[FOX] New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez on Friday announced a criminal investigation into allegations that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) knowingly allowed hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills to reach New Mexico communities while agents pursued larger criminal investigations.
The inquiry comes days after The Associated Press reported that DEA agents repeatedly monitored—but did not seize—large fentanyl shipments between 2023 and 2025 while attempting to build broader criminal cases.
Torrez said the investigation will examine potential legal remedies, including criminal prosecution, civil litigation and structural reforms intended to prevent similar conduct by DEA agents in the future.
"The families who have lost children, siblings, and parents to fentanyl deserve the truth about what the federal government knew and what it failed to do," Torrez said in a statement.
"Make no mistake: the DEA knew people would die if these pills made it into New Mexico communities, and the agency let it happen anyway," Grisham said. "The result: hundreds of New Mexican parents burying their kids. Hundreds of New Mexican kids growing up without stable parents. All while the federal government stood by."
Grisham also pointed to allegations that DEA agents monitored the delivery of 74,000 fentanyl pills to a mobile home park in Albuquerque without intervening.
[DM] The National Weather Service (NWS) offices from Arizona to Alaska have issued Red Flag Warnings, citing a volatile combination of powerful winds, bone-dry air and tinderbox conditions that could allow any spark to explode into a fast-moving wildfire.
The warnings affect parts of Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah and Alaska.
In some areas, forecasters warned that gusts could reach 55mph while humidity levels plunge as low as five percent.
Officials said the conditions are so severe that parts of Utah have been placed under a rare 'Particularly Dangerous Situation' designation, with residents urged to prepare emergency kits and know their evacuation routes.
The dangerous fire weather outbreak begins Friday and intensifies over the weekend, with most Red Flag Warnings taking effect between Friday morning and Saturday morning and lasting through Sunday evening in some areas.
Forecasters cautioned that downed power lines could ignite new fires and trigger blackouts. Residents are being urged to avoid outdoor burning, refrain from using equipment that could create sparks and have multiple ways to receive emergency alerts.
Officials said the threat to life and property is significant and cautioned that safe and timely evacuations may not be possible if a wildfire rapidly approaches.
[BBC] "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
When Thomas Jefferson drafted these words in the Declaration of Independence, two things were on his mind. One: he needed to find "terms so plain and firm as to command their assent" by the colonies, as he later explained, and justify independence from Great Britain. Two: beyond the practical purpose, he wanted the text to be "an expression of the American mind, and to give to that expression the proper tone and spirit called for by the occasion".
250 years ago, Congress approved the Declaration on 4 July 1776. But the meaning of those seemingly simple terms – "created equal", right to "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" – continue to provoke debate.
"These phrases seem always to be running automatically in the American background, rather like software," says Michael Ditmore, professor of English at Pepperdine University in Malibu, US, and the author of Texting the Nation: Agencies and Actions in the Declaration of Independence. "Still, considered purely in their textual wording, we hardly agree on what they mean or obligate us to," he adds.
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"Life" is rooted in Old English, a language brought to Britain by Germanic tribes from around AD400-500. "Liberty" and "pursuit" are Latin-rooted, then evolved into French and arrived in Britain with the Norman French conquest in AD1066.
And then there is "happiness": a word echoing with distant voices telling stories of trolls, battles and seafarers.
"Happiness has an interesting etymology, as it comes from Old Norse happ, meaning 'fortune' or 'good luck'," says Birkett. "When 'happy' is first attested in Middle English it means 'fortunate', or 'blessed by good luck'."
Old Norse, a Scandinavian language, was spoken by Viking raiders and Scandinavian settlers who brought the word to Britain from around AD800 onwards. Happ appears, for example, in the nickname of the Norse explorer Leif Erikson, who was also known as "Leif the Lucky", Leif heppni Erikson. He was a member of an early voyage to North America in the 11th Century, and saved a group of shipwrecked sailors – which may have partly inspired his nickname.
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[YouTube] Visegrad24 founder Stefan Tompson meets with the right-wing political commentator, journalist and policy researcher Connor Tomlinson in London to discuss what can be done to get the old England back.
The conversation is particularly timely as the UK is currently seeing unrest in Belfast and Southampton after the attacks against Stephen Ogilvie and Henry Nowak. Apart from the unrest in England and Northern Ireland, clashes also took place in Glasgow and other parts of Scotland last night.
Connor describes his personal worldview as that of a "Reactionary Catholic Zoomer" and argues that mass-deportations must take place for the UK to have a future.
The curious case of Shamima Begum, the 15 year old British national who joined ISIS, and was then stripped of her British citizenship by the Home Secretary, explained by @Con_Tomlinson. pic.twitter.com/rHtQ5thA0y
South Wales Police has been forced to scrap controversial “Islamic blasphemy law” guidance after a free speech backlash and threats of legal action.
The guidance instructed officers to record what they considered “illegitimate” criticism of Islam, even when no crime had been… pic.twitter.com/jk4qi3nxlg
[NationalContext] A sweeping reshuffle of Iraq’s security, financial and border institutions, paired with the slow and partial integration of the Shia armed factions, is rearranging the Coordination Framework’s order from within. The prime minister’s lack of a political base of his own may be precisely what makes it possible. Ali al-Zaidi has spent his first weeks in office replacing the people who run Iraq’s security and financial institutions. The head of the National Security Service, Abdul Karim al-Basri, better known as Abu Ali al-Basri, was removed in favour of Basim al-Badri, with Zaidi overseeing the handover himself. The national security adviser, Qasim al-Araji, was replaced by Qasim al-Aboudi. Nizar Nasser, who previously ran Iraq’s anti-money-laundering office, took charge of the Central Bank and began work on 22 June, and Adel al-Yasiri replaced Haider Makiya at the National Investment Commission. Further changes have been reported at senior security and provincial posts. All of it has come without a complete government: parliament has confirmed only 14 of 23 ministers, and the two portfolios most central to any reckoning with the armed groups, Interior and Defence, are still unfilled.
The personnel changes sit alongside a broader push. The government issued five directives reorganising the border crossings, closing unofficial routes and widening the role of the intelligence services there, and the Border Crossings Authority rotated 1,905 of its officers and staff within 48 hours. Zaidi cancelled two large projects inherited from Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, a $764 million development at Baghdad airport and a railway scheme. His anti-corruption drive, run through a new Supreme Sovereign Council for Integrity that he chairs, has produced the most prominent arrests of his tenure, beginning with the deputy oil minister for refining affairs, Adnan al-Jumaili, in a case in which the judiciary says it has recovered more than $85 million, some of it cash buried underground. On the armed factions, Muqtada al-Sadr announced the separation of Saraya al-Salam from his movement, Asaib Ahl al-Haq followed with its own disengagement, and Kataib Imam Ali after it, each transferring personnel lists and weapons records to government committees. The two factions widely seen as closest to Iran, Kataib Hezbollah and Harakat al-Nujaba, have refused, describing their weapons as non-negotiable, and the process has stalled at that point.
Around these moves sits a clear external pressure. Iraq was placed on the Financial Action Task Force grey list on 19 June. The US envoy Tom Barrack visited Baghdad and tied Washington’s disarmament demands to a large economic and investment package, and Zaidi is expected at the White House in mid-July. The changes touch money, intelligence, the borders and the senior security command at once and within weeks of one another, which is what marks them out from ordinary rotation.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
