PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA – The jurors remain undecided in the high-stakes defamation lawsuit against CNN as deliberation will continue into Friday morning. The plaintiff, U.S. Navy veteran Zachary Young, alleged that CNN smeared him by implying he illegally profited when helping people flee Afghanistan on the “black market” during the Biden administration’s military withdrawal from the country in 2021. Young […]
A man who federal prosecutors say runs a notorious Japanese organized crime syndicate pleaded guilty last week to conspiring to traffic nuclear materials to Iran and U.S. weapons abandoned in Afghanistan to Burma. Takeshi Ebisawa, the 60-year-old alleged leader of the Japanese Yakuza, pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court on Wednesday to conspiring with a […]