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ey meant to feed the country's starving population." The allegations "appeared Thursday in a new round of sanctions targeting three stepsons of Mr. Maduro and a Colombian business partner of theirs named Alex Saab, among others." US officials said that "for years the men had used shell companies and no

program, for their own profit." Reuters (7/25, Chiacu, Wroughton) reports in a statement, Treasury Secretary Mnuchin said, "Alex Saab engaged with Maduro insiders to run a wide-scale corruption network they callously used to exploit Venezuela's starving population." The AP (7/25, Goodman, Lugo) repor

Thursday, "What we're investigating is her alleged denial or refusal to investigate these claims as secretary of justice." USA Today (7/25, Bacon, Ortiz, 10.31M) reports that "Vazquez's close political ties to Rossello, along with her own political history, have many people here viewing her as only a

improve Temporary Protective Status, and Democrats blocked it on the floor twice, and part of it was to give TPS to Venezuelans, which are fleeing Maduro. Would they talk to me about it? No. ... They had no interest in getting anything done. They wanted to have an issue for a campaign." Border Patrol

k force "is investigating the attack, the latest in a troubling rise in anti-Asian hate crimes in New York and around the country." USA Today (4/25, Ortiz, 12.7M) reports police said Yao Pan Ma "was collecting cans in East Harlem on Friday night when he was attacked from behind, knocked to the ground

and said it was in discussions with the roughly 60 countries that have backed Guaido and they would stick with him." They withdrew recognition "for Maduro after his 2018 re-election, which they regarded as a sham." Abrams "said US deportations of Venezuelans have halted but court decisions have led to

Ritchie, 546K), among other news outlets, also cover the story. White House Sued Over Lack Of Sign Language Interpreters. The New York Times (8/4, Ortiz, 18.61M) reports, "The National Association of the Deaf and five deaf Americans have sued the White House, arguing that the lack of a sign language

Republican Congressman David Rivera and an associate, charged with money laundering and acting as unregistered foreign agents for President Nicolas Maduro's government, had multiple properties frozen by prosecutors, including those unrelated to the charges. According to the article, prosecutors later c

News (07/30, Waterhouse, Gregory), Bloomberg (07/30, Gismatullin), Politico (07/30, Melkozerova), NBC News (07/30, Sackur), USA TODAY (07/30, Bacon, Ortiz), The Hill (07/30, Sforza), Newsweek (07/30, Broadcast), the New York Post (07/30, O'Neill), and The Daily Beast (07/30, Quinn). West African Lead

s operations across Latin America and into U.S. cities, including New York and Chicago. The FBI believes that senior Venezuelan officials, including Maduro, are involved in the gang's daily operations, using them as a covert arm of the country's security state to assassinate dissidents, threaten exiled

he case. Additional reporting on the story was provided by CBS News (05/29, McRae), The Center Square (05/29, Mason), and the New York Times (05/29, Ortiz). Woman Gets TWo Years Probation for Synagogue Bomb Threat WLUK (Fox-11) (05/29, Kerhin) reported that Pauline Beyer, 66, was sentenced to 2 years