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FBI-DOD Program Enlists, Equips International Partners to Help Crush Cartel Violence
Texas Border Business
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July 1, 2025
Members of the Colombia, Dominican Republic, and Guatemala police forces attend an FBI-led tactical combat casualty care training session in Barbados in May 2024. The instruction was part of a larger U.S. Southern Command-sponsored exercise. (U.S....
U.S. Border to Reopen to Mexican Cattle
Northern Ag Network
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July 2, 2025
Progress has been made in critical areas of Mexico following the border closing due to the northern spread of New World screwworm (NWS). That led U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins to announce on Monday a risk-based port reopening for...
How to Watch Jamaica vs Guadeloupe: Live Stream CONCACAF Gold Cup, TV Channel
Newsweek
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June 20, 2025
Jamaica will face Guadeloupe in this 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup matchup on Friday at PayPal Park, and you can catch all the action with FuboTV. Jordan Leborgne #18 of Guadeloupe controls the ball during the Group Stage - Group C match between Panama...
Criminal Threat Convergence Must Be Elevated as a National Security Urgency
Small Wars Journal
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June 25, 2025
We must move with greater urgency to confront criminal threat convergence. The cartels and some TCOs in Latin America have greater power and political influence through market diversification, networked-alliances, and coercive aggression in the...
Droughts worldwide pushing tens of millions towards starvation: Report
Iran Front Page
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July 2, 2025
More than 90 million people in eastern and southern Africa are facing extreme hunger after record-breaking drought across many areas, ensuing widespread crop failures and the death of livestock. In Somalia, a quarter of the population is now...
8 International Stocks That Pay Big Dividends
24/7 Wall St.
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July 2, 2025
Investing William Potter / Shutterstock.com This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. Income hungry investors are often continually on the lookout...
Florida's 'Alligator Alcatraz' sparks debate over detention, deportation and moral responsibility
WFTS Tampa Bay - Florida
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July 2, 2025
FLORIDA — There is a debate over the opening of Florida's immigration detention facility in South Florida known as Alligator Alcatraz. President Donald Trump and other top GOP officials toured the center in the Everglades on Tuesday morning....
Miracle on the Interamericana: Bus Crash Leaves 8 Injured in Veraguas
Newsroom Panama
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June 20, 2025
A bus from the Panama-David-Frontera route, with 57 passengers on board, hit a coupled or articulated truck, detained on the track, in the sector of Cañazillas, Las Palmas, Veraguas. The accident occurred at 6:00 am on Tuesday June 17 when the bus...
Afghan-Canadian man’s family still in limbo years after Taliban takeover
The Globe and Mail
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July 2, 2025
Open this photo in gallery:Afghan refugees load their belongings onto a truck as they prepare for their deportation to Afghanistan, at the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Torkham on April 19. Suhrab, an Afghan-Canadian man whose parents and...
LA Army Veteran with Purple Heart Self-Deports to South Korea Under Threat of Deportation
Military.com
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June 30, 2025
An Army veteran who grew up in Van Nuys and was awarded a Purple Heart self-deported to South Korea last week as he was threatened with being detained and deported by federal immigration forces. On Monday, veteran Sae Joon Park, who legally...
Droughts worldwide pushing tens of millions towards starvation, says report
The Guardian
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July 2, 2025
Drought is pushing tens of millions of people to the edge of starvation around the world, in a foretaste of a global crisis that is rapidly deepening with climate breakdown. More than 90 million people in eastern and southern Africa are facing...
U.N. warns of worsening human rights conditions in Venezuela
United Press International (UPI)
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Volker Türk, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, told the U.N. Human Rights Council that conditions in Venezuela have continued to deteriorate at an alarming rate over the past year. Photo by Chamila Karunarathne/EPA-EFE July 1...
Inside the dark side of female bodybuilding as the industry booms – from dehydration to drug scandals & shock deaths
The Sun
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June 27, 2025
BEYOND the chiselled physiques and unwavering dedication to fitness, there lies a deeper, darker side to female bodybuilding communities - with some willing to risk their lives to rule supreme over their beefy competitors. For many women, this...
Angry, afraid and embarrassed under Trump
The Freeman - Wisconsin
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To the editor: I am angry, afraid and embarrassed! I am angry that the Trump administration seeks to require our universities and scientific institutions to ban foreign students from their research on world health and environmental problems. Their...
Is Planet Fitness looking to take over Basic-Fit?
Leisure Opportunities
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July 1, 2025
Planet Fitness, which is listed on the Nasdaq, is thought to be positioning for a takeover of European fitness chain Basic-Fit as the sector continues to consolidate. Rumours about the move, which seem to originate from Belgian investment bank,...
Iran-Israel conflict emitted over 35,000 tonnes of CO2 in first 5 days
Joy FM
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July 2, 2025
The first five days of the Iran-Israel war released more than 35,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2), equivalent to emissions from 8,300 cars driven for a year, according to a new estimate by two researchers. A senior lecturer at Queen Mary...
Quilts of valor presented
North Platte Bulletin - Nebraska
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July 1, 2025
Four veterans were honored with a quilt of valor Saturday, including an 89-year-old veteran who served in Korea. The quilts were presented in a ceremony at the American Veterans Memorial in North Platte, formerly known as the 20th Century Veterans...
Wave goodbye to the heat... for now! Brits to start cooling off as temperatures dip and rain is set to fall - but not for long
Daily Mail
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July 1, 2025
Britain is set to cool off tomorrow after a scorching heatwave that posed a 'risk to life' peaked today - but temperatures could near 30C again in parts of the UK by the end of the week. Sunseekers basked in searing 34.7C in St James's Park,...
Roaming Charges: After Midnight
CounterPunch
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June 27, 2025
B-2 Stealth bomber flying at night. Photo: Staff Sgt. Jonathan Snyder / U.S. Air Force. After midnight We’re gonna let it all hang out We’re gonna cause talk and suspicion Give an exhibition Find out what it is all about – JJ Cale, After Midnight...
Yoga, haldi doodh, and now Kolhapuris—Indian culture needs protection from Western plagiarism
The Print
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June 30, 2025
Not all ideas are unique. In the creative world, it is easy to get “inspired” by someone else’s work. But when your product is merely a copy of an object from another culture, can it even be called yours? And if you seek to profit from it by...