Alt-Right Marchers Describe Road To Charlottesville Washington Post In addition to fearsome looking skinheads, neo-Nazis and members of the Ku Klux Klan, those who marched in Charlottesville against removing the statue of Robert E. Lee including many "clean-cut, unashamed and young" men who "almost looked as though they were students of the university they marched.The Washington Post interview six of these men, aged 21 to 35, who traveled hundreds of miles to Charlottesville to the rally. Returned Foreign Fighters Are Europe's Greatest Threat and Riddle Atlantic The biggest concern for counterterrorism officials in Europe is the foreign fighters—the 40,000 people who went to Syria, were taught to kill, and have returned to their home countries. The problem is we know little about who they are and even less about what they are thinking. Graeme Wood looks for clues in the report issued last month by the United Nations office of Counter-Terrorism. Dem IT Staffers May Have Compromised National Security New York Post Investigators suspect that IT staff members who had worked for DNC head Debbie Wasserman Schultz and other prominent Democrats could have compromised sensitive government data, perhaps even selling it to hostile foreign governments that could use it to blackmail members of Congress or even put their lives at risk. Five Armed Robberies Per Day in Albuquerque Albuquerque Journal Cheap and widely available methamphetamine and heroin from Mexico along with cheap firearms on the street are being blamed for a dramatic spike in armed robberies in Albuquerque.Mike Gallagher reports that the increase - from a low of 940 in 2010 to almost 2,000 in 2016 - has galvanized "police, prosecutors and business leaders [who] have joined forces to fight back." Employers May Be Using Temps to Skirt Immigration Laws Stateline Employers may have found a loophole in state immigration laws that prohibit knowingly hiring unauthorized immigrants. If a temp agency hires the illegal worker, the employer can plead ignorance of the employee's immigration status. The practice draws criticism from the left and right because it allows these workers to find jobs, but doesn't protect them from labor abuses. Hostile Terrain of the Korean Borderlands 99% Invisible North Korea is so ready for a South Korean invasion that it has a booby-trapped restaurant built over a highway ready to drop onto an advancing army. This and other "tank traps" are buildings that can quickly turn into "defensive rubble." South Korea, for its part, has turned some discovered North Korean tunnels into tourist attractions and has border tricks of its own. |