You may vote red or blue, but would you rather live in a blue state or a red state? Regardless of what people do at the ballot box, newly released data from the Census Bureau overwhelmingly show people voting with their feet, leaving blue states for red states. And this is nothing new. From July 2024 to July 2025 (the latest numbers available), blue states like California, New York, Illinois, New Jersey, and Massachusetts hemorrhaged their most valuable resource—people—at an alarming rate. These were the five worst states for net domestic migration, meaning more people left those states than moved in, for a combined net loss of 477,000 in just 12 months. Since 2020, these five deep-blue states have cumulative net losses reaching almost 3.7 million people in total. That's a lot of one-way U-Hauls.

As the U.S. formally exited from the World Health Organization last month, Trump administration officials misleadingly claimed that the WHO "pushed" or "promoted" lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic. The group did not explicitly recommend lockdowns, although it also did not advise countries not to implement them. It said it recognized that the measures might be needed in some cases. More than six years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, federal health officials are spinning the facts about the WHO as part of their justification to leave the organization. The U.S. formally exited the WHO on Jan. 22, a year after giving notice to do so, much to the chagrin of many in public health. The WHO "ignored rigorous science and promoted lockdowns," Acting Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Jim O'Neill wrote on the day of the exit in an X post that also made claims about Taiwan.

Courts across the country have overwhelmingly rejected the Trump administration's effort to round up thousands of immigrants and lock them up without a chance for bond — even if they have no criminal records and have lived in the United States for years. But the Trump administration has slow-walked or outright defied judges' orders demanding the release of people scooped up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at an increasingly rapid clip.

The Smithsonian Institution, the world's largest museum, education, and research complex with 21 museums, libraries, and even a zoo, is betraying its principal stakeholder: the American people. The people elected President Donald Trump to be the chief executive of the country. His administration has repeatedly asked Secretary Lonnie Bunch III, the Smithsonian's leader, to furnish a number of materials in order to execute an audit to ensure the Smithsonian is not pushing a woke agenda, thereby degrading America's national identity, and to guarantee that the Smithsonian will play its part in this year's celebration of the semiquincentennial of America's founding. So far, Bunch has given Trump bupkis, if not the middle finger.

The daughter of leading Azerbaijani opposition leader Ali Karimli has told Newsweek the visit to her country by JD Vance to cement trade ties coincides with a "peak of repression" in the former Soviet republic. The U.S. vice president is expected to arrive in the Azerbaijani capital Baku on Tuesday, after visiting Armenia, to follow up an August deal over the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between the South Caucasus neighbors, which President Donald Trump heralded as among the eight wars he claims to have ended.

Police departments across the US are quietly leveraging school district security cameras to assist Donald Trump's mass immigration enforcement campaign, an investigation by the 74 reveals. Hundreds of thousands of audit logs spanning a month show police are searching a national database of automated license plate reader data, including from school cameras, for immigration-related investigations. The audit logs originate from Texas school districts that contract with Flock Safety, an Atlanta-based company that manufactures artificial intelligence-powered license plate readers and other surveillance technology. Flock's cameras are designed to capture license plate numbers, timestamps and other identifying details, which are uploaded to a cloud server. Flock customers, including schools, can decide whether to share their information with other police agencies in the company's national network.

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The actress, who also appeared on 'Knight Rider' and was once married to David Hasselhoff, now has a completely different career.