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• New allegation. Mother Jones’ Abby Vesoulis reports, “Legal Filings Allege Rep. Max Miller Made “False Statements” to an Ohio Court.”
The Republican is accused of misrepresenting evidence to get a civil protection order against his ex-wife Emily Moreno.
• Toledo and the West Bank. The Toledo Blade’s Alex Bracken reports, “Area businessman’s family under siege by West Bank settlers.”
Loui Ridi has spent the past five days watching security footage of Israeli settlers surrounding his home in the West Bank, where his brother and nephew are rationing supplies to survive.
Mr. Ridi, president of Ridi stores, says Israeli settlers have set up a tent in front of his home, putting his brother, Qusay Ridi, and his brother’s 18-year-old son, Ahmad Ridi, under siege.
“It’s literally under siege. Just imagine someone built a tent in front of your house and is not allowing you to go out, not allowing anyone to come in, or anyone try to be close or the settlers attack them,” Mr. Ridi said.
The two Ridis are without electricity after settlers cut power lines, and are running out of food and water.
• Truck drivers. The Columbus Dispatch’s Nathan Hart reports, “Ohio part of recent Trump crackdown on immigrant truck drivers.”
Officials with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Immigration & Customs Enforcement and Homeland Security Investigations were in Ohio for three days at the end of July as part of the second wave of Operation Highway Shield, a Trump administration crackdown on “unqualified foreign [semi-truck] drivers,” according to the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT).
The enforcement blitz is the latest effort by President Donald Trump and his administration to crack down on immigrants with commercial truck driver’s licenses, whom Trump has repeatedly cast as unsafe or dangerous in his second term.
• The bodyguard. NPR reports, “Former bodyguard for Vivek Ramaswamy, wife, plead guilty to federal drug trafficking charges.”
A former bodyguard for Ohio Republican candidate for governor Vivek Ramaswamy has pleaded guilty to federal drug trafficking charges.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office said Justin Salsburey, 44, pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court in Columbus to participating in a narcotics conspiracy involving bulk amounts of fentanyl and methamphetamine in the mail.
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