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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis addresses a crowd before signing the "Stop Woke" bill during a news conference at Mater Academy Charter Middle/High School in Hialeah Gardens, Florida, on Friday, April 22, 2022
THE US Treasury Department said it intends to investigate Governor of Florida Ron DeSantis’s use of federal funds to transport Venezuelan migrants to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, last month.
A number of the migrants involved have already launched their own legal challenges to Governor DeSantis’s actions.
But the action by the Treasury Department marks the first time that a federal agency or department has announced that the political stunt is being scrutinised.
Despite opposition from Greenland’s people and Denmark, Washington intends to control the Arctic territory one way or another. Strategic dominance, mineral wealth and military power are the driving forces at play, writes ROGER McKENZIE
From terrifying the children of immigrants to pepper-spraying frogs, the US under Trump is rapidly descending into mayhem, writes Linda Pentz Gunter
HANK KENNEDY contends that US military attacks in the Caribbean amount to modern piracy driven by Venezuela’s oil wealth