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Google Maps A man and his family discovered 20 bricks of cocaine while on vacation in South Carolina.  According to the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office, the man stumbled upon a strange object near the shore and brought it home. When he opened it, he discovered 20 kilograms (44 lbs.) of cocaine estimated to be worth…

(Bloomberg) — The lira weakened as Turkey began a military offensive into northeastern Syria, stymieing efforts by state banks to buttress the currency through dollar sales. The Turkish currency reversed earlier gains to fall almost 1% after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced the cross-border operation. The losses picked up even as state lenders increased the…

ROCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said Wednesday for the first time that President Donald Trump must be impeached for abusing the powers of his office to help his own reelection. Biden made the remarks as part of a blistering 25-minute speech in New Hampshire, departing from his usual campaign pitch and…

Associated Press/John Locher Former Vice President Joe Biden announced his support for House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump in a campaign speech on Wednesday. “Donald Trump has violated his oath of office, betrayed this nation, and committed impeachable acts,” Biden told a crowd in New Hampshire. “He should be impeached.” The president was…

This story is a follow-up to a December 2018 report by Yahoo News, photojournalist Fabio Bucciarelli and videographer Francesca Tosarelli of a family’s quest to seek asylum in the U.S. to flee the violence of Honduras. Video produced by Gabrielle Levesque. Mirna Hernandez Mendez didn’t have much of a plan for what she would do…

Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan was one of the drivers of the Trump administration’s now abandoned policy of separating migrant families at the southern border — a position he has since disavowed as “not worth” the ensuing public relations disaster — according to a new book on the Trump administration’s immigration policies. In their…

At a private luncheon in New York on Sept. 26, President Trump labeled a CIA employee turned whistleblower “almost a spy,” doubling down on assaults he’s launched against the nation’s intelligence employees since before he was inaugurated in 2017. The whistleblower’s chief concern, now backed up by at least one other colleague with direct knowledge,…

Washington (AFP) – A counter-terrorism analyst at the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly leaking top secret information to journalists, officials said. Henry Kyle Frese, 30, of Alexandria, Virginia, was taken into custody when he arrived at work and faces two counts of revealing classified defense information, they said. “Frese…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s president insisted Thursday that he faced “no blackmail” from President Donald Trump in their phone call that helped spark an impeachment inquiry, distancing himself from the U.S. political drama and trying to claw back his own credibility. Volodymyr Zelenskiy said for the first time that his country will “happily” investigate…

As soon as Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced on Sept. 24 that House Democrats would begin an impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump, the president and his supporters started to put forth a slew of questionable arguments against it. Whereas Democrats see Trump’s July 25 phone call to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in which he solicited an…