All posts tagged "Militarydefense"

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s top adviser at the White House on the Western Hemisphere is set to depart his post in mid-March, a National Security Council official told McClatchy and the Miami Herald. Juan Gonzalez, special assistant to the president and senior director for the Western Hemisphere, advocated for direct talks with Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela and for avoiding U.S. military involvement in Haiti throughout his tenure at the White House. A national security official noted that Gonzalez, who previously advised Biden on Latin America during his time as vice president, was “the pr......

U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez (D., N.J.) pleaded not guilty Wednesday in the latest case accusing him of pocketing bribes worth hundreds of thousands of dollars from wealthy benefactors seeking his help with their business and legal problems. The three-term Democrat has vowed to fight the case. But he’s faced similar allegations before — starting with gifts he received in 2006, the year he began representing New Jersey in the Senate. In 2015, he was charged with accepting benefits including free flights and pricey resort vacations from a friend and political benefactor. That case ended in a hung jury......

For the first time in decades, Cuban entrepreneurs on the island are going to be allowed to open accounts in American banks and access their money remotely, in a move the U.S. government will announce in coming days to remove a significant obstacle to the expansion of the private sector in Cuba, highly placed sources in the Biden administration told the Miami Herald. Cuban entrepreneurs will be able “to establish and remotely access U.S. bank accounts to conduct authorized transactions,” one of the sources said, which in turn would help the independent private entrepreneurs in Cuba “continue i......

A Texas woman who admitted she helped mutilate and conceal the body of Fort Hood soldier Vanessa Guillen has been sentenced to 30 years in prison. According to the U.S. attorney’s office in Western Texas, Cecily Aguilar received the maximum sentence for her role in the death of the 20-year-old Army specialist, who disappeared from the base in April 2020. Her remains were found that June in a shallow grave near the base. Fort Hood, near Killeen, Texas, was renamed Fort Cavazos in May. Aguilar previously pleaded guilty in November to federal charges of of accessory to murder after the fact and t......

The Army has officially renamed Fort Benning in Georgia to Fort Moore in honor of Lt. Gen. Harold “Hal” Moore and his wife, Julia Moore. The couple made “meaningful and lasting contributions” to the Army, officials said in a statement. Gen. Moore served from 1945 to 1977 with a number of assignments in different countries, including during the Battle of Ia Drang Valley in Vietnam in 1965, which was dramatized in the film “We Were Soldiers.” Julia Moore “was equally distinguished as a leader of Army family programs who changed how the military cares for the widows of fallen Soldiers,” the Army ......

ORLANDO, Fla. — It was supposed to be a peaceful Florida vacation for a couple and their five children at a lake house in Wellington, but it ended in a nightmare, a lawsuit says. A day after Lydie and Boris Lavenir arrived at their Airbnb rental, she found their 19-month-old daughter, Enora, foaming at the mouth with a lethal amount of fentanyl in her blood, according to the wrongful death complaint. After paramedics rushed her to the hospital, she was pronounced dead. The source of the fentanyl remains a mystery. Now, the Lavenirs are suing Airbnb, along with the house’s owner, the rental age......