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Trump vs. the Cartels | As the U.S. Tightens Its Grip on Fentanyl, Mexico Bristles—and the Crisis Only Grows More Complicated
LatinAmerican Post
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July 17, 2025
In a charged White House address, Donald Trump blamed Mexican cartels for flooding U.S. streets with fentanyl, calling for tougher laws, international pressure, and even China’s death penalty. But the more Washington shouts, the more tangled the...
It Was at the Center of Endless Right-Wing Conspiracies. Its Legacy Keeps Getting Darker.
Slate Magazine
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July 17, 2025
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. On the last day the Roosevelt Hotel was open, everyone inside was sweating. Not because of nerves, but because of the...
Growing together through the decades
Anabaptist World
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July 17, 2025
As a young mission worker in the 1980s, Linda Shelly stood on the muddy banks of a Bolivian river, arms outstretched, learning to sing Maravilloso es el amor de Dios (Wonderful Is the Love of God), a children’s song about God’s boundless love. The...
Inside the Butler County Jail, southwest Ohio’s ICE holding facility
Journal News - Ohio
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Business is booming. The number of ICE detainees at the facility fluctuates, but it often fills up more than half of the jail’s 860-bed capacity. Most of the inmates held under the ICE contract aren’t facing violent criminal charges. This news...
FBI, ICE arrest man accused of drunk driving and causing deadly crash on Indy's southwest side
WTHR - Indiana
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The crash happened shortly after 12:30 a.m. July 6, 2024, in the 1200 block of Reisner Street, near Morris and Harding streets. INDIANAPOLIS — FBI Indianapolis, working alongside U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Enforcement and Removal...
Crowley adds newest LNG ship to fleet
LNGindustry
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July 17, 2025
Crowley’s newest, LNG-powered containership, Tiscapa, began its inaugural service, adding faster, bigger options for timely ocean cargo transport around the US, Caribbean, and Central America. Like its sister ships in the Avance Class, Tiscapa...
AP News Summary at 8:36 p.m. EDT
Yuma Sun - Arizona
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Trump slams his own supporters as 'weaklings' for falling for what he now calls the Epstein 'hoax' NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump is lashing out at his own supporters as he tries to clamp down on criticism over his administration’s...
‘Diary’ passage could easily apply to current actions
The Beverly Review - Illinois
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While Donald Trump was running for president, immigration was one of his main topics at all of his rallies. He would falsely claim that some countries were emptying their jails and psychiatric hospitals and sending them north across our boarders...
Senate GOP advances $9B spending cuts bill over Democrat and internal GOP resistance
Fox News
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Senate Republicans blasted through Democratic and internal opposition to pass President Donald Trump’s multibillion-dollar clawback package early Thursday morning. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Senate Republicans blasted through...
Trending: Dangerous Trump rejects heading our way
Daily News
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July 17, 2025
There is a fear that violent criminals – illegal immigrants in the US, which is now deporting them to eSwatini as they their home countries have refused to take them back – will cross over in Mzansi and join the ranks of criminals here at home:...
Blog: WFP school meals nourish futures in Latin America and the Caribbean
World Food Programme
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Lunchtime for learners at a WFP-supported school in Honduras. The country is hosting the 11th Regional School Feeding Forum for Latin America and the Caribbean. Photo: WFP/Hetze Tosta As leaders meet in Honduras this week for the 11th Regional...
Damascus, Druze Minority Agree to Cease-Fire in Syria
Foreign Policy
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July 16, 2025
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at a Syrian truce deal with Druze militants, a secret British relocation scheme for Afghans, and a deadly stampede at a Gaza food distribution site. Sectarian Violence Syrian officials and leaders...
It’s Not Business, It’s Personal
The Dispatch
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July 16, 2025
This is why nearly every cultural skirmish eventually leads to prominent liberals wringing their hands about “distractions.” They’re so prone to it that from time to time they’ll do it reflexively, even when they’re on the right side of public...
AP News Summary at 2:29 p.m. EDT
The Porterville Recorder - California
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Another key ally quits Netanyahu's governing coalition in a major blow to Israel's leader TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A key governing partner of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says it is quitting the government, leaving him with a minority...
GOP’s One Big Beautiful Bill Is Monstrosity for Those in Need
The SandPaper - New Jersey
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July 16, 2025
I have never been so disappointed in the amoral rot that Republicans have come to represent in the U.S. Senate and Congress. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, with a chance make a difference, sold her vote on the One Big Beautiful Bill in exchange for special...
Trump is testing how far he can go
Raw Story
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July 16, 2025
Trump’s threat to strip Rosie O’Donnell of her citizenship is a “test.” Kids do it all the time. Throw a tantrum in the store demanding cookies and if the parents don’t remove them from the store right away, every visit will see the tantrums...
Trump admin “disappeared” a gay stylist for propaganda. He hasn’t been heard from since
Salon
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July 16, 2025
He wept and prayed as the guard shaved his head, calling for his mother and proclaiming his innocence. Just a few months earlier, Andry José Hernández Romero had applied for asylum, citing the conditions he faced as a gay man and political...
US immigration policy echoes approaches tried before in Australia, Britain and elsewhere
The New Zealand Herald
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July 16, 2025
They included countries where officials have not provided “diplomatic assurances” that migrants will be safe, and with as little as six hours’ notice. A Supreme Court ruling this month cleared the way for the policy. What is a ‘third country’?...
Mother of daughter murdered by MS-13 gang member speaks out in favor of new bill
Fox News
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July 16, 2025
'The Five' discusses the ambush of ICE agents in Texas as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., warns of an ICE 'explosion.' NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: The mother of a young girl who was murdered by an MS-13 gang...
AP News Summary at 1:46 p.m. EDT
Yuma Sun - Arizona
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Another key ally quits Netanyahu's governing coalition in a major blow to Israel's leader TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A key governing partner of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says it is quitting the government, leaving him with a minority...