When Michael Bradley made his international debut in 2006, four of his current teammates on the U.S. national team were just 7 years old. By the time he played in his first World Cup four years later, just a handful of those teammates had made it to college. So when Gregg Berhalter called Bradley… Source: […]
Blog: Michael Beasley’s return has bolstered the Lakers’ depleted rotation at forward
“He’s really difficult to defend,” Walton said. “And Dallas went to a zone, and he just went and flashed to the middle. And he just knows how to score. And in the fourth quarter, he gives us somebody that, if we get flat a little bit, or if we’re not making some shots, he’s somebody […]
Blog: FBI explains how it cracked ‘El Chapo’s’ sophisticated communications system
The FBI couldn’t crack the Sinaloa cartel’s encrypted messages, so they went after the man who built the communications system for the powerful narcotics trafficking network FBI agent Stephen Marston told jurors in the trial of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman on Tuesday that Cristian Rodriguez had created… Source: latimes.com – Los Angeles Times
Blog: Live: President Trump addresses nation from Oval Office
Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III. (Associated Press) Months after President Trump took office, Russia’s disinformation teams trained their sites on a new target: special counsel Robert S. Mueller III. Having worked to help get Trump into the White House, they now worked to neutralize the biggest threat to his staying there. The Russian operatives […]
Blog: U.N.-backed anti-corruption commission leaving Guatemala after president’s order
It is unclear whether the government will comply if the high court decides, as it has in the past, that the commission, known as the CICIG, has the right to continue doing its work. Several members of Congress have proposed removing judges on the court who have supported the commission, or dissolving the Constitutional Court […]
Blog: The reality on the border differs widely from Trump’s ‘crisis’ description
Even if migrant children travelling north without adults keep pace, they won’t come close to the height of the so-called unaccompanied minors crisis in 2014, when they reached more than 67,000. But the number of children and adults seeking asylum has grown dramatically. In fiscal 2013, there were only about 43,000 asylum applications. In fiscal […]