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Month: February 2024

Indio Border Patrol agents arrest Chinese nationals found with thousands of gift cards, fake drivers licenses

Indio area Border Patrol agents arrested five Chinese nationals during a checkpoint inspection, USBP Chief Patrol Agent Gregory K. Bovino announced on Thursday. Bovino wrote on social media that agents discovered thousands of gift cards, merchandise & 23 fake Pennsylvania driver’s licenses. He added that three of the five Chinese nationals arrested were Asylum Seekers

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Woman with brain bleed mistakenly arrested by state trooper for drunken driving, lawsuit says

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A federal civil-rights lawsuit says a Washington State Patrol trooper arrested a woman on suspicion of drunken driving when she was actually experiencing a life-threatening brain bleed. The Seattle Times reports the lawsuit filed in Tacoma Thursday says Nicole McClure was booked into Thurston County Jail in 2022 and lay on

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A prosecutor says man killed, disposed of daughter like ‘trash.’ His lawyer says he didn’t kill her

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A prosecutor says a New Hampshire man brutally beat his 5-year-old daughter to death and spent months moving her body around before disposing of it “like yesterday’s trash.” But a lawyer for Adam Montgomery says he didn’t harm his daughter and the last person who saw

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European lawmakers leave Washington concerned about state of US support for Ukraine

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — Top lawmakers from Estonia, Iceland, Denmark, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden left meetings in Washington Thursday concerned and frustrated about a lack of urgency from their American colleagues about the need to support Ukraine. The Nordic-Baltic delegation, comprised of the chairs of each of the country’s parliamentary foreign affairs committees, has

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Biden’s memory is ‘hazy’ and ‘poor,’ says a special counsel’s report raising questions about his age

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The longstanding concerns about President Joe Biden’s age and memory intensified on Thursday after the release of a special counsel’s report investigating his possession of classified documents. The report described the 81-year-old Democrat’s memory as “hazy,” “fuzzy,” “faulty,” “poor” and having “significant limitations.” It noted that Biden

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Multiple threats to election systems prompt US cybersecurity agency to boost cooperation with states

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s cybersecurity agency is launching a program aimed at boosting election security in the states. Officials with the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency hope it will shore up support for local offices and provide reassurance to voters that this year’s presidential elections will be

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Fact check: Trump makes false claims about Iraq, Iran and Nikki Haley in new Fox interview

By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump repeated a variety of his previous false claims about the Middle East, rival Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley, Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and other subjects in an interview that aired Sunday morning on Fox News – notably including his years-old lie that he

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King Charles III is doing ‘extremely well’ after cancer diagnosis, queen says at charity event

LONDON (AP) — Queen Camilla said Thursday that King Charles III is doing well given his cancer diagnosis, adding that he has been touched by the messages of support he’s received from the public. Camilla traveled from Sandringham House to Salisbury Cathedral on Thursday to attend a concert celebrating the work of local charities. Among

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