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Tickets for N.J. Coffee Festival are selling fast. Grab yours here.
The NJ Coffee Festival is a little more than two weeks away and tickets for the Saturday sessions are almost gone. NJ.com’s second coffee festival is a two-day event, happening Saturday, Nov. 1 and Sunday, Nov. 2 at The Event Center at iPlay...
CIA deployment gives Trump no ‘limitations’ on Venezuela action
US President Donald Trump has acknowledged that he has authorised the CIA to conduct covert operations in Venezuela – a highly unusual admission of what is normally a highly sensitive and tightly guarded state secret. The authorisation – more...
Reimagining Commercial Underwriting in the Age of AI
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Ana Navarro pushes back on right-wing backlash to Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl tap
Bad Bunny performed during the Pepsi Super Bowl LIV Halftime Show The View co-host Ana Navarro is calling out conservatives upset over Bad Bunny’s selection as the 2026 Super Bowl halftime performer, pointing out that the Latin music star has...
People in ICE custody face invasive strip searches after visits with loved ones
The Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego. Photo: Jason Doiy/Getty Images. JasonDoiy After Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested a woman from Venezuela following her immigration court hearing, her friends visited her at Otay Mesa...
Polack Post: Caribbean Big Landowners – The Great Pestilence
By Peter Polack Peter Polack The Caribbean has usually been conjoined in the media with beaches, reggae and rum but there is a darker side, not reparation for slavery, but the iniquity dub plate of big landowners. The historical association of...
Trump authorises CIA covert operations in Venezuela, as he weighs direct attack
US President Donald Trump has authorised the CIA to conduct covert operations in Venezuela, deepening the US’s entanglement in the oil-rich South American country in a move that recalls American shadow wars of the 1970s and 1980s. Trump confirmed...
Venezuelan coup leader María Corina Machado vows to privatize oil: US corporations will ‘make a lot of money’
The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize was given to María Corina Machado, a far-right, pro-war Venezuelan opposition leader who has been funded by the US government for more than two decades. Machado has helped to lead numerous violent coup attempts in...
Supervisor Chyanne Chen tours S.F. ICE facility as immigrants go into hiding
Sign up below to get Mission Local’s free newsletter, a daily digest of news you won’t find elsewhere. Supervisor Chyanne Chen arrived at Immigration Court at 630 Sansome St. early this morning to sit in on court proceedings and tour the...
Hand-rolled vs. machine-made cigars: The great cigar debate
As a cigar enthusiast, you probably know that a fine cigar is more than just a bunch of rolled-up dirt weed in dried leaves. It’s a whole experience. It’s the way it feels when you hold it, the frosty smoke smell as it curls up above you, and that...
From Summit to Abyss of the Americas
5 A Summit of the Americas without three of the countries of this geographic region, due to the will of the continent’s bully, is neither a summit nor a Summit of the Americas. What the real organizers, who are obviously not the Dominican hosts,...
10 Reasons Venezuela Isn’t Nation-Building
For months —long before the MSM caught on — I've been writing about how the Donald Trump administration seemed ready to take down the illegitimate Nicolás Maduro regime in Venezuela. All of the signs were there if you paid attention, and I know...
CIA deployment gives Trump no 'limitations' on Venezuela action
US President Donald Trump has acknowledged that he has authorised the CIA to conduct covert operations in Venezuela - a highly unusual admission of what is normally a highly sensitive and tightly guarded state secret. The authorisation - more...
Five former Tigers, including Detroit native Eric Haase, elect free agency
DETROIT -- Five former Detroit Tigers have hit the free-agent market since the end of the regular season. Catcher Eric Haase (Milwaukee Brewers); infielder Zack Short (Houston Astros); and right-handed pitchers Erasmo Ramírez (Minnesota Twins),...
Erik Spoelstra takes helm of USA national team
MIAMI (USA) - Erik Spoelstra, on the bench as one of Steve Kerr's assistants when USA captured the Olympic gold medal last year in Paris, is the new head coach of the national team. USA Basketball’s Men’s National Team managing director Grant Hill...
Trump Rewrites Latin America’s Balancing Act Between Washington and Beijing
Donald Trump’s return to the White House has shaken Latin America’s foreign policy calculus. From Mexico’s tariff pivot to Brazil’s judicial defiance, governments are recalibrating between Washington and Beijing. The result isn’t tidy alignment,...
Jeff Probst Reacts to Rumors of a ‘Golden Survivor’ Season Featuring Older Contestants
Over its almost 50 seasons, Survivor has seen many themed seasons, including editions based on age-divides, but would the long-running CBS reality show ever go all-in on an all-seniors season? The show’s host and executive producer, Jeff Probst,...
Fiesta Latina a success in Sioux Center
SIOUX CENTER—Music by a local mariachi band drifted across Central Park in Sioux Center Saturday evening as festivalgoers milled about with plates of street tacos and elote, a popular Mexican street snack. Near the amphitheater, where Mariachi Los...
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JBS breaks ground in Perry for sausage plant that will employ 500
JBS has broken ground in Perry for a sausage plant that will employ some 500 workers. The plant will help supply another new JBS plant in Ankeny that will make ready-to-eat sausage and bacon. The new plant will help the town recover from the loss...