list 3 of 3Pakistan military says 42 killed in fighter attacks in Balochistanend of listHundreds of thousands of Afghans have returned to a country they fled.
Inside StoryIslamabad cites national security concerns, returns thousands of undocumented migrants.With the passing of another government deadline for undocumented Afghans to leave, Pakistan has launched a new crackdown on thousands still living in the country.In response to criticism, authorities say they are enforcing immigration laws and cite national security concerns.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Afghan families mourn loved ones as border tensions with Pakistan riselist 2 of 3After Afghanistan fires drones into Pakistan, what’s next?list 3 of 3Pakistan military says 42 killed in fighter attacks in Balochistanend of listHundreds of thousands of Afghans have returned to a country they fled. The UN says they include undocumented migrants, refugees and Afghan citizen card holders.The campaign has coincided with rising political tensions between Islamabad and Kabul.But is politics involved in the rising tension between the neighbours? And how is Kabul dealing with the influx of returnees?Presenter: Scott McLeanGuests:Obaidullah Baheer – Adjunct lecturer at the American University of AfghanistanKamran Bokhari – Senior fellow with the Middle East Policy Council in Washington, DCZahid Mahmood – Pakistani defence analyst and former senior officer of the Pakistan ArmyPublished On 11 Jul 2026
A security officer pushed the fan, as well as Trezeguet and Hassan, at the team hotel in Dallas before Egypt’s match.The Egypt national team say a Dallas police officer pushed their director, Ibrahim Hassan, and player Trezeguet as the two were attempting to take a photo with a fan at the World Cup.Local media said the incident happened at the team hotel on Friday.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Amid the World Cup, the new pan-Africanism is conditionallist 2 of 4How the North American heatwave could impact the FIFA World Cuplist 3 of 4Ronaldo scores as Portugal come back to win, Croatia denied by late VARlist 4 of 4Senegal’s World Cup agony: Nation left rueing last-gasp collapseend of listEgypt team played Australia in the round of 32 on Friday in Dallas at the tournament cohosted by Canada, Mexico and the United States.“A man and his son went to take a photo with Ibrahim Hassan and Trezeguet, and the national team’s director approved the request,” Egypt’s national team media officer Mohamed Morad told the Reuters news agency.“However, a security officer intervened and pushed the fan, as well as Trezeguet and Ibrahim Hassan, even though the player and the team director were in their designated area. Ibrahim then asked the security officer to deal with the fan in a normal manner.”The Dallas Police Department (DPD) said it was aware of a video circulating on social media showing a heated interaction involving one of its officers.“The Dallas Police Department responded to an area hotel at the request of hotel security regarding an individual without event credentials attempting to gain access,” said a statement posted to social media.“It was later learned that the individuals weren’t displaying credentials properly, which is a requirement.“The situation was resolved on scene, and DPD met with representatives of the team to address their concerns. The matter has since been resolved.”
Republican Stephen Buyer was convicted and sentenced to 22 months in prison, though he has maintained his innocence.United States President Donald Trump has issued a pardon to Stephen Buyer, a former Republican congressman from Indiana who served nearly two years in prison for making illegal stock trades based on inside information after he left office.The pardon was dated Thursday and released by the White House late Friday night.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Trump pardons 5 former NFL players ranging from perjury to drug traffickinglist 2 of 3A pardon for a price? How Donald Trump has reimagined presidential clemencylist 3 of 3Former election clerk Tina Peters released after Trump pressure campaignend of listBuyer was sentenced to 22 months in prison in 2023 for trades made while working as a consultant and lobbyist. He was ordered to forfeit more than $350,000, representing the amount of the illegal gains, as well as pay a $10,000 fine. He was released in 2025.The Supreme Court in May rejected Buyer’s appeal without comment or noted dissent.In granting “a full, complete, and unconditional pardon” to Buyer, Trump cited the Republican’s work, both as a judge advocate general in the US Army and as a politician in the US House. Trump described his career as “distinguished and highly productive”.Buyer said the pardon “corrects a politically motivated prosecution” and that it was “horrific to be imprisoned for a crime that I did not commit”. He maintains that he is innocent.Trump used his Truth Social media platform on May 31 to share a pair of letters requesting a presidential pardon for Buyer, a lawyer and Gulf War veteran who left office in 2011.He was a House prosecutor at Democratic President Bill Clinton’s 1998 impeachment trial, and in 2016, he served on Trump’s transition team, focusing on veterans’ issues.A letter signed by more than 40 former Republicans in Congress said Buyer was “targeted by the deep state” because of his involvement in Clinton’s trial.“Like you, Mr President, Steve has been the victim of lawfare conducted by the Biden Administration,” they wrote in the April 2025 letter.A second letter, from five current House Republicans, said pardoning Buyer would bring justice to his case. The June 2025 letter was signed by Tom Cole of Oklahoma, Ken Calvert of California, Marlin Stutzman of Indiana, Jack Bergman of Michigan and Pete Sessions of Texas.Buyer, 67, was convicted in connection with insider trading involving the $26.5bn merger of T-Mobile and Sprint, announced in April 2018, and illegal trades in the management consulting company Navigant when his client Guidehouse was set to acquire it in a deal publicly disclosed weeks later.The US Constitution gives the president broad power to grant pardons for federal crimes.A pardon does not erase a recipient’s criminal record but can be seen as an act of mercy or justice.
United Airlines aircraft are seen at the Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey in 2023. Joshua A. Bickel/AP hide caption toggle caption Joshua A. Bickel/AP The National Transportation Safety Board says the captain of a United Airlines flight from Venice, Italy was flying too slow and too low before landing last month at Newark Liberty International Airport. The Boeing 767 struck a light pole on the New Jersey Turnpike adjacent to the runway, damaging a tractor-trailer truck. The driver sustained minor injuries. None of the 231 people on the jet were injured. Dashcam video footage showed the moment the passenger flew over the truck. The plane's landing gear passes just above the cab, followed by the sounds of the light pole hitting the truck. VIDEO: I just obtained this dash cam video from H&S Bakery. It shows the moment a United Airlines plane crashes into his driver’s side window on the NJ Turnpike near Newark Liberty. @wjz pic.twitter.com/AR0AWKHmJ5— Tara Lynch (@thetaralynch) May 4, 2026 In its 11-page preliminary report of the May 3, 2026 accident, the NTSB said the flight from Venice was "normal until the descent." Investigators say the flight crew planned to land on runway 4R but the landing was changed to a different runway, and then, the runway was changed again, to runway 29. The captain was flying the aircraft while the first officer monitored the flight instruments during the gusty approach. The NTSB said, "As they descended, the airspeed began to decay, and the first officer recalled that he stated, 'hey you are slow,' followed moments later by, 'you are still slow and a little low.'" The captain stated he heard the first officer call out "airspeed slow" but said he felt the airplane was in a safe position to land, according to the NTSB. Investigators said the captain "heard a thump" just before touchdown, and the first officer felt a "mild jolt" as they neared the runway threshold. The jet crossed over the turnpike at 19 feet above the ground. After parking at the gate, the plane was found to have three punctures on the fuselage. One of the tires on the landing gear had "slash marks." The NTSB says that after the accident, United reminded its pilots landing at Newark to use the visual glideslope indicators next to the runway to ensure safe obstruction clearances. Asked for comment about the NTSB report and whether the captain remains on flight status, a United spokesperson told NPR, "We don't have anything to share." The final NTSB investigation is expected to be complete within a year.
Former New York congressman George Santos is being investigated by federal regulators over his trading activity on the prediction market site Kalshi. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images North America In February, four months after being released from federal prison, former Republican congressman George Santos took to social media to express his enthusiasm about attending President Trump's upcoming State of the Union address. "I'm going to be there for the State of Union in the gallery, guys," Santos said in a video he posted to X a day before the president's remarks. At the time, traders on the prediction market site Kalshi were placing millions of dollars worth of bets on who would attend. Santos' video confirming his presence sent odds soaring. But he didn't show up. "Watching SOTU from an airport tv was not part of the plan! FML," Santos wrote on X, using slang for a more coarse way of saying, "screw my life." He posted the message as Trump was speaking, making those same odds in the Kalshi market plummet. What Santos didn't say was that he had already placed bets on Kalshi that he was not going to appear at the State of the Union address, according to three people with direct knowledge of his trades who were not authorized to speak publicly. They say Santos misled the public and turned a profit based on that deception in the tens of thousands of dollars. Kalshi detected Santos' trades, froze his account and referred the case to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Department of Justice, according to a person familiar with Kalshi's investigation who was not authorized to speak publicly. Neither the CFTC nor the Justice Department returned requests for comment. Reached by NPR, Santos said, "Well, that's news to me," when asked about the insider trading probe underway into his activity on Kalshi. Santos said, "I'm not saying yes, I'm not saying no" when NPR asked if he had a Kalshi account. He went on to say the co-founder of Kalshi, Luana Lopes Lara, is "a fellow Brazilian" whom he personally knows. He said he would call her to get to the bottom of whether an investigation had been launched. Santos promised to update NPR on how the call went. He did not respond to NPR's follow-up messages. The person familiar with Kalshi's investigation said Santos, the son of Brazilian immigrants, does not know Lara, a Brazilian-American. Kalshi has reached out to Santos to interview him as part of the investigation, but he has dodged those requests, according to that same person. A 'manufactured' political rise Santos' trading on his own movements follows one of the most dramatic downfalls in recent political history. The 37-year-old former Republican congressman from New York ran for office telling a series of lies and fabrications about his personal life. Those include that he graduated from Baruch College in the top 1% of his class. He also said that his mother was working in the South Tower of the World Trade Center during the Sept. 11 attacks. The stories about his academic performance and his mother turned out to be false. He said he was Jewish. He is not. And he claimed that his grandparents escaped the Holocaust. They did not. "Virtually everything that he put out about himself when he was running for office was manufactured," said Jonathan Entin, a law professor at Case Western Reserve University. "You had to wonder whether anything he ever said about himself had any basis in reality." Santos' penchant for deception eventually caught up with him. In January 2023, Santos was sworn in as a U.S. representative and by May of that year, he was hit with an indictment. Federal prosecutors charged him with 13 counts of wire fraud, money laundering and stealing money from political donors. A judge handed him a sentence of more than seven years in federal prison. But he served only four months because Trump commuted his sentence la
Authorities allege that David J. Rush took home tens of millions of dollars worth of gold bars from his job at the CIA and fabricated key parts of his education and military history. He's seen here in a photo supplied by the Alexandria Sheriff's Office. Alexandria Sheriff's Office hide caption toggle caption Alexandria Sheriff's Office Many people in the workplace struggle with expense reports and imposter syndrome. And then, according to the FBI, there is David J. Rush -- a former CIA official who is accused of taking gold bars and bulk cash to his Virginia home while also allegedly lying about his education and military service, according to federal court records. Rush, a former senior executive service-level CIA employee in Virginia, was arrested on May 19, after FBI agents searching his home seized more than 300 1-kilogram gold bars valued at more than $40 million, according to an affidavit from FBI Special Agent Matthew T. Johnson, who works in the counterintelligence division of the FBI's Washington field office. "FBI agents also seized approximately $2 million in United States currency," the document states. "Finally, FBI agents seized approximately 35 luxury watches, many of which were Rolex brand." Rush, who is listed as living in Ashburn, Va., is charged with a felony count of theft of public money, according to court documents. He remains in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service after his request to be released on bond was denied. Requests for comment from Rush's defense attorney were not immediately returned. Federal court records show that he waived a preliminary hearing and was scheduled for a detention hearing in Alexandria, Va., on Friday. But Magistrate Judge William E. Fitzpatrick agreed to a request from both sides of the case to postpone that hearing to the morning of June 5. The CIA says it informed the FBI of its suspicions about Rush, who apparently fell under scrutiny after he began asking for gold bars last November. That's when he began making "several requests … to obtain a significant quantity of foreign currency and tens of millions of dollars in gold bars for work-related expenses," according to the affidavit. "After a CIA internal investigation identified potential violations of the law, CIA Director John Ratcliffe referred the information to the FBI for a law enforcement investigation," a CIA spokesperson told NPR via email, in a statement jointly issued with the FBI. A review of a storage space Rush used at the CIA found that only part of the cash was there. The agency's inquiry into the matter is ongoing, but it has not yet found any record of why Rush said he needed the massive amount of money. The FBI affidavit accuses Rush of taking gold bars and currency, making false statements to the agency and on national security background forms, and filing fraudulent timecards. Rush holds a Top Secret/Secure Compartmented Information clearance, according to the FBI affidavit. But the agency alleges that beginning with Rush's successful 2009 CIA job application, he fabricated academic and military achievements that helped him attain that status and, as a result, earn higher wages. Rush enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1997, and was later commissioned as an ensign in the U.S. Navy Reserves after providing a transcript showing he earned an undergraduate degree from Clemson University, the affidavit states. In three different applications to join the CIA, he claimed to have attained an undergraduate degree from Clemson, along with a master's degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, or RPI, and other credentials. But this spring, registrar offices at both Clemson and RPI told the FBI that their institutions have no record of Rush ever attending classes there. Similarly, Rush's alleged claims that he was a military pilot and served in prominent related roles were undermined by records showing he never underwent any evaluations as a pilot and does not hold a pilot's license, according t
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