed …

GUILTY AS CHARGED: Donald Trump, the man of self-proclaimed superlatives who claims to be the first, the best, and the most of everything … the only man who can save America … today is the first former president in the history …

DELIBERATIONS: The jury in Donald Trump’s criminal trial asked to re-hear four sections of testimony as well as the judge’s instructions before they were dismissed for the day yesterday afternoon. They had deliberated about 4 ½ hours.   The jury wants to …

IN CLOSING: The prosecutor in Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial made his final argument yesterday that the former president was at the head of a conspiracy to sway the outcome of the 2016 election with a payoff to a porn …

THE WAR ROOM: There’s a lot of depressing news today, but some days are like that.   An Israeli airstrike on a tent camp in the Rafah area of Gaza killed at least 45 people, the Gaza Health Ministry said.    The Israeli …

THE WAR ROOM: The International Court of Justice yesterday ordered an immediate halt to Israel’s military offensive in Rafah in a stunning rebuke to Israel’s prosecution of the war to eradicate Hamas militants in Gaza in which 35,000 people have been …

SOUR NOTE: The Justice department yesterday sued to break up Live Nation, the concert giant that also owns Ticketmaster thereby controlling a majority of the venues and sales.   The lawsuit joined by 29 states and the District of Columbia accuses Live Nation …

FLAG WAVING: Only a week after revealing that an upside down American flag was flown at the home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, a sign of distress, the paper also reports that a revolution-era flag adopted by the Christian right …