Tribal warriors shot dead a former Guards officer on his ranch in Kenya Sunday as a campaign of land invasions in the country’s white farming heartlands claimed its most prominent victim to date. Tristan Voorspuy, 60, was killed on Sosian, a 24,000 acre ranch in the Laikipia region, which was occupied by armed warriors last month. Voorspuy’s death, the first
Tens of thousands of immigrants detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement were forced to work for $1 day, or for nothing at all – a violation of federal anti-slavery laws – a lawsuit claims. The lawsuit, filed in 2014 against one of the largest private prison companies in the country, reached class-action status this week after a federal judge’s
You never see it in those lovely NASA pictures of Earth, but the space surrounding our pale blue dot is a cosmic junkyard. Debris abounds, moving at ludicrous speeds and presenting plenty of hassles for satellite operators who do business in orbit. This pollution poses an existential risk for greater commercialization of space, from the grand ambitions of Elon Musk’s
WAYNE COUNTY, Ind. — A half century old bridge in Wayne County along State Road 1 over Interstate 70 will become history as contractors plan to rebuild that bridge later this month. The bridge built in 1962, will be closed beginning March 15th, and remain closed until November. In late March, flaggers will direct traffic on State Road 1 during
Watch Video Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly, and U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Monday a revised Travel Ban Executive Order from the Reagan Building in Washington D.C.
FBI Director James Comey asked the Justice Department this weekend to issue a statement refuting President Donald Trump’s claim that President Barack Obama ordered a wiretap of Trump’s phones before the election, according to U.S. officials, but the department did not do so. Comey made the request on Saturday after Trump accused Obama on Twitter of having his “‘wires tapped’
Watch Video WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed a new executive order Monday banning immigration from six Muslim-majority countries, notably dropping Iraq from January’s previous order. The new travel ban comes six weeks after Trump’s original executive order was rolled out to chaos and confusion at airports nationwide, and eventually blocked by a federal court. The new version exempts people
Wikipedia In 1991, a private investigator named Len Colodny published “Silent Coup,” a sprawling revisionist history of the Watergate affair. Subtitled “the removal of a president,” the book set out to prove that President Richard Nixon was forced out of office not because of his misdeeds but because a “formidable national security party” opposed his foreign policy. The coup was
Last week, the NCAA suspended five University of Richmond baseball players for taking part in Fantasy Football. While fantasy football isn’t necessarily gambling, the NCAA treats standard Fantasy leagues in the same way. The rule reads as follows: “You are not eligible to compete if you knowingly participate in any sports wagering activity that involves intercollegiate, amateur or professional athletics,
