SAN DIEGO, California – Late Wednesday, Border Patrol Agents apprehended an aggravated felon and member of the dangerous “Sureños Trece” street gang near the Calexico, California Port of Entry, the 23rd gang member apprehended in that area, just this year.
Somali pirates have released a Southern California travel and surf journalist after he was held captive for almost three years, reported the Los Angeles Times. Michael Scott Moore, who grew up in Redondo Beach and wrote about surf culture, was
(Reuters) – Dozens were killed in China’s unrest-plagued Xinjiang region on Sunday, after a series of blasts triggered a shootout with police, state media said on Thursday. Police shot dead 40 rioters, some of whom were seeking to blow themselves
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian courts could get the green light to seize foreign assets on Russian territory under a draft law intended as a response to Western sanctions over the Ukraine crisis. The draft, which was submitted to parliament on
When Dario Guerrero, an illegal immigrant who found out about his status in high school, told Harvard that he was in the country illegally, the school encouraged him to apply–and gave him a full scholarship after he was accepted. Writing
BEIJING (Reuters) – China said on Thursday it will send 700 troops to join a U.N. peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, where fighting has threatened Beijing’s oil investments. The troops will assist the U.N. with protecting citizens and humanitarian workers and
MCALLEN, Texas — Two underage illegal aliens are in custody accused of breaking into ranch homes to steal firearms. The arrest came after deputies with the Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office, who were working a separate case, ended up finding a
On September 10, Breitbart reported that several churches in Arizona drew national attention for sheltering illegal immigrants from authorities, but now up to 24 churches across the country have joined the first few Arizona churches in this movement. Earlier this
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – A Pakistani policeman on Thursday shot and wounded a 70-year-old British man with a history of mental illness in the jail where he is on death row for blasphemy, his lawyers said. Muhammad Asghar, from Edinburgh, was
LONDON/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Prime Minister David Cameron said he wanted Britain to join U.S.-led air strikes against the Islamic State militant group after the Iraqi government requested London’s help and he recalled parliament to secure its approval for military
(Reuters) – U.S. hospitals may be unprepared to safely dispose of the infectious waste generated by any Ebola virus disease patient to arrive unannounced in the country, potentially putting the wider community at risk, biosafety experts said. Waste management companies
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States believes that a U.S. strike in Syria has killed Mohsin al-Fadhli, the leader of a group of al Qaeda militants known as Khorasan, a U.S. official told Reuters on Wednesday. “We believe he is
(Reuters) – Air strikes overnight hit Islamic State-held territory inSyria near the Turkish border, near an area that tens of thousands of Kurds have fled as the militant group advanced, an organization that tracks the Syrian war said on Wednesday. Rami
(Reuters) – Al-Qaeda linked militants in the southern Philippines have threatened to kill two Germans hostages they have been holding since April unless Germany stops supporting U.S. action against Islamic State militants, the SITE monitoring service said. Philippine security officials said on
(Reuters) – Yemen’s Shi’ite Houthi fighters tightened their grip on the capital Sanaa on Monday after seizing much of the city in a lightning advance and signing an overnight deal to win a share of power, capping a decade-long guerrilla
MANCHESTER England (Reuters) – British opposition Labor party leader Ed Miliband confirmed on Wednesday he had forgotten vital parts of a pre-election speech the previous day, his last address to his party’s annual conference before a national election in May.
LONDON (Reuters) – British newspaper group Trinity Mirror said its subsidiary MGN had admitted liability to four individuals who had sued the company for phone hacking, and would pay them compensation. Britain’s newspaper industry was rocked in 2011 by the
A California man who worked as a janitor at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Salinas was arrested by police on Friday, and booked in Monterey County Jail, after it was discovered that he had been allegedly recording unsuspecting women with
An internal Canadian government report recently proposed a program to release illegal aliens and monitor them with electronic ankle monitors, rather than detain them in government detention facilities. The proposed program is viewed as a cost-saving measure, one where detained
Filmmaker Oliver Stone, who has gained fame and notoriety for iconic films based on real life persons and events, is reportedly in talks with the versatile actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt to play NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in a new film. The
(Reuters) – Conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza was sentenced on Tuesday to spend eight months in a community confinement center during five years of probation after pleading guilty to a campaign finance law violation. The defendant, a frequent critic
This story originally appeared at Vox. Before this year, Ebola was a disease relegated to remote villages in Africa. Even public health officials didn’t worry about it spreading very far. Until recently, they would probably tell you that the virus typically
The communist state of Laos has categorically banned any online criticism of the government in a new set of laws that criminalizes speaking ill of the government on the Internet and any outlet that facilitates the publication of such online
The Danish Foreign Minister Martin Lidegaard has threatened Israel with sanctions unless it agrees to concessions including ending the “blockade of Gaza” and stopping “illegal settlements”. Speaking to the Danish media, Lidegaard indicated that the EU would join in with
The Israeli Defense Forces shot down a Syrian fighter plane over the Israeli Golan Heights Tuesday morning using a Patriot missile, the Israeli army said. The Jerusalem Post reports that the Israel Air Force detected a Sukhoi-24 Syrian fighter jet
