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Customs and Border Protection director faces charges for allegedly defrauding FEMA

The director of Michigan's U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency (CBP) is accused of implementing plans to fraudulent the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) after a series of floods damaged her home in 2023. The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday sealed off criminal charges against 55-year-old Serina Baker-Hill, engaging in a plot to fraudulent […]

US Customs and Border Protection surveillance balloon breaks free

The large balloons used by US Customs and Border Patrol for surveillance along the Texas border broke freely and traveled about 600 miles north before crashing as heavy winds cleared the state, officials said. On Monday afternoon, the aerostat system was released from the tether during a “hard wind event” on South Padre Island, leaving […]

Tex-Mex chain On the Border files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection

“Bar Rescue” host Jon Taffer has been heavily on a restaurant filing for bankruptcy, and his show is being renewed for the 10th season. At the border, Mexican Grill & Cantina filed for bankruptcy protection this week after struggling to compete in a macroeconomic environment. The Tex-Mex chain, owned by Argonne Capital Group, filed for […]

Firing of whistleblower protection office head unlawful, judge rules

A federal judge on Saturday determined that it was illegal for President Trump to fire the head of an office designed to protect government whistleblowers. US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson endorses Hampton Dillinger, director of the Special Advisory Office, who said he was fired from his post in a one-sentence email. The former President […]