Security Intelligence: Here is a summary of significant articles published on ForeignAffairs.co.nz on July 19, 2025.
MIL-OSI Security: Justice Department, DEA Joint Announcement on Actions to Combat Drug Cartels & Drug Trafficking under DOJ’s Operation Take Back America Initiative
Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division Attorney General Pamela Bondi and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Administrator Robert Murphy held a press conference to announce actions the Department is taking to combat drug cartels and drug trafficking under the Justice Department’s Operation Take Back America Initiative. MIL Security OSI –
MIL-OSI USA: Hoeven Marks Two Major Milestones For Project Ultra, Outlines Future Of Drone & Counter-Drone Initiative
US Senate News: Source: United States Senator for North Dakota John Hoeven 07.18.25 Senator Highlights Weekly Unmanned Cargo Flights Between Grand Forks & Cavalier, Secured Increased $100 Million Contract Ceiling for Project ULTRA EMERADO, N.D. – Senator John Hoeven today outlined two major milestones for Project ULTRA, which further solidify North Dakota’s leadership in unmanned […]
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Blackburn, Harris Lead Fight to Hold National Education Association Accountable for Putting Politics Over Students
US Senate News: Source: United States Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn) WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and U.S. Representative Mark Harris (R-N.C.) introduced the National Education Association Charter Repeal Act to revoke the congressional charter of the nation’s largest teachers’ union and the only labor union with a federal charter: “Time and again, teachers’ unions have shown they’ll put their […]
MIL-OSI Security: CCTV footage released following murder of Rene Graham in Ladbroke Grove
Source: United Kingdom London Metropolitan Police Detectives investigating the fatal shooting of 15-year-old Rene Graham almost a year ago say that the answers sit within a “small pocket of the community”. A murder investigation was launched after Rene was killed in Emslie Horniman’s Pleasance Park at around 19:20hrs on Sunday, 21 July. CCTV footage showed […]
MIL-OSI: First National Bank Alaska named one of top banks in the nation by Bank Director magazine
Source: GlobeNewswire (MIL-OSI) ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July 18, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Bank Director, a leading resource for the financial industry, named First National (OTCQX:FBAK) as the tenth best bank in the United States on its Top 25 Banks list and the third best bank on its Top Banks with Less than $5 Billion in Total Assets […]
MIL-OSI USA: Attorney General Bonta Releases Report, Finds Firearm Microstamping Technology Viable
Source: US State of California Friday, July 18, 2025 Contact: (916) 210-6000, agpressoffice@doj.ca.gov OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today released a report finding that firearm microstamping technology is technologically viable when imprinting a unique microscopic array of characters, referred to as a microstamp, on spent cartridge cases discharged by a firearm into which a microstamped firing […]
MIL-OSI USA: Pressley, McGovern, Project Bread Sound Alarm on Republicans’ Devastating Food Assistance Cuts, Harm to Massachusetts Families
Source: United States House of Representatives – Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) Massachusetts Families Fear Worsening Hunger Crisis Amid Trump’s Cuts to SNAP in Big, Ugly Bill Photos (DropBox) EAST BOSTON – Today, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) and Congressman James P. McGovern (MA-02) convened a listening session in East Boston with Project Bread, the leading statewide food security […]
MIL-OSI USA: Murkowski Helps Advance First Four Spending Bills with Alaska Wins
US Senate News: Source: United States Senator for Alaska Lisa Murkowski 07.18.25 Washington, DC – Yesterday, U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), a senior member of the Appropriations Committee, voted to advance four bills for Fiscal Year 2026 (FY26) that contain significant investments for Alaska. The four appropriations bills that passed committee are for Agriculture, Rural […]
MIL-OSI USA: Cortez Masto, Rosen Push for Upholding Bipartisan EXPLORE Act to Benefit Lake Tahoe Basin
US Senate News: Source: United States Senator for Nevada Cortez Masto Washington, D.C. – Today, Nevada Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) joined California Senators Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) in a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Brooke Rollins and U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) Secretary Doug Burgum requesting […]
MIL-OSI USA: ICYMI: Rosen Introduces Bill to Declare Extreme Heat a Major Disaster
US Senate News: Source: United States Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) WASHINGTON, DC – Yesterday, U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) introduced the Extreme Heat Emergency Act. The bill would explicitly authorize extreme heat as eligible for a Major Disaster Declaration by the President under the Stafford Act, which recognizes fires, floods, explosions, hurricanes, tornadoes, and earthquakes […]
MIL-OSI USA: Booker: “Either Bove and the Justice Department are Lying about the Epstein Situation…Or They Are Showing A Dangerous Lack of Transparency”
US Senate News: Source: United States Senator for New Jersey Cory Booker WASHINGTON, D.C. – As the Senate Judiciary Committee considers advancing EmilBove–who’s been called “Trump’s worst nomination yet”– to be a Third Circuit Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals, Judiciary Committee member U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) has been calling out Bove for […]
MIL-OSI USA: Wasserman Schultz, Díaz-Balart, Gonzales, Espaillat Lead Latino-Jewish Caucus in Marking Anniversary of AMIA Jewish Center Bombing, Demand Accountability
Source: United States House of Representatives – Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-23) “More than three decades after the tragic AMIA Jewish Center bombing, and there’s still no justice for the 85 victims, the hundreds of injured, and countless people who were traumatized by this attack,” said Wasserman Schultz. “With antisemitism skyrocketing around the world, this […]
MIL-OSI Security: New Orleans Man Sentenced for Bank Robbery
Source: Office of United States Attorneys NEW ORLEANS – Acting U.S. Attorney Michael M. Simpson announced today that CLEMENT LEACH (“LEACH”), age 54, of New Orleans, was sentenced on July 2, 2025 after previously pleading guilty to Bank Robbery, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2113(a). United States District Judge Sarah S. Vance sentenced […]
MIL-OSI Security: Fort Lauderdale Investment Advisor Arrested on Federal Wire Fraud and Money Laundering Charges in Multi-Million-Dollar Ponzi Scheme Targeting Venezuelan Investors
Source: Office of United States Attorneys MIAMI – Federal authorities have arrested Andrew Hamilton Jacobus, 64, of Fort Lauderdale, on charges of wire fraud and money laundering stemming from a years-long scheme that defrauded international investors — primarily Venezuelan nationals — of more than $94 million. According to an indictment in U.S. District Court for […]
MIL-OSI Security: Honduran National Guilty Of Illegal Re-Entry
Source: Office of United States Attorneys NEW ORLEANS – Acting U.S. Michael M. Simpson announced that MELVIN JOSE TEJADA MORILLO (“MORILLO”), age 35, pled guilty on July 8, 2025, to illegal re-entry of a removed alien, in violation of Title 8, United States Code, Sections 1326(a) and 1326(b)(2). According to the indictment, MORILLO, re-entered the United States after being previously […]
MIL-OSI USA: Hickenlooper, Bennet, Heinrich, Neguse, Moore Introduce Bill to Expand and Improve Access to Clean Water in Tribal Communities
US Senate News: Source: United States Senator John Hickenlooper – Colorado Half of households on Native American reservations lack access to reliable water sources, clean drinking water, or adequate sanitation WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators John Hickenlooper, Michael Bennet, and Martin Heinrich alongside Representatives Joe Neguse and Gwen Moore recently introduced the Tribal Access to Clean […]
MIL-OSI Security: PHOTO RELEASE: Coast Guard Sector Charleston holds change of command ceremony
Source: United States Coast Guard U.S. Coast Guard sent this bulletin at 07/18/2025 05:45 PM EDT News Release U.S. Coast Guard Southeast District PA Detachment JacksonvilleContact: Coast Guard PA Detachment JacksonvilleOffice: 904-714-7606/7607After Hours: 786-393-4138PA Detachment Jacksonville online newsroom 07/18/2025 05:22 PM EDT CHARLESTON, S.C. — The crew of Coast Guard Sector Charleston held a […]
MIL-OSI Security: ICE Continues to Round Up the Worst of the Worst: Convicted Killer and Fentanyl Trafficker Off American Streets
Source: US Department of Homeland Security Operations across the U.S. target criminal illegal aliens convicted of burglary, kidnapping, and human trafficking WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security announced U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers arrested removable criminal illegal aliens across the country on July 17, 2025, as part of coordinated enforcement targeting some […]
MIL-OSI Security: Armed Serial Robber Sentenced to 60 Years in Federal Prison
Source: Office of United States Attorneys An armed serial robber and convicted felon who robbed five cash loan businesses across the Fort Worth metroplex was sentenced today to 60 years in federal prison, announced Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Nancy E. Larson. Charles Brownlee, 37, was convicted by a jury […]
MIL-OSI Security: Portland Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Illegally Possessing a Firearm
Source: Office of United States Attorneys PORTLAND, Ore.—A Portland man was sentenced to federal prison Thursday for illegally possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. Rocky Allan Rainwater, 25, was sentenced to 72 months in federal prison and three years’ supervised release. According to court documents, in January 2024, investigators with the […]