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Federal judge rules private land on border can be seized for the wall, despite Biden’s construction halt
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The federal government can take "immediate possession" of a Texas family's land along the US-Mexico border after a years-long court battle, a federal judge has ruled -- a move at odds with President Joe Biden's pled...
Alleged drug trafficker’s seized sports car collection up for auction
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The sports cars were seized by the Northwestern District Attorney's Office in 2020 following the arrest of Cory Taylor, who police found with 138 pounds of marijuana in a van he was driving during a routine traffic s...
Judge forces US Capitol rioter to unlock laptop seized by FBI
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A federal judge forced a US Capitol rioter to unlock his laptop Wednesday after prosecutors argued that it likely contained footage of the January 6 insurrection from his helmet-worn camera. The judge granted the Ju...
Texas seized enough fentanyl to kill 200 million people this year alone, officials say
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The drug seizures are part of Operation Lone Star – a Texas initiative to curb entry of human traffickers and drug runners into the state. According to new data provided by the Texas DPS on Thursday, Operation Lone ...
Oklahoma alleged cockfighting ring busted, 34 roosters seized: report
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Deputies with the Cleveland County Sheriff’s Office responded Sunday to a reported cockfight at a residence in Noble, about 25 miles south of downtown Oklahoma City. When deputies arrived, they saw multiple people f...
More than 3,000 fake COVID vaccine cards seized at Anchorage airport
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The fake cards were shipped in from China, arriving in over 100 packages throughout the week, according to US Customs and Border Protection spokesperson Jaime Ruiz. Each package contained roughly 20 to 25 cards that ...
Border agents reported a 1,066% increase in fentanyl seized in south Texas last year
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US Customs and Border Protection reported a 1,066% increase in the amount of fentanyl seized in fiscal year 2021 in south Texas, the agency said this week in a press release. Agents at eight ports from Brownsville t...
‘Funky pickles’ seized by Border Patrol turn out to be $4 million worth of meth
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Customs and Border Protection officers recently seized more than $ 4 million worth of suspected methamphetamine at the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge cargo facility, the agency said. On April 17, CBP officers e...
Dem Rep Garamendi spins Taliban takeover, says seized US weaponry was ‘property of the Afghan government’
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"Almost all of the American military equipment was removed from Afghanistan prior to this mission of evacuating from the Kabul airport," Garamendi, who sits on the House Armed Services Committee, told MSNBC on Monday...
Abbott says enough fentanyl seized in Texas to kill 222 million Americans, Biden ‘does not care’
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Abbott used a press conference along with 11 Republican attorneys general from across the country and slammed what he described as "open border policies" while touting the effects of Operation Lone Star -- which was ...
Vodka made with apples, other ingredients from near Chernobyl seized in Ukraine
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A vodka maker was ready to ship some of its first bottles to the United Kingdom, but apparently, they’ve run into some trouble. Apparently, officials at the Ukraine border have an issue with the origin of some of the...
Gavin Newsom signs bill to return seized beachfront land to Black couple’s descendants
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The new law is considered a win for reparations advocates. "As governor of California, let me do what apparently Manhattan Beach is unwilling to do, and I want to apologize to the Bruce family for the injustice that...
FBI and California sheriff illegally seized marijuana cash belonging to licensed dispensaries, lawsuit claims
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Los Angeles Federal agents and a Southern California sheriff's department engaged in "highway robberies" after seizing more than a million dollars in cash from vehicles transporting funds from marijuana dispensaries ...
Abbott: Texas seized enough fentanyl at border to kill ‘every single person’ in New York
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BORDER CRISIS: 233% INCREASE IN FENTANYL SEIZURES AT SOUTHERN BORDER GREG ABBOTT: I don’t know if Secretary Mayorkas and the Biden administration either don’t have a clue what’s going on or they are purposefully misl...
Ready-to-eat spices and food additives exposed to widespread rodent infestation were seized by the FDA
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FDA-regulated spices and food additive products exposed to "widespread rodent infestation" as well as live and dead insects, were seized in Miami on Friday by the US Marshals Service on behalf of the US Food and Dru...
Customs agents in Cincinnati seized 44 pounds of corn flakes covered in cocaine instead of sugar
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US Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) seized a shipment of cereal from South America that was covered in cocaine instead of sugar. CBP officers in Cincinnati, Ohio, intercepted the package on February 13 containing ab...