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Del Monte Foods, the 138-year-old company best known for its canned fruits and vegetables, has filed for bankruptcy and is looking for a buyer.  The company announced it was voluntarily entering Chapter 11 and is going through a sale process for all of its assets. Among the company’s product lines are a number of well-known kitchen staples, including College Inn broths and Contadina canned tomatoes, as well as its flagship Del Monte brand.  Click here for more.

Click here to read about how the Fourth of July holiday is fast approaching -- and it's going to be a busy one.  A record high of 72.2 million people are expected to travel at least 50 miles from home over the July Fourth holiday period (from June 28 to July 6), according to AAA. This is 1.7 million more people than last year and 7 million more than in 2019, according to AAA.  Here's what you need to know before you to head to the airport or hit the highway.  Or you could always stay local and enjoy the Lakehills July 4th Parade!

Deep in the marshy wetlands of the Florida Everglades – less than 50 miles west of President Donald Trump’s resort in Miami – sits the latest battleground in his administration’s immigration enforcement efforts: A makeshift detention facility dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.”  In a matter of days, workers have transformed the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport from an 11,000-foot runway into a temporary tent city that Trump toured on Tuesday.  When completed, it will be able to house up to 3,000 migrants with the ability to add more capacity, an official said Tuesday.  Click here for the full story.  

Click here to read about how New York’s lefty lawmakers just blocked reviving the state’s ban on masking by protesters, and now two Manhattan Democrats, Reps. Dan Goldman and Adriano Espaillat, have turned around to push a federal ban on masking by ICE agents, even when nabbing dangerous gangbangers.  Their “No Secret Police Act” would bar Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other Homeland Security officers from concealing their faces during civil immigration enforcement and require them to clearly display official ID and insignia.

"The Big Beautiful Bill" Update: A sprawling budget bill in the US Senate could cut health insurance coverage for nearly 12 million Americans and add $3.3tn (£2.4tn) in debt, according to new estimates.  The assessment from the Congressional Budget Office, a non-partisan federal agency, could complicate Republican efforts to pass President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act in the coming days.  Click here for more on this story and the bill's fight to pass.

The Justice Department on Friday fired at least three prosecutors involved in U.S. Capitol riot criminal cases, the latest moves by the Trump administration targeting attorneys connected to the massive prosecution of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack, according to two people familiar with the matter.  Those dismissed include two attorneys who worked as supervisors overseeing the Jan. 6 prosecutions.  Click here for the full story.  

Click here to read about how a Colorado funeral home owner who stashed nearly 190 dead bodies in a decrepit building and sent grieving families fake ashes was sentenced to 20 years in prison in federal court Friday for cheating customers and defrauding the federal government out of nearly $900,000 in Covid-19 aid. 

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is getting pushback from environmentalists who say they were "blindsided" by his proposal to build a temporary migrant detention center in the heart of the Everglades that he has dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz."

Friends of the Everglades, an environmental protection group, has sent Uthmeier and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis a letter asking them to reverse course on the plan to build the facility on land surrounded by alligator- and python-infested waters into a facility to hold people detained in the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration. In the letter, the group said the construction would "inflict significant damage on the Everglades ecosystem."  Click here for the full story.

Christians believe in the 6th Commandment of 10 - "Thou Shalt Not Kill!".  However, all that changed when a lone gunman attempted a mass shooting.   Churchgoers attending a morning service at CrossPointe Community Church in Wayne spotted the gunman driving recklessly and then saw him exit his car wearing a tactical vest and carrying a rifle and a handgun, and began firing as he approached the church, striking one person in the leg. A parishioner struck the gunman with his vehicle as the gunman shot at the vehicle.  At least two staff members shot the gunman.  Police described the suspect as a 31-year-old white male with no known connection to the church. His motive remains unclear, but it appears he was suffering from a mental health crisis, Strong said.  Click for more on this story.