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How Mexico became the ‘gateway to hell’ for Egyptians chasing the American Dream
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...

Criminal Threat Convergence Must Be Elevated as a National Security Urgency
We must move with greater urgency to confront criminal threat convergence. The cartels and some TCOs in Latin America have greater power and political influence through market diversification, networked-alliances, and coercive aggression in the...

Trump is bragging about his deportation plan but he still trails Obama’s numbers ... by a lot
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...

Weekly global protein digest: More countries lift HPAI-related trade restrictions on Brazilian poultry
Livestock analyst Jim Wyckoff reports on global protein news Cattle industry trade conjecture: Mexico border may open up for cattle crossings sometime between now and July 11 Not all ports but maybe a couple. (t would make sense to stairstep on...

Trump’s halting of protections for Haitian migrants draws concerns from Christian groups
By Anugrah Kumar, Christian Post Contributor Saturday, June 28, 2025 A migrant family boards a Greyhound bus to San Antonio, Texas, after being received by the Val Verde Humanitarian Coalition on September 22, 2021 in Del Rio, Texas. Thousands of...

Trump Admin Says ICE Agents are the Real Victims Amid Violent Immigration Raids
It was captured on the Ring camera. In the footage, Martin Díaz, 35, runs across the front lawn of his house, indistinguishable from the officers in plainclothes who follow, pepper spraying Díaz as he attempts to make his escape through the garden...

First One Planet school thrives in Rohnert Park’s SOMO Village
If everyone in the world consumed as much as the average person in western Europe, we’d need three planets to support us. To combat this, the One Planet Living Framework was created over 20 years ago in South London. The mission is to "work...

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of hydroxychloroquine
Tiananmen Square and the Wuhan “SARS-CoV-2,” Virus Ideological vs Pathological Viruses (Part III) By Desmond McGrath August 23, 2020 If you have not read Part 2, read it HERE. Part 1, read it HERE Preface: I have been sitting on finishing Part III...
Obama didn't know nuthin' of the Tea Parties
By Joan Swirsky April 21, 2009 An amazing thing happened on Wednesday, April 15th, Tax Day, when nearly a million people took hours off from their workdays — many sacrificing pay cuts and even the threat of being fired — to attend thousands of Tea...

Myanmar eager to join EAEU as member state
Myanmar will actively continue cooperating based on the existing friendship and mutual respect between Myanmar and EAEU, as well as mutually beneficial collaboration and equality. The Chairman of the State Administration Council, Prime Minister...

Invest 91L: Hurricane hunters to check tropical wave near Mexico's Yucatán for possible development
FOX 35 meteorologist Laurel Blanchard has the latest conditions in the tropics. The 2025 Atlantic Hurricane Season runs July 1 - November 30. Download the FOX Local app for tropical alerts and notifications. ORLANDO, Fla. - Forecasters are...

SAC Chairman attends plenary session of the 4th Eurasian Economic Forum
Prime Minister Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, Chairman of the State Administration Council (SAC), attended the plenary session of the 4th Eurasian Economic Forum (EEF 2025) held at the Minsk International Exhibition Center BELEXPO in Minsk,...

CHNV Parole Program Ends, Creating Urgent Employer Compliance Obligations
The administration terminated the Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Venezuela parole (CHNV parole) program yesterday (June 12, 2025). See:...

Pride, DEI, and Corporate Authenticity
Twin Cities Pride made headlines this year when it dropped Target as a corporate sponsor in response to the retail giant rolling back DEI efforts. That left the nonprofit, which organizes the annual downtown Minneapolis Pride parade and...

Rare coral, sea stars and a jaguar: What the contents of a Templo Mayor altar tell us about Mexico’s past
This week, the Templo Mayor Project (PTM) provided an update on its latest significant archaeological exploration, an altar offering featuring nearly 20,000 items, including a jaguar adorned with copper bells. Archaeologist Leonardo López Luján —...

US court ruling to end 'parole' a setback for future asylum seekers
New Delhi: The US Supreme Court’s decision to end the CHNV humanitarian parole program, potentially returning 532,000 people to their home countries, could have far-reaching repercussions, not just for immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and...

Pig outlook: Lean hog futures bulls still in driver’s seat
Livestock analyst Jim Wyckoff reports on global pig news The lean hog futures market remains very solid from a technical perspective as prices are trending up on the daily bar chart, with no early clues of a market top being close at hand. Hog...

Give me liberty or a Tinpot Dictator
Peggy Noonan has been a right-leaning columnist for The Wall Street Journal since leaving the Ronald Reagan administration as his primary speechwriter. Five of Noonan’s books have been New York Times bestsellers. Consuming every word of her weekly...

NEW: Over Half a Million Haitians Living in America Now Face Deportation After Trump Admin. Terminates Their ‘Temporary Protected Status’
Coast Guard repatriates 182 migrants to Haiti (Credit: Department of Homeland Security) More than half a million individuals from the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere will have to go back home in the coming months as Team Trump continues...

10 boutique hotels for your next stay in Oaxaca city
The quaint city of Oaxaca is nestled in the Sierra Madre mountains, where two of Mesoamerica’s most prominent civilizations were born: the Zapotecs and the Mixtecs, whose modern descendants call themselves Ben Zaa and Ñuu Savi, respectively. These...