NH Lawmaker Arrested for Obstructing Snowplow
A Republican lawmaker in New Hampshire was arrested Friday for allegedly screaming and swearing at a snowplow truck operator who recorded the confrontation and later reported him to police.
At Least 2 Dead Following California Downpour
Authorities ordered more than 1,500 people to evacuate early Saturday from a Northern California agricultural community famous for its strawberry crop after the Pajaro River’s levee was breached by flooding from a new atmospheric river pummeling the state.
Rudy Giuliani to Newsmax: Trump Shouldn’t ‘Go Near That Grand Jury’
As former President Donald Trump faces a potential indictment stemming from another look at alleged hush-money payments for Stormy Daniels, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Newsmax said Trump should not appear before the grand jury.
Fonda: My ‘Murder’ Quip Just ‘Hyperbole,’ ‘Passing Jokes’
After liberal activist actress Jane Fonda joked abortion advocates should resort to “murder” to defend abortion rights, she is now telling critics to take a joke.
Michael Cohen to Testify Monday in Trump Hush-money Probe
Donald Trump’s former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen is scheduled to testify Monday before a Manhattan grand jury investigating hush-money payments made on the former president’s behalf, two people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.
US warns Russian-linked actors seeking to ‘foment manufactured insurrection’ in European country
Russia is looking to destabilize Moldova, another country in Eastern Europe that has a troubled relationship with Moscow. The former Soviet republic’s interior minister said the current environment in Moldova is “extremely volatile” and that Russia plans to foment a coup to overthrow the pro-European government. Although the U.S. does not believe there is an […]
FC Barcelona accused of corruption over ref committee payments
Prosecutors have formally accused Barcelona of corruption because of its payments of millions of euros over several years to a company that belonged to the vice president of Spain’s football refereeing committee. The decision, made official on Friday, was reported this week by Spanish newspaper El Pa?s. An investigating judge will decide whether the accusations […]
Russia labels World Wildlife Fund ‘foreign agent’
Russia on Friday added the World Wildlife Fund to its register of foreign agents, along with a prominent Kremlin critic, a renowned economist and a few others. Russian law requires individuals and organizations that are determined to have received foreign funding and to have engaged in loosely defined “political activity” to identify themselves as “foreign […]
Belarus sees sabotage from within as citizens protest aid to Russia amid war in Ukraine: report
The Belarusian government is struggling to thwart an internal guerrilla group that opposes Minsk’s assistance to Russia and has engaged in a sabotage campaign since the war in Ukraine kicked off. Earlier this week, opposition activists from the Association of Security Forces of Belarus (BYPOL), a group formed following the 2020 political turmoil in Belarus, […]
Three women missing in Mexico after crossing border from Texas to sell clothing at flea market
Two sisters from a Texas border town and another woman are reportedly missing after driving to a Mexican city last month to sell clothing at a flea market. The Associated Press reported Friday that 48-year-old Marina Perez Rios and her younger sister Maritza Trinidad Perez Rios, 47, haven’t been heard from since Feb. 24 after […]