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Green subsequently introduced articles of impeachment three times for what he described as Trump’s “infusion of bigotry into policy.” On Dec. 4, Green sent a memo to other House members urging them to include Trump’s “racism” in the articles of impeachment.

POSTED DECEMBER 10, 2019 12:25 PM

The Yasen class is in trouble.

POSTED DECEMBER 10, 2019 8:00 PM

Foreign experts recruited to add legitimacy to Hong Kong's police watchdog quit Wednesday, saying the agency lacks teeth. The expert panel's decision to stand aside is likely to increase pressure on the territory's government for an independent probe of police behavior during six months of pro-democracy protests.

POSTED DECEMBER 11, 2019 4:33 AM

POSTED DECEMBER 10, 2019 2:00 PM

A conservation group trying to protect the world's most endangered marine mammal said Monday that hundreds of fishermen massed in dozens of boats to fish illegally in Mexico's Gulf of California.

POSTED DECEMBER 11, 2019 9:35 AM

Iran warned its citizens, particularly scientists, on Tuesday not to visit America, saying Iranians there were subjected to arbitrary and lengthy detention in inhuman conditions. "Iranian citizens, particularly elites and scientists, are requested to seriously avoid traveling to America, even to take part in scientific conferences and even having an invitation," a travel advisory on the foreign ministry website said. It cited, "America's cruel and one-sided laws toward Iranians, especially Iranian elites, and arbitrary and lengthy detention in completely inhuman conditions" as reasons for the travel advisory.

POSTED DECEMBER 10, 2019 2:24 PM

Buttigieg was a two-term mayor of a small city. It rebounded from a severely high unemployment rate but vacant houses are a problem.

POSTED DECEMBER 10, 2019 10:38 AM

The former Mexican Secretary of Public Security Genaro Garcia Luna was charged Tuesday with drug trafficking and receiving bribes from the notorious Sinaloa Cartel.Garcia Luna's position made him the head of Mexican police. He served in the office from 2006 to 2012, and was arrested on Monday by federal agents in Dallas, Texas."Garcia Luna stands accused of taking millions of dollars in bribes from ‘El Chapo’ Guzman’s Sinaloa Cartel while he controlled Mexico’s Federal Police Force and was responsible for ensuring public safety in Mexico," announced Richard P. Donoghue, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. Garcia Luna was indicted in federal court in Brooklyn.The Sinaloa Cartel displayed its power in October of this year when its gunmen laid siege to the city of Culiacán, after police had arrested El Chapo's son Ovidio Guzman. During the hours-long gun battle, police begged Guzman to call cartel members directly to call off the attack. Eight people were killed in the fighting, and police eventually police released Guzman.The indictment alleges Garcia Luna received bribes from the Sinaloa cartel in exchange for freedom of movement for cartel members and goods, as well as for inside information on police investigations into the cartel. At least two of the bribes of between three to five million dollars were paid out in suitcases filled with cash, delivered by cartel members directly to Garcia Luna. His protection allowed for the importation of tons of cocaine into the U.S.Garcia Luna left Mexico for the U.S. in 2012 after amassing a fortune from his dealings with the cartel, and in 2018 he lied about his past involvement with the cartel on his naturalization application.

POSTED DECEMBER 10, 2019 2:48 PM

"You're either here for women and children and our daughters and our sisters and our aunts, or you're here for the NRA," Acevedo said.

POSTED DECEMBER 10, 2019 2:42 PM

Attorney General William Barr sharply contradicted the findings of a report by the inspector general on the origins of the Mueller report on the Trump campaign's ties to Russia.

POSTED DECEMBER 10, 2019 2:44 PM