All news on the topic: United States

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Truth or lie? A letter from El Mayo fuels Mexico-US tensions over Sinaloa Cartel arrests
Controversy and conflicting narratives persist around the arrests of two top Sinaloa Cartel leaders in the United States, raising questions about what led to the detentions and how the historic leadership blow may impact one of Mexico’s most powerful drug trafficking organizations.
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Ransomware kingpin extradited to U.S. faces decades in prison
Poland has extradited a Belarusian-Ukrainian cybercrime suspect to the United States, where he could face decades in prison for allegedly masterminding a global ransomware and wire fraud scheme under the alias “J.P. Morgan.”
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My son is dangerous online incel spewing out misogynistic hate like Andrew Tate
IT is every parent’s worst nightmare that their child will go off the rails in their school years.
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Europe’s €10 trillion gamble
From Athens to Berlin, governments are coalescing around an idea to turbocharge the economy. If successful, it could be transformative ― but it’s a big if.
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Anti-Maduro protests spread as Venezuelan opposition claims he stole the election
Opponents and supporters of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro planned to rally on Tuesday as protests and clashes spread after a weekend election was awarded to the long-ruling socialist despite opposition claims of a landslide victory.
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Israeli private eye appears in London court over alleged hacking offences
An Israeli private investigator wanted by the United States for allegedly carrying out a "hacking for hire" campaign appeared in a London court on Friday, ahead of his fight against extradition to the U.S. next year.
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Family of US citizen who died in Syrian prison sues Assad regime
The family of a Syrian American psychologist who treated traumatized Syrians and disappeared while visiting relatives in Damascus has filed a complaint in a United States court against the Syrian Arab Republic for abducting, imprisoning, torturing, and killing him.
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Nigerian authorities have intercepted and prevented international drug trafficking operations
Nigerian authorities announced Sunday that they had seized large quantities of cocaine, opioids, and other illicit drugs concealed in the soles of shoes destined for the United States, United Kingdom, and Cyprus.
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Blood-soaked doctor who tried to save life at Trump rally describes ’lots of blood and brain matter’
At least one person is dead after a gunman opened fire at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania today. The former President was seen ducking for cover as the shots rang out
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Attempt on Trump’s life: All the dead are adult men, one was killed and two were seriously injured
Speaking at a news conference in Butler, Pennsylvania, authorities said the victims of the shooting have been identified but those details are not yet being publicly shared.
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Two dead, including apparent shooter, after gunfire broke out at Trump’s rally, an official said
Former president Donald Trump was rushed off the stage at a campaign rally in Butler, Pa., about 30 miles north of Pittsburgh, after shots were heard near the beginning of the event.
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An attempt was made on Donald Trump’s life during his speech in Pennsylvania
The former president headed to the critical battleground for his final rally before the Republican National Convention, which kicks of in Milwaukee on Monday. Trump is hoping to drum up support in what is one of the biggest swing states in the country.
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Canadian and U.S. residents plead guilty to selling military components to Russia
A Canadian national and a U.S. resident pleaded guilty Tuesday to illegally exporting millions of dollars worth of military components to sanctioned Russian companies with military contracts.
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The end of an era: The US prepares to sever space ties with Russia, threatening Roscosmos’s future
NASA’s ongoing flight tests of the Boeing Starliner manned spacecraft mark another milestone in its journey towards independence from Russian Soyuz services.
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In the US, 193 people have been charged over $2.75 billion in fraudulent health care claims
The U.S. charged four people in connection with an alleged scheme, which now involves 193 defendants, to defraud federal health care programs of more than US$2.75 billion through the submission of fake opioid prescriptions.
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Biden’s family reportedly urged him to stay in the presidential race, shifting blame to his advisers
The US president met with his family at Camp David, after a disastrous debate performance last week led to calls for him to drop out of the election
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Julian Assange resolves stalemate with US by exchanging a guilty plea for his freedom
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange walked free for the first time in 12 years after a US judge signed off on his unexpected plea deal on Wednesday morning.
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Kaspersky denies being a security threat following US ban on the cybersecurity firm
The Commerce Department on Friday barred US companies from using computer security products from Kaspersky Lab, the Russian company whose products are widely used in the United States
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Sham trial set for falsely jailed WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich as Russia wrongly accuses journalist of spying for CIA
Washington has called the charges against Gershkovich ’fiction’
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CNN documentary: “Most disruptive” Latin American gang has reached the US
A violent gang that most likely originated in a Venezuelan prison in 2012 has, in just over a decade, grown into Latin America’s “most disruptive” criminal group and is spreading like cancer throughout the continent.
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Life after deaths: How nations reconcile following bloody conflicts
With a “peace summit” set to take place in Switzerland later this June, speculation is again rampant regarding the potential for ending Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine via some form of diplomatic solution.
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US moves against BEC fraud
A workers’ union in Massachusetts received last year an email purportedly from an employee of an investment consulting firm, requesting a payment change.
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Hunter Biden’s daughter gives surprise testimony at trial
The daughter of Hunter Biden has told jurors that her father seemed "great" and "hopeful" around the time he purchased a gun in October 2018.
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Pirates of the Caribbean Trafficked in Maersk
Military intelligence officers and police, in a network with the principal of Daniel “El Loco” Barrera, sent 19 tons of cocaine to Central America, the United States and Europe; They corrupted inspectors at the port of Santa Marta to ship 70% of the drugs to the Danish shipping company.
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Microsoft to pay off cloud industry group to end EU antitrust complaint
Possible deal involves a multimillion-dollar payout to cloud association backed by Amazon.