Massive Mexico-California border busts uncover eye-popping amount of drugs: ‘Remain vigilant’

Customs and Border Protection stopped two separate vehicles and confiscated over $300,000 worth of narcotics over the span of a day. The apprehensions continue to demonstrate the high volume of narcotics that smugglers are attempting to bring across the southern U.S. border, even as immigration numbers have plummeted in recent months. On Sunday, May 17, … Read more

Senate push to reauthorize nation’s spy powers stumbles over controversial Trump decision

The Senate failed to move one step closer to extending the nation’s spy powers amid brewing consternation against President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the nation’s intelligence agencies.  Nearly every Senate Democrat, and six Senate Republicans banded together to block a procedural hurdle to reauthorize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in the wee hours … Read more

Trump scores victory despite growing GOP divide after Senate passes $70B ICE, Border Patrol funding package

Senate Republicans managed to stitch together a unified front to advance President Donald Trump’s roughly $70 billion immigration enforcement package, but divisions over the president’s agenda were laid bare after a marathon day of votes.  Passage of the budget reconciliation package geared toward funding Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol for the next … Read more

US government criticises ‘two-tier’ UK policing after Henry Nowak murder

State department warns of ‘ideological conditioning’ in social media post offering condolences to student’s family The US state department has criticised “two-tiered policing” in Britain in a social media post offering condolences to the family of the murder victim Henry Nowak, in a thinly veiled rebuke of the UK government. The 18-year-old student’s murder has … Read more

Friday briefing: How Gaza, Lebanon and Iran have found themselves caught in an escalation without end

In today’s newsletter: ​Global powers​ are focused on oil markets and elections​ but those living through conflict in the Middle East feel abandoned Good morning. It’s been another week of brinkmanship via Truth Social and ceasefires broken before they’ve been announced. While US president Donald Trump claims an agreement with Iran could happen soon, for … Read more

Rubio sanctions Cuban groups with ties to US nonprofit network funded by communist donor Neville Roy Singham

Secretary of State Marco Rubio put U.S. organizations on notice: they can no longer do business with a key Cuban organization that has spent over six decades – since the launch of Fidel Castro’s communist revolution in 1959 – cultivating relationships with U.S. activists and groups, many of them now funded by communist American tycoon … Read more