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Venezuelans describe abuse at El Salvador prison and witnesses recount Michigan Walmart stabbing: Morning Rundown

Venezuelans describe abuse at El Salvador prison and witnesses recount Michigan Walmart stabbing: Morning Rundown

Venezuelans that President Donald Trump sent to a notorious Salvadoran megaprison say they were describe being beaten and sexually assaulted. The U.S. and European Union reach a long-awaited trade agreement. And witnesses to the Michigan Walmart...

Venezuela’s Lost Year

Venezuela’s Lost Year

A year ago Nicolás Maduro stole Venezuela’s election and entrenched his power by jailing and killing those who opposed him. But the world’s democracies don’t need to sit on the sidelines. Here is how they can raise the costs for Maduro. By Eric...

Oil rises on US-EU trade deal, hopes of China truce

Oil rises on US-EU trade deal, hopes of China truce

Oil prices rose on Monday as optimism around global trade improved following a new trade deal between the United States and the European Union, while hopes for an extended truce in U.S.-China tariff tensions also supported sentiment. By 3 pm AEST...

Human Rights Watch: Venezuela's Maduro regime employs 'systematic' repression against critics

One year after Venezuela’s 2024 presidential election, the government of President Nicolás Maduro is continuing to kill, detain, torture and disappear critics in a “systematic” campaign of repression, according to a new report by Human Rights...

Man Accused of $1.88 Billion Fraud in Jalisco Deported from Las Vegas to Venezuela

Man Accused of $1.88 Billion Fraud in Jalisco Deported from Las Vegas to Venezuela

Carlos Lazo, the Venezuelan executive accused of defrauding thousands of investors, has been deported from Las Vegas to Venezuela. There, he faces charges for his role in a $1.88 billion fraud scheme. The fraud has impacted 3,675 individuals who...

Eugenio Suárez, potential Tigers trade target, leaves game after being hit by pitch

Eugenio Suárez, potential Tigers trade target, leaves game after being hit by pitch

DETROIT -- Arizona Diamondbacks third baseman Eugenio Suárez threw a brief jolt into the trade market when he left Monday’s game in the ninth inning after being hit in the right hand. Suárez was struck by a 96 mph fastball from Detroit Tigers...

MLB Trade Deadline Target Eugenio Suarez Exits Game After Being Hit On Hand By Pitch

MLB Trade Deadline Target Eugenio Suarez Exits Game After Being Hit On Hand By Pitch

Arizona Diamondbacks All-Star third baseman Eugenio Suarez hopes he avoided major injury when he was hit in the right index finger by a pitch late in Monday night's 5-1 loss to the Detroit Tigers. Suárez, who is a candidate to be traded to a...

Eugenio Suarez Leaves Game After Being Hit By Pitch As Trade Speculation Swirls

Eugenio Suarez Leaves Game After Being Hit By Pitch As Trade Speculation Swirls

Arizona Diamondbacks third baseman Eugenio Suarez is baseball's consensus top trade candidate this season, as the Diamondbacks appear primed to rent out their slugger ahead of his free agency. However, a wrench was thrown into their plans Monday....

BlackLine Studio360: The Platform for Future-Readiness

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Maduro Consolidates Criminal Power in Venezuela Municipal Elections

Maduro Consolidates Criminal Power in Venezuela Municipal Elections

Venezuela held municipal elections on July 27 to mark the end of this election cycle, which the regime of President Nicolás Maduro used to consolidate its control over key territories where the country’s primary criminal economies are...

Arvind Sanger warns US tariffs on India could exceed 20% without a strong deal

Arvind Sanger warns US tariffs on India could exceed 20% without a strong deal

"There’s a lot of negotiating through the press going on, and there’s a clear recognition within the Trump administration that implementing tariffs like the 100%+ ones announced back in April only result in U.S. retailers running out of inventory...

Venezuela: Political Persecution a Year After Elections

Venezuela: Political Persecution a Year After Elections

(Washington, DC) – Venezuelan authorities are carrying out widespread abuses against critics through politically motivated arrests, a year after the presidential election, Human Rights Watch said today. Hours after polls closed on July 28, 2024,...

Red Sox 'Who Says No?' Trade Idea Gets 18 HR 1sr Baseman For No. 2 Prospect

Red Sox 'Who Says No?' Trade Idea Gets 18 HR 1sr Baseman For No. 2 Prospect

Since May 2, when Triston Casas stumbled over the first base bag running out a grounder, tore the patellar tendon in his left knee and was lost for the season, the Boston Red Sox have been in need of a first baseman. Journeyman Abraham Toro has...

Twins trade starting pitchers Chris Paddack and Randy Dobnak to Detroit for catching prospect

Twins trade starting pitchers Chris Paddack and Randy Dobnak to Detroit for catching prospect

With four days remaining until the MLB trade deadline, the Twins made their first move Monday when they traded pitchers Chris Paddack and Randy Dobnak to the Detroit Tigers. Paddack, the 29-year-old righthander who will reach free agency at the...

Eugenio Suárez trade package: What Tigers could give up to get him from D-Backs 

Eugenio Suárez trade package: What Tigers could give up to get him from D-Backs 

Arizona Diamondbacks third baseman Eugenio Suárez is the hottest name in baseball as the trade deadline approaches, set for 6 p.m. Thursday, July 31. The 34-year-old is the best bat available in a thin market, ahead of Ryan O'Hearn and Marcell...

Twins trade Paddack, Dobnak to Tigers for catching prospect

Twins trade Paddack, Dobnak to Tigers for catching prospect

The Minnesota Twins traded right-handed pitchers Chris Paddack and Randy Dobnak to the Detroit Tigers, the club announced Monday afternoon. In return, the Twins get 19-year-old catching and first base prospect Enrique Jimenez. Paddack, 29, is set...

False Anti-imperialism and the Class Struggle in Venezuela

False Anti-imperialism and the Class Struggle in Venezuela

July 9, 2025 Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal An interesting debate has opened up in the prestigious online media outlet LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal regarding the character of the Venezuelan government and the...

Tigers trade for pitchers Chris Paddack, Randy Dobnak from Twins

Tigers trade for pitchers Chris Paddack, Randy Dobnak from Twins

The Detroit Tigers have made a trade. The Tigers acquired right-handers Chris Paddack and Randy Dobnak from the Minnesota Twins on Monday, July 28 — just three days before the MLB trade deadline, which is set for 6 p.m. Thursday, July 31. Although...

Border Patrol arrests Venezuelan gang member in Detroit

Border Patrol arrests Venezuelan gang member in Detroit

SHELBY TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WILX) - United States Border Patrol agents arrested a Venezuelan national who is a member of the Tren de Aragua gang. The arrest occurred during a traffic stop in the metro Detroit area on Wednesday. Agents from the...

Dems' sanctuary policies shield 'gangbangers,' harm Latino families, businesses, says Hispanic GOP lawmaker

Dems' sanctuary policies shield 'gangbangers,' harm Latino families, businesses, says Hispanic GOP lawmaker

Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons discusses the Trump administration’s focus on sanctuary city polices and more on ‘Fox News Live.’ NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! EXCLUSIVE: Hispanics living in Democratic-run jurisdictions are frustrated...

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