25 h. ago Manhunt for gunman after one killed and five injured in Texas sports bar shooting

Texas police have released images of the suspected gunman at Alas Locas sports bar in Cleveland

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42 h. ago The Guardian view on the ‘war on drugs’: Donald Trump is turning a failed metaphor into a more dangerous reality | Editorial

The strike on a speedboat allegedly containing Venezuelan drug traffickers may be performative, but sets a frightening precedentMore than five decades ago, Richard Nixon launched a “war on drugs”. The drugs won. Now Donald Trump is turning a failed metaphor into a worse reality.On Tuesday the US president claimed that the military had killed 11 drug traffickers from Venezuela, posting footage of the strike that US officials said took place on a speedboat in international waters in the Caribbean. The administration supplied no evidence for its claim that the boat contained Tren de Aragua members, or drugs, and gave varying accounts of its destination. It also warned that there was more to come, with the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, arguing that intercepting boats had not curbed the drugs problem: “What will stop them is when you blow them up.” Earlier this year, Mr Trump secretly ordered the use of military force against cartels internationally. Continue reading...

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44 h. ago Republican slams Vance for ‘despicable’ comments on Venezuelan boat strike

Rand Paul blasts ‘thoughtless’ comment after vice-president defends strike against alleged drug traffickersThe Republican senator who heads the homeland security committee has criticized JD Vance for “despicable” comments apparently in support of extrajudicial military killings.“Killing cartel members who poison our fellow citizens is the highest and best use of our military,” the vice-president said in an X post on Saturday, in defense of Tuesday’s US military strike against a Venezuelan boat in the Caribbean Sea, which killed 11 people the administration alleged were drug traffickers. Continue reading...

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44 h. ago Republican condemns Vance for ‘despicable’ comments on Venezuelan boat strike

Rand Paul decries ‘thoughtless’ comment after vice-president defends strike against alleged drug traffickersThe Republican senator who heads the homeland security committee has criticized JD Vance for “despicable” comments apparently in support of extrajudicial military killings.“Killing cartel members who poison our fellow citizens is the highest and best use of our military,” the vice-president said in an X post on Saturday, in defense of Tuesday’s US military strike against a Venezuelan boat in the Caribbean Sea, which killed 11 people the administration alleged were drug traffickers. Continue reading...

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47 h. ago The real life 'Dexter': Brazilian serial killer slaughtered over 100 people

Brazilian serial killer Pedro Rodrigues Filho, who is said to have killed more than 100 people, is believed to have only targeted criminals like murderers and rapists.

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3 d. ago Hegseth claims he has ‘absolute and complete authority’ to kill suspected drug gang members

The Secretary of Defense says ‘defense of the American people alone’ gives the administration authority

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4 d. ago Manhunt for seaside murder suspect: Police release mugshot of 22

West Sussex Police have launched an appeal as they search for Taylor Mitten in connection with a murder probe in Worthing.

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4 d. ago Charlie Sheen shares health update as he says his next drug hit 'would kill me'

Charlie Sheen has opened up on his past and revealed his thoughts that he could die if he went back to drugs after being clean for the last eight years

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4 d. ago Maddie suspect Christian Brueckner remains 'dangerous' ahead of his release in days and 'further sexual offences are to be expected', German prosecutors warn

Prosecutors believe Christian Brueckner , 48, killed the three-year-old girl in a Portuguese resort in a missing persons case that has captivated the world and remains unsolved.

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5 d. ago Trump’s killing of 11 alleged Venezuelan drug traffickers sets a dangerous precedent | Kenneth Roth

Unless this dangerous precedent is condemned and curtailed, it will enable US authorities to summarily shoot anyone they chooseThe US military’s killing of 11 alleged Venezuelan drug traffickers traveling by boat in international waters in the Caribbean is an illegal use of war powers to address what should have been a situation of law enforcement. Unless this dangerous precedent is condemned and curtailed, it will enable US authorities to summarily shoot anyone they choose by simply declaring a “war” against them.Last month, it was reported that Donald Trump had signed a secret decree authorizing the Pentagon to use military force against certain designated Latin American drug cartels, claiming that they were “terrorist” organizations. On Tuesday, Trump wrote that on his orders the military had targeted Tren de Aragua “narcoterrorists”, accusing them of “operating under the control of Nicolas Maduro”, the Venezuelan leader, and being “responsible for mass murder, drug trafficking, ...

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5 d. ago Pete Hegseth says more Venezuelan narco traffickers will 'face the same fate' after U.S. strike on drug boat killed 11

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday that additional Venezuelan narco traffickers would 'face the same fate' as the 11 Tren de Aragua members who were killed in a U.S. military strike.

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5 d. ago ‘Ketamine Queen’ pleads guilty to selling fatal dose to Matthew Perry

Jasveen Sangha changed her previous not guilty plea in the October 2023 overdose death of the Friends starA woman who has come to be known as the “Ketamine Queen” pleaded guilty on Wednesday to selling Matthew Perry the drug that killed him.Jasveen Sangha changed her previous not guilty plea at a federal court in Los Angeles and became the fifth and final defendant charged in the overdose death of the Friends star to plead guilty after a deal with prosecutors. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago 'Ketamine Queen' pleads guilty to supplying drug that killed Matthew Perry

Jasveen Sangha, nicknamed the "Ketamine Queen", has pleaded guilty to five charges, including selling Matthew Perry the ketamine that led to the Friends actor's death

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5 d. ago Trump urged to ‘violently’ kill all drug traffickers as 11 die after U.S. boat strike

Trinidad and Tobago’s prime minister has praised a U.S. strike on a boat suspected of carrying drugs in the Caribbean

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6 d. ago Video shows deadly U.S. missile strike on Venezuela ‘drug boat’

This is the moment the US carries out a missile strike on a “drug boat” from Venezuela, killing 11 on board.

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6 d. ago Video shows lethal U.S. missile strike on Venezuela 'drug boat' as Trump reveals 11 Tren de Aragua members were killed

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he was briefed about a military operation where the U.S. 'shot out a boat' involved in the drug trade coming out of Venezuela.

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6 d. ago US conducts ‘kinetic strike’ against drug boat from Venezuela, killing 11, Trump says

Trump says ‘we took it out’ referring to the operation in international waters, amid US-Caracas tensions The US military has killed 11 drug traffickers from Venezuela during a “a kinetic strike” in the Caribbean Sea, the US president, Donald Trump, has claimed amid growing tensions between Washington and Caracas.Trump trailed the announcement during an address at the White House on Tuesday afternoon, telling reporters the US had “just, over the last few minutes, literally shot out a drug-carrying boat”. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Anhell69 review – an impassioned eulogy for Colombia’s queer renegades

Theo Montoya collages an unfinished phantom horror film, gothic Medellín cityscapes and interviews with lost friends into a transgressive work of cine-protestThe best kind of goth is the Latino goth. That much is clear throughout this documentary lament for the Colombian city of Medellín, for which director Theo Montoya narrates his elegy from within a casket. Luckily, he is still alive – unlike eight of the doomy-looking LGBTQ+ renegades who speak about their lives on camera here, having killed themselves or died of drug overdoses since filming. It is implied they are victims by proxy of a kind of ambient socio-cultural violence that is a hangover from the cartel days.Partly constructed out of audition interviews with actor hopefuls, Anhell69 is the remnant of Montoya’s unfinished movie, of which we see extracts: it takes place in a dystopian Medellín in which the preponderance of the dead and a lack of cemetery space has led to red-eyed phantoms walking the streets. These revenant...

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1 week ago Prime Madeleine McCann suspect to be released from prison within weeks

Local authorities say convicted rapist Christian Brückner, 48, remains a serious danger to society

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1 week ago Madeleine McCann prime suspect will be free in WEEKS: Christian Brueckner to be released as time runs out on charging him over disappearance which shocked the world

Christian Brückner, who is serving a sentence in northern Germany for a rape conviction will be released by September 17.

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