Son of El Chapo to Plead Guilty to Federal Drug Charges

[ad_1] Ovidio Guzmán López, one of four sons of the infamous Mexican crime lord known as El Chapo, plans to plead guilty this summer to sprawling federal drug charges, according to court papers filed on Tuesday. If the plea goes through as planned on July 9 in Chicago, Mr. Guzmán López would become the first […]

Indian student in US arrested for impersonating a ‘federal agent’ to dupe 78-year-old woman

[ad_1] A 21-year-old Indian student in the US was arrested in North Carolina for allegedly impersonating a “federal agent” to scam a 78-year-old woman.The accused, identified as Kishan Kumar Singh, was taken into custody by deputies from the Guilford County Sheriff’s Office after the woman reported receiving phone calls from individuals claiming to be deputies […]

Canada Federal Elections 2025: Mark Carney vs Pierre Poilievre: Who will win Canada elections 2025? What polls predict?

[ad_1] Who will win Canada elections 2025? What polls predict? (Picture credit: AP) Recent polling data suggests a tight race in Canada’s 2025 federal election, with former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney’s Liberals holding a slight edge over Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives.Multiple polling firms indicate the Liberals are positioned to secure the most seats, though […]

UnitedHealthcare CEO murder: Accused Luigi Mangione pleads not guilty to federal charge

[ad_1] Luigi Mangione, accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in what prosecutors describe as a politically motivated assassination, pleaded not guilty to federal murder charges on Friday during an arraignment in Manhattan federal court. US prosecutors are seeking the death penalty—marking the first such federal case since Donald Trump’s return to the White House.The […]

Luigi Mangione pleads not guilty to federal murder charge. What does this mean?

[ad_1] Luigi Mangione pleads not guilty to the federal charge of murder. Luigi Mangione pleaded not guilty to the federal charge of murder that carries the death penalty over the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. This means now Mangione will face the trial as the judge told the court that she will hold the […]

Mayor of Mississippi’s capital city fights for third term despite federal bribery indictment

[ad_1] _Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba (AP) JACKSON: The mayor of Mississippi’s capital city, who’s under indictment on federal bribery and conspiracy charges, is fighting to keep his job. In a matchup Jackson voters have seen before, Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, seeking a third term, faces state Sen. John Horhn in a Democratic primary runoff on […]

Appeals court backs Trump firing thousands of probationary federal workers

[ad_1] A federal appeals court has ruled in favour of the Trump administration on Wednesday, allowing it to proceed with the dismissal of thousands of probationary federal employees. This overturns a previous court order in Baltimore that had required reinstatement.The court ruled that the employees’ terminations should be challenged through the federal employment process rather […]

US Supreme Court halts reinstatement of 16,000 federal workers dismissed under Trump administration

[ad_1] US President Donald Trump The United States Supreme Court on Tuesday halted a directive requiring the Trump administration to reinstate thousands of federal workers who were dismissed during extensive workforce reductions. The court’s intervention came after the administration sought emergency relief from a California federal judge’s decision, which mandated the return of 16,000 probationary […]

Kilmar Abrego Garcia: Federal Judge again orders Trump administration to return man wrongly deported to El Salvador

[ad_1] Representative image (Picture credit: AP) A US federal judge has, for the second time, ordered the Trump administration to return a Maryland man wrongly deported to El Salvador, despite warnings he would face danger there.The man, 29-year-old Kilmar Abrego Garcia, remains jailed in El Salvador’s infamous Center for the Confinement of Terrorism (Cecot), after […]

IRS to cut 20,000 jobs as Trump administration moves to shrink federal workforce

[ad_1] The US internal revenue service (IRS) has started laying off staff as part of sweeping job cuts that could see up to 20,000 employees, around a quarter of its entire workforce, lose their jobs, according to three people familiar with the matter.The layoffs began on Friday and will initially hit the IRS’s office of […]