Some Louisiana residents bristle at rising energy costs and unwelcome construction for massive Meta AI data center

Lisa Hopkins bought her house in Louisiana’s Richland Parish two years ago, but lately, her family only finds peace and quiet on their front porch at night, after construction stops for the day. That’s because Meta, the company that owns Facebook and Instagram, is now building its largest artificial intelligence data center in the country…

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Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in New Orleans could start as early as Dec. 1, sources say

The Trump administration’s planned immigration enforcement crackdown in New Orleans could start as early as Dec. 1, Department of Homeland Security sources told CBS News on Tuesday. The administration is planning to send roughly 200 federal Border Patrol agents to New Orleans, the next target of its far-reaching, nationwide crackdown on illegal immigration, according to…

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U.S. considers dropping leaflets in Venezuela as it ramps up pressure on Maduro, sources say

Officials in the Trump administration on Saturday discussed the possibility of dropping leaflets on Venezuela’s capital city of Caracas as it seeks to weaken the regime of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Among the potential avenues discussed regarding operations for Venezuela was dropping U.S. leaflets on Caracas as a kind of psychological warfare to pressure Maduro, multiple…

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