Turkey’s Presidential Election Likely Heads to Runoff
Neither lead candidate appeared to have secured 50% in Turkey’s Presidential election Sunday, likely sending the race into a runoff. As of Monday morning, 20-year incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was ahead with 49.46% of the vote while his leading rival, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, had 44.79%, according to Turkey’s Supreme Election Council (YSK). Kilicdaroglu, who is […]
DHS Chief Says Border Encounters Dropped by Half After Title 42 Ended
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Sunday that the number of encounters on the U.S.-Mexico border had dropped by 50% since the Covid-era Title 42 expulsion policy was lifted. “Over the past two days, the United States Border Patrol has experienced a 50% drop in the number of encounters versus what we were […]
Russian Mercenary Offered to Give Ukraine Russian Troop Locations
Leaked U.S. Pentagon Documents revealed that the leader of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, in January offered to disclose Russian troop locations to Ukraine in exchange for Ukraine easing up on his Russian mercenaries on the front lines in Bakhmut. The revelation was first reported by The Washington Post, based on classified Pentagon documents leaked […]
DOJ Asks for Trump Testimony to be Blocked in FBI Lawsuit
Department of Justice prosecutors on Thursday requested that a judge stop former President Trump from being deposed in a lawsuit brought by two former FBI officials. The federal prosecutors’ requests were made in the same Washington DC courthouse where the DOJ has been convening grand juries to investigate Trump’s actions related to the mishandling of […]
CIA to Change How it Handles Sexual Assault and Harassment Allegations
The Central Intelligence Agency has announced several measures to address internal allegations of sexual assault and harassment. The move comes in the wake of the CIA’s inspector general opening an investigation into assertions that the agency has “grossly mishandled” such claims. The CIA announced on Thursday the hiring of Taleeta Jackson, a psychologist who most recently […]
Suspect in 2022 Mass Shooting Charged with Hate Crimes
A 69-year-old man accused in a mass shooting at a Taiwanese-American church last year has been indicted on dozens of federal hate, weapons and explosive crimes. Federal prosecutors say David Chou of Nevada opened fire at the Geneva Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods, California on May 15, 2022, killing a doctor and wounding five other […]
USPS to Crack Down on Rising Mail Crimes
The U.S. Postal Service on Friday announced steps to crack down on a rising tide of mail crime, including theft of mail, robberies of carriers, change-of-address fraud and counterfeit postage. The USPS is set to install some 12,000 high security blue collection boxes across the country in an effort to make illegal access more difficult. […]
National Security Adviser Tells China, U.S. Wants to “Move Beyond” Spy Balloon
White House National Security Adviser held unpublicized talks with China’s Senior Foreign Policy Adviser Wang Yi in Vienna earlier this week. During the talks on Wednesday and Thursday, Sullivan told Wang the U.S. is “looking to move beyond” the tensions spurred by the U.S. military’s downing of a Chinese surveillance balloon over South Carolinian waters […]
George Santos Strikes Deal to Avoid Prosecution in Brazil
Embattled freshman Congress member Rep. George Santos (R-NY) signed an agreement Thursday in Brazil to avoid prosecution for forging two stolen checks in 2008 when he was 19. That deal with public prosecutors was struck one day after Santos pleaded not guilty to 13 criminal counts in federal court in New York. When asked about […]
Legal Challenges Complicate Border Plan Post-Title 42
Last-minute court challenges amid the end of the pandemic-era Title 42 border expulsion policy are reportedly complicating how new border policies will play out. Title 42 ended Thursday evening along with the Covid-19 national public health emergency. In anticipation of an influx of migrants at the border the Biden Administration put new policies in place […]
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