US forces seize tanker off the coast of Venezuela — caught on dramatic video

WASHINGTON — President Trump announced Wednesday that US forces “seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela” amid escalating tensions between the two countries over strikes on drug trafficking boats in the Caribbean Sea. Trump noted that the vessel was the “largest one ever seized” by the American military. “And other things are happening,” the […]

Trump’s Clemency Machine Deserves More Right-Wing Scrutiny

Last week, President Donald Trump pardoned Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras who was serving a 45-year sentence for trafficking hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States.  As the administration targets foreigners suspected of narcoterrorism in an extrajudicial killing program in Latin America, Trump has freed one of the region’s most […]

“Godless Demons”: Teen Commits Suicide After “Sextortion” As International Crime Ring Targets American Children

Federal authorities are investigating the death of a 15-year-old West Virginia boy as part of a broader examination into sextortion networks that have increasingly targeted American teenagers, resulting in what experts describe as a national crisis of online predation, the New York Post reported. Bryce Tate, 15 Bryce Tate, a student at Nitro High School […]

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche Say “A District Court And Magistrate Judges In The Eastern District Of Virginia Are Engaging In An Unconscionable Campaign Of Bias And Hostility Against U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halliga – Sierra Sun Times

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche Say “A District Court And Magistrate Judges In The Eastern District Of Virginia Are Engaging In An Unconscionable Campaign Of Bias And Hostility Against U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halliga  Sierra Sun Times Source link

Two Cities, Two Crime Strategies: What I Learned Living In Both

Authored by Don Tracy via RealClearPolitics, I’ve watched two American cities make opposite choices about the same problem. As a young man, I worked in Memphis: first as a traveling salesman, then as a law student, and finally as an attorney at a Memphis law firm. As an associate lawyer, I dreamed of escaping the […]

Tapper Misidentifies D.C. Pipe Bomb Suspect as 30-Year-Old White Man

CNN host Jake Tapper misidentified Washington, DC, pipe bomb suspect Brian Cole Jr. as a “30-year-old white man” just before airing photos revealing him to be a black man. “Brian Cole Jr., a 30-year-old white man from the D.C. suburbs, is charged with transporting an explosive device in interstate commerce and with malicious destruction by […]