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A massive government-funded caravan is moving through Mexico where they will travel by bus to the United States. The Migrant Way of the Cross is currently making its way to the U.S. with more than 2,000 illegal immigrants with the help of government officials and NGOs. The caravan departed from Mexico’s Chiapas southern border carrying an oversized white wooden cross to show the so-called “hardships” illegal immigrants have to face while traveling illegally to the states. As the group made their way through Mexico, Mexican police officers escorted them alongside the road and controlled traffic. The Mexican National Migration Institute...

In another step aimed at stifling China’s technological advance, the US Department of Commerce has decided to restrict shipments of advanced graphics processing units (GPUs) designed by American companies NVIDIA and AMD to China. The US government says it is worried about potential military applications of these products. GPUs are a type of integrated circuit used in graphics and video image generation, high-performance computing and the acceleration of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. NVIDIA and AMD, both based in California, are the 9th and 10th largest semiconductor companies in the world as ranked by revenue in 2021. The stock...

We’re told they enter the  country illegally because they want a better life. This is one way to get a “better life,” Seven illegal immigrants from Mexico have been charged with trying to rob a jewelry store in a Texas mall on Saturday.  The men are Zepeda Abner Posos, 24; Alberto Rafael Barrera, 32; Brayan Oliver Melchor, 23; and Javier Leobardo Olvera-Ramirez, 22, Jorge Angel Rodriguez Mejia, 28; Miguel Quintanilla-Cardenas, 26; and Raul Alberto Rangel-Rivera, 43. According to police, all are undocumented Mexican nationals (illegal aliens).But don’t worry boys, you’ll be out of jail soon enough and free to rob...

The slaughter in Orlando, Florida on Sunday once again raises the question of what we should do about attacks like this. But before that, we must answer a more fundamental question: Was this a criminal act or an act of war? Answering that question is the key to determining the appropriate response. If these are criminal acts, then the criminals must be punished for their actions. If these are acts of war, then the enemy forces must be found and destroyed, not based on what they might or might not have done, but in order to destroy the enemy before...

<p>Five illegal immigrants armed with at least two AK-47 semi-automatic assault rifles were hunting for U.S. Border Patrol agents near a desert watering hole known as Mesquite Seep just north of the Arizona-Mexico border when a firefight erupted and one U.S. agent was killed, records show.</p>

Border: A 2-year-old video shows a high Justice official saying "the president has directed us," including the attorney general, to speed up Project Gunrunner and the offshoot that got a border agent killed. This tape has no 18-minute gap, and while it does not feature the president himself, the March 24, 2009, video may rival the tape that turned a "third-rate burglary" into a presidential resignation. No one died at Watergate. Agent Brian Terry lost his life in the administration's obsessive pursuit of gun control. In addition to Agent Terry, Immigration Customs Enforcement Agent Jaime Zapata was also killed in...

Any decision involving the commitment of American military personnel and combat resources is never easy. It requires as much personal reflection as it does strategic evaluation, all with the understanding of what is at stake and what is at risk. With Libya, it is improbable to think that the decision to create and enforce a no-fly zone was treated any differently. The president and his administration were confronted with a tough choice. Either avoid the fight altogether and watch a humanitarian crisis unfold, or stand with the international community to protect others and assist rebel elements that are outnumbered and...

Elite Iranian Corps Enmeshed in Iraq Feb 15 3:39 PM US/Eastern By LEE KEATH Associated Press Writer CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Iran's secretive Quds Force, accused by the United States of arming Iraqi militants with deadly bomb-making material, has built up an extensive network in the war-torn country, recruiting Iraqis and supporting not only Shiite militias but also Shiites allied with Washington. Still unclear, however, is how closely Iran's top leadership is directing the Quds Force's operations _ and whether Iran has intended for its help to Shiite militias to be turned against U.S. forces. Iran likely does not want...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12, 2001 AP President Bush addresses the nation Tuesday night. (CBS) In her latest Political Points commentary, CBS News Senior Political Editor Dotty Lynch takes a look at President Bush's response to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. President George W. Bush ratcheted up his rhetoric Wednesday calling the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon "acts of war" &#151; a much tougher George Bush than appeared in the Oval Office address on Tuesday. Last night he was somber and reassuring, reciting the 23rd Psalm. Wednesday's talk was of ...

W A S H I N G T O N, Sept. 12 — The federal government defiantly returned to work today, a day after thousands were feared killed in hellish attacks President Bush called "acts of war." Bush got a firsthand look at the heavily damaged Pentagon complex, where a hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 crashed and exploded in an inferno of jet fuel at the heart of the nation's defense headquarters Tuesday morning. First lady Laura Bush, visited doctors, nurses and victims of the attack at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. "It makes me sad on the one ...

January 31, 2004 Mexico’s Proliferating Military Incursions By Jon E. Dougherty Must we build a Maginot Line along southwest border? It may take this French model of border defense to reduce the number of international incidents that occur at our border with Mexico frequently—incursions into the U.S. by armed Mexican military units. The Bush administration seems less interested in national security than in legalizing aliens to work inside the U.S. Watching helplessly as such incursions proliferate is galling, but they are especially hard to swallow knowing so many of our sons and daughters have been sent overseas to protect the...

THE SAS has arrested four busloads of suspected suicide bombers and would-be fighters in Iraq’s western desert. The men, who are being held as prisoners of war, came from various Arab countries but all carried Syrian passports. They are thought to be among thousands of Arab zealots making their way to the battle front. Syria has issued about 2,000 passports to people volunteering to fight for President Saddam Hussein in recent weeks, raising serious concerns in Britain and America, which suspects Damascus of smuggling war supplies to Iraq. The coalition is to protest to the Syrians. Syrian officials have made...