Less than 1% of illegal immigrants who were caught and released by the Border Patrol using “parole” powers last year have been deported or confirmed to have left the country on their own, the Department of Homeland Security says. The 2,572 migrants were part of the surge surrounding the end of the pandemic emergency policy […]
Tucker Carlson’s interview last week with Russian President Vladimir Putin brought out the critics, one of whom is Putin himself. In a Wednesday interview with Russian state TV, Putin said he expected to win a combat that never took place. “I honestly thought he would be aggressive and ask so-called sharp questions,” Putin said, according […]
PARIS — French government officials on Monday accused Russia of operating a long-running online manipulation campaign against Ukraine’s Western backers in the lead up to the second anniversary of Moscow’s military invasion of its neighbor. French foreign ministry officials said in a media briefing that Russia has stepped up efforts to manipulate information and spread […]
It would take a sweeping legal ruling for the Supreme Court to effectively kick former President Donald Trump off the ballot in Colorado and elsewhere, say legal scholars who’ve analyzed the arguments set for Thursday in the case. “In order for Trump to lose, he has to lose bigly. Or is it big league? He […]
A chunk of American voters who were behind President Joe Biden in 2020 could abandon him this fall. One symptom of the disaffection from Arab-American and Muslim voters came when Dearborn, Michigan, leaders refused to meet with campaign staff, according to the Guardian, which wrote that flagging support from Arab-Americans and Muslims “may cost him […]
BEIRUT — Hamas officials said Friday that the group is studying a proposed cease-fire deal that would include prolonged pauses in fighting in Gaza and swaps of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners, but the militants appeared to rule out some key components. Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas‘ top political leader, and Osama Hamdan, a senior Hamas official […]
PARIS — France’s two major farmers unions announced they would lift country-wide blockades Thursday, shortly after the prime minister introduced new measures aimed at protecting their livelihoods that they described as “tangible progress.” However, farmer activists who have snarled traffic along major highways around Paris said they would stay put at least another day to […]
WASHINGTON — House Republicans are taking a key vote Tuesday toward impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over what they call his “willful and systematic” refusal to enforce immigration laws, but in a personal appeal he argued they should instead be working with the Biden administration on U.S.-Mexico border security. The Homeland Security Committee is […]
Melanie, the singer-songwriter who rose through the New York folk scene, performed at Woodstock and had a series of 1970s hits including the enduring cultural phenomenon “Brand New Key,” has died. Her publicist Billy James told The Associated Press that Melanie died Tuesday. She was 76 and lived in central Tennessee. The cause was not […]
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s central bank raised its key interest rate by another 2.5 percentage points on Thursday, pressing ahead with a series of hikes aimed at combating inflation that reached nearly 65% in December. The bank brought its benchmark rate to 45%. It’s the eighth interest rate hike since President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has […]
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