A deportation flight from Miami arrived in Venezuela hours before Wednesday's earthquakes. On board were 146 Venezuelans, including 19 women and seven children, according to ICE Flight Monitor, an initiative of Human Rights First, which tracks deportation flights. read more
A federal judge in Manhattan Monday sentenced self-exiled Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui to 30 years in prison for financial fraud. Guo was convicted in 2024 after transforming himself from wealthy Beijing insider to U.S.-based anti-Communist crusader with prominent conservative allies and a luxury lifestyle. U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres said he had "preyed on people seeking to bring democracy to China," causing more than 1,000 supporters "substantial financial and emotional harm." Guo fled China in 2015 amid an anti-corruption crackdown. "By 2017, he was a member of Mar-a-Lago" and quickly "built political and business connections with some powerful people" in President Donald Trump's orbit, notably Steve Bannon, The New York Times said. Bannon was arrested aboard Guo's yacht in 2020 for allegedly defrauding investors, though "Trump eventually pardoned him." Bannon "has repeatedly called for Guo's freedom," The Wall Street Journal said.
The Wall Street Journal editorial board lambasted President Donald Trump over his efforts to secure a durable peace deal with Iran. U.S. and Iranian officials have agreed to halt their attacks on one another and meet Tuesday to talk out their dispute over the Strait of Hormuz, and the conservative newspaper's editors bashed the 80-year-old president for failing to keep the crucial waterway open " as it had been before he launched the war on Feb. 28. "The best selling point for President Trump's memorandum of understanding with Iran was that at least it opened the Strait of Hormuz," the board wrote. "Well, now the regime is trying to nullify those terms by using force against commercial vessels, Gulf states and U.S. bases. All of this violates the deal and calls into question why Mr. Trump signed it."
Rep. Tom Kean, R-N.J., made his return to the Capitol on Tuesday, saying he was treated for depression during a nearly four-month disappearance from the public eye. It was Kean's first time in the House of Representatives since March 5, having missed more than 140 votes in the chamber since then. "Several months ago due to health concerns I entered the hospital for some testing. I did not believe that this would result in a long-term stay. I was given the diagnosis of depression," Kean said in a speech on the House floor. He said his doctors "recommended that I remain in the hospital to address my illness" and added that depression means more than "feeling sad" " "it is physical, it is emotional, and until you experience it yourself, it is difficult to fully understand how powerful this illness can be."
Attorneys for President Donald Trump have said that the BBC is trying to turn the president's defamation lawsuit against the corporation into a trial on the events of January 6 ... read more
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