American farmers are suffering, and some say it’s because Mexico isn’t living up to its end of a bargain. It isn’t cash the farmers need, it’s water. “This is the first year that I have zeroirrigation water,” said Brian Jones, who has been farming near the border for almost 40 years. He’s seeing a huge drop in crops because of …
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David DePape, the man convicted of attacking Paul Pelosi with a hammer, has been resentenced Tuesday to 30 years in prison after a federal judge told him she was “truly sorry” for not allowing him to speak during his first sentencing hearing. DePape was brought back to district court in San Francisco after Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley wrote in a …
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Texas authorities on May 25 captured an international fugitive wanted for murder. Splendora police, in coordination with federal authorities, apprehended 21-year-old Leo Acosta Sanchez, who had been illegally residing in the “state and country,” the Splendora Police Department said in a press release. Sanchez “was known to travel between” Splendora and “her residence in Terrenos,” a residential community advertising cheap …
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Italy on Tuesday celebrated the return of around 600 antiquities from the U.S., including ancient bronze statues, gold coins, mosaics and manuscripts valued at $65 million, that were looted years ago, sold to U.S. museums, galleries and collectors and recovered as a result of criminal investigations. U.S. Ambassador Jack Markell, Matthew Bogdanos, the head of the antiquities trafficking unit of …
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A Turks and Caicos judge on Tuesday sentenced Tyler Wenrich, a Virginia husband and father to a 1-year-old boy, to time served and ordered him to pay a $9,000 fine for unknowingly possessing ammunition in his luggage while visiting the islands. Wenrich faced the possibility of a 12-year prison sentence on the islands after authorities arrested him in April for …
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A 19-year-old man fell down a 400-foot canyon below an iconic bridge in Washington state over the Memorial Day weekend and survived, authorities said. The man fell Saturday while trying to walk underneath the High Steel Bridge, the Mascon County Sheriff’s Office said, one of the tallest railroad bridges in the U.S. It was built by the Simpson Logging company …
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Poland has signed a $735 million contract with the U.S. for the supply of JASSM-ER missiles, Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said on Tuesday. The country is spending heavily to bolster its armed forces since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Warsaw is spending around 4% of its gross domestic product on defense this year and last week announced an agreement with the …
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Two inmates among a group that busted out of a jail east of Baton Rouge, Louisiana over the weekend have been taken back into custody after being found hiding in a dumpster behind a Dollar General store. The Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office says Avery Guidry, 19, and Travon Johnson, 21, were tracked down about 20 miles south of the Tangipahoa …
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The United States and Europe are taking steps to acquire or manufacture H5N1 bird flu vaccines that could be used to protect at-risk poultry and dairy workers, veterinarians and lab technicians, government officials said, moves influenza experts say could curb the threat of a pandemic. U.S officials last week said they were moving bulk vaccine from CSL Seqirus that closely …
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A man accused of assaulting strangers in New York City in a string of “anti-female, anti-white, and antisemitic incidents” was indicted on hate crimes charges Tuesday. Skiboky Stora, the alleged serial puncher, appeared in a Manhattan courtroom. “Skiboky Stora allegedly committed a series of hate-motivated incidents against several individuals based on their perceived gender, race and religion,” Manhattan District Attorney …
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