Border Patrol Agents Arrest Convicted Guatemalan Sex Offender

Ajo, Arizona - Ajo Station Border Patrol agents apprehended a male Guatemalan national Sunday evening after he re-entered the U.S. illegally northwest of Lukeville.

SSA Misinformation leads to Lost benefits - Social Security Matters

Washington, DC - Dear Rusty: I am 64, a widow and I’m hopping mad!  I lost my husband a while ago and went to Social Security to apply for widow’s benefits.  That all went okay and I’m getting my benefit, but I just found out that I could have avoided a cut to my widow’s benefit and maybe applied only for my own retirement benefit and let the widow’s benefit grow until I reached 66 when it wouldn’t be cut...

DEA Brings in Record Number of Unused Pills During 15th Annual National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

Washington, DC - Americans nationwide did their part to drop off a record number of unused, unwanted or expired prescription medications during the DEA’s 15th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, at close to 6,000 sites across the country. Together with a record-setting amount of local, state and federal partners, DEA collected and destroyed close to one million pounds—nearly 475 tons—of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs, making it the most successful event in DEA history.

Former Mississippi Detention Officers Plead Guilty to Juvenile Assault and Cover-Up

Jackson, Mississippi - The Department of Justice announced that Edward Gibson, 28, an officer at a Mississippi juvenile detention facility, pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to beating a juvenile in his custody. His supervisor, Dianne Williams, 60, pleaded guilty on April 17 to helping cover up the assault, a plea that had not been previously announced. Gibson’s indictment was unsealed in federal court on March 7 and a separate indictment unsealed on the same date charged Williams with writing a false report to cover up the assault.

Vice President Mike Pence’s Meeting with United Kingdom Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson

Washington, DC - Vice President Mike Pence met with Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson of the United Kingdom. Both agreed that the strong partnership between the two countries was exemplified by our joint leadership in responding to the poisoning of a private citizen in Salisbury using chemical weapons and the allied airstrikes following the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime.