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Man convicted for attempting to give classified information on US Air Force systems to Russia

PIERRE — A 67-year-old South Dakota man has been sent to prison for over 10 years after being convicted of attempting to disclose classified information on U.S. Air Force systems…

John McCarthy September 16, 2025

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Judge blocks Trump from stripping TPS from over 900,000 Haitians and Venezuelans

A federal judge ruled Friday that the Trump administration cannot strip the deportation protections under Temporary Protected Status for nearly 1 million Venezuelans and Haitians already in the United States,…

John McCarthy September 7, 2025

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Was the deadly US attack on the Venezuelan vessel legal?

WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) — The U.S. military killed 11 people aboard a vessel in the Caribbean on Tuesday that President Donald Trump said was carrying illegal narcotics and that belonged to a drug…

John McCarthy September 6, 2025

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Guyana’s president leads following general election in country awash in oil and gas wealth

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali, who has poured some of the South American country’s new oil wealth into popular social programs, is poised to serve a second term after this…

John McCarthy September 6, 2025

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Trump plays down possible regime change in Venezuela; US deploys stealth fighter jets

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The United States is not talking about regime change in Venezuela, President Donald Trump said on Friday, as the United States ordered an additional 10 stealth fighter jets to…

John McCarthy September 6, 2025

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Judge blocks Trump administration’s ending of legal protections for 1.1M Venezuelans and Haitians

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary legal protections that have granted more than 1 million people from Haiti and Venezuela…

John McCarthy September 5, 2025

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Trump says US strike targeting Venezuelan gang will cause cartels to think twice

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday justified the lethal military strike that his administration said was carried out a day earlier against a Venezuelan gang as a necessary effort by…

John McCarthy September 4, 2025

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Lawyers for 5 men deported to an African prison accuse Trump’s program of denying them due process

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Five men deported by the United States to Eswatini in July have been held in a maximum-security prison in the African nation for seven weeks without…

John McCarthy September 3, 2025

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1.2 million immigrants are gone from the US labor force under Trump, preliminary data shows

It’s tomato season and Lidia is harvesting on farms in California’s Central Valley. She is also anxious. Attention from U.S. Immigration Control and Enforcement could upend her life more than 23 years…

John McCarthy September 1, 2025

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Venezuela prepares for potential U.S. attack with armed drones designed by Iran

CARACAS — When Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez appeared on a nationwide TV broadcast in June 2012, proudly announcing that his country was now manufacturing “unmanned aircraft,” the news took both…

John McCarthy September 1, 2025