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Citizen Frank
August 12, 2025
Good evening. Itās Tuesday, August 12.
Mexico is handing over 26 top cartel leaders to the United States this week in a deal with the Trump administration.
The cartel figures were scheduled to fly to the U.S. on Tuesday.
āToday is the latest example of the Trump administrationās historic efforts to dismantle cartels and foreign terrorist organizations,ā Attorney General Pam Bondi told Fox News Digital.
The Texas House Democrats who abandoned their state in protest of the Republican-led redistricting effort will return home after Gov. Greg Abbott (R) took āemergency actionā to begin removing the absent legislators as they refused to show up for work.
Multiple sources revealed the news to ABC13 on Tuesday, though the exact date the Democrats will return to the state capitol in Austin was not confirmed.
The state House had only 95 members present for the second day in a row on Tuesday, with Speaker Dustin Burrows (R) predicting that the session will end and a new one will start assuming there is no quorum on Friday, the outlet noted.
Russian troops achieved one of the biggest breakthroughs of the war in eastern Ukraine, with some units making it through Kyivās primary defensive line just days ahead of President Donald Trumpās peace summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska.
Since September 2022, the war in Ukraine has largely been marked by slow, attritional warfare between entrenched combatants, with advances marked by meters rather than miles. Moscow has mastered this attritional form of fighting, using a combination of small assault squads, first-person view drones, artillery, and glide bombs to wear down Ukrainian fortifications slowly. Over the weekend, this strategy finally bore fruit when Russian forces achieved one of the largest breakthroughs of the war, advancing nearly 10 miles, past Ukraineās main line of defenses in Donetsk oblast.
The pro-Ukrainian mapper DeepState, which compiles its maps from open-source intelligence and testimonies from Ukrainian soldiers, added the unprecedented advance to its map on Sunday, located between the two major axes of advance around the strongholds of Pokrovsk and Konstantynivka.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been sidelined from peace talks between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin Friday because the Russian leader extended the invitation to meet, according to the White House.
āThe president is agreeing to this meeting, at the request of President Putin,ā White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Tuesday. āAnd the goal of this meeting for the president is to walk away with a better understanding of how we can end this war.ā
āI think the president of the United States getting in the room with the president of Russia ,sitting face-to-face rather than speaking over the telephone will give this president the best indication of how to end this war and where this is headed,ā Leavitt said.
Most Ukrainians now favor ending the war with Russia through negotiations, as support for fighting until victory has dropped sharply since the early days of the conflict. Although their hopes for joining NATO and the European Union have faded and approval of U.S. leadership has plummeted, Ukrainians still see the EU, U.K. and U.S. as key to ending the war. Yet, most doubt that will happen anytime soon.
More than three years into the war, Ukrainiansā support for continuing to fight until victory has hit a new low. In Gallupās most recent poll of Ukraine ā conducted in early July ā 69% say they favor a negotiated end to the war as soon as possible, compared with 24% who support continuing to fight until victory.
This marks a nearly complete reversal from public opinion in 2022, when 73% favored Ukraine fighting until victory and 22% preferred that Ukraine seek a negotiated end as soon as possible.
An MS-13 gang member currently serving time for murder is now demanding to be ārecognizedā as a woman ā and is suing the President of the United States to make that happen.
According to a report published on Sunday by Reduxx Magazine, Oscar Contreras Aguilar was sentenced to serve 21 years in prison for the kidnapping and murder of a 14-year-old. He has filed a lawsuit against both President Donald Trump and the Bureau of Prisons, claiming that they have ārefused to recognizeā his gender identity.
Contreras Aguilar was a known member of Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) ā a transnational criminal gang known for ruthlessness and brutality ā under the alias āAtrevido.ā He was arrested in 2017 in connection with the 2016 murders of 17-year-old Edvin Mendez ā who was believed to be a member of a rival gang ā and 14-year-old Sergio Triminio, who Contreras Aguilar and other members of MS-13 believed was cooperating with law enforcement.
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