Black farmers denied funds despite Sherrod spotlight
The Senate again blocked $1.2 billion for black farmers and $3.4 billion for American Indian settlements in an emergency spending bill. Republicans and Democrats blamed each other as the funding stalled ahead of elections. Thousands await checks from a decades-old civil rights dispute, with individual payments still to be determined.
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The U S authorities charged Jesus Quinones Baja California state attorney general office international liaison with sharing confidential information with drug traffickers and helping arrange arrests of rivals in a wide racketeering indictment. Forty three defendants faced murder kidnapping and other crimes linked to Fernando Sanchez Arellano a top Tijuana kingpin. Quinones 49 was arrested in San Diego amid a broader cross border crackdown that involved most arrests in California and four in Mexico.
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