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The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced an enforcement operation along the southwest border targeting more than 100 money service businesses (MSBs). The effort is the latest operation aimed at cutting off financial tools used by drug cartels. Treasury officials revealed that MSBs are entities that are not banks but provide money transfer, wire, exchange, and other cash-based services; a type of business that, since it primarily deals with cash, provides a certain anonymity for cartels to move or launder funds. As part of their operations, officials reviewed more than one million Currency Transaction Reports and 87,000 suspicious activity reports,…
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) has ruled against President Donald Trump’s plans to federalize and send 300 Illinois National Guardsmen to the sanctuary city of Chicago to help protect Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from violent rioters. In October, Trump had sought to deploy the National Guard to assist ICE agents, but a federal judge, appointed by former President Joe Biden, blocked the effort with a temporary restraining order. When the Trump administration asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit to stay the judge’s order, the panel of judges denied the administration’s plea. That…
Over the past year, relations between Russia and the European Union have acquired an unusual quality: clarity. Not warmth, not dialogue, not even managed hostility, but clarity.In November 2023, Russia quietly renamed the Foreign Ministry’s Department for Pan-European Cooperation as the Department for European Issues. The explanation was blunt. Cooperation no longer existed, problems did. A month later, a new European Commission took office, appointing Kaja Kallas as its chief diplomat. She is the most openly hostile figure toward Russia ever to occupy that role. The contrast was striking, especially as faint signs of a thaw began to appear in…
(UPI) — Actor and comedian Russell Brand has been charged with two new offenses — one rape and one sexual assault — from two new women, London’s Metropolitan Police said Tuesday. Brand is scheduled to appear in court Jan. 20 on the new allegations. Brand pleaded not guilty to five previous charges earlier this year. Those charges were from four women who allege assaults from 1999 to 2005. That trial is set for June 16. He is on conditional bail until then. “The women who have made reports, including those connected to the two new charges, continue to receive support…
A decorated fighter pilot and one-star general will be forced out of the U.S. Air Force on December 31, even after the Board for Correction of Military Records (BCMR) found that he was unfairly targeted due to his opinions on COVID mandates. Brigadier General Christopher Sage is one of many service members who are still fighting to keep their jobs or get them back after the Biden administration zeroed in on those who dared to question its vaccine, masking, or quarantine protocols. What makes his case particularly rare is that a Pentagon official overturned the BCMR’s ruling that he was…
The aircraft carrying General Muhammad Ali Ahmed al-Haddad came down in Türkiye after requesting an emergency landing shortly after takeoff The Libyan army’s chief of staff, General Muhammad Ali Ahmed al-Haddad, has been killed in a plane crash in Türkiye, officials have confirmed. A private jet carrying al-Haddad and other senior Libyan military officials went down late on Tuesday southwest of Ankara.Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh said in a Facebook post that several other senior military officials were also killed in the crash involving a Dassault Falcon 50 jet. The delegation were in Türkiye for talks earlier in the…
El Salvador’s Villa Navidena, the Christmas Village in the capital city of San Salvador, featured familiar holiday favorites like Santa Claus, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and the Grinch in a parade on Sunday. The parade was remarkably similar to the big Thanksgiving Day holiday parades in the United States, with many of the same beloved characters appearing on floats and balloons: The parade in San Salvador also had a familiar corporate sponsor, Coca Cola, which is a very popular beverage in El Salvador. The Villa Navideña spans about twenty blocks in San Salvador, and it stays open throughout December, becoming…
Monday on “The Tucker Carlson Show,” former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) predicted that Steve Bannon would run for president in 2028 on a populist “wealth tax economic agenda.” Gaetz said, “Just like the and I love Steve Bannon, so I don’t want like my our last discussion to come across as a criticism of Steve but I mean he’s going to run for president on the on just a straight, Elizabeth Warren wealth tax economic agenda.” Carlson said, “Actually.” Gaetz said, “Yeah. He’s going to run for president and say, take the money from those people who have way too…
Decisions made in Brussels are increasingly not being carried out by member states, the Hungarian prime minister has said The EU is beginning to disintegrate as decisions made in Brussels are increasingly ignored by member states, now divided between advocates of war and of peace, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said.In an interview with Magyar Nemzet newspaper published on Wednesday, Orban said the process was unfolding even as Brussels with its “imperial ambitions’ bureaucracy” pushed to expand its authority over national governments.”The European Union today is in a state of disintegration …This is how the union falls apart: decisions…
Hindus protested on Tuesday in the Indian capital of New Delhi after a Hindu man was lynched and burned alive by a mob in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. Hundreds of demonstrators in New Delhi demanded justice for the slain man, and accused Bangladesh of not doing enough to protect its Hindu minority. The protest was centered on the Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi, which houses the Bangladeshi diplomatic mission to India. The protesters grew agitated and tried to force their way past security barriers erected by the police, who pushed them back with metal batons. Similar protests were…