For the past 17 years of his imprisonment at Guantánamo Bay, Ghassan al-Sharbi was a mystery to the American public. A prisoner at the notorious prison since his capture in 2002, al-Sharbi has never sought to speak publicly, unlike many other detainees held at the prison. He even refused legal counsel. But now, the Saudi […]
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Ruling Revives Questions About DC Death of Ex-Putin Aide…
On a foggy November morning in 2015, a heavily intoxicated man showed up before dawn at the Dupont Circle Hotel, forked over $1,200 cash for a ninth-floor penthouse suite and kept drinking. His bender continued all day. By the next morning, he was dead. Authorities concluded that he died of blunt force trauma, the result […]
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Border Patrol Arrests Woman Attempting to Smuggle Meth…
El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents working at the Highway 86 immigration checkpoint arrested a woman suspected of smuggling methamphetamine on Saturday. The incident occurred at approximately 5:47 p.m., when a 26-year-old woman driving a black Nissan Altima approached the checkpoint. A Border Patrol canine detection team alerted to the vehicle. Agents sent the vehicle […]
With Unified Voice, Missouri Supreme Court Signals an End to Debtors Prison Scheme…
Nicholas T. McNab has a court hearing scheduled on Thursday that has been 11 years in the making. In May, 2008, McNab was 17 years old. He and some buddies stole some candy and beef jerky out of a concession stand in Polo, a tiny municipality in Caldwell County. He spent eight days in jail […]
400 Migrants Apprehended Within Five Minutes in El Paso Sector…
El Paso Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended two large groups of Central American migrants after they illegally crossed the border from Mexico. Agents apprehended the two groups totaling more than 400 during a five-minute period early Tuesday. Agents patrolling near Bowie High School came upon a group of 194 migrants at about 2:45 a.m. Tuesday. […]
Cockpit Voice Recorder from Doomed Lion Air 737 Reveals Frantic Struggle to Stop Nosedive…
A doomed Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max 8 that crashed shortly after takeoff on March 10 had “clear similarities” to an October 2018 crash of the same type of airplane, according to Ethiopia’s transport minister. Today, Reuters sheds light on exactly what happened that fateful day last year off the coast of Indonesia. According to a […]
Pentagon Finds $12.8B for Trump’s Border Wall…
The Defense Department has identified $12.8 billion in possible funding that it could use to fulfill President Trump’s call for a border wall. Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., released the 20-page spreadsheet on Twitter Monday night. Trump last month declared a national emergency at the border, and said he wants to use $3.6 billion for border […]
DOT Begins Audit of How 737 Max Was Certified by FAA and Boeing…
Confirming a Monday WSJ report that Department of Transportation officials are scrutinizing the development of Boeing 737 MAX jetliners and in particular its anti-stall (MCAS) system, the Department of Transportation has officially asked for a wide-ranging review of how the government and Boeing certified the now infamous 737 MAX. In a Tuesday press release, transportation […]
Pompeo Pulls Visas for International Criminal Court Officials Targeting Americans…
International officials trying to prosecute American military personnel will not be allowed to enter the United States, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Friday. “We are determined to protect the American, allied, and civilian personnel from living in fear of unjust prosecutions for actions taken to defend our great nation,” Pompeo told reporters at the […]
Teen Stabbed About 100 Times and Set on Fire in MS-13 Murder…
Five MS-13 gang members have been arrested in connection to the death of a 16-year-old whose mutilated body was found in Stafford County, Virginia, according to law enforcement. The body of 16-year-old Jacson Chicas was discovered near a wooded area in Rappahannock River, east of the Fredericksburg city limit around 4:30 a.m. Saturday. Investigators now […]
CIA Blames its Proxy for its Raid on North Korea’s Embassy in Spain…
The CIA is the main suspect in the military style raid on the North Korean embassy in Madrid. It now launched a somewhat hapless effort to deflect from it. The Spanish report in which Spanish government sources accuse the CIA said: At least two of the 10 assailants who broke into the embassy and interrogated […]
Suspected Killer of Reputed Mob Boss Frank Cali Has an ‘X’ on His Back…
Law-enforcement authorities anticipate a possible assassination attempt against the Staten Island man suspected of gunning down mob boss Francesco “Franky Boy” Cali, sources told The Post on Sunday. Officials haven’t confirmed that the Gambino crime family has posted a bounty on Anthony Comello, but “the general feeling is that there’s an ‘X’ on this guy’s […]
In Largest Ever Pork Bust, U.S. Seizes 1 Million Pounds of Chinese Pork as Prices Soar…
Just days after the DEA busted a 3,200-pound cocaine shipment from Colombia at the port of New York and New Jersey, US federal agents seized 1 million pounds (454 metric tons) of pork smuggled from China to the same port amid growing fears the meat could contain traces of the African swine fever virus that […]
Boeing Tumbles on Grand Jury Subpoena Probing 737 MAX Approval…
In the latest blow to both Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration, the WSJ reported overnight that Federal prosecutors and Department of Transportation officials are scrutinizing the development of Boeing 737 MAX jetliners and in particular its anti-stall (MCAS) system, inquiries described as “unusual” and which come amid probes of regulators’ safety approvals of the […]
Deaths of Ferguson Activists Lead Some to Believe Something Sinister Is at Play…
The sometimes-violent deaths of a half-dozen men linked to the 2014 protests that rocked Ferguson, Mo., including two found in burning cars and three who allegedly committed suicide, have sparked fears that something sinister is afoot, The Associated Press reported in an extensive investigation. Police say the deaths, which also included a man who collapsed […]
The Supreme Court Resuscitates the Eighth Amendment…
Tyson Timbs’s story starts, as so many stories do today, with opioids. Following a workplace injury in Ohio, Timbs developed a painkiller addiction, which led him to heroin. When his aunt in Indiana needed help due to illness, Timbs moved in with her and sought to use the transition as an opportunity to get clean. […]
Official Deep Inside Obama-Era Defense Intelligence Agency Pleads Guilty to Spying for China…
When Senator Chuck Schumer said the “intelligence community has six ways to Sunday to get back at you“, few realized he meant the IC were treasonous spies and the “you” was our country. An official within the DIA from 2014 to 2018 was selling U.S. intelligence secrets to China and he plead guilty today…
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‘The Conveyor Belt’: U.S. Officials Say Massive Smuggling Effort Is Speeding Immigrants to – and Across – the Southern Border…
Criminal organizations in Mexico have mounted a lucrative new smuggling operation that uses express buses to deliver Guatemalan migrant families to the U.S. border in a matter of days, making the journey faster, easier and safer, according to U.S. law enforcement reports and U.S. and Guatemalan officials. The smugglers entice families with promises their journey […]
Reputed Gambino Crime Family Boss Gunned Down Outside Staten Island Home…
Gambino crime family boss Frank (Franky Boy) Cali was gunned down Wednesday night in a gory hit in front of his Staten Island home, police sources said. Cali, 53, was shot six times in the chest by a gunman in a blue pickup truck on Hilltop Terrace near Four Corners Road in Todt Hill about […]
The Fentanyl Failure: Despite Mounting Deaths and Warnings, the Obama Administration Did Not Take Extraordinary Measures to Confront an Extraordinary Crisis…
In May 2016, a group of national health experts issued an urgent plea in a private letter to high-level officials in the Obama administration. Thousands of people were dying from overdoses of fentanyl — the deadliest drug to ever hit U.S. streets — and the administration needed to take immediate action. The epidemic had been […]
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