Timothy Granison’s arrest was the latest crisis for the re-election campaign of Mayor Lovely Warren of Rochester, N.Y., who suggested the investigation was part of a conspiracy against her.
Joe Biden with his sons Hunter, left, and Beau in the early 1970s.Credit.Associated Press
WASHINGTON A Twitter wag summed it up best: “Matt Gaetz is everything the Republicans were looking for in Hunter Biden.”
The Times’s report about a federal investigation into whether the Florida congressman had a sexual relationship with a minor and paid for her to travel has set off a scandal worthy of a pulp paperback, one swirling with claims of extortion, Ecstasy, an orgy, a hula hoop and sex trafficking, along with an Iranian hostage and, of course, a cameo by Roger Stone.
Honduran Leader Vowed to Help Flood U.S. With Cocaine, Prosecutor Says
The allegation against President Juan Orlando Hernández came in opening arguments at an accused drug trafficker’s trial.
President Juan Orlando Hernández of Honduras speaking with reporters last year.Credit.Jacquelyn Martin/Associated Press
President Juan Orlando Hernández of Honduras promised to protect drug traffickers using the nation’s security forces and law enforcement agencies, and to help them flood the United States with cocaine, an American prosecutor said on Tuesday.
“They would as the president put it ‘shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos,’” said the prosecutor, Jacob Harris Gutwillig, an assistant U.S. attorney in New York.
Blood Bath at Ecuador Prisons as Drug Gangs Battle for Control
More than 60 prisoners were killed in gruesome violence, some of it videotaped and posted online, that the authorities tied to the drug trade.
A prison in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on Tuesday where rioting broke out on Tuesday.Credit.Marcos Pin Mendez/Agence France-Presse Getty Images
By José María León Cabrera and Anatoly Kurmanaev
Feb. 23, 2021
QUITO, Ecuador More than 60 inmates were killed Tuesday in the worst prison riots in Ecuador’s history, as rival gangs battled for control of the country’s growing drug trade.
The violence broke out in a series of coordinated mutinies on Tuesday morning in three large prisons across the country, according to the police. It was not until the afternoon that the authorities regained control.