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Presented with only two options about how he anticipates feeling shortly before 1 p.m. kickoff Saturday, Micah McFadden laughed.

The fast-moving Taffle Fire broke out in the unincorprated area of Sage on Friday, prompting evacuation orders as shifting winds threatened structures and hampered firefighters.

Pete Alonso is doing something Friday night that he’s never done before. 

State Department Revokes Over 175,000 Visas Of Foreign Nationals Accused Of Crimes

Via American Greatness,

President Donald Trump’s State Department has revoked more than 175,000 visas held by foreign nationals accused of crimes since the start of last year, officials said this week, marking one of the administration’s most sweeping efforts yet to remove dangerous individuals from the country.

State Department officials said the majority of revocations targeted foreign nationals accused of assault, drunk driving, theft, drug crimes, fraud, immigration violations and threats to national security.

A significant share of the revoked visas also involved allegations of child abuse, sexual assault, embezzlement and reckless driving.

Among the cases cited by officials, one foreign national lost his visa after being charged with rape and sexual battery of a victim who is mentally disabled. Another had a visa revoked following charges of felony kidnapping, human trafficking and sexual exploitation of a minor.

Other cases included a foreign national arrested for disorderly conduct, resisting arrest with violence, drunk driving and domestic violence, as well as individuals charged with sodomy of a child, aggravated sexual battery, and possession of more than a dozen counts of child sexual abuse material.

One foreign national was arrested for driving with heroin in the vehicle and a blood alcohol level more than three times the legal limit.

A U.S. embassy in North Africa revoked more than 100 visas held by so-called birth tourist parents who officials said traveled to the United States primarily to give birth so their children would obtain American citizenship.

Officials also flagged financial crimes among the revocations, including a foreign national accused of orchestrating a Medicaid scheme that billed more than $5 million for fake services under the guise of a legitimate healthcare business, and another who fabricated company revenue and forged letters to swindle investors and clients while using the false claims to fraudulently obtain a visa.

A foreign national who came to the United States to teach young students was arrested and had his visa revoked after being accused of sexually assaulting one of them.

Several foreign nationals lost their visas after publicly celebrating the assassination of Charlie Kirk, including one who wrote that “when fascists die, democrats don’t complain” and another who said Kirk “died too late.”

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has also moved against foreign nationals deemed threats to national security, revoking the visa of a Cuban national with ties to the communist regime and of Iranian nationals connected to the Iranian government.

Officials additionally revoked the visa of a Laotian child sex offender previously pardoned by Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat, as well as a Kuwaiti national accused of expressing a desire for violence against Trump and referring to Americans as the “enemy.”

Tyler Durden Fri, 08/14/2026 - 18:25

One of Gates' classmates at Stanford said her startup was the laughingstock at their alma mater.

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Tallulah and Acee tied the knot in Idaho on Saturday.

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The bloodshed was first discovered at a home in Missaukee County, where police found three dead people shortly before noon

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Aaron Glenn's plan one day before the Jets' Friday preseason opener was simple: “Everybody’s playing.”

Donations and other political support may help explain the New York pols' obliviousness, though these Democrats seem to think stopping fraud is a waste of taxpayer money.

US Accuses Chinese Exporters Of Masterminding "Great Transshipment Scam"

Back in mid-2025, when Trump's renewed trade war with China was all the rage, we said that much of this was hot air and theatrics for the simple reason that many Chinese exporters would find easy ways to evade US tariffs thanks to "transshipments", or using intermediary countries as fake points of origin ...

Why China exports tumbled to the US and rose everywhere else? One word: transshipments pic.twitter.com/y9Pg2ML5ZX

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) May 10, 2025

... and none more so than Vietnam, which quickly emerged as the central nexus in US tariff evasion.

Record Vietnam transshipments by China pic.twitter.com/SBCsRrWLeh

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) August 8, 2025

It appears the Trump admin finally got the memo, and on Thursday it released a sharply worded report accusing Chinese exporters of orchestrating a system of “illegal transshipment” through more than 40 third countries to dodge US tariffs, branding the practice “The Great Transshipment Scam”.

The 25-page document confirms what we reported for much of 2025, and claims Chinese firms systematically diverted goods through lower-tariff jurisdictions since the US kicked off its trade war with China in 2018.

It alleges that exporters use limited assembly, relabelling, repackaging, re-invoicing and false country-of-origin declarations to disguise Chinese-origin products and secure more favourable tariff treatment on entry into the US.

The White House report said that Chinese exporters have “increasingly routed goods through third countries … where limited assembly, finishing, repackaging, relabelling or documentation changes could create the appearance of a different national origin.”

“For years the great transshipment scam has led Communist China to launder its exports through more than 40 countries, rob our treasury of tens of billions of dollars, and steal the paychecks of American workers,” said Peter Navarro, the White House senior counsellor for Trade and Manufacturing.

“This report rips the mask off.”

The Chinese embassy in Washington said that Beijing opposed the “overstretching of the concept of national security” and the use of state power to suppress Chinese enterprises”. It also warned that any “unilateral actions or agreements concerning transshipped goods must not target or harm the interests of third parties.”

“We firmly oppose any party seeking to strike a deal at China’s expense or engaging in baseless economic coercion that severely infringes upon the legitimate rights and interests of relevant enterprises and gravely disrupts the stability of global industrial and supply chains,” embassy spokesperson Liu Chang said adding that “should such situations arise, China will resolutely take necessary measures to safeguard its legitimate rights and interests.”

The 40 countries named as participants in the China-linked “Great Transshipment Scam” include major US trading partners such as Canada and Mexico, as well as allies such as Japan, South Korea, the European Union and Israel. Most Southeast Asian countries are also on the list, among them Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and the Philippines. South Asian countries such as India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are also named.

The findings come amid tit-for-tat economic actions between Washington and Beijing and one month before Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to visit Washington for a leader-level summit with US President Donald Trump.

The report cited a range of third-party estimates for the annual value of goods involved in illegal or suspect transshipment, spanning roughly US$40 billion to US$303 billion. 

Assuming $75 billion in annual illegal transshipment, the administration estimates that roughly 450,000 American jobs have been displaced and up to $150 billion of GDP has been lost. These figures are described as model-based illustrations rather than observed counts.

Applying illustrative tariffs of between 25 to 45%, the report estimates annual US revenue losses in the “tens of billions of dollars”.

The report says that the administration will increase the use of artificial intelligence to monitor trade and spot transshipped goods, an initiative it calls the “Detective Border”.

The publication coincides with Washington’s efforts to close what it sees as a major loophole in its tariff regime.

Mexico has drawn particular scrutiny because of its free trade pact with the US and rising Chinese investment and flows of Chinese-made components into Mexican factories. Those concerns are now central to the ongoing joint review of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). The US has declined an automatic 16-year extension of the pact, citing issues including concerns over Chinese transshipment.

Navarro termed Mexico as “one of the biggest transshippers,” where China uses the USMCA “tariff rates of nothing” and “sneak stuff in”. 

“Communist China has engaged in an extremely sophisticated set of actions that are designed essentially to transship and thereby evade the tariffs,” Navarro added.

As SCMP notes, an analysis by the Coalition for a Prosperous America, a lobby group for the US manufacturing industry, estimated that about US$14 billion in Chinese trade was diverted and transshipped to the US after the 2025 tariff escalation, with Asean countries accounting for the majority.

Washington has already moved to tighten the rules. A 2025 framework agreement with Vietnam imposed a 40 per cent tariff on goods deemed to have been transshipped, twice the rate applied to ordinary Vietnamese-origin shipments. Similar anti-transshipment provisions have been included in other bilateral arrangements and executive actions targeting indirect shipments.

Asian manufacturing hubs such as Vietnam and Thailand are also under growing scrutiny. Trade data earlier this year showed a roughly $112 billion gap between China’s reported exports to the US and arrivals recorded by US Customs and Border Protection, a discrepancy widely seen as a sign of large-scale tariff circumvention.

Although the report concludes that it “is too early to determine the net effect of the Administration’s tariff and anti-transshipment policies”, it serves as a reminder that the tariff heat remains on.

In July last year, an executive order extended a 40% penalty tariff to goods that US Customs and Border Protection determines were transshipped to evade duties. The penalty is imposed on top of any country-of-origin tariff. The administration has also begun publishing lists of countries and facilities linked to suspected tariff evasion schemes. 

The White House report came a day after Senator Bernie Moreno, a Republican from Ohio, urged Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin to intensify the crackdown. In an August 12 letter, Moreno called the practice “a deliberate scheme by foreign manufacturers, overwhelmingly based in China, to falsify where their goods are made, launder them through a third country, slap on a new label and dump them into the American market.”

He said that Chinese auto parts routed through Thailand had affected manufacturing in Ohio.

Tyler Durden Fri, 08/14/2026 - 18:00

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Democratic Party Committee Advances Resolution Demanding ICE Be Abolished

Authored by Nathan Worcester via The Epoch Times,

Democrats have edged closer to vowing to end Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Federal agents monitor protesters in front of Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices in Portland, Ore., on Oct. 4, 2025. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times

At its summer meeting in Austin, Texas, on Aug. 13, the Democratic National Committee's Resolutions Committee approved a resolution that calls for the abolition of ICE, an agency at the center of the Trump administration's immigration law enforcement effort.

It could be approved by the full DNC as Democrats mull their message ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

The resolution, which passed 25 to 12, was introduced by Michele Johnson, a DNC committeewoman from Louisiana.

In 2024, the website of the New Orleans Democratic Socialists of America described Johnson as a member of its chapter.

"The DNC urges Democratic members of Congress to craft legislation abolishing ICE and enacting immigration reform that provides pathways to citizenship, protects workers, and ensures dignity for all impacted people," the resolution reads in part.

The resolution cited the deaths of ICE detainees and allegations of poor conditions at detention facilities.

An amendment from Idaho's Terri Pickens that would have changed the word "abolishing" to "completely restructuring" was withdrawn.

At the meeting, Johnson said she wanted to go beyond merely calling for reforms.

She said "abolition may feel intimidating or radical," but the death of anti-ICE protester Renee Good in a Minneapolis confrontation with ICE agents and other incidents, as well as White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller's call for 3,000 arrests per day, helped motivate her desire to eliminate the agency altogether.

"No amount of tinkering at the edges will make the culture change," she said, alleging that the agency "treats all individuals with my skin color and darker like criminals."

The resolution touched off a spirited debate among the Democrats present, with some urging reform rather than abolishment.

Marge Hoffa, the DNC's Midwestern regional vice chair, noted that the DNC previously passed resolutions advocating ICE reforms, including during the same meeting, that fell short of pushing to abolish the agency.

That reform resolution came from the DNC's current chairman, Ken Martin, who, like Hoffa, is from Minnesota.

"We shouldn't contradict ourselves by also introducing a resolution that would now call to abolish something that we have [a] well-established track record of calling to be drastically reformed," Hoffa said.

Ada Briceño, a Californian, voiced support for the resolution, noting that her family and friends included people illegally present in the United States.

"I don't trust this organization, this ICE, with my life, or anybody else's life," she said.

Texas's Jeff Strater said he backed the resolution without amendments.

"I am fully aware that this body has passed resolutions reforming ICE - I voted for them - but I'm also here today to vote in alignment with my state Democratic Party," he said.

Natalie Baldassarre, the national press secretary for the Republican National Committee, criticized the resolution.

"If Democrats had any backbone they'd vote down this dangerous proposal and put American citizens first," she said in a statement, adding that ICE under President Donald Trump has mostly targeted alleged or convicted criminals.

Tyler Durden Fri, 08/14/2026 - 17:40