By Ella Fassler for Truthout/TheAppeal In late September, Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) stopped Jose Bonilla Lopez, a gardener who lived in the city’s northwest. According to a police report, it was a case of mistaken identity. Instead of releasing him, they turned him over to masked federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security and the […]
The United States stopped an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela on Sunday, just a day after the Coast Guard boarded another oil vessel, according to a report from Bloomberg. The operation, which is not approved by Congress, is part of President Trump’s “blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers going into, and out of, […]
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Shelton Tucker is part of a novel plan to deal with the waters that are increasingly encroaching on his neighborhood in Hampton, Virginia. Situated at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay and afflicted by one of the […]
It just happened again. One of my colleagues got a call this afternoon from the “local sheriff’s department” informing her that because she’d missed jury duty, there was now a warrant out for her arrest. She had, in fact, missed jury duty earlier this year, and they knew the details of the letter she’d received, as well as her former and current address. The phone number of the incoming call matched that of the local police station. Once they told her she needed to send “bail money” via Zelle, she realized it was a scam and hung up, but not before they’d wasted 30 minutes of her time and successfully made her panic.