Reported by RORY TINGLE and OLIVER PRICE, Crimes including money laundering and modern slavery are ‘taking place in plain sight’ on the High Street – with organised gangs using seemingly ordinary shops as fronts for their illicit empires.  Dramatic rises in offences like shoplifting have sparked major concern in recent years, driven in part by the […]

The president has designated Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. Here’s what that means. Reported by Christina Lu (Summary version featured below. Read full report: https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/21/trump-drug-cartels-foreign-terrorist-organization-mexico-immigration-executive-order) On his first day back in office, President Donald Trump signed several executive orders focusing on immigration and border security. Among them was a controversial decision to designate […]