A legislative fix is needed, said one observer, to prevent “a flood of new judgments from debt collectors to siphon stimulus funds out.” Direct payments from the newly approved coronavirus relief package began landing in people’s bank accounts with striking quickness this weekend, but a glaring shortcoming of the American Rescue Plan caused by the arcane procedural […]
PINE VALLEY, Calif. — U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested a woman yesterday at the Interstate 8 checkpoint who had 160 packages of methamphetamine hidden inside her SUV. The woman also had her two minor children in the car, which is a repeat of a smuggling incident that occurred on Tuesday. The incident began on Wednesday, October 2, at […]
GIBRALTAR – An Iranian oil tanker seized in Gibraltar for violating EU sanctions sailed from Gibraltar’s waters Sunday after the British colony’s Supreme Court rejected repeated U.S. requests to turn over the vessel suspected of intending to deliver crude to Syria. Marine traffic monitoring data indicated Monday the tanker — with its named changed from Grace […]
WHITE HOUSE — Iran is “nothing but trouble,” U.S. President Donald Trump said after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps seized two British-owned oil tankers Friday in the Strait of Hormuz. “We heard it was one, we heard it was two. We’ll be working with the U.K.,” Trump said on the White House South Lawn in […]