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SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Jason Timothy Gonzalez of San Antonio was returned to Texas to face murder charges after being on the run for nearly a year. On Sunday, Mexican law enforcement agents with the Agencia de Investigacion Criminal (AIC) in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, handed the 20-year-old to members of the Eagle Pass Police Department’s U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force. The return of Gonzalez took place at the mid-point of the Eagle Pass International Bridge and involved the U.S. Marshals Service, Texas Department of Public Safety, and United States Customs and Border Protection officers. According to a social media post…

The Senate education committee approved legislation to stop four of the Trump administration’s deals to downsize the Education Department. In a 13-9 vote, the Senate HELP Committee advanced S. 5046, a bipartisan bill from Sens. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) that would prohibit the Education Department from transferring special education and several other major education offices to other federal agencies. Thursday’s Senate markup represents a major legislative effort to block President Donald Trump from dismantling the education agency without the approval of Congress. “This bill is straightforward,” Collins said. “It keeps the administration of important…

Hossein Kanani Moghaddam has linked a strike on an Iranian cargo ship in the Caspian Sea to deals and meetings in Washington Ukraine’s deadly attack on an Iranian cargo ship named Anna in the Caspian Sea was Vladimir Zenensky’s “gift” to Israel and the US, the former senior commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Hossein Kanani Moghaddam, told RT.The strike, which killed one Iranian sailor and injured another on Saturday, came three days before Zelensky and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traveled to Washington for talks with US President Donald Trump.Zelensky acknowledged the operation shortly after it occurred,…

“ICE Conducts a Fugitive Operation Targeting Criminal Aliens Across Florida” by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Public Domain Mark Divided panel deepens nationwide circuit split and sets up another potential Supreme Court immigration showdown. The notoriously liberal Ninth Circuit handed the Trump administration a major setback Thursday, ruling 2–1 that illegal aliens apprehended inside the United States generally cannot be subjected to mandatory detention without access to a bond hearing while they fight deportation. In Rodriguez Vazquez v. Bostock, the divided panel affirmed a lower court ruling in favor of a class of illegal aliens detained at the Northwest ICE…

WASHINGTON, DC – JULY 29: Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh speaks during a news conference at Federal Reserve Headquarters on July 29, 2026 in Washington, DC. The press conference follows Federal Open Market Committee meetings where policymakers kept the interest rate unchanged. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)Getty Images The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady this week, but AI is making those decisions increasingly difficult. Massive investment in data centers and power infrastructure is boosting demand today, while AI’s promised productivity gains could ease inflation in the future. This leaves policymakers caught between two opposing forces. With money pouring into…

When will the public realize the corrupt media standing in for the State to convict and destroy a man in the Kangaroo Court of Public Opinion is nothing short of obscene? The far-left BBC went the full-sexual McCarthyism this week to accuse, convict, and sentence Oscar-winning actor Jared Leto to career and reputation annihilation. Using no standard of evidence and no cross-examination, the vigilantes at the BBC allowed four women to destroy Leto with criminal accusations that have never been tested or challenged by any reasonable legal standard. “One of the women says she was sexually assaulted in a motel…

A study by the Ukrainian human rights group Truth Hounds highlighted by the U.K. Guardian on Tuesday indicates that North Korea and Russia have nearly completed a bridge between them whose construction began after the signing of a “mutual defense” agreement that led to North Korean boots on the ground in Europe. Truth Hounds, in the highlighted report, argued that the bridge has no significant economic value, given the sparse populations in Khasan, Russia, and Tumangang, North Korea, the regions on either side of the bridge. Rather, the group speculated, the bridge could facilitate the shipment of military assets in…

Those hoping to win the Khaled Alkhateb prize, named after a journalist killed in Syria, must submit news videos from conflict zones RT has opened submissions for the 2026 Khaled Alkhateb International Memorial Awards, which honor outstanding war reporters working in conflict zones around the world.This year’s contest will accept news reports or series of reports from conflict zones, with a maximum running time of ten minutes. Submissions are accepted in Russian, Arabic, and English, or with subtitles in any of the three for reports in other languages. Qualifying videos must have been published between October 1, 2025, and September…

Asymmetric warfare, consisting of drones and sea mines, has rewritten the rules of engagement against the Houthis and the IRGC. Photo courtesy of Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Aleksandr Freutel, U.S. Navy. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. On July 20, the Houthis declared a naval blockade against Saudi Arabia in the Red Sea, retaliation for what they called a Saudi “siege” on Yemen, the group’s formal entry into the wider US-Iran war. Days later, the Houthis claimed missile and drone strikes on the Saudi oil tankers Encelia and Layla; Saudi authorities confirmed the Encelia was hit, with the crew safe,…

Elon Musk’s social media platform X has reached a settlement with the World Federation of Advertisers, ending a contentious legal battle that began in 2024 over allegations of an advertising boycott. TechCrunch reports that the settlement between X and the advertising trade group was announced in a joint statement on Wednesday, bringing to a close Musk’s effort to hold advertisers legally accountable for reducing their spending on the platform due to brand safety concerns. X had filed a lawsuit against the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) in 2024, accusing the organization of orchestrating what it described as a systematic illegal…