Humans most frequently contract the disease after being bitten by a tick carrying certain bacteria.
Justin Timberlake attends the 2024 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Radhika Jones at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on March 10, 2024 in Beverly Hills, California. Jamie McCarthy/WireImage
Just after he wrapped his Forget Tomorrow World Tour, Justin Timberlake shocked his fanbase by revealing that he’d pulled the trek off while simultaneously
WASHINGTON (AP) — The agency responsible for carrying out President Donald Trump’s mass deportations agenda says it has already made tentative job offers to more than 1,000 people as it ramps up hiring following the passage of legislation earlier this month giving the agency a massive infusion of cash.
The agency’s spokeswoman, Tricia McLaughlin, said in a statement Thursday that the offers had been made after July 4. That’s when Trump signed into law a broad package of tax breaks and spending cuts that also included about $170 billion for border security and immigration enforcement, spread out over five years.
“ICE has already issued over 1,000 tentative job offers since July 4. Many of these offers were to ICE officers who retired under President Biden because they were frustrated that they were not allowed to do their jobs,” she said. “Now under President Trump and Secretary Noem, ICE is excited to get back to work to remove rapists, murderers, gang members and pedophiles from our communities.”
The budget is multiplying exponentially
ICE is the key agency responsible for executing Trump’s campaign promise of carrying out the largest deportation operation in history. The administration has been ramping up immigration-related arrests across the country. Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff and main architect of Trump’s immigration policies, has said ICE officers would have a target of at least 3,000 arrests a day, up from about 650 a day during the first five months of Trump’s second term.
That heightened enforcement has played out with arrests in immigration courts, worksites, neighborhoods and more.
ICE is set to get $76.5 billion, nearly 10 times its current annual budget. Some $45 billion will go toward increasing detention capacity. Nearly $30 billion is for hiring 10,000 more staff so the agency can meet its goal of 1 million annual deportations. The White House has said ICE will grow from 20,000 employees to about 30,000.
Earlier this week, ICE announced a recruiting campaign aimed at finding and hiring the deportation officers, investigators and lawyers it will need to meet that goal of 10,000 new staff. As part of that campaign the agency is offering an eye-catching bonus of up to $50,000 for new recruits as well as other benefits like student loan forgiveness and abundant overtime for deportation officers.
At a time when the federal government has been firing federal employees left and right, the USAJOBS website where vacancies for federal jobs are posted has dozens of Immigration and Customs Enforcement jobs.
Some are for the deportation officers responsible for finding and removing people from the country; investigators with Homeland Security Investigations, which helps investigate transnational crime, including immigration issues; and lawyers who represent the government in prosecuting immigration cases.
Jobs to support the detention network are also in play
But there are also other jobs that support the detention network that is being supercharged to carry out mass deportations: nurses and nurse managers, psychiatric care providers, auditors, field medical coordinators and more.
The anticipated hiring boom has also raised concerns about whether standards will be lowered in order to meet the growing demand. The Border Patrol underwent its own expansion during the early 2000s — something that is often cited as a cautionary tale for the risks of quick hiring. To meet hiring goals, training and hiring standards were changed. Arrests for employee misconduct rose.
McLaughlin rejected suggestions that the agency would lower recruitment standards.
“All new recruits must meet the same standards they always have. I know this may be shocking to the media, but many Americans want to serve their country and help remove the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens from our country,” she said.
Robert Wilson, renowned theatre director, playwright and artist, has died at the age of 83.
His death was confirmed by the Watermill Center, an arts hub Wilson founded in Water Mill, New York. He died peacefully after “a brief but acute illness”.
Wilson’s career in theatre started in the late 1960s when he started the performance art group the Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds in New York, named after a teacher who helped him with a stammer. He went on to create the four-act opera Einstein on the Beach with Philip Glass in the mid-1970s.
After the show toured Europe, Wilson wanted to put it on in New York and decided that
I recently stumbled across a letter I wrote to Santa when I was six years old. Deep in a box of crumpled photos and loose negatives, my earnest correspondence to the big man requested nothing but a sibling. I wrote sister in every possible iteration: half-sister, adopted sister, stepsister, foster sister and, underneath, just in case Santa couldn’t grant that particular wish, I added the same options for brother.
If Santa somehow turned out to be real and started granting wishes to tired mums in their late 30s, my wish would probably remain the same: I’d rewrite history and add a sibling. A lovely one, preferably, but I’ll take what
“Tonight in Jungleland” covers the years Springsteen and his band spent writing and recording the record, which celebrates its 50th anniversary in August.
From new restaurant and bar openings to Death Cab for Cutie’s anniversary shows, here are the latest local things to do around the Seattle area this weekend.
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Grab your clear crossbodies and your best booty shorts — Lollapalooza is currently underway.
The highly anticipated festival is taking place from July 31 through Aug. 3 at Chicago’s Grant Park, with big names in the music industry taking the stage, from Tyler, the Creator and Olivia Rodrigo to Sabrina Carpenter. If you didn’t get the chance to snag tickets for the annual event, not to fret.
Hulu is bringing the festivities to
A key emergency official was sick and asleep for most of the day before devastating flash flooding swept through Texas hill country and killed more than 130 people over the Fourth of July weekend.
Kerr county’s emergency management coordinator, William B Thomas, had not spoken publicly since the floods, one of the state’s worst ever natural disasters. Questions have swirled about his absence and the lack of sufficient warnings to residents about the impending storm before the Guadalupe river surged to record levels in the early hours of 4 July.
Thomas told a hearing held by state lawmakers in Kerrville on Thursday he wanted to address questions about his whereabouts. He
Heavy rain and thunderstorms are forecast over the mountains Thursday, prompting a flash flood watch in the Cascades.
Burn scars Bolt Creek, Goat Rocks, Sourdough, Easy, Chilliwack, and Suiattle-Boulder-Toketie could also see floods, according to the National Weather Service (NWS) in Seattle.
“Potentially see some rain rates up to an inch an hour, and so that may bring some risk of debris flow on any of the burn scars that we’ve seen on our fires from the last couple years,” Samantha Borth, meteorologist with the NWS in Seattle, explained.
Flash flood watches have been issued for the following burn scars in the Washington Cascades…Bolt Creek, Goat Rocks, Sourdough, Easy, Chilliwack and Suiattle-Boulder-Toketie. Slow moving thunderstorms have the potential to produce high rain rates through late tonight. #wawx pic.twitter.com/kNRzxd3hYq
— NWS Seattle (@NWSSeattle) July 31, 2025
That flash flood watch will run until 5 a.m. Friday.
No major impact is expected in the foothills, but they could still see some showers and thunderstorms.
“We might see some showers and thunderstorms move over the area, but we’re not expecting to have, like, any flash flooding right now for those areas,” Borth said.
Contributing: Aaron Granillo, KIRO Newsradio; Julia Dallas, MyNorthwest
The Husky men released their nonconference schedule for the 2025-26 season, which starts Nov. 3 against Arkansas Pine Bluff.
