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Acting United States Attorney Karin Hoppmann announced the unsealing of a 2019 indictment charging Piero Antonio Lubo-Barros, a/k/a “Nostradamus,” 41, Colombia, South America, with conspiracy to distribute large amounts of cocaine knowing and intending it to be imported into the United States. If convicted on…
Read More Colombian Man Extradited To US For Drug Charges In Texas, Florida, And California
It’s hard to know what’s real and what’s fake on the internet these days. So when I stumbled on a Twitter post that claimed automobile drivers in Slovenia were forbidden from pumping gas without a COVID certificate, I was skeptical. All the tweets I found…
Read More No Gasoline Without ‘COVID Papers’? It’s Already Happening In Some Parts Of The World
Kaylee Greenlee Two suspected Iranian hackers were charged for posing as supporters of former President Donald Trump and sending threatening messages to U.S. voters, the Department of Justice announced Thursday. Iranians Seyyed Mohammad Hosein Musa Kazemi, 24, and Sajjad Kashian, 27, were indicted and sanctioned…
Read More Suspected Iranian Hackers Charged For Posing As Trump Supporters, Sending Threats To Democratic Voters
Laurel Duggan The Independent falsely claimed that Kyle Rittenhouse shot three black men after he was acquitted of all charges Friday for shooting three white men in self-defense during the August 2020 Kenosha, Wisconsin, riots. “Full story: Teenager who shot three black men with rifle…
Read More Narrative? The Independent Falsely Stated Rittenhouse Shot 3 Black Men
Sebastian Hughes The Marriott hotel in Prague refused to host a conference on its premises for activists and leaders fighting for the rights of Uyghurs in China, Axios reported. In an email sent to the World Uyghur Congress, which has attempted to shine a spotlight…
Read More Marriott Refused To Host Conference On Uyghur Genocide Because Of ‘Political Theme’
Thomas Catenacci The Biden administration asked China, Japan, South Korea and India to tap into their emergency oil reserves as the president continues to grapple with rising gasoline prices, Reuters reported. The effort to simultaneously release oil reserves represents a rebuke of the Organization of…
Read More Biden Asks Asian Countries To Release Oil Reserves As Administration Scrambles To Combat High Gas Prices: REPORT
Kaylee Greenlee Taliban officials asked Congress to end U.S. sanctions and to free up Afghan assets, the Associated Press reported Wednesday. Afghan citizens are being deprived of civil services in the health and education sectors because officials can’t access the access, Taliban Foreign Minister Amir…
Read More Taliban Asks Congress To End US Sanctions, Release Afghan Assets
American journalist Danny Fenster was freed from a Myanmar prison just days after being sentenced to 11 years of hard labor, a U.S. diplomat who helped negotiate the release said Monday. Fenster, the editor of the online magazine Frontier Myanmar, was released and is on…
Read More American Journalist Danny Fenster Freed From Myanmar Prison
Sebastian Hughes China’s campaign to grow its presence in Latin America has brought the country’s influence dangerously close to the U.S., but experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation that America’s efforts to combat it fall short. The communist goliath has become the number one…
Read More ‘Conquering Latin America With A Smile’: Chinese Influence Met With Inadequate US Resistance
Kaylee Greenlee At least 15 people were injured after a bomb exploded at a mosque in Traili, Afghanistan, a Taliban spokesperson said, the Associated Press reported Friday. ISIS militants have orchestrated several attacks in the region, according to the AP. The bomb was likely placed in the mosque…
Read More Taliban Says Bomb Exploded At Mosque In Afghanistan, Wounding At Least 15