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· Indian Suspect in Plot to Kill Sikh Separatist Extradited to US Nikhil Gupta has been accused by U.S. prosecutors of plotting with an Indian government official to kill a U.S. resident who advocated ...

Inside immigration courts around the country, immigrants who crossed the border illegally and were caught and released are required to appear before a judge for a preliminary hearing. But in a new ...

· Trump to Russia’s Rescue · Inside the Drugs Factory That Brought Assad’s Regime $5bn a Year · Syria Too Exhausted for a Conflict with Israel, Says Rebel Leader · Iran Has Lost Assad —and with Him ...

Trump’s Actions Are Pushing Thousands of Experts to Flee Government (Hannah Natanson, Dan Diamond, Rachel Siegel, Jacob Bogage and Ian Duncan, Washington Post) The U.S.DOGE Service’s push for early ...

OUR PICKS Kash Patel Did Promote QAnon | Trump Administration Will Strengthen Nuclear Energy | America Must Untangle Its Defense-Industrial Base from China, and more ...

New report says SBINet failed because the U.S. government rushed into it without a well-thought-out plan and without a sufficiently tight supervision of the prime contractor, Boeing; “Instead, [SBINet ...

· Fort Bend ISD Starts 2024 with Armed Security Officers at Every School, in Keeping with New Texas Law Students returning from winter break Thursday will see armed security officers at all 51 ...

· The Fog of Disaster Is Getting Worse · Johnson Won’t Say Biden Won in 2020, Raising Worries on 2024’s Process · As Lawmaker Claims Trump’s Shooting Was Inside Job, G.O.P. Indulges Him · Why Legal ...

Spy networks controlled by Beijing pose a growing threat around the world –as Yang Tengbo’s links to Prince Andrew have shown. The International Development Finance Corporation has put the United ...