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Less than a month after being commended for its contribution to President Rodrigo Duterte’s notoriously violent war on drugs, almost the entire Caloocan City Police Station in the Philippines is to be relieved of duty and sent for retraining. “Continue your good service to the country, be good examples… Despite our [shortcomings], we certainly are […]
US Attorney General Jeff Sessions is blocking marijuana research which the Drug Enforcement Administration has requested to undertake dozens of times. The DEA and the DOJ also have opposing views on tackling the so-called MS-13 gang. The DEA started accepting applications in order to grow marijuana for research a year ago. This month, it had […]
Published time: 28 Jul, 2017 12:53 A “deeply disturbed and upset individual” doused himself in petrol and set himself alight in a protest in front of the Department of Immigration in Sydney, Australia. Police officers had negotiated with the man for 10 minutes prior to the incident. The man, believed to be in his 30s, […]
Published time: 21 Jul, 2017 16:56 The Trump administration will ban US citizens from traveling to North Korea, according to the State Department. It follows the death of American student Otto Warmbier after months in a North Korean prison. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson authorized the implementation of a “geographical travel restriction” for North Korea, […]
The US State Department spent over $ 15,000 of taxpayer money at a Trump-branded hotel in Vancouver, Canada to accompany President Donald Trump’s children as they participated in its grand opening, government records show. The president’s sons, Donald Jr. and Eric, their spouses, as well as the president’s daughter, Tiffany, were at the ribbon-cutting ceremony […]
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has advised the US State Department to keep up with events after spokesperson Heather Nauert said that Lavrov “likes to talk a lot and get out ahead.” During a daily State Department press briefing on Tuesday, Nauert was asked if there was any news on the monitoring of the Syrian […]
A US government watchdog chastised the State Department for not being able to accurately track the more than $ 32 billion spent annually on foreign aid. The department will see drastic cuts to its foreign aid budget under Trump’s budget proposals. A report released by the State Department’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) on […]
Mold has been found growing on the outside of hundreds of backlogged sexual assault kits sitting in a storage refrigerator at the Austin Police Department, raising concerns about the validity of test results from DNA samples. On Monday, the Austin Police Department (APD) sent a memo to Austin Mayor Steve Adler and other Council members, […]
The aging infrastructure at the largest US nuclear waste site at Hanford, Washington is breaking down, making incidents involving the release of radiation more likely, according to the senior Energy Department official at the site. The Hanford site, located along the Columbia River near Richland, Washington, stores nuclear waste dating back to the early days […]
Published time: 16 Jun, 2017 21:40 The US State Department has released a volume of declassified documents detailing the role the United States played in the 1953 coup against the Iranian government of Mohammad Mosaddegh. Released Thursday, the 1,000-page “Foreign Relations of the United States, Iran, 1951–1954” provides information on the use of covert operations […]
