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Raul Rubiera/Miami Herald/Getty Images/File Manuel Rocha in 2003, a year after he finished serving as US ambassador to Bolivia. CNN — Manuel Rocha, the former US ambassador to Bolivia accused of acting as a secret foreign agent of . . .
The former interpreter for Los Angeles Dodgers sensation Shohei Ohtani was federally charged with bank fraud on Thursday, accused of stealing more than $16 million from one of Major League Baseball’s biggest stars. Ippei Mizuhara met Ohtani, who did not know English, in 2013 and helped him set up a bank account shortly after he […]
A new Biden administration authorization for the transfer of billions of dollars in bombs and fighter jets to Israel has drawn criticism and accusations of hypocrisy from some lawmakers, as the White House has expressed concern about civilian deaths in Gaza and humanitarian access to the enclave, which is on the
A Washington state man accused of helping kill thousands of birds is expected to plead guilty Wednesday to shooting eagles on an American Indian reservation in Montana and selling their feathers and body parts on the black market. The prosecution over golden and bald eagles killed on the Flathead Indian Reservation underscores the persistence of a […]
MINNEAPOLIS — Ashley Dyrdahl, the sometime girlfriend of Shannon Gooden, was indicted for allegedly buying the weapons used in the shooting of three first responders in Burnsville, authorities announced Thursday. Dyrdahl “conspired with Shannon Cortez Gooden to place firearms in Gooden’s hands, despite the fact Gooden could not legally own or possess firearms,” U.S. Attorney Andrew […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A U.S. Army soldier from Fort Campbell was indicted on charges of selling national defense secrets to China, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee Henry C. Leventis announced Thursday. Korbein Schultz was an army intelligence analyst with the First Battalion of the 506th Infantry Regiment at Fort Campbell, Leventis said. […]
1 hour ago Image source, Getty Images A retired US Army colonel in Nebraska has been charged with sending classified information to a person through a foreign dating website. David Franklin Slater, 63, was employed until 2022 by US Strategic Command (Stratcom), which oversees the US nuclear missile arsenal. He was arrested on Saturday and […]
Moscow’s arrest of a Los Angeles woman on charges of high treason has cast a new spotlight on the steep challenges imposed by Russia’s refusal to recognize almost all dual citizenships — sharply limiting diplomats’ ability to oversee the cases and intervene if warranted. Ksenia Karelina, a 33-year-old former ballerina who holds both U.S. and […]
By Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News 1 hour ago Image source, https://www.facebook.com/bryce.pedicini Image caption, Bryce Pedicini was assigned to a Japan-based guided missile destroyer at the time of his arrest. A Japan-based US Navy sailor has been charged with espionage for allegedly passing classified information to a foreign government.
Two Canadian members of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang plotted with an Iranian drug trafficker to kill a pair of dissidents who were living in Maryland, the Department of Justice and federal officials said Monday. Naji Sharifi Zindashti, aka “Big Guy,” who has ties to Iran’s intelligence services, had been communicating with Damion Patrick John […]