Melissa and Georgia Laurie The family of twin sisters who were attacked by a crocodile in Mexico has blamed an unlicensed tour operator for taking them to a dangerous lagoon and launched a fundraising drive to cover medical bills and emergency flights. Melissa Laurie, was bitten, shaken and dragged underwater by a crocodile while swimming […]
During a joint press conference with Guatemala President Alejandro Giammattei, Vice President Kamala Harris had message for Central Americans considering illegally migrating to the United States: “Do not come.” “We will discourage illegal migration,” she commented. “The United States will continue to enforce our laws and secure our border.” “There are legal methods by which […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has recovered the majority of a multimillion-dollar ransom payment to hackers after a cyberattack that caused the operator of the nation’s largest fuel pipeline to halt its operations last month, officials said Monday. The operation to recover the cryptocurrency from the Russia-based hacker group is the first undertaken by […]
A Texas mother who said she posed as her daughter to sneak into a middle school to expose security flaws was arrested Friday. Casey Garcia was arrested in connection with a 2017 traffic violation and booked on additional charges of criminal trespass and tampering with a government document, according to El Paso County jail records. […]
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JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Md. (AP) — A technical issue that involved “no major safety concerns” forced Vice President Kamala Harris’ plane to return to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland about 30 minutes after she had left Sunday on a trip to Guatemala and Mexico. The plane landed safely and she gave a thumbs-up when she […]
House progressives are getting fed up with efforts to accommodate Republican senators — and Joe Manchin. Look for them to start demanding swift action — and threatening payback. Why it matters: The White House is under growing pressure to accede to the left’s demand to bust the filibuster. That rule effectively requires the support of […]
During the remaining weeks of the Trump administration and the beginning of the Biden administration, the Department of Justice (DOJ) attempted to seize the communication records of four New York Times reporters in a quest for their sources. The Biden administration maintained the pursuit that Trump began and informed some top Times executives about the […]
A letter obtained by the Washington Post outlines new allegations that Southern Baptist Convention leaders mishandled sexual abuse claims. The state of play: The letter, written by Russell Moore, former head of the SBC Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, claims that institutional leaders bullied a sexual abuse victim. Get market news worthy of your time […]
Mark Meadows. OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows sent five emails to then-acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen in late December 2020 and early January 2021 asking him to examine election fraud conspiracy theories, including a “fantastical” one that claimed people in Italy used military technology and satellites to […]