Page 24 - Devlin Barrett News Today

A curated weekday guide to major news and developments over the past 24 hours.

A British resident accused of using the dark web to sell illicit drugs around the world has agreed to surrender bitcoin valued at hundreds of millions.

And ABC officially canceled its planned Thursday GOP presidential debate in New Hampshire.

The Justice Department on Wednesday sued Texas over a new law that would allow police to arrest migrants who enter the U.S. illegally, taking Republican Gov. Greg Abbott to court again over his escalating response to border crossers arriving from Mexico.

In late 2015, cranes at a seaport in Jacksonville, Fla., carefully hoisted U.S. military helicopters worth up to $40 million each onto a massive cargo ship set to deliver the equipment to the Egyptian government. Egypt's Defense Ministry had turned to an unusual figure to help arrange transport of the prized hardware: Wael Hana, an Egyptian American businessman who had previously run a trucking business, a gas station and a truck stop along a gritty, industrial strip in northern New Jersey....

And Hamas released of a third round of hostages yesterday

And former First Lady Rosalynn Carter died yesterday at 96.

Over there at the left-wing bastion that is The Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus is alarmed.  Marcus headlined recently:  Trump doesn’t just want to win. He wants revenge. Marcus writes:  It can happen here — again. Our nation survived the first time. I’m not at all confident about the second.

And Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) hedges on his retirement.

And Biden aides say the GOP’s proposed “laddered CR” is already dead.