DEL RIO, Texas—U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Field Operations (OFO) at the Del Rio Port of Entry recently seized more than a half million dollars in fentanyl in a passenger vehicle. “This significant seizure of a potentially fatal hard narcotic like fentanyl underscores the reality of the drug threat our frontline officers are […]
“Zero for global Covid equals many needless deaths in poor countries—and heightened risk of new variants,” said one campaigner. Republican and Democratic congressional negotiators on Monday are reportedly set to announce a $10 billion coronavirus funding package that contains no money to fight the pandemic globally, prompting outrage from public health experts who say the decision will prolong […]
The full upper chamber voted 53-47—with the support of three Republicans—to advance the federal judge’s historic high court candidacy to a final Senate floor vote. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s historic nomination to the United States Supreme Court cleared a minor hurdle Monday after the U.S. Senate overcame a deadlocked Judiciary Committee via a procedural vote in […]
In a letter, the groups assert Republican lawmakers’ aspersions on the U.S. Supreme Court nominee “grossly mischaracterize her work and threaten the ideals of our democracy.” More than 50 civil society organizations on Friday accused Republican senators of engaging in “baseless and harmful attacks” on U.S. Supreme Court nominee Kentanji Brown Jackson during her Senate Judiciary […]