CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The message was dropped into a WhatsApp group used by suburban moms in South Africa. Amid the grumblings over homeschooling during lockdown, one mom went off topic: “Does anyone know where to get illegal cigarettes? I just need a few. I’m desperate.”She emphasized her anguish with an emoji, a…
America’s reopening after the coronavirus crisis brought a surge of human and drug smuggling to the southern border in May along with a worrying rise in the most abusive smuggling tactics. Border Patrol agents have reported catching a striking number of semitractor trailers, some packed with as many as five dozen illegal immigrants, roaring along…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. Congressional Democrats and state governments are pushing a range of ways to assist illegal immigrants in their response to the coronavirus crisis, calling for the release of those in detention and lobbying to make them eligible for over a thousand dollars each in stimulus payments.President Trump, for his…
New York Daily News | Apr 19, 2020 | 12:04 PM A Brooklyn barber shop was busted by cops for hosting an underground party with over 50 revelers in defiance of coronavirus social distancing rules, police said. Cops arrived at eNVee Barbershop on Avenue L near 87th St. in Canarsie just after 10 p.m. to…
April 16, 2020 | 12:42am | Updated April 16, 2020 | 12:51am Enlarge Image California Gov. Gavin Newsom AP / Rich Pedroncelli,File California will be the first state to send money to illegal immigrants who did not qualify for assistance under the $2.2 trillion federal coronavirus stimulus package passed last month. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…