Financial Crime Weekly: Florida Duo Busted For Smuggling Military Equipment Into Colombia, Diesel Parts Seller Fined $1M The Department of Justice has nabbed two men from Florida for smuggling firearms and other military equipment into Colombia. Jordan Guy MacDonald Goudreau, 48, of Melbourne, Florida, and Yacsy ... 08/2/2024 - 7:41 am | View Link
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Who was released in prisoner swap that brought Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan home? A prisoner swap that included six countries and two dozen people was the largest exchange between the West and Russia since the Cold War. 08/1/2024 - 12:54 pm | View Link
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“As the Biden administration and its allies try to secure an elusive cease-fire in Gaza, Israel appears to have gone rogue,” the New York Times reports.
“Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, came to Washington last week to give a defiant speech. Despite international condemnation, he vowed to continue the war against Hamas in Gaza and the West Bank, where Israel is killing and imprisoning scores of Palestinians each week, without any clear idea of its endgame.”
“The assassinations of senior Hezbollah and Hamas figures abroad have now sharply raised the risks of a larger regional war as Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah prepare retaliation, analysts say.”
“Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday relieved the overseer of the war court at Guantánamo Bay and revoked a plea agreement reached earlier this week with the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and two alleged accomplices,” the New York Times reports.
“The Pentagon announced the decision with the release of a memorandum relieving the senior official at the Defense Department responsible for military commissions of her oversight of the capital case against Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and his alleged accomplices for the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in New York City, at the Pentagon and in a Pennsylvania field.”
Fox News Democratic contributor Marie Harf set the record straight on Fox News when the network and the entire MAGA cult has been attacking Khelif as a man or a transgender which is a lie.
Harf: These Olympics have been incredible. On this story, look, both of these boxers we're talking about have their entire lives been women.
These are not transgender athletes, they didn't change genders, they have identified and been women their entire lives.
The felon accumulated 40% of the national debt during his term in office, but now, of course, conservatives are suddenly worried about our debt. As far as the deficit goes, the Stable Genius told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo of a brilliant idea to pay it down while trying to act as if he has the world of Bitcoin mastered.
The long-awaited American-made fighter was recently spotted flying over the skies of Odessa. The fighter jet gives Ukraine a comparable, some would say superior jet to anything the Russians have. Numbers will be small, however. With just six planes from Denmark, and with sixty more promised from other European nations.
Source: Bloomberg
(Bloomberg) -- The first delivery of F-16 fighter jets from NATO allies has arrived in Ukraine, in a long-awaited move that may boost the war-torn nation’s ability to repel Russian attacks.
The deadline for the transfer of the US-made warplanes was the end of this month and it has been respected, according to people familiar with the matter, who spoke under condition of anonymity.