The Biden administration on Tuesday unveiled sanctions on two individuals and five corporate entities tied to the Intellexa consortium, a network of European firms behind the sale of a widely used mobile surveillance software known as Predator. Part of a larger crackdown: The Treasury Department action marks the latest move by the Biden administration to […]
In a podcast hosted by American journalist Lex Fridman, notorious former Fox News host Tucker Carlson has described his impressions of his interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin and admitted that the Kremlin is trying to demonise Ukrainians by calling them Nazis. Source: Tucker Carlson on the Lex Fridman podcast Quote: “I thought it was […]
With its four-piece bathroom suite, queen-size bed and mini fridge, the untidy prison cell of the notorious leader of the Los Choneros gang, José Adolfo Macías, could have been in a hotel instead of one of Ecuador’s largest prison complexes. Picture released by the Ecuadorean Armed Forces showing Adolfo Macias, aka Fito, leader of the […]
Butch Cassidy’s legacy is a bit complex. Cassidy, whose real name was Robert LeRoy Parker, is viewed by some as a ruthless criminal who robbed trains and banks throughout the West at the turn of the 20th century. Others see his actions in a more redeeming light, as he targeted large businesses that threatened the […]
The head of a notorious armed gang linked to the kidnapping of U.S. citizens in Haiti, including 16 missionaries, decided to plead guilty to federal weapons smuggling charges Tuesday while in the middle of his federal trial in Washington, D.C. Lawyers for Germine Joly, known as Yonyon, informed U.S. District Judge John D. Bates late […]
What did Edwin E. Grant do to make constituents mad? The California state senator from San Francisco was targeted in 1914 by the state’s second successful recall and became the shortest serving legislator of the decade of the 1910s, in office only 22 months. Grant wrote the Red Light Abatement Law and later was the […]
The Humane Society of Missouri’s Animal Cruelty Taskforce rescued 97 Labrador retrievers from an unlicensed breeder, the group announced in a Jan. 9 Facebook post. This isn’t the first visit they’ve paid a visit to Sandra Kozlowski of Sho-Me Labradors, according to a Jan. 9 news release from the group. From late 2019 into early […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The notorious 2005 “Access Hollywood” video in which Donald Trump was caught on a hot mic speaking disparagingly about women over a decade before he became president can be shown to jurors deciding what he owes a columnist he sexually abused and then defamed, a judge ruled Tuesday, setting ground rules […]
The effects of human-caused pollution are expected to result in an increase of agricultural pests, scientists report. That means that several items at the grocery store may see a dramatic rise in prices. What is happening? The populations of three insect species — the codling moth, peach twig borer, and oriental fruit moth — are […]