George Santos says he has sold 1,200 videos on Cameo

Disgraced US representative reportedly earning six figures on site, selling videos for $350 each Disgraced US representative George Santos claims he has made more than 1,000 videos on the platform Cameo, allowing him to generate a substantial amount of income – about a half-million dollars – since his expulsion from Congress. Santos said Sunday during … Read more

Senate border bill says non-Mexican children won’t be counted in migrant total to trigger mandatory shutdown

The Senate’s bipartisan $118 billion border security and foreign aid package includes a stipulation that unaccompanied minors not originally from Mexico would not be included in the total number of migrant encounters tallied in the 5,000 weekly average that triggers emergency authority to shut down the border.  American First Legal, a conservative group, brought attention … Read more

GOP senators demand ‘adequate time’ to review border security bill

GOP senators on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee want Senate leaders to conduct a full legislative process for the supplemental package, which includes border policy changes agreed upon by negotiators, instead of rushing the bill to a floor vote this week.  In a letter to Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. … Read more

California faces ‘life-threatening landslides’ as atmospheric river batters state – live

California governor Gavin Newsom declares state of emergency for eight counties, including Los Angeles and Santa Barbara; one man killed by falling tree More than 500,000 households and businesses across California are without power, according to poweroutage.us, which tracks outages across the country. The outage are concentrated in northern California, and are likely affecting more … Read more

Biden challenger Dean Phillips vows to stay in race as ‘a mission of principle’

Minnesota congressman says president ‘in a terrible position’, citing his poor polling performance on a number of topics Democratic presidential challenger Dean Phillips defended continuing his longshot campaign despite a disappointing third-place finish in Saturday’s South Carolina primary, saying it was “a mission of principle”. Phillips also argued that Joe Biden remains “in a terrible … Read more