Kenyan citizen denies trafficking ivory, rhino horns at U.S. court a day after extradition

By Ian Omondi,

Mansur Mohamed Surur, a Kenyan citizen, has denied trafficking tons of ivory and rhino horns at a U.S court and was detained without bail a day after ...

extradition , Mansur Mohamed Surur , U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss , U.S. Court

Biden begins sweeping away travel ban on African, Muslim-majority countries

By Reuters,

U.S. President Joe Biden signed half a dozen executive orders on Wednesday including immediately lifting a travel ban on 13 mostly Muslim-majority and...

Biden , DACA

Woman may have tried to sell Pelosi computer device to Russians, FBI says

By Reuters,

U.S. law enforcement is investigating whether a woman took a laptop computer or hard drive from U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s...

Nancy Pelosi

U.S. says Capitol rioters meant to ‘capture and assassinate’ officials – court filing

By Reuters,

Federal prosecutors offered an ominous new assessment of last week’s siege of the U.S. Capitol by President Donald Trump’s supporters on Thursday,...

Donald Trump , US Capitol

FBI warns ‘armed protests’ being planned at all 50 state capitols and in Washington DC

By CNN,

The FBI has received information indicating "armed protests" are being planned at all 50 state capitols and the US Capitol in Washington, DC in the da...

‘Democracy prevailed,’ Biden says after U.S. Electoral College confirms his win

By Reuters,

President-elect Joe Biden delivered a forceful rebuke on Monday to President Donald Trump’s attacks on the legitimacy of his victory, hours after wi...

Joe Biden

U.S. government appeals order blocking TikTok ban from taking effect

By Reuters,

The U.S. Justice Department said it had appealed a Pennsylvania judge’s Oct. 30 order that blocked the government from imposing restrictions on Chin...

President Donald Trump , Tiktok , U.S. Justice Department , White House

Victims of Kenya, Tanzania 1998 terror attacks reject U.S. deal to delist Sudan

By VOA,

One of the attorneys representing victims of the 1998 terror attacks on U.S. embassies in East Africa and their families says the majority of his clie...

Sudan , U.S. embassy bomb blast

What happens to the U.S. presidential election if a candidate dies or becomes incapacitated?

By Reuters,

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that he had tested positive for COVID-19 and was going into isolation. Trump has mild symptoms, accordin...

Judge bars ‘sloppy’ prosecutors from case of ex-cops charged in George Floyd’s death

By Reuters,

The judge in the criminal case against four former Minneapolis police officers charged in George Floyd’s death disqualified four local prosecutors o...

Derek Chauvin , George Floyd , J. Alexander Kueng , Judge Peter Cahill , Thomas Lane , Tou Thao , U.S. Justice Department

At least 78 killed, 4000 injured in Beirut blast, many more feared dead

By Reuters,

Lebanese rescue workers dug through the rubble looking for survivors of a powerful warehouse explosion that shook the capital Beirut, killing 78 peopl...

Beirut , Lebanon

Seattle Black Lives Matter clashes spark 45 arrests, 21 police injured

By Reuters,

Dozens were arrested and many police injured in clashes around Seattle’s biggest Black Lives Matter protest in weeks on Saturday, police said, with ...

Black lives matter , seattle

Trump’s ex-lawyer Cohen leaves prison for home confinement

By Reuters,

President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen left prison on Friday to finish his criminal sentence at home, an attorney for Cohen s...

Donald Trump , Michael Cohen

U.S. government executes third man this week after 17-year hiatus

By Reuters,

A week that marked the return of capital punishment by the U.S. government after a 17-year hiatus ended on Friday with a third execution of a federal ...

capital punishment , Execution , President Donald Trump , U.S. government

U.S. Supreme Court rules some Trump financial records can be revealed

By Reuters,

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a New York prosecutor can obtain President Donald Trump’s financial records but prevented - at least f...

Trump , U.S. Supreme Court

Biden backs U.S. women’s team after lawsuit setback

By Reuters,

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Saturday voiced his support for the U.S. women’s soccer team, a day after it suffered a set...

Joe Biden , USWNT

Thousands protest against Honduran President after drug link surfaces

By VOA,

Thousands of protesters took to the streets of the capital on Tuesday to urge Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez to step down, just days after ...

Drug trafficking charges , Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez

Sentencing for Akasha brothers postponed to August 16, Nov 8

By Karanja Morgan,

The Southern District of New York Court has postponed the sentencing of Baktash Akasha and his brother Ibrahim Akasha to August 16, 2019 and November ...

Akasha brothers , Baktash Akasha Abdalla , Ibrahim Akasha , Mombasa , New York , nyali

As new law frees inmates, prosecutors seek to lock some back up

By Reuters,

Monae Davis walked out of prison on March 7, thanks to a new law that eased some of the harshest aspects of the United States’ war on drugs. Now ...

inmates , prison , Prosecutors , U.S law

Mexican drug lord ‘El Chapo’ sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years

By Reuters,

Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the Mexican drug lord found guilty of running a murderous criminal enterprise that smuggled tons of drugs into the Unit...

drugs , el chapo , Judge Brian Cogan , Sinaloa cartel