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Donald Trump’s administration has reportedly instructed immigration enforcement officers to cut back on arrests inside courthouses and to no longer enter homes without a warrant, backing off two controversial policies that have sparked violent and chaotic scenes in the president's mass deportation campaign.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement field offices across the country were verbally instructed by their superiors that they should no longer enter homes unless they have a judicial warrant, two Homeland Security officials told NBC News.
Last year, ICE’s then-acting director Todd Lyons told officers to rely on the agency’s own permissions to enter a person’s home — rather than seek a warrant from a judge. Homeland Security then issued a lengthy press release defending the policy.
ICE’s alleged instructions also led to a sharp drop in the number of arrests inside immigration courthouses. Last month, a top federal prosecutor admitted that the government was wrongly relying on polic..

A Northern California woman has died after being bitten multiple times by a venomous snake, marking the third snakebite death in California this year amid an unusual rise in fatalities statewide.
The 78-year-old woman, who lived in Redwood Valley, was walking on a rural property on April 8 when she was bitten three times, Quincy Cromer, a spokesperson for the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office, told SFGate. Family members transported her to a hospital, but she later died from her injuries. An autopsy on April 15 determined the cause of death was envenomation from the bites, and officials ruled the incident accidental. The snake species involved has not been identified.
Her death marks the third snakebite-related fatality in California in 2026, which is well above the state’s typical average of no more than one a year, SFGate reports. A 25-year-old mountain biker died in Orange County in February, followed by a 46-year-old hiker in Ventura County in March, both after rattlesnake bites. ..

“If someone steals £100 worth of fuel… It’s absolutely a straight loss for us,” Goran Raven said.
Speaking from his Shell garage in Romford, east London, Mr Raven said he’s lost around £2,000 to fuel theft since the war between Iran and the US broke out on 28 February.
Higher pump prices in the wake of the Iran war have meant his fourth-generation family-run business has suffered a significant blow as more people take off without paying.
He said his site saw the highest rates of petrol theft in the first two weeks of the conflict. Mr Raven added: “It was as though the criminal element of society were preparing themselves for the worst.
“There was a point where I was thinking to myself, if prices keep rising, thefts keep rising, and this goes on for much longer, I have to start looking at redundancies.
“It has a really big impact, because it’s coming at a time when the prices are rising, and fuel sales are declining and slowing down.”
open image in galleryGoran Raven has lost around ..

Alcatraz Island has abruptly closed its doors to tourists just weeks after President Trump demanded over $150 million to reopen the infamous prison. ​
Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary – which sits in the water near San Francisco – closed for good as an operating prison in 1963 and now welcomes around 1.2 million visitors per year, according to the National Park Service. ​Now, on the NPS’s website, an alert says that the closure began on Monday and will last until Friday.​
“Access to the island is temporarily closed for dock repair,” the warning reads. “All scheduled tours have been refunded.”
​In an email obtained by SFGATE, Joshua Winchell, the park’s communications chief, said that the closure was “planned” and “pre-scheduled.”​ The work will be carried out “specifically to repair and inspect the dock pilings.”​
The Trump administration has long expressed interest in reopening a prison on Alcatraz Island, and the White House released a 2027 budget proposal earlier this year that seeks $..

A gunman who opened fire on crowds of tourists at the site of historic Mexican pyramids reportedly left behind a disturbing AI generated image showing himself with the Columbine school shooters.
The shooter, later identified as 27-year-old Julio Cesar Jasso of Mexico, wounded 13 people, including six Americans, and killed a Canadian woman, authorities confirmed.
The incident took place Monday around 11.30 a.m. at the Pyramid of the Moon at the Teotihuacán archeological site, some 30 miles north west of Mexico City.
Jasso was the only gunman and later died by a self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities told The Associated Press.
Among the items found at the site was the AI photo, which appeared to show Jasso standing posing with Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the two teenage friends who killed 14 people and then themselves in the Colorado school shooting, according to Mexican outlet Telediario.
open image in galleryA gunman who opened fire on crowds of tourists at the historic Teotihua..

President Donald Trump is lashing out at critics and angrily denying that Israel’s government convinced him to launch the nearly two-month-old war against Iran that has roiled global markets and sent energy prices soaring amid an ongoing Iranian blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
Writing on Truth Social on Monday, Trump claimed Israel “never talked me into war with Iran.”
“The results of Oct. 7th, added to my lifelong opinion that IRAN CAN NEVER HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON, did,” he said.
The president’s denial directly contradicts what Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters in early March during the opening days of the war.
During a brief press availability at the Capitol, Rubio — who also serves as Trump’s national security adviser — said Trump was forced into a preemptive response after learning of an imminent Israeli attack, as officials knew such an attack would trigger retaliation against US military personnel in the Middle East.
“It was abundantly clear that if Iran came under a..

Donald Trump rebuked one of his own Cabinet officials on Monday after his top energy chief told CNN that he wasn’t sure when higher gas prices would fall back down and stated that price hikes could potentially persist into 2027.
The president conducted one of his increasingly common early-morning phone interviews, this time from The Hill, on Monday and responded to an interview Energy Secretary Chris Wright gave on CNN’s State of the Union a day earlier.
Though most experts (including Wright) have warned that higher gas prices are the result of a supply shock to the oil market that likely won’t be fully steadied for months, the president instead insisted that prices would plunge once his administration signs a peace agreement to end the war in Iran.
Gas prices will drop “as soon as this ends,” Trump told The Hill. Wright, on Sunday, said that such a price drop “might not happen until next year.”
“No, I think he’s wrong on that. Totally wrong,” the president insisted to The Hill on Mond..

Trump warns ‘no more Mr Nice Guy’ and threatens new strikes on Iran if deal not agreedDonald Trump threatened to strike Iran’s civilian infrastructure again on Sunday in an effort to bring the regime to the table for 11th-hour talks before the ceasefire expires next week.
The US president took to social media to urge Iran to make a deal to end the war as he announced that negotiators would be heading to Islamabad for talks on Monday evening.
“We’re offering a very fair and reasonable DEAL, and I hope they take it because, if they don’t, the United States is going to knock out every single Power Plant, and every single Bridge, in Iran,” Trump wrote.
“NO MORE MR. NICE GUY! They’ll come down fast, they’ll come down easy and, if they don’t take the DEAL, it will be my Honor to do what has to be done, which should have been done to Iran, by other Presidents, for the last 47 years.”
It was unclear whether Iran was sending its own delegation, after their top negotiator said both sides remaine..