Investigators probe suspect’s background in D.C. National Guard shooting

Twenty-year-old Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom, a West Virginia National Guard member who was killed  in Wednesday’s Washington, D.C., shooting, was remembered Friday by devastated colleagues at Seneca Health Services, a behavioral-health agency based in West Virginia, where she worked prior to her deployment.  “She had a passion for serving people,” Marcie Vaughan, CEO of Seneca…

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Trump administration pauses all immigration applications from Afghans after National Guard shooting in D.C.

Federal immigration authorities said Wednesday they have paused processing requests from Afghan nationals, after a man who entered the U.S. from Afghanistan was identified as the suspect in a shooting that wounded two National Guard members in Washington, D.C. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said in a statement that the “processing of all immigration…

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U.S. considers dropping leaflets in Venezuela as it ramps up pressure on Maduro, sources say

Officials in the Trump administration on Saturday discussed the possibility of dropping leaflets on Venezuela’s capital city of Caracas as it seeks to weaken the regime of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Among the potential avenues discussed regarding operations for Venezuela was dropping U.S. leaflets on Caracas as a kind of psychological warfare to pressure Maduro, multiple…

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