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With just days until Obamacarearchitect Jonathan Gruber testifies before Congress, a 2008 study hasresurfaced which reveals that former New York City mayor Michael Bloombergfunded research by Gruber on the benefits of tobacco taxes. The study alsoincluded assistance from now-Center for

Recent arrests in Jordan and Israel show that Hamas and the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood are trying to smuggle weapons into Gaza and the West Bank. After Egypt’s army destroyed tunnels joining Gaza and Sinai that had been lucrative smuggling paths,

MCALLEN, Texas – The three Texan’s kidnapped and killed in Mexico in October had ties to Mexican cartels, according to a leaked Homeland Security document obtained exclusively by Breitbart Texas.  Mexican news outlets had previously reported the Texans were innocent victims.  A woman

With the rise of the Texas grassroots conservative movement over the past six years and two legislative sessions, our common goal has been to make Texas strong so that her character, integrity, and pro-Liberty governance can lead a troubled nation

MCALLEN, Texas – A convicted human smuggler who had been deported two times before is facing human smuggling charges. He is accused of running a human stash house where witnesses say he tried to rape a Salvadoran woman who was

BROWNSVILLE, Texas — A Texas border man came close to having his thanksgiving dinner in a jail cell after federal agents caught him allegedly trying to smuggle more than $250,000 in cash into Mexico. Agents with U.S. Customs and Border

Taxpayers’ own money is being used against them, as the government doles it out in benefits to fraudulent claimers who use it to fund terrorism, the metropolitan police’s counter terrorism unit has revealed. Assistant Commissioner Terri Nicholson said terrorists were

A Texas police chief will spend four and a half years in federal prison for using the witness protection program to collect bribes from illegal aliens wanting to avoid deportation. On Friday, 52-year-old Andres Tomas Gutierrez was sentenced to four

Strong law enforcement presence and close cooperation in response to the recent immigration surge in the South Texas Border has been running cartel smugglers out of business, and forcing them to engage in common crime such as store robberies and

On the day after U.S. President Barack Obama announced his immigration executive action, some of the top law enforcement officials on the Texas border say that the key to avoiding a new immigration crisis lies on the message that gets

HOUSTON, Texas — Border Patrol agents seized more than $1 million worth of cocaine in one bust along the Texas-Mexico border. At the time of the bust, the drugs were in the possession of a Mexican man who was attempting to

Residents along the U.S.-Mexico border have noticed that the number of illegal immigrants trying to unlawfully enter the United States increases every time President Barack Obama “opens his mouth” regarding amnesty.  According to a KRGV report, “foot traffic is once

Video of Ralph Nader, published in 2008, shows the liberal stalwart calling out many of his fellow liberal friends for abandoning a push for American sovereignty by securing the border. The objective was to protect American workers from wage loss,

A human smuggler was busted earlier this week at the U.S.-Canadian border. Three individuals were arrested and charged as a result of the incident, which took place at the Peace Bridge port of entry.  According to U.S. Customs and Border

A trial has been set for 31-year-old Feliz Hernandez, a school board member in Progreso, Texas who is allegedly caught with 1,254 pounds of marijuana in his car. Hernandez, who is facing a second-degree felony drug smuggling charge, will stand trial

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Car bombs went off outside the Egyptian and United Arab Emirates embassies in the Libyan capital on Thursday, causing some damage to the long-shuttered buildings but no casualties, officials said. The near-simultaneous explosions rocked the upscale

One California prison is utilizing a dog to sniff out cellphones hidden by prisoners. The dog, Drako, working in Vacaville, has a sensational nose for the phones. His officer, Brian Pyle, showed exactly how Drako worked. Pyle told San Francisco’s

CAIRO (AP) — Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, a jihadi organization based in the Sinai Peninsula that has carried out several attacks targeting Egyptian security forces, has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group. The announcement reflects the growing regional appeal of

MCALLEN, Texas — Not long after Mexico’s Attorney General made the announcement that 43 education students that had been kidnapped by police and turned over to a drug cartel had been executed, protesters took to the streets and eventually set

MCALLEN, Texas — A squad of gunmen riding in three SUV’s pulled into a rural home near the Texas border, stormed into the property, and shot one person during the robbery. The home invasion took place in a rural area

HOUSTON, Texas — More than 679 pounds of cocaine, worth over $9 million, were seized with the assistance of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Office of Air and Marine agents operating off the southern coast of Texas.  Agents aboard a P-3

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Governor-Elect Greg Abbott wasted little time after his victory was announced Tuesday evening, sending out a press release announcing he would start the transition process on Wednesday. Holding a press conference in the Old Supreme Courtroom

MCALLEN, Texas — Federal prosecutors have moved to seize a Texas home belonging to the girlfriend of the former head of the Gulf Cartel.  The U.S. Attorney’s Office filed suit to seize a home in McAllen Texas that belongs to

BEIRUT (AP) — Al-Qaida militants massed on Monday near a Syrian border town, edging closer to a vital crossing under control of Western-backed rebels, activists said, underscoring the weakness of the fighters who America hopes could be a moderate force

HOUSTON, Texas — Border Patrol agents in Texas’ Del Rio Sector seized more than 1,400 pounds of marijuana during recent weeks. The drug confiscations, which have a total street value of $1.1 million, suggest that drug smuggling is still rife along

Last night I led an adjournment debate in the House of Commons on the closure of the JTI Gallaher cigarette factory at Ballymena in my constituency. It was a sad task for me to introduce this debate and I did

A counter-terror operation in Germany swooped on suspects smuggling military clothing and funds to militant groups in Syria a month early after one ISIS sympathising member became suspicious that he was being monitored by police. The men, who are Salafist

MCALLEN, Texas – A South Texas man who claimed to have been a U.S Navy Seal has been accused of running a large gun running group that also manufactured hundreds of firearms for Mexican cartels. The accusations against accused gun runner

In Moscow, the World Health Organization (WHO) is conducting its biennial Conference of the Parties meeting (COP6) between 13th to the 18th October.  Attended by most of the signatories of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), its aim is to restrict and control

MCALLEN, Texas — An agriculture contractor allegedly used a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) vehicle to pick up drugs at the Texas border, according to federal authorities. Court records obtained by Breitbart-Texas show that federal agents and local police arrested

MCALLEN, Texas — The recent immigration surge in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley where thousands of illegal immigrants from Central America came across the border en masse exposed a deep dark secret that victimized people all across the continent. Unbeknownst to most,

HOUSTON, Texas — A smuggler attempting to take a 3-year-old girl from Mexico to her mother in the U.S. allegedly drugged the child. Authorities caught the smuggler, 24-year-old Maria Guadalupe Gutierrez, as she attempted to cross the Pharr International Bridge on the

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents apprehended a man caught transporting approximately $636,400 of extremely potent China White heroin along I-15 in Murrietta, California Tuesday morning, just weeks after a $166K bust in nearby San Clemente. About 9 a.m.

MCALLEN, Texas — Three U.S. Army soldiers from Fort hood have been arrested on federal human smuggling charges. Agents with Homeland Security Investigations arrested 20-year-old Brandon Troy Robbins and 21-year-old Christopher David Wix at Fort Hood in Killeen Texas Thursday, the

HOUSTON, Texas — Border Patrol agents in Arizon’a Tuscon Sector saw a lot of activity during the past few weeks. In just a few days two stolen vehicles, a loaded AK-47 rifle, more than 44 grams marijuana, and a handgun with