World

DEA Surge Targets Sinaloa Cartel Networks Worldwide

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DEA News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Monday, the Drug Enforcement Administration announced the results of a week-long operational surge aimed at dismantling the Sinaloa Cartel, one of the world’s most violent and powerful drug cartels, responsible for flooding the United States with fentanyl, methamphetamine, cocaine, and heroin.

In February, the Trump Administration designated the Sinaloa Cartel, along with seven other groups, as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. The Sinaloa Cartel remains one of the most significant threats to public safety, public health and our national security.  Read More

Palestine Film Series Continues Sept. 9, 10, 11 At SALA

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COMMUNITY News:

The community is invited to attend the upcoming Palestine Film Series at SALA Event Center. This is a free event.

Details:

The Promised Land Museum: Dr. Steve Feldman, Tuesday, Sept. 9 at SALA.

  • Dr. Feldman works to foster dialogue and understanding by amplifying overlooked perspectives and encouraging thoughtful engagement with one of today’s most pressing human rights issues. Visit https://promisedlandmuseum.org/gateway-to-understanding/.

Palestine Activism Program: Yousef Aljamal. 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 10 at SALA.

  • Aljamal is the Gaza coordinator at the Palestine
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Fuselier: A Simple Solution To A Complicated Problem

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By ROBERT FUSELIER
Los Alamos

With all the division in our country and world, and the fear, anger, and hatred that flows from it and contributes to it, it can be easy to be pessimistic about our future. The news, whether delivered by cable, network, or internet, seems to be full of the bad with little of the good. Social media loves to keep us scrolling – and their ad revenue up – by taking advantage of the fact that bad news and divisiveness are big attention-getters. Hope seems like a lost dream. But is it?

Our community, state, nation, and world are full of dedicated organizations doing Read More

Dr. Yousef Aljamal To Share Stories Of Gaza At SALA’s Free Palestine Summer Series Sept. 10

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Dr. Yousef Aljamal

COMMUNITY News:

The second featured speaker of the Free Palestine Summer Series is Dr. Yousef Aljamal, a Palestinian refugee, writer, and activist who serves as the Gaza Coordinator for the Palestine Activism Program with the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). He will speak at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 10 at SALA, following a viewing of the Promised Land Museum from 5–7 p.m.

Dr. Aljamal’s presentation comes in the shadow of a devastating personal loss. Aug. 7, an Israeli airstrike killed his sister Somaiya, her husband Anas, and two of their daughters, Hoor and Sham. Read More

Honor. Remember. Climb The Cube. For 9/11 Responders

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Be part of a commemorative celebration at the New Mexico Museum of Space History to honor the bravery of 9/11 first responders with the invigorating Climb the Cube event on Sept. 13. Courtesy/NMMSH

NMMSH News:

ALAMOGORDO — Be part of a commemorative celebration at the New Mexico Museum of Space History as we honor the bravery of 9/11 first responders with the invigorating Climb the Cube event on Saturday, Sept. 13, 2025! Registration opens at 7:30 a.m. Space is limited, so we strongly encourage participants to register in advance.

This event is a heartfelt tribute to the firefighters, police Read More

Op-Ed: Which Side Are You On?

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By ANDI KRON
Los Alamos

I recently reunited with an Israeli friend who was visiting the Lab on official business. It had been 2 1/5 years since I last saw him in Israel. “How are things going in Israel?” I asked with trepidation. “We are traumatized,” he answered. His brother is a surgeon and has been on reserve duty for months as a medic in Gaza. His wife is a lecturer in universities and lost several students in the massacre of October 7, 2023. Her parents live in the south where Hamas terrorists infiltrated and killed residents of their community. He needs police protection when he travels to Europe Read More

Scenes Of Iceland’s Wildlife – Part 1

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A young arctic fox peers over the landscape near Moorudalur in Iceland as seen recently by Richard and Sophia Skolnik of White Rock, who joined a small group from Natural Habitat Adventures for an 11-day ‘circumnavigation’ of Iceland. The trip took them from Reykjavik to Akureyri over land, from there to the Westfjords by plane, and then another plane back to Reykjavik. Arctic foxes are the only mammal native to Iceland. Photo by Richard Skolnik

A whale dives beneath the waters of the Westfjords region, raising its fluke. Whale-watching is one of Iceland’s great natural spectacles. Photo Read More

Catch Of The Week: Netherlands Speed Cameras Hacked

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By REBECCA RUTHERFORD
Los Alamos
For the Los Alamos Daily Post

Speed cameras are about as popular as chopped liver on a grade school cafeteria menu, just one of many modern inconveniences keeping us “safe”. In an interesting turn of events, speed cameras were one of several affected services in a cyber attack in the Netherlands. The attack occurred against Openbaar Ministerie (OM), the official body responsible for bringing suspects before the criminal court in the Netherlands. Just look at you, Netherlands, winning for the best name ever for your criminal courts. One can only hope there is Read More

Local Innovation Driving Breakthrough In Space Defense

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Space Kinetic co-founders Ryan Sullivan, left, and Scott Ziegler. Courtesy photo

LANL News:

  • Originating from a garage-built prototype and with a springboard from NM LEEP at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the company is now a venture-backed deep tech leader redefining what’s possible in national security innovation.

Space Kinetic, a startup founded in 2022 by UC Berkeley alumni Scott Ziegler, M.Eng, Principal Inventor, and New Mexico Lab-Embedded Entrepreneur Program (NM LEEP) fellow, and Ryan Sullivan, MBA, U.S. Peace Corps participant, just secured investment from CerraCap Ventures Read More

Palestine Film Series: ‘The Encampments’ Tuesday At SALA

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COMMUNITY News:

The Palestine Film Series continues with the documentary “The Encampments” provided to the community free of charge at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 19, at SALA Event Center.

From Executive Producer Macklemore, “The Encampments offers an urgent, intimate portrait of America’s student movement, ignited at Columbia University as students protested their university’s ties to the war on Gaza. Their actions sparked a nationwide uprising, with encampments spreading across hundreds of campuses. Featuring detained activist Mahmoud Khalil, alongside professors, whistleblowers, Read More