CIA, Mexico Criticize CNN Report Claiming US Directly Participated In Bombing Of Cartels In Mexico

Britain's Problems Didn't Begin With Brexit Authored by Jason Sorens via  The Daily Economy, Ten years ago, Britons voted to leave the European Union, launching three and a half years of tumultuous negotiations and domestic political ructions, only subsiding after the UK’s official withdrawal in January 2020. It’s tempting to see Brexit as a watershed moment in Britain’s political economy. Britons themselves now tend to regret the choice rather than affirm it, with narrow majorities affirming that Brexit has been “more of a failure” and supporting restoring free movement with the EU in exchange for single-market...

'Deeply Shocked': Merz Speaks Of 'Consequences' After Historic CDU Defeat via Remix News, Germany's political establishment is still absorbing the shock of Sunday's state election in Saxony-Anhalt, where the Alternative for Germany (AfD) surged to 43.8 percent and the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) of Chancellor Friedrich Merz crashed to 17.2 percent. Merz called the result the CDU's "heaviest defeat" in decades and said it could not simply be treated as business as usual. "And I have to admit, this is the heaviest electoral defeat that the CDU has suffered in years, in decades,"...

Secret Service Targets Thieves Stealing SNAP Benefits In Texas Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Fraudsters used special devices to skim card information from electronic devices used to read food stamp cards in northern and central Texas, the U.S. Secret Service’s Dallas Field Office reported April 15. A U.S. Secret Service agent, in this file photo. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times The Secret Service worked with local law enforcement to prevent an estimated $13.5 million in losses to Dallas-area consumers this week as part of a two-day outreach operation targeting...