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Minnetrista Republican Joe Frazier has never run for political office, but the former naval intelligence officer and business executive is fighting to unseat popular incumbent Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who is seeking a fourth term. There is. This is Klobuchar’s first run for president since her failed 2020 presidential bid, and Fraser is confident that the Republican Party will be able to tackle issues where Klobuchar is weak, including the economy, the U.S.-Mexico border, and the war in Gaza. I think there is a possibility that it could be used. “When you look around the world in crisis, you really see…

Associated PressWASHINGTON – The number of arrests for illegally crossing the U.S. border from Mexico fell by more than 6% in April, the fourth-lowest month under the Biden administration, authorities said Wednesday, defying a typical spring increase. .U.S. officials have attributed the decline largely to increased enforcement inside Mexico, including in rail yards where migrants are known to board freight trains. Mexican Foreign Minister Alicia Bárcena told reporters on Tuesday that Mexico will not allow more than 4,000 illegal entries into the United States per day, which is the highest number of arrests made by Border Patrol on some days…

The lawsuit accuses the former Navarro College cheer athlete of fabricating a “smear campaign” against Aldama in connection with sexual assault allegations. CORSICANA, Texas — Monica Aldama, the head coach of Navarro Cheer, a program featured in Netflix’s popular documentary series “Cheer,” has been sued by USA Cheer and former coach for “taking advantage of the terror of an unsubstantiated public smear campaign.” They are suing the cheerleaders. ” according to the newly filed lawsuit. In 2023, a former Navarro cheerleader sued the university, cheer team coach Monica Aldama, and another former Navarro cheerleader for an alleged sexual assault that…

image caption, More than 1 million people have been displaced as a result of fighting in Cabo DelgadoArticle informationauthor, Angela Henshall role, bbc newsMay 15, 2024The smuggling of timber from Mozambique’s ancient forests to China worth an estimated $23m (about £18m) a year is funding a brutal Islamist insurgency and large-scale criminal networks in the north of the southern African country. It becomes.Data obtained by the BBC from the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), an NGO that fights environmental crime allegations, shows that the illegal trade in rosewood is linked to funding for Islamic State-linked extremists in Mozambique’s northernmost Cabo Delgado…

Shailendra Singh.Lionel Nbloomberg | Getty ImagesPeak XV Partners (formerly Sequoia Capital India and Southeast Asia) says China remains important to investors in the long run, even as other countries benefit from investment outflows from China amid rising tensions with the US It will continue to be a popular market.”The China Plus One strategy is definitely benefiting places like India and Southeast Asia in terms of procurement and other aspects,” said one of Asia’s largest venture capital firms with $9 billion in assets. said Shailendra Singh, Managing Director of Peak XV Partners. management.“In the very long term, in terms of 10,…

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Elaborate vacations, concerts, designer clothes, and even wood-burning stoves. These are just some of the thousands that a once trusted office manager bought with his dime for the company. This week, Camille Pirone Hess pleaded guilty to stealing more than $700,000 from her family’s Lancaster Tank and Steel Works in Buffalo. June and John Brennan bought the company in 2014 and hired bookkeeper Pirone Hess in 2016. They said that she was very likeable and that she quickly became friends with everyone. It wasn’t until 2023, when they sold her business, that they realized she was…

(WHTM) – Remember when millions of Americans took early retirement or quit their jobs during the pandemic a few years ago? But inflation made that plan difficult. As a result, some of those people are currently unable to retire. 2022 was the year of “the great resignation” for millions of people who decided not to return to the rat race after the pandemic. Among them was former television producer Jake Lever, who wanted a slower pace. “It’s much more important to find joy in the day-to-day,” Lever said. But fast forward two years to 2024, and for so many people,…

Sen. Chuck Grassley said Wednesday that the criminal prosecution of Donald Trump amounts to a “political lynching” of the former president.”Former President Trump, whatever the Democrats were trying to accomplish by prosecuting in four different ways, you can see that in some ways it’s backfired,” Grassley told reporters at his weekly news conference. I think so,” he said. “And I consider it a political lynching.”Grassley pointed out that he was quoting Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who described the 1991 Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Anita Hill, who was accused of sexual harassment, as a “high-tech lynching.”Grassley said he hasn’t…

When Chinese leader Xi Jinping receives Russian President Vladimir V. Putin this week, the two leaders are expected to present a united front. But they have different agendas.Mr. Putin is trying to escalate the war in Ukraine before the Ukrainian military receives arms supplies from the United States, and perhaps wants to know if he can rely on China. Mr. Xi will seek to strengthen his strategic partner and “old friend,” but he is also under pressure to avoid further alienating the West over its support for Russia.These priorities are behind Putin’s two-day state visit. The visit begins Thursday in…

Shawnta Friday Stroud, Florida A&M University’s vice president for university advancement and executive director of the FAMU Foundation, has been named as vice president amid controversy surrounding a shady $237 million endowment that has rocked the campus and its alumni. He resigned from his position as university president.FAMU President Larry Robinson publicly announced his resignation Wednesday afternoon during a special virtual board meeting that was scheduled to discuss the multi-million dollar 10-year gift.Friday Stroud University says approximately six FAMU employees accepted large gifts from Batterson Farms CEO Gregory Gerami without informing other key university stakeholders, including members of the FAMU…