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An immigrant truck driver from Uzbekistan with no English language skills has been allowed to bond out of jail in Madison County, Ohio, after allegedly causing a crash that killed 21-year-old college soccer star Tobias “Toby” Forsythe. Bekhzod Asrarov, a 42-year-old immigrant from Uzbekistan who does not speak English, was released from jail without bond days ago after his attorneys argued that he has no prior criminal record and maintained a “flawless” driving record before the fatal crash on July 5. According to prosecutors, Asrarov, who was able to secure a Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) despite not speaking English, was driving a…
House Republicans finally have a rough outline of what they’ll include in their third reconciliation bill. And plenty of members are not happy about it. Part of members’ frustration stems from a lack of details colliding with a staggeringly fast timeline: GOP leaders are aiming to adopt the framework for a party-line package on the floor by the end of next week. More details should be coming soon: Budget Republicans will release the text of their framework at 9 a.m. Wednesday as their committee plans to mark up the measure Thursday. So far we expect the budget resolution to include…
The security cabinet has approved more than $400 million for 34 new settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory Israel has approved more than $400 million to establish dozens of new settlements in the occupied West Bank, despite international condemnation of what critics describe as the de facto annexation of Palestinian territory.The West Bank, which was captured by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War, is home to around 3 million Palestinians and more than 500,000 Israeli settlers. Along with East Jerusalem and Gaza, it is envisioned as the core of a future Palestinian state under the internationally backed two-state solution.The Israeli…
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni suffered a setback on Tuesday after a voting reform bill bitterly failed to pass in parliament by a single vote. Meloni’s Brothers of Italy (FdI), alongside other parties, had presented an electoral reform bill before Congress that aimed to introduce a mixed parliamentary voting system featuring locked lists of top candidates while allowing for up to three preference votes. The chances intended to allow citizens to vote for individual candidates from party lists in elections for the first time in over three decades. The changes also reportedly sought to introduce promotional voting systems in Italy,…
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested more illegal aliens this week, many convicted of child sex crimes, as well as rape and aiding racketeering. “Every day, ICE is arresting and removing the worst of the worst from our communities. Just yesterday, ICE arrested criminal illegal aliens convicted of child sex crimes, sexual assault, racketeering, and grand larceny,” the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Lauren Bis said. Among those illegal aliens arrested is Ricardo Vasquez-Salazar of Mexico, who was previously convicted on five counts of lewd or lascivious act swith a child in the sanctuary state of California. Likewise, ICE agents…
The EU and UK should drop their middle-power ambitions and accept Washington’s dominance, Kirill Dmitriev says The EU and UK should abandon their ambitions to act as independent “middle powers” and accept their role as “vassals” under the US, Russian presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev has said. Dmitriev made the remarks on X on Wednesday while commenting on a series of posts by US Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby. “The EU/UK’s faulty ‘middle power’ strategy started to freak out the US,” Dmitriev wrote. “EU/UK vassals should know their place.” The term “middle powers” generally refers to countries that…
A California State Senate committee has rejected a proposal that would have prevented registered sex offenders from running for public office, according to a report from The National Pulse. The vote was 2-1-2, with two Democrats abstaining and committee chair Sen. Scott Wiener voting against the measure. The bill, AB 2753, had previously passed the State Assembly unanimously before being blocked in the Senate Elections Committee. Background and Current Law The bill was introduced after a registered sex offender attempted to run for Fresno City Council, according to the report. Under current California law, candidates convicted of bribery, extortion, perjury,…
The Ebola epidemic racing through the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is spreading faster and proving more virulent than efforts to contain it, global medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned on Wednesday. The current outbreak in the DRC and nearby Uganda was declared a global health emergency back in May. The World Health Organization (W.H.O) has already warned the ongoing situation in Africa was much larger than official figures suggest and is being driven partly by population movements and delays in treatment. Reuters reports the number of confirmed Ebola cases had tripled in less than five weeks to 1,926, including 702…
Darline Graham Nordone was sworn in on Tuesday as an interim United States senator to complete the remainder of her brother Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-SC) term. The late senator’s term runs through the end of the 119th Congress on January 3, 2027. “Please raise your right hand,” Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) instructed her, as he swore her into office. “Do you solemnly swear that you will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that you will bear true faith and allegiance to the same. That you take this obligation freely, without any…
At Jay Clayton’s confirmation hearing to be director of national intelligence on Wednesday, senators are likely to grill the office as much as the man. Democrats, Republicans and former intelligence officials have in recent weeks floated a range of options to cut, curb or even eliminate the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Regardless of whether the proposals come to fruition, they underscore a stark reality: Trust in an agency that technically stands astride a hulking U.S. spy community has cratered since the rocky tenure of former DNI Tulsi Gabbard and her interim replacement, Bill Pulte. “The consensus among…