Migrants Cross Into Texas, Undeterred by Razor Wire or New Asylum Rules
For the past several days large groups of migrants, mostly from Venezuela, have been wading across the Rio Grande river near a railroad bridge in Eagle Pass, Texas, undeterred by coils of razor wire laid along the banks.Reuters witnessed migrants crossing, sometimes dozens…[#item_full_content]
NSA Is Starting an AI Security Center
The National Security Agency is starting an artificial intelligence security center – a crucial mission as AI capabilities are increasingly acquired, developed, and integrated into U.S. defense and intelligence systems, the agency’s outgoing director announced.[#item_full_content]
Court rejects Trump’s request to delay civil trial out of New York AG James’ investigation
A New York State Appeals Court rejected former President Trump’s request to delay a civil trial stemming from New York Attorney General Letitia James’ investigation into his businesses, scheduling the beginning of the trial for early next week. The non-jury trial, presided over by Judge Arthur Engoron, will begin on Oct. 2 in Manhattan. The […]
French police rescue 6 migrant women trapped in truck, sparking concerns amidst ongoing migration challenges
Six female migrants trapped inside a refrigerated food truck were rescued by French police after one of the women made a distress call to a reporter, the BBC and French authorities said Thursday. The women — four Vietnamese and two Iraqis — hid for hours in a truck loaded with boxes of bananas in northern […]
Scuffle between Lebanese Armenians, riot police, erupts outside Azerbaijani Embassy
Hundreds of Lebanese Armenians scuffled with riot police on Thursday outside the Azerbaijan Embassy in northern Beirut during a protest against the Azerbaijani military offensive that recaptured Nagorno-Karabakh from the enclave’s separatist Armenian authorities. Protesters waved flags of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, and burned posters of Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan […]
Deadly gunman attacks hospital and apartment in Rotterdam, 2 killed
Two people were killed by a lone gunman who opened fire and started fires in a hospital and an apartment in the Dutch city of Rotterdam on Thursday, the city’s police chief said. The shooter, a 32-year-old student from Rotterdam, wore a bulletproof vest as he shot and killed a 39-year-old woman and seriously injured […]
Former Belarusian operative acquitted in Swiss court over disappearances of Lukashenko opponents in 1990s
A court in northern Switzerland on Thursday acquitted a former security Belarusian operative over the enforced disappearances of three of President Aleksander Lukashenko’s political opponents in the late 1990s, said an advocacy group that spearheaded the case. Judges in the northern town of Rorschach said they were not convinced that the defendant, Yuri Harauski, a […]
Iran’s Defense Ministry car battery factory hit by second fire in 1 week
A fire broke out Thursday at a car battery factory owned by Iran’s Defense Ministry for the second time in less than a week, state media reported. No one was injured in the blaze, which erupted in an area where plastic waste is stored, state TV said. Iranian news outlets circulated photos and video footage […]
IRS agent said CNN has Hunter Biden email where Hunter claimed legal ‘stuff’ would go away under Biden admin
The House Ways and Means Committee released a document on Wednesday showing an IRS agent relaying an inquiry from a CNN producer who claimed to have an email where Hunter Biden said that all of his “stuff” would go away once his father was elected president. To date, the alleged email has never become public. […]
Mayor harassed after 911 call on ‘far right’ voter push blasted by organizer: ‘Should be common sense’
The businessman behind several Washington state initiatives says he’d “love to have a conversation” with the mayor who recently called 911 on petition signature gatherers she described as “far right.” “I want public safety, I want lower taxes and I want parents to be involved in their children’s lives,” Brian Heywood, who founded the political […]