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Jun 30, 2009

Recipients of Some VA Benefits Will Receive $250 WASHINGTON The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has requested the Department of the Treasury to make $250 payments to eligible Veterans. The first payments were sent Monday, June 22. All payments will…

Jun 16, 2009

courtesy photo Falfurrias, Texas Border Patrol agents assigned to the Falfurrias, Texas Border Patrol station seized 6,193 pounds of marijuana from a tractor-trailer. Border Patrol agents, aided by a detector dog, seized almost $5 million worth of marijuana being transported…

Jun 11, 2009

Resolution 1718 Resolution 1874* Arms embargo Ban on the transfer to and from North Korea of: 1) enumerated categories of weapons (e.g., tanks) and 2) WMD- and ballistic missile-related goods, and luxury goods (to DPRK) · Ban on all arms…

Jun 2, 2009

An A-10 Thunderbolt II, like the one pictured below, used a guided bomb unit 38 to detsroy an anti-Afghan forces weapons cache May 30. U.S. Air Force photo SOUTHWEST ASIA (AFNS) -- Coalition airpower integrated with coalition ground forces in…

May 21, 2009

Del Rio, Texas - U.S. Customs and Border Protection suffered the loss of a Border Patrol agent Thursday morning, while on duty along the Texas border in Del Rio, Texas. While working with other agents, Senior Patrol Agent Cruz McGuire,…

May 19, 2009

The founder and manager of two Beverly Hills hedge funds was taken into custody last Friday morning when he surrendered to federal agents after being charged in federal court with bilking investors out of approximately $44 million. Bradley L. Ruderman,…