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A 27-year-old woman who was in Texas illegally will spend more than five years in prison for her role as the bookkeeper for a human smuggling group from a faction of Los Zetas responsible for moving more than 1,900 migrants through the border city of Laredo. This week, Giovana Lozano Hernandez went before a U.S. district judge in Laredo, who handed down a 70-month sentence. As she was in the country illegally, she will be deported after finishing her sentence. Lozano pleaded guilty to federal human smuggling charges in September 2025 as part of a plea deal with prosecutors. The…

Disruptions to oil and gas supplies will leave lasting “scars” on the world economy, managing director Kristalina Georgieva has said The war in the Middle East has delivered a major global energy supply “shock” that will push up prices further and leave the world economy facing weaker growth, the IMF has warned. The US-Israeli attack on Iran and subsequent Iranian retaliatory strikes across the region, including on energy infrastructure, have stressed global markets, driving oil prices higher and raising fuel costs. The conflict has effectively choked flows through the Strait of Hormuz, a key route that accounts for a significant part…

The government has accused the tech giant of tilting the playing field in favor of opposition leader Peter Magyar ahead of Sunday’s vote The Hungarian government has accused Facebook of interfering in the upcoming parliamentary election scheduled for Sunday by restricting the reach of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s posts while boosting the visibility of his main rival, opposition leader Peter Magyar.Speaking to Politico, government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs claimed that Facebook’s algorithm is “basically working against the government parties.” He argued that Orban’s official government page is subject to stricter advertising limits and reduced organic reach, while Magyar is allowed to operate…

Indonesian Communications and Digital Minister Meutya Hafid said Thursday that Google’s YouTube platform has not complied with Jakarta’s ban on social media accounts for children under 16 and could face “sanctions” if it does not begin meeting its obligations under the law. Indonesia banned access to “high risk platforms” for children under 16 in March. In response to criticism that the government was dumping a massive unfunded mandate on social media companies without much warning, Hafid said “the process will be done gradually until all platforms perform their obligations.” “The basis is clear. Our children face increasingly real threats. From…

Vice President JD Vance heads to Islamabad, Pakistan, for negotiations with Iran amid the two-week ceasefire, marking a major moment for the 41-year-old vice president and the administration as a whole. Vance departed Joint Base Andrew aboard Air Force One on Friday morning, speaking briefly to reporters before boarding the plane. Vance was optimistic that the negotiations this weekend would be positive. “As the president of the United States said, if the Iranians are willing to negotiate in good faith, we’re certainly willing to extend the open hand. If they’re going to try to play us, then they’re going to…

Donald Trump Jr. told his Triggered podcast audience on Thursday that “everyone should read” Wynton Hall’s instant bestseller, CODE RED, to “understand what’s actually going on” with AI. “What do you think the Trump administration has gotten right about AI that a lot of politicians in Washington still perhaps don’t understand?” Trump Jr. asked during Thursday’s episode of Triggered, to which Hall replied by citing “energy” and “China.” Watch Below: Hall explained that the Trump administration “understands you can have the greatest models in the world — we can build a Bugatti and a Ferrari, but if there’s no gas in the tank, it’s…

Brexit is moot because a post-NATO European Union needs as many members as it can get to fight Russia, and one of those new members should be the United Kingdom, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. If the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation falters then the European Union will have to take on responsibility for organising the defence of the continent, so the countries on its periphery should join to make the bloc as militarily powerful as possible, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said. Speaking to centre-left UK politics podcast The Rest is Politics Zelensky of course counted Ukraine among this group of nations…

RT’s Steve Sweeney reports on destroyed homes, children’s belongings buried in rubble, and a city living in fear of the next attack Israel has carried out multiple strikes across Lebanon over the past 24 hours, fueling fears that the escalating violence could unravel a fragile two-week ceasefire between the US and Iran.The expanded offensive in Lebanon since March 2 has killed 1,888 people and wounded 6,092 others, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry. It says the April 8 bombardment alone involved “over 100 strikes within minutes,” leaving more than 300 dead and in excess of 1,100 injured.RT’s Steve Sweeney, who,…

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell called Wall Street executives to an emergency meeting at Treasury headquarters in Washington this week to address cybersecurity vulnerabilities posed by Anthropic’s latest “Mythos” AI model. Bloomberg reports that senior government officials gathered top banking leaders for an emergency session to discuss potential cyber threats associated with advanced AI technology. The meeting, which took place at the Treasury Department’s Washington headquarters, centered on concerns that Anthropic’s newest model, Mythos, could introduce significant new cybersecurity risks to the financial system. The hastily arranged gathering brought together Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and…

Israeli national Ami Gaydarov, 22, has been charged with participating in an Iran-backed bomb plot to murder a high-ranking Israeli official – most likely former prime minister Naftali Bennett. Gaydarov was arrested in March, but the Israeli judiciary did not give the media permission to report on the case until Thursday. His arrest was the result of a joint investigation by Israel’s Shin Bet domestic intelligence service and the Lahav 433 national crimes unit, which is sometimes known as “Israel’s FBI.” Investigators said Gaydarov, a resident of Haifa, actively sought out Iranian operatives on the Telegram messaging platform to offer…