President Donald Trump has stated that the United States should reconsider bringing back mental asylums, arguing that the closure of long-term psychiatric institutions has contributed to widespread homelessness and untreated severe mental illness. In recent remarks, Trump said the country “closed the asylums” decades ago and replaced them with systems …

Anti-ICE demonstrations in Minnesota escalated over the weekend when protesters entered a Christian church in Minneapolis and disrupted a Sunday worship service, shouting slogans and confronting parishioners during prayer. The incident has drawn condemnation from religious leaders, civil-liberties advocates, and federal officials, while intensifying an already volatile debate over immigration …

1. Big Pharma Goes All-In on AI With Billion-Dollar Bets Two of the world’s largest drugmakers are doubling down on artificial intelligence, signaling where the industry believes power—and profit—will come from next. Eli Lilly and Company and NVIDIA announced a $1 billion, five-year AI research lab in the San Francisco …

The Pentagon has placed roughly 1,500 active-duty U.S. Army soldiers on prepare-to-deploy status for a potential mission to Minnesota as protests intensify around federal immigration operations in the Minneapolis–St. Paul area, according to multiple reports citing U.S. officials. Federal officials emphasize that no deployment is imminent, but the contingency planning …

For more than two decades, Venezuela’s political collapse has been explained almost entirely through the lens of socialism, corruption, and U.S.–Latin America tensions. That story is incomplete. A fuller picture requires examining the international networks, intelligence relationships, and criminal alliances that shaped the rise of Hugo Chávez and later Nicolás …