(The Center Square) — The modern cartels in Mexico supply the illicit drug market in America, but they’ve also shifted to new criminal schemes, diversifying into kidnapping, extortion, illegal mining, petroleum theft and illegal fishing. President Donald Trump moved to classify the six Mexican cartels as foreign terrorist organizations early in his term. Experts often call […]
A federal appeals court unfroze a lower court’s preliminary injunction blocking President Donald Trump‘s March order aiming to end collective bargaining for hundreds of thousands of government workers. Trump issued an executive order earlier this year calling for the end of collective bargaining across various executive agencies. The president cited the Civil Service Reform Act […]
After President Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 election, foreign agents working on behalf of the Qatari government appear to have shifted their focus to right-wing media, fueling speculation that the terror-linked Gulf state is attempting to win influence among conservatives. Between January 1, 2024, and election day, just over 10% of communications sent by […]
President Donald Trump announced he will speak to Russian President Vladimir Putin over the phone Monday to discuss the war in Ukraine. After neither Trump nor Putin went to Turkey earlier this week for peace talks to end the war between Russia and Ukraine, Trump announced the pair will discuss the “stopping the ‘bloodbath'” in […]
President Donald Trump is not buying former FBI Director James Comey‘s claim that he did not intend to call for violence against the president with his recent controversial social media post. Comey posted on his Instagram account a formation of seashells which spelled out “86 47,” believed to mean “86,” or get rid of, the […]
NEWARK, New Jersey (AP) — Talks aimed at settling a strike between train engineers and New Jersey’s huge commuter railroad will pick up on Saturday and continue Sunday, New Jersey Transit CEO Kris Kolluri said. The locomotive engineers’ strike began Friday at the rail system with 350,000 daily riders and left commuters either working from […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A shooting inside a Las Vegas gym Friday afternoon left two people dead, including the suspect, and injured at least three others, police said. One person was killed at the Las Vegas Athletic Club on the city’s west side as gunfire erupted, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Undersheriff Andrew Walsh said. Officers […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Ten men broke out of a New Orleans jail Friday in an audacious overnight escape by fleeing through a hole behind a toilet and scaling a wall while the lone guard assigned to their cell pod was away getting food, authorities said. Seven of the escapees, including suspects charged with murder, […]
PORTLAND, Oregon (AP) — Monica Truax has lived in her Portland home since 1992, on a cul-de-sac she described as a close-knit community. But since a bottle redemption center opened next door several years ago, her block has struggled with drug dealing, garbage and fights in the middle of the night, she said. “It’s just […]
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian drone hit a bus evacuating civilians from a front-line area in Ukraine’s northeastern Sumy region Saturday, killing nine people, Ukrainian officials said, hours after Moscow and Kyiv had held their first direct peace talks in years that failed to yield a ceasefire. Seven people were also injured in the attack […]
