The United States will no longer provide foreign assistance to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. A State Department spokesperson told The Hill in a statement Saturday that the agency was directed by President Trump to halt aid to the so-called Northern Triangle countries. “At the Secretary’s instruction, we are carrying out the President’s direction and […]
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Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning was jailed Friday after refusing to answer questions from a federal grand jury in Virginia looking into the release of documents to WikiLeaks. U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton told Manning that she would remain in federal custody “until she purges or the end of the life of the grand jury,” a […]
A Texas police officer was responding to a burglar alarm when the homeowner mistook him for an intruder and fatally shot him on Tuesday morning, reports said. The Midland police officer identified as Nathan Heidelberg, 28, died around 8:30 a.m. at a local hospital, Midland’s KOSA-TV reported. The homeowner, identified as David Charles Wilson, was arrested […]
An investigation was launched this week into a video showing two saluting Marines in blackface. The Marines are wearing their combat uniforms in the video, which has been viewed more than 245,000 times on social media, according to USA Today. One is heard saying, “Blackface” and “Hello, monkey.” The Third Marine Air Wing in San […]
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Tuesday became the latest entity to sue the Trump administration over its move to declare a national emergency in order to build a wall along the U.S. southern border. The civil rights organization in a statement announced it had filed the lawsuit on behalf of the Sierra Club and the […]
A meth haul with an estimated value of more than $12 million was uncovered in Texas over the weekend, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials announced Tuesday. The agency’s Office of Field Operations (OFO), stationed at the Pharr International Bridge, carried out the drug seizure on Saturday, CBP said in a news release. The situation unfolded […]
Greg Alyn Carlson, a member of the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted” list, was likely killed in a shoot-out with authorities in North Carolina on Wednesday, officials said. Carlson was placed on the FBI’s top ten most wanted list in September for his “alleged involvement in multiple armed sexual assaults in Los Angeles, California.” Believed to […]
The El Paso Fire Department on Monday denied that President Trump had received special permission to fit 10,000 people into an arena for his campaign rally in the city. Enrique Aguilar, fire public information officer, told the El Paso Times that Trump received no special treatment and that 6,500 people attended the rally at the […]
The U.S. national debt has topped $22 trillion for the first time in history, according to daily figures released by the Treasury Department on Tuesday. The debt has ballooned by more than $2 trillion in the two years since President Trump took office in January 2017, when the debt stood at $19.9 trillion. It surpassed […]
President Donald Trump said Tuesday he’s “not happy” with the deal announced by top congressional negotiators Monday night with just a small fraction of the money he wanted for a border barrier but he also said he did not think there would be another partial government shutdown. “I’m not happy about it. It’s not doing […]
