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Overnight News Digest: 5 million dollar card gives rich access to residency [1]
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Date: 2025-06-02
NPR
Lawyers' phones are ringing with wealthy foreigners wanting to know more about how to score a "Gold Card" – a glorified green card that would allow them to live and work in the U.S. without going through the usual hassle or red tape. Apparently, the card's $5 million price tag is not scaring off the jet-setters looking to make the U.S. home. Or at least one of their homes. "$5 million to these people is jet fuel cost. It means nothing to them," says Matthew Kolken, an immigration lawyer from Buffalo, NY, who has Canadian clients asking about the Gold Card. The clients declined to comment, but Kolken says he thinks the Gold Card is underpriced, if anything, considering the time and hassle it would save foreign multi-millionaires.
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The Guardian, US
Earlier this year, Morgan Akin took down the American flag that had flown for decades outside his home in deep-red far northern California. It was a small gesture, one that did not echo through the halls of the US Capitol or make headlines. But for the 84-year-old Vietnam-era veteran and retired game warden, it represented a monumental shift, one his family immediately took note of. It was Akin’s way of taking a stand in response to a country that had become increasingly unrecognizable to him. In the weeks before, masked officers arrested an international student who had co-authored a campus newspaper op-ed about Gaza in the street, the defense department temporarily removed Jackie Robinson’s biography from its website, and the president planned to host a massive military parade to celebrate his birthday. “The American flag won’t fly again until things get straightened out down the line and administrations change,” said Akin, his Texas twang still strong even after decades in California as he lamented the state of the country and the growing dangers immigrants faced. “They’re not going to pick me off and take me to El Salvador.”
The Guardian, UK
Keir Starmer has promised to make Britain “battle-ready” as he unveiled a defence review designed to counter threats from countries such as Russia, which he warned directly threatened the UK every day. Speaking from the BAE Systems shipyard at Govan, in Glasgow, the prime minister promised to spend billions more on weapons factories, drones and submarines – even if it meant raiding welfare or the aid budget once more to do so. Amid an ongoing row over how the government will fund Starmer’s “ambition” to spend 3% of gross domestic product on defence in the next parliament, the prime minister argued defence had to be prioritised above other public services. “[The defence review] is a blueprint to make Britain safer and stronger, a battle-ready, armour-clad nation with the strongest alliances and the most advanced capabilities,” Starmer said. He added: “Russia is already menacing our skies and our waters, and threatening cyber-attacks, so this is a real threat we’re dealing with.”
Uncharted Blue
It has been an unfortunate news cycle for the White House. It hasn't been a picnic for the rest of us, either; suddenly people are using words like "throuple" in contexts that threaten to peel the paint off our eternal souls, and when Elon Musk follows up the throuple news and a new New York Times report accusing him of being on All The Possible Drugs by immediately showing up in the Oval Office visibly vibrating and sporting a black eye, his assertion that he got the shiner after asking his 5 year old child, the one with the name that sounds like a virus variant, to belt him—now, how are we to take that. […] Perhaps the most consequential bit of White House news of late, however, came from an NBC News report on the lengths Donald Trump's wormy advisers feel obligated to go to in order to get the seditious criminal to pay even the slightest attention to his own daily intelligence briefing. And it's a bit weird that the story came and went with such little fanfare, because it is insane.
NPR
The Department of Homeland Security removed a list of "sanctuary jurisdictions" days after the agency posted it on its website. The list included dozens of cities and counties across 37 states and the District of Columbia that DHS said were in noncompliance with federal statutes."DHS demands that these jurisdictions immediately review and revise their policies to align with Federal immigration laws and renew their obligation to protect American citizens, not dangerous illegal aliens," the DHS page stated. The list, which posted late last week and came down on Sunday, was supposed to be the latest step in the Trump administration's effort to push back against local municipalities that it believes are obstructing its goals to increase immigration-related arrests and deportations. Since the start of the administration, mayors and governors of cities seen as "sanctuary" have been called to testify in Congress and federal agencies have looked into curbing federal resources from these areas.
Reuters
WASHINGTON, June 2 (Reuters) - Staff of the Federal Emergency Management Agency were left baffled on Monday after the head of the U.S. disaster agency said he had not been aware the country has a hurricane season, according to four sources familiar with the situation. The remark was made during a briefing by David Richardson, who has led FEMA since early May. It was not clear to staff whether he meant it literally, as a joke, or in some other context. The U.S. hurricane season officially began on Sunday and lasts through November. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecast last week that this year's season is expected to bring as many as 10 hurricanes.
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