The Daily Populous

Tuesday May 26th, 2026 evening edition

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Senator was pepper-sprayed by ICE outside of an immigration detention center on Monday.

Senator Andy Kim was filmed having his eyes washed out with a bottle of water in a video shared by a reporter on X.

The senator has subsequently said that his eyes and throat were “burning” and that his hand hurts following the incident.

The incident unfolded outside of Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, an immigrant detention facility where inmates launched a hunger strike to protest conditions at the facility.

open image in gallery Senator Andy Kim was pepper-sprayed after trying to ease tensions at a protest outside of an immigration detention facility in Newark ( Reuters ).

​Then, ICE told him that they were planning to “push through the crowd,” because they wanted to move a vehicle.

When the vehicle did eventually start to move, Kim says he ran to put himself between the protesters and ICE agents. »

EU to favour European satellite services to prevent Musk’s Starlink expansion

Authored by euronews.com
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The European Commission will adopt a decision this week that would privilege European satellite operators in a move designed to curb the European expansion of Starlink, the flagship service of Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

The upcoming decision is thus set to favour the European satellite operators, with whom European telecom operators prefer to interact as they are not seen as a direct threat to their business model.

At the Mobile World Congress in March, the chairman of the US Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, warned the EU against favouring European providers in satellite spectrum allocations. »

Democrats are already preparing Trump investigations if they retake the House

Authored by ms.now
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The House Judiciary Committee is the other panel set to play an outsized role in accountability efforts.

Raskin told MS NOW that “the political and financial corruption at the heart of the Trump presidency” amounts to “a civic emergency.”.

But if Democrats take back the majority, they’ll suddenly be able to subpoena Trump administration officials without the cooperation of Republicans. »

A Louisiana state senator helped secure Meta’s largest datacenter. Then he sold the land beside it

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For more than two years, John “Jay” Morris, a Louisiana state senator, helped pave the way for Meta to build one of the world’s largest datacenters, called Hyperion, in Richland Parish.

Morris’s recent land deals haven’t been disclosed until now, according to Floodlight’s review of legislative filings, votes, media coverage and state senate records.

He’s chair of a judiciary committee, a member of three financial committees and joined the powerful state bond commission in 2024. »