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Rep. Comer launches probe of effort to sanitize El Paso before Biden’s border visit
The House’s top investigator revealed a probe Friday into the attempt to cleanse El Paso, Texas, before President Biden’s first border trip earlier this month, demanding Homeland Security reveal whether it was part of the effort. Rep. James Comer, Kentucky Republican, said Mr. Biden’s ballyhooed trip avoided any encounters with the actual chaos of the…
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Expedition begins on ‘holy grail’ of shipwrecks filled with millions of gold coins, emeralds worth $20B
A long-awaited expedition into an 18th-century shipwreck in the Caribbean Sea has reportedly begun. The government of Colombia launched the deep-water expedition of the San José shipwreck, which is rumored to contain cargo worth billions of dollars, last week. The galleon sank in 1708 en route to Cartagena, Colombia, after it was ambushed by an English squadron. Historians believe…


