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As the Trump administration prepared late last year for the US military operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, a handful of officials began studying the US approach to oil resources in Iraq following the 2003 US invasion. During a State Department briefing in late December, among the key findings presented...
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London — President Donald Trump painted a simplistic picture for the US operation in Venezuela: go in, get the oil and start exporting. But Big Oil’s experience in post-invasion Iraq proved that the reality will be far more complicated. In 2003, the United States invaded Iraq and captured its leader, Saddam Hussein....
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After weeks of nationwide protests, Iran’s Supreme Leader ordered a violent crackdown that left thousands dead. President Donald Trump, who had urged demonstrators to remain in the streets, ultimately did not intervene — a decision that now shapes the narrow set of options before him. At the time, CNN reported that...
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An Iranian man who was detained in connection to anti-government protests and reportedly sentenced to death has been released on bail, according to a rights group and Iranian state media. Erfan Soltani, 26, was arrested last month as demonstrations roiled the country, sparking a violent crackdown by authorities. He was detained...
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An Iranian man who was detained in connection to anti-government protests and reportedly sentenced to death has been released on bail, according to a rights group and Iranian state media. Erfan Soltani, 26, was arrested last month as demonstrations roiled the country, sparking a violent crackdown by authorities. He was detained...
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In a post on social media, the prosecutor’s office thanked the public for its assistance in finding Nicole “La Nicholette” Pardo and confirmed that the US dual national had been located safely. Earlier this week, a viral video circulated online appearing to show Pardo being abducted at gunpoint in...
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Madrid, Spain — Spain has announced it will grant legal status to 500,000 undocumented migrants, in a move that goes against a trend of anti-immigration rhetoric and policies in the United States and much of Europe. The move, announced Tuesday, is aimed at reducing labor exploitation in Spain’s underground economy. The country’s...
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New York — Her 3-year-old in tow, Franyelis stepped out of the repurposed budget hotel, its blue awning faded where the “Days Inn” logo once was. Heading out of the shelter to pick up the family’s oldest son from school, toddler Emmanuel – Emma, for short – ran circles around...
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A Minnesota preschooler detained in Texas with his father cannot be imminently deported, a federal judge ruled Monday. Liam Conejo Ramos, 5, was taken away from his family’s suburban Minneapolis driveway last week after federal agents apprehended his father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias. The detention of the child —...
June 1 began as an ordinary day for Habiba Soliman: Her mother was doing some work in a cafe, her brother Omar was on an afternoon hike with friends, and she was babysitting her 8-year-old sister and 4-year-old twin siblings at home. Then the teenager, 17 at the time,...
CROSS PLAINS, Tenn. (WTVF) — When we heard what an 11-year-old athlete was up to in this icy weather, well, we had to go meet her. As it turns out, there was a lot more to her story than we expected. It’s a warm story on a cold day....
Smerconish examines two recent fatal shootings by federal agents and explains why prior conduct should not determine legal judgment. With CNN legal analyst Elliott Williams, he revisits the Supreme Court’s ‘objective reasonableness’ standard and the lessons of the Bernard Goetz case. ...
