Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto tweeted today that the infamous drug lord known as “El Chapo” has been captured after months on the run. “Mission accomplished: We have him. I want to inform the Mexicans that Joaquin Guzman Loera has been detained,” the tweet, which is written in Spanish, states. A U.S. law enforcement official …
A total of 217 refugees and migrants have been rescued by Greek and EU authorities over the first weekend of the new year in four separate incidents, Greece’s coast guard says. Migrants, the majority of them refugees from Syria’s civil war, keep trying to enter the European Union despite the cold and the rough seas. …
Armed militia stormed and occupied a national wildlife building in Oregon on Friday. The occupation happened after 300 militia and local citizens protested the ruling that two ranchers, father and son Dwight Hammond Jr. and Steven, will be returning to prison on Monday, according to The Oregonian. One of the occupiers, Ammon Bundy, told the …
Republican Party frontrunner Donald J. Trump told supporters at a campaign rally in Biloxi, Mississippi on Saturday that he will veto President Obama’s executive actions on guns if elected to the White House. “The Second Amendment, it’s so great to me,” Trump said. Trump said to loud cheers that there is an “assault” on the …
The mayor of Temixco, Mexico (south of Mexico City) was shot and killed on Saturday, less than a day after she took office, according to officials. Gunmen opened fire on Mayor Gisela Mota at her residence in the city, said the government of Morelos state, where Temixco is located. Two of the presumed assailants were …