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Trump administration has described prosecuting sex trafficking as a priority, but there has been a 22% decrease in them The Trump administration has repeatedly described the fight against sex trafficking as a priority, but federal prosecutions have slowed this year amid staffing shortages, funding cuts and a shift in law-enforcement resources toward immigration enforcement, a Reuters review found.Federal prosecutors charged 73 people with sex trafficking through June, about 22% fewer than the average for the same period over the previous three years. Reuters based its findings on interviews with 25 former prosecutors, current agents and victims’ advocates, as well as a review of federal court records.Former prosecutors and agents told Reuters that experienced personnel have left the Justice Department, while some Homeland Security Investigations agents previously involved in trafficking cases were reassigned to immigration duties. In some offices, remaining investigators have struggled..

A Washington man is facing federal charges after allegedly shooting and killing a bald eagle that was found near chickens on his property in Clark County. The case began on February 5, 2026, when wildlife officers responded to a report of a dead bald eagle in the Hockinson area of Brush Prairie. A witness had reportedly heard a sound resembling a gunshot or firecracker earlier that morning. Officers found the bird with a head wound and sent it for examination. X-rays reportedly revealed two shotgun pellets lodged in the eagle's head, while a veterinary examination identified the injuries as fatal. Months after the investigation began, federal prosecutors charged 66-year-old Benjamin G. Allen in connection with the eagle's death. The allegations remain unproven in court.Washington man accused of shooting bald eagleThe investigation began on February 5, 2026, when Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Police received a report about a dead bald eagle at a residence in the H..

Poland has ⁠arrested a ⁠Russian man who was ⁠hired by Moscow to kill a Ukrainian-American citizen in Warsaw, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Thursday.
The Russian was detained on August ‌7 and had been recruited to kill a man who was “inconvenient to the Putin regime”, Tusk told journalists.
The Russian embassy in Warsaw did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment. Moscow has regularly ⁠dismissed accusations by European powers of attacks, saying the West ‌is stoking…

The F-35 and F-22 may be among the world’s most advanced stealth fighters, but they cannot hide one thing: heat.
When heat-seeking missiles lock onto aircraft, fighters release flares to confuse infrared sensors and break missile tracking.
But the infrared signals produced by fighters, including heat from engine exhaust and air friction over the fuselage, are different from those generated by flares.
These heat signatures could provide valuable infrared information for target detection and…

AOC secretly split from her partner Riley Roberts long before she went for egg freezing. After Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced that she was going to freeze her eggs so that she could choose the right time to become a mother, speculations were rife about her relationship with Riley Roberts, her long-time boyfriend and partner. The duo got engaged in 2022. Many social media users asked why she was not choosing to be a biological mother now as she was already engaged to her college sweetheart.Leigh Ann Caldwell, Puck News’ chief Washington correspondent, revealed that a “reputable Democratic source” told her about 18 months ago that Ocasio-Cortez and her partner Riley Roberts had ended their engagement. “AOC stopped wearing her engagement ring several months before that,” Caldwell wrote on X Tuesday. “There have been no public photos of her and Riley together in recent history.”Last photograph around 2021-22Ocasio-Cortez and Roberts were last photographed together at the ..

H-1B visa holder shares how questioning went on for 30 minutes and most of these questions were technical and specific about job role (Photo: AI) An H-1B visa holder shared the lengthy interview that took place at the Hyderabad Consulate in India, revealing how minutely visa officers are now going through H-1B visa applications and how they are asking technical questions about the job, specific projects etc. The interview continued for 30 minutes with two different interviewers, and they grilled the person, asking many questions about the company, about colleagues, about clients, education background. The person posted the entire experience on an NRI group and said the visa got approved almost a month after the interview, and the status on the site was shown as 'refused' throughout the month.Questions asked for H-1B visa as shared by the visa holderExplain your roleDo you work for a client?What is your pay?How much did you pay your employer for the H-1B?What is the name of th..