Author: Press Room
The extraordinary case of a Pinochet henchman reveals how US foreign policy has repeatedly trumped justice Imagine you are a Chilean who’s lived in America – the so-called “Land of the Free” – for decades in peace and tranquility. Suddenly, one humid day in late October 2025, in your adopted home of Fort Myers, Florida, you are snatched in broad daylight then imprisoned by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.Your capture remains completely unknown to the outside world until January the next year, when the US Department of Homeland Security names you among the “worst of worst criminal aliens” arrested by ICE…
Addison Hunnicutt races onto the field and tackles a player during a football game. Credit: WSMV screenshot A teenage girl in Tennessee set the Internet on fire earlier this week after coming out of nowhere to tackle a middle school football player. As WTMV reported, 16-year-old Addison Hunnicutt was attending a Middle Tennessee middle school football game Tuesday night between South Middle School and Cornersville Middle School in Winchester when she sprang into action. Her brother plays for Cornersville. As the video below shows, Hunnicutt races onto the field following a stoppage in play due to a penalty and tackles…
We tend to use the word “safe” as though it has only one meaning. But a life jacket won’t put out a kitchen fire. A smoke detector won’t help much during a flood. They are all safety equipment – they simply address different dangers. The concept of “financial safety” works the same way. In one sense, there’s no such thing as “financial safety” at all. Just varying types and levels of risk. An asset can be stable in price, but vulnerable to inflation. Easy to sell, but dependent on another institution’s promise to pay. It can carry almost zero default…
Scammers have reportedly been attempting to dupe celebrities by posing as famous podcast hosts with the aim of shaking them down for money. A recent profile from The Hollywood Reporter found that scammers have been using AI to create convincing messages to fool celebrities into thinking they have been invited onto a top rated podcast for an interview. Seth Rudetsky, for instance, received an invitation to appear on Nikki Glaser’s podcast, and since those types of invites were regularly featured in his inbox, he had no reason to doubt the email’s authenticity. “The invitation also seemed to know an awful lot about…
Attempts by authorities to clear Ceuta’s Trampolín beach and create a foothold for a return of the area to normality failed this week, as the remaining illegal migrants immediately re-established a tent city. Less than 24 hours after the Spanish exclave city government attempted to clear the thousands of migrants from the encampment established on Trampolín, the local Ceuta Actualidad reported that the coastline was already covered in “kilos” of garbage. “Not even a day. Not even a day has passed before Trampolín beach and its surroundings have become a dump again,” the local outlet reported. The beach has been…
Hefty U.S. tariffs on some Canadian products took effect on Saturday after days of negotiations that went down to the wire failed to produce an agreement. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney vowed that his country will match the U.S. tariffs “dollar for dollar to protect our workers and businesses,” as officials said late Friday that Washington and Ottawa had not managed to strike a deal. The lack of a final agreement means that new 50 percent duties impacting some $20 billion worth of goods, or 5.5 percent of Canadian exports to the United States, came into force. Impacted products range…
Thursday on CNN’s “The Arena,” Florida Democratic Senate candidate Angie Nixon said if elected, she will likely not support Chuck Schumer for Senate Democratic leader. Host Kasie Hunt said, “So given all of that you’ve just said, Hakeem Jeffries, who would be in line to be Speaker of the House, recently said he doesn’t support Medicare for all. He’s not on that bill anymore. He used to be. Is he wrong? Do Democrats have the right leaders here in Washington?” Nixon said, “He is absolutely wrong. How can you all of a sudden change the tone? And I’ll tell you how you…
A 58-year-old man was reportedly shot dead by IDF troops in a separate incident the same day Israeli settlers shot and killed a Palestinian teenager near Hebron in the occupied West Bank, Palestine’s Health Ministry said in a statement on Friday. In a separate incident the same day, the IDF killed a retired Palestinian man in Jenin, according to Al Jazeera.Karim Sanad Shalaldeh, 17, was shot dead by Israeli settlers during an attack on the town of Sa’ir, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. A 70-year-old man was also wounded by the gunfire, according to Palestinian news agency Wafa.Israeli troops were…
Klobuchar Minnesota Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Klobuchar is running to replace the face of fraud in Minnesota, Tim Walz. One of her political angles is to represent herself as a ‘fraud fighter,’ but her Republican opponent, Lisa Demuth (R), the current Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives, is exposing Klobuchar and bringing the receipts. Klobuchar shared a video claiming, “It’s time for results, not excuses.” It’s time for results, not excuses. Watch my first ad and join my team at https://t.co/NDqX5YUo6c. pic.twitter.com/SoKNNCTHgs — Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) August 18, 2026 But how engaged has Klobuchar been in acknowledging the fraud,…
(AP) — Cleveland Police said a Volkswagen Passat carrying five members of the public was traveling the wrong way down the A66 highway near Middlesbrough and collided with a police vehicle on the same road going in the right direction. The seven people were pronounced dead at the scene after the crash at 3:39 a.m. Police are still working to formally identify some of them. The families of those already identified have been informed and are being offered specialist support, police said. Local lawmaker Anna Turley said Cleveland Police are investigating the accident, alongside the Independent Office for Police Conduct.…