Canada Border Services Agency officers seized weapons and cash from two travellers Monday who were refused entry into Canada. The incident occurred at the Ambassador Bridge. The travellers were sent to secondary inspection and their vehicle was searched. A firearm, pepper spray and stun gun were found inside the vehicle. An additional US$11,815 in cash […]
ALTON, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Two men have been sentenced for their respective roles in a drug smuggling case, U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani announced. Both Argelio Chavero, 51, of Alton, and Agustin Romero Jr., 41, a U.S. citizen residing in Mexico, pleaded guilty on April 24, 2023, and Dec. 19, 2022, respectively. The two pleaded []
Watch 'Weaponized Migration' In Action: Hundreds Storm Polish Border From Belarus Coming from Russia-allied Belarus, hundreds of "very aggressive" migrants carrying ladders and wielding rocks and tree branches stormed the border of Poland on Wednesday, but were repelled by security forces. Belarus has long been accused of "weaponizing" migrants by encouraging them to travel to Belarus only so they can be pushed into Poland and Lithuania. According to a statement issued by the...
April 16 (UPI) — Customs and Border Protection officers in Chicago on Thursday seized a shipment from China containing methamphetamine precursor and a cocaine cutting agent, the CBP announced Tuesday. A narcotics detection dog named Aldo helped CBP officers discover and detain 26 boxes of unknown powders that subsequent testing showed were 1,117 pounds of meth precursor and […] The post Border Patrol intercepts more than 1,000 pounds of meth, cocaine chemicals from China first appeared on...
Authorities in the border state of Chihuahua claimed the recent killing of eight men is tied to an organized crime turf war over human smuggling routes. Police found the bodies dumped on the side of a highway.
Aaron Rodgers is back throwing footballs as the New York Jets quarterback eyes a return to the field in 2024 after tearing his Achilles in Week 4 of the 2023 season
Eleven big rigs are now hauling freight between San Diego and Tijuana through the Otay Mesa Port of Entry, trucks that run on electricity. The semis are considered the first of their kind as the state of California has started the process of phasing out diesel trucks.
The crisis at the southern border appears to have had a positive impact on the U.S. economy, but experts warn the growth came with consequences. New findings by former White House economic adviser Ernie Tedeschi concluded that the U.S. economy’s recovery from the pandemic recession was stronger than the Great Recession more than a decade ago thanks in part to […]
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Chemical weapons are typically associated with Middle Eastern warzones, not Ivy League colleges. So when one of them was allegedly deployed at Columbia University, it ignited a media frenzy. Pro-Palestinian protesters told the Columbia Spectator they had been spayed with "skunk," a crowd-control chemical developed by the Israeli Defense Forces, at a rally in January. Mainstream media amplified the allegations, and Columbia suspended a student involved in the "attack"—who had previously served in...
'If such 'never-before-seen' weapons exist, they are probably larger and more sophisticated,' Professor Gerald Steinberg, head of Jerusalem-based NGO Monitor, said.
A mother has put her home up for sale after claiming the couple next door targeted her in a "relentless" campaign of harassment amid a bitter £150,000 dispute over the boundary between their two homes. Celia Tan, 57, removed the gutter from Robert and Helena Flach's home in 2019, saying it extended beyond the boundary between their homes and allowed water to flow onto their property. But the Flaxs claim the boundary line was 5 inches beyond the wall separating houses in Ruislip, west London,...