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Liberty star guard Sabrina Ionescu was a surprising omission from the U.S. women’s national team roster for the upcoming FIBA World Cup.

Ugandan soccer star David Owori, 27, was beaten to death by suspected robbers Tuesday near his home in the country’s capital, Kampala, and he died the next day, according to the BBC.

Dementia affects more than 6 million Americans and with the country's aging population, new cases are expected to double by 2060.

The two-week operation, Operation Muddy Waters, was the work of several federal, state and local agencies.

The literary mashup craze might be long gone, but Bret Easton Ellis's The Shards is giving Less Than Zero meets Halloween.

Wylder is giving Alex a run for his money in Season 3.

David Beckham rinses off on his yacht, Eva Longoria and her husband share a kiss on the beach and more snaps...

David Beckham rinses off on his yacht, Eva Longoria and her husband share a kiss on the beach and more snaps...

Andre Lavoie joined SpaceX in 2009 as an engineer, now he's looking to cash in his shares in the company.

Anti-Trump GOP Governors Plot To Undermine President's Immigration Crackdown With Work-Visa Scheme

Two Republican governors with a long history of clashing with Donald Trump are working with Democrats on a plan to hand migrant workers state-issued work permits instead of deportation notices, a direct challenge to the president's immigration crackdown that the four laid out on camera. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox and Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt joined Democratic Govs. Wes Moore of Maryland and Matt Meyer of Delaware for a joint interview with Bloomberg, describing a shared position that has far more in common with the Democratic Party and the labor lobby than with the Trump administration's approach to the border.

Left to right: Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, Utah Governor Spencer Cox

The vehicle for that position is the National Governors Association's Task Force on Immigration Policy, which Stitt built after noticing a pattern among his colleagues. "The reason I set this task force up is because I realized by talking to my colleagues that they're having the same issues," Stitt told Bloomberg reporter Christina Ruffini. "Let's actually have the governors issue workforce permits."

That last line is the whole ballgame. The task force wants Congress to hand governors the discretion to issue migrant work permits at the state level, a proposal that treats illegal immigration less as a legal violation and more as a labor supply problem for agriculture, construction and hospitality. It resembles former President George W. Bush's immigration reform approach, which sent the message to illegal immigrants, "If you're doing a job an American won't do, you're welcome here, for a period of time, to do that job."

Cox framed the alliance as a breakthrough four decades in the making. "For 40 years, we've been trying to do immigration reform and nobody's ever been able to get it done," he said. "But what's different this time is that we have a secure border." He credited that border security to the current administration while working, in the same breath, to carve states out from under its enforcement arm. "We all care - Republicans and Democrats - about a secure border," Cox said, a sentiment that gets considerably murkier once the conversation turns to what happens to people already inside it.

Cox described a February meeting among the governors as almost startling in its unity. "We were together in February and having a conversation about immigration, and we were all shocked at the level of bipartisanship, cooperation, and agreement," he said. "We were really stunned that everybody had kind of the same opinions on what needed to be done." Bipartisan agreement among governors on loosening enforcement is not the reassurance Cox seems to think it is.

Ruffini asked the group for a show of hands on whether ICE and the Department of Homeland Security have been effective. Neither Cox nor Stitt raised one. Cox pointed to enforcement actions in Minnesota as a specific concern, citing "the violence and the deaths that we've seen" and calling the incidents "deeply problematic." Stitt was even more blunt about his overall assessment. "We're not using common sense right now," he said.

Stitt's example centered on a green card holder from Vietnam who has lived in Oklahoma City for 25 years. "We had a person from Vietnam that's been in Oklahoma City for 25 years, legally in the United States, with a green card, working at Hobby Lobby," he said. The man had self-deported after a marijuana arrest then returned to the country legally. "They've been a great citizen chasing the American dream, but they've been picked up for deportation now," Stitt said. Gov. Moore added an economic gloss to the argument, saying a deportation agenda focused on criminals ought to travel alongside pro-growth policy rather than replace it.

Neither Republican governor has a great relationship with Trump, and both have clashed with him politically in recent years, which explains their break with him on immigration enforcement.

The Trump administration clearly isn't on board. Trump won a second term in 2024 in part by promising to close a border that sat wide open for four years under Biden. Immigration has generally been the strongest issue for him, outperforming his approval numbers on the economy and foreign policy.

DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin set the tone from inside the administration at the same NGA gathering, sitting beside Stitt and offering his own verdict on the odds of any of this actually happening. "Is immigration reform possible? No," Mullin told the assembled governors. "Do you really need immigration reform? Yes, you do, but can we work with the system we have? Yes."

Tyler Durden Thu, 08/06/2026 - 10:45

Lindsay Clancy audibly wept as a medical examiner testified about the autopsy she performed on the Massachusetts mother’s 8-month-old baby boy.

Mel C tied the knot with model Chris Dingwall in a romantic countryside wedding last month.

Mel C tied the knot with model Chris Dingwall in a romantic countryside wedding last month.

Olympic champion Alysa Liu’s family has unexpectedly become part of the national debate over transgender athletes after reports that her transgender sibling is competing in girls’ high school sports in California. The controversy highlights one of the country’s most politically and culturally divisive issues as states continue to take sharply different approaches. A progressive victory...

"So, I don't really know how to answer really this question in a way that people aren't going to spin it."

Musk Responds To French Green Leader's Demand That X Be Shut Down

Update (1100ET): Upon seeing this exclamation from the dismally-polling Green leader. Elon Musk took to X (the platform she demands be shutdown for too much free-speechifying) to make some demands of his own...

I demand that she be shut down for treason against France!

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 6, 2026

As Remix News detailed earlier, French Green leader Marine Tondelier has reiterated her calls for social media platform X to be temporarily shut down, claiming its owner Elon Musk is using it to interfere in French politics and promote Marine Le Pen ahead of the 2027 presidential election.

Tondelier, general secretary of the Ecologists and a declared presidential candidate, suggested that suspending X for one month would improve political debate in France.

“If X were to stop for a month, it would do a world of good for the French public debate,” she said, as cited by Libération.

She claimed the platform could not be treated merely as a question of freedom of expression or freedom of enterprise because it was controlled from the United States by an owner seeking to influence European politics.

“This tool is owned by someone based in the United States, with a supremacist ideology, who clearly wants to push Europe into total submission to the United States,” Tondelier said.

She also accused Musk of wanting Le Pen elected and argued that his intervention exposed what she described as the “hypocrisy” of the National Rally’s patriotism.

“The algorithm of this social network is rigged,” she claimed.

“The ‘ratings’ meant to indicate the veracity of posts are now a source of further fake news.”

Tondelier also complained that environmental claims she posts on the platform are routinely challenged and said female politicians face persistent cyberbullying.

In January last year, she said, “This network must be banned in Europe. Whether I leave it or not, it will still have an impact on the real world. It will contribute to destabilizing the next elections,” adding that X was a “source of suffering, as a politician and as a woman.”

Her comments followed Musk’s public endorsement of Le Pen last month.

Responding to an American account discussing her polling strength and the possibility of mass deportations under a National Rally government, Musk wrote, “She is France’s last hope.”

Despite the outburst, Tondelier remains a marginal contender in the presidential race.

Recent IFOP polling places her support at about 4 percent, with other surveys putting her between 3 and 5 percent.

Le Pen, by contrast, is polling at approximately 35 percent and is strongly positioned to reach the second round of the election.

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Tyler Durden Thu, 08/06/2026 - 10:30

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The health workers said they haven’t received wages and bonuses for their work fighting Ebola since the outbreak was declared in one of Congo’s most remote and vulnerable areas ravaged by rebel conflict.

“If they come after me, I will come after them and finish the job,” Musk wrote Monday on X.