Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner is getting fierce backlash after he made a threat to “hunt down” Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in a speech outside city hall.

Krasner, who was propelled into office with the financial aid of left-wing billionaire George Soros, compared the federal agents to Nazis before making his threat.

‘The behavior of a psychopath with a badge.’

“This is a small bunch of wannabe Nazis. That’s what they are,” Krasner said to a cheering crowd. “In a country of 350 million, we outnumber them.”

He said that he and other prosecutors were backing efforts to prosecute federal agents involved in two lethal shootings in Minnesota and another shooting in Arizona.

“If we have to hunt you down the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will find your identities,” he added. “We will find you. We will achieve justice, and we will do so under the Constitution and the laws of the United States.”

Krasner was at the rally to support proposed legislation that would ban ICE from utilizing property owned by the city and implement other restrictions on federal operations without a judicial warrant.

The White House responded to Krasner and called him a “seriously deranged individual” in a post on social media Wednesday. Others responded on social media to a video that cut out Krasner’s appeal to the Constitution.

“Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, vowing to ‘hunt down’ ICE agents, is the behavior of a psychopath with a badge,” responded Rep. Dan Meuser (R-Penn.) in part. “Year after year, he fails to prosecute the criminals who continue to plague the City of Brotherly Love.”

“Will the media ask Dems to condemn?” replied White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.

Krasner previously threatened ICE agents with prosecution in Philadelphia after the lethal shooting of Renee Good.

“Oh no! Anyway,” reads a mocking response from the Department of Homeland Security.

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Krasner’s campaign for DA got a boost in 2017 totaling $1.7 million from Soros, who supports prosecutors with left-leaning criminal prosecuting policies.

Despite facing spirited criticism against his soft-on-crime policies, Krasner easily won re-election in November with support of 72.6% of the voters against a Republican opponent.

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Movie star and father of five Hugh Grant says he’s fed up with seeing his children glued to screens — and insists he’s speaking not as a celebrity activist but as “just another angry parent.”

Grant has campaigned on digital privacy issues since accusing journalists at the now-defunct News of the World of hacking his phone in 2011, later securing settlements with publishers, including Mirror Group Newspapers and News Group Newspapers (the Sun), most recently in 2024.

‘And you think, “What is this? What happened with you and Google Classroom or whatever it might be?”‘

But a recently resurfaced clip shows the “Bridget Jones” star venting about something far more familiar to parents: schools pushing screens, Chromebooks, and app-based learning on children who already spend much of their lives online.

Screen idol

In the clip — recorded last June during a panel discussion on rolling back “phone-based childhood and screen-based school days” — Grant complained of an “eternal, exhausting, and depressing battle” with children who only want to be on screens.

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“And the final straw was when the schools started saying, with some smugness, ‘We give every child a Chromebook, and they do a lot of lessons on their Chromebook, and they do all their homework on their Chromebook,’” Grant said. “And you just thought, that is the last f**king thing they need — and the last thing we need.”

Pwning parents

Grant also criticized the defensive posture schools and politicians adopt when parents raise concerns about classroom technology.

“Suddenly you get letters in a kind of semi-legalese,” he said. “And you think, ‘What is this? What happened with you and Google Classroom or whatever it might be?’”

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The actor said his skepticism has been shaped by years of experience confronting powerful institutions. Grant is a board member of Hacked Off, the media-reform group founded after the phone-hacking scandal to campaign against illegal surveillance and press abuses.

Game over

While Hacked Off does not focus on school technology, Grant suggested the same instinct to close ranks now appears when parents question the role of screens in education.

“I don’t think politicians ever do anything because it’s the right thing to do,” Grant said. “Even if it’s the right thing to do to protect children. They’ll only do what gets them votes.”

According to Grant, meaningful change will come only when enough parents push back — not just against smartphones but against what he sees as the normalization of screens throughout childhood.

“I think that once you get a critical mass of parents who are outraged by ed-tech as well as all the other issues — the phones, etcetera — that is when politicians listen,” he said.

“And it’s when schools start to listen because they’re scared of people leaving their schools and losing business.”

Grant is the father of five children between the ages of 7 and 14.

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The Somali government admitted fault after it was accused of destroying a United States-funded warehouse and seizing 76 metric tons of food aid intended for Somali nationals.

In early January, the State Department halted “all ongoing” aid to Somalia, citing concerning reports that its government had destroyed a World Food Programme warehouse and seized donor-funded food.

‘The Federal Government takes full responsibility for addressing this unfortunate situation and expresses its regret that it occurred.’

“Any resumption of assistance will be dependent upon the Somali Federal Government taking accountability for its unacceptable actions and taking appropriate remedial steps,” the State Department’s Office of Foreign Assistance wrote.

Somalia previously denied the allegations, asserting that the expansion work at the Mogadishu port, where the U.S.-funded warehouse is located, did not impact the food aid. The government further insisted that the aid was “under the custody and control of the World Food Programme, including assistance provided by the United States.”

However, on Monday, the Federal Republic of Somalia Ministry of Foreign Affairs & International Cooperation issued a press release that seemed to reverse its position.

“The Federal Government of Somalia confirms that the commodities removed from the warehouse affected by port expansion activities, as referenced in recent reports, have been fully returned to the World Food Program (WFP). The Federal Government takes full responsibility for addressing this unfortunate situation and expresses its regret that it occurred,” the statement reads.

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Somalia has provided WFP “with a larger and more suitable warehouse within the Mogadishu Port area, supporting improved storage capacity and efficient distribution,” the statement continues.

The Somali government pledged to investigate the circumstances surrounding the incident and take steps to prevent future issues.

“The Federal Government of Somalia remains fully committed to humanitarian principles, transparency, and accountability, and values its close partnership with the World Food Program, the United States, and the broader international donor community,” the statement reads. “The Government considers this clarification an important step toward resolving the matter and ensuring continued cooperation in support of the Somali people.”

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The U.S. is the largest contributor to the WFP, providing approximately $2 billion in 2025, which constitutes nearly one-third of the organization’s total funding.

The State Department and the WFP did not respond to a request for comment.

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The H-1B visa program is being sold as a “skills shortage solution,” but it is really just one of the largest ways that people are taking advantage of our immigration system.

“We’ve got to figure out how to get this under control. We’ve got to figure out how to … stop being taken advantage of. And it needs to stop,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales says on “Come and Take it.”

“The fact of the matter is that we need to stop immigration. We need to put a moratorium on immigration, on H-1B visas, for as long as it takes in order to get our country back. That’s all there is to it. I’m not beholden to people across the world. I don’t need to make sure that they feel good about it,” she continues.

“They are taking American jobs, and they are changing our communities,” she says. “At the crux of that problem is obviously the H-1B visa.”

And the H-1B visa might seem like a drop in the bucket compared to illegal immigration, but it is a much bigger deal than Americans are led to believe.

“It is hundreds of thousands of people — if not in the millions at this point — that we have allowed into our state, into our country, on this H-1B visa,” Gonzales says, pointing out that we are supposed to only be allowing the brightest minds — the most specialized workers — into our country on this visa.

“Unfortunately, people are now … using the H-1B visa, coming over, taking American jobs, taking away American labor, taking away American salaries, sometimes exporting those salaries across wherever they came from — across the world — in remittances,” Gonzales explains.

“That money that they’re being paid isn’t actually being put back into the American economy, which is a problem. And they’re taking American housing, which is of course driving up the price of housing for Americans — for actual Americans, for actual Texans,” she continues, noting that Texas is at the top for states accepting all these visas.

And after digging a little deeper, the situation in Texas is worse than one might think.

“I literally just picked at random several different cities in the state of Texas, and I went through some of the employers, and I found some of these jobs and how much these people are being paid to take a job away from a Texan,” Gonzales says.

“Let me give you this one,” she continues. “Dallas ISD — that means taxpayer money. Dallas taxpayer money is being used to pay these H-1B visa jobs. You tell me if this could never be filled by a Texan. It could never be filled by an American. We only need the super-duper smart immigrants to come and take these jobs that no Texan could ever do.”

The H-1B job listing is for a middle-school math teacher and advertises a salary of $62,000 a year.

“A high-school science teacher, $70,000 a year. H-1B visa. They took your job. A regular average American could qualify for that job with a certification,” Gonzales says, adding, “They took it from you.”

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What once cost Amazon over $13 billion is now turning into a big headache for the tech company.

Back in 2017, Amazon acquired Whole Foods for a price tag of $13.7 billion with the intention of making its own brick-and-mortar grocery stores under the brands Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go.

‘Fresh groceries now make up nine of the top 10 most-ordered items.’

Amazon Go was meant to be the future: a cashierless and seamless Amazon experience where shoppers simply scan on their way out. In fact, the stores mirror a mid-2000s IBM commercial about online commerce.

By 2023, expansion had been slowed, with some locations closing, CoStar reported at the time, and Amazon taking out a $720 million impairment charge.

On Tuesday, Amazon announced it is fully closing all Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go locations. Although some will be retrofitted to become Whole Foods Market stores, Amazon is making a big shift toward grocery delivery.

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Amazon said in its press release that it already offers grocery deliveries in 5,000 cities and towns, with several thousand receiving same-day deliveries. Same-day service seems to be the company’s core expansion project for 2026.

The shift appeared to be a profit-driven move after sales through same-day deliveries increased by 40x since January 2025.

“Fresh groceries now make up nine of the top 10 most-ordered items in areas where perishable groceries are available for Same-Day Delivery,” Amazon explained.

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At the same, Amazon says it will be “taking convenience even further” with the introduction of an “ultra-fast” delivery option that brings thousands of “essential items,” including fresh food, to customers in 30 minutes or less. The offer is essentially a mobile convenience store experience.

While Fresh and Go may have not been the shining stars Amazon hoped they would be, its investment in Whole Foods Market has certainly paid off. The company boasted 40% sales growth since 2017, year-over-year increases in customer traffic, and expansion from around 460 locations in 2017 to over 550 currently.

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TikTok will no longer be on trial when it comes to a lawsuit that claims Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, and YouTube have platforms that are addicting and harmful to children.

The lawsuit, which involves a 19-year-old plaintiff going only by KGM, says the social networks caused her to become addicted to the apps and led to depression and suicidal thoughts.

‘New families every day … are speaking out and bringing Big Tech to court for its deliberately harmful products.’

TikTok has reportedly decided to settle and agreed in principle just hours before jury selection started in Los Angeles this week. Bloomberg Law reported that along with TikTok, Snap Inc. — owner of Snapchat — also reached a confidential settlement with the woman on January 20.

“Plaintiff KGM and defendant TikTok have reached an agreement in principle to settle her case,” Joseph VanZandt, the woman’s attorney, reportedly said in a statement.

The trial, which will continue with the other social media companies later this year, is just one of many that claim the sites are harmful, addictive, and otherwise have failed to protect children.

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While this is the first case to go to trial, there are thousands of complaints from users and families that have sparked other lawsuits in Santa Fe, New Mexico, New York City, and the Northern District of California.

For example, in the Northern District of California, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, and YouTube were accused of “relentlessly” pursuing growth and “recklessly” ignoring the impacts their products have on children’s mental health.

In that case, Instagram’s former head of safety and well-being testified that Meta had a “17x” strike policy toward those who reportedly engaged in “trafficking of humans for sex.”

“You could incur 16 violations for prostitution and sexual solicitation, and upon the 17th violation, your account would be suspended,” the former employee claimed, citing internal documents.

Meta strongly denied the claims, stating, “We strongly disagree with these allegations, which rely on cherry-picked quotes and misinformed opinions in an attempt to present a deliberately misleading picture.”

“The full record will show that for over a decade, we have listened to parents, researched issues that matter most, and made real changes to protect teens,” Meta went on.

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The settlement between TikTok and KGM should come as no surprise, said Sacha Haworth, executive director of the Tech Oversight Project.

“This was only the first case — there are hundreds of parents and school districts in the social media addiction trials that [have started], and sadly, new families every day who are speaking out and bringing Big Tech to court for its deliberately harmful products,” she said in a statement provided to Blaze News.

If social media apps are found guilty in these trials, it could set a huge precedent for high-value settlements and possibly lead to sweeping regulation for how the sites handle youth accounts.

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