Federal prosecutors in Iowa have received a guilty plea from a Missouri farmer who was part of a massive fraudulent grain scheme. John Burton, of Clarksdale, Missouri, was charged with federal conspiracy to commit wire fraud after he agreed...
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Federal prosecutors in Iowa have received a guilty plea from a Missouri farmer who was part of a massive fraudulent grain scheme. John Burton, of Clarksdale, Missouri, was charged with federal conspiracy to commit wire fraud after he agreed...
Sweden has reopened the rape investigation against Julian Assange who was recently sentenced to 50 weeks in prison for skipping bail in England. The Wikileaks founder was removed from the Ecuadorian embassy on April 11, where he had been st...
The Trump administration has stressed that H-1B visas should only be used to bring the most talented and brightest foreign workers to the United States. As this is now the policy of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (US...
The Trump administration has produced several new barriers to limit how many people obtain H-1B visas. H-1B visas allow for international students and high skilled foreign nationals to work in the United States as long as they are sponsored...
As legalization of marijuana has gained steam across the United States, Mexican drug cartels are seeing their profit margins slip and are increasing their efforts to sell methamphetamine in the states to keep their earnings up. Iowa is a pr...
Insurance companies spend billions of dollars every year on commercials to convince people that they have the consumers best interests in mind. Yet, somehow, anyone who has had to deal with an insurer will quickly find that the company&rsqu...
Public faith in the justice system is always tenuous at best. Citizens perceive the courts as being slow, inefficient, and burdensome. It is not uncommon for people to wonder why law enforcement and the courts are so slow to adapt especiall...
Late last year President Trump signed into law the Formerly Incarcerated Reenter Society Transformed Safely Transitioning Every Person Act or FIRST STEP Act. The FIRST STEP Act introduced several layers of criminal justice reform at the fed...
DFW International Airport is the fourth largest airport in the whole country. While states like California and Denver have openly declared that they will not check flyers at the airports for marijuana related products including CBD, DFW has...
Washington State Governor Jay Inslee launched the Maritime Blue strategy early last January at the Port of Seattle. The first of its kind in the United States, the strategy aims to make Washington State the leader in the maritime industry b...
