Border officers in California discover $10M worth of meth, cocaine in vats of jalapeo paste

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December 18, 2023

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A 28-year-old driver was busted last week after border officers in Southern California discovered over $10 million worth of narcotics hidden inside a shipment of jalapeo paste, authorities said.

Border officers at the Otay Mesa Cargo Facility encountered the driver hauling vats of jalapeo paste in a commercial tractor-trailer just after 10:30 a.m. Wednesday,US Customs and Border Protection(CBP) said.

The driver, who officials say is a valid border crossing card holder, was referred to a secondary area for further examination along with his rig and its shipment, the agency said.

A CBP K-9 unit inspected the shipment and alerted officers to what border officials described in a post on X as a “hot find.”

A total of 349 suspicious packages were discovered inside the barrels of jalapeo paste, the agency said. 3 A K-9 alerted officers to inspect the shipment of jalapeo paste more closely. U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Testing of the packages revealed they contained 3,161.43 pounds of methamphetamine and 522.5 pounds of cocaine.

The estimated street value of the drugs is $10.4 million, according to the agency.

Border officers seized the drugs and tractor-trailer while the driver was turned over to Homeland Security Investigations for further processing. 3 A total of 349 suspicious packages were discovered inside the barrels of jalapeo paste. U.S. Customs and Border Protection 3 The 28-year-old driver was turned over to Homeland Security Investigations for further processing. U.S. Customs and Border Protection

No further details about the driver were immediately provided.

“Our K-9 teams are an invaluable component of our counter-narcotics operations, providing a reliable and unequaled mobile detection capability,” Otay Mesa Port Director Rosa Hernandez said, adding that the agency will continue to protect communities and “stifle growth of transnational criminal organizations, one seizure after another.”

The agencys San Diego Field Office seized a total of more than 14,000 pounds of narcotics in November.

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Crypto rules for mortgages must reflect self-custody reality

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July 19, 2025

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Crypto rules for mortgages must reflect self-custody reality

The FHFA directive on crypto in mortgage risk assessments risks excluding self-custodied assets, potentially increasing counterparty risk for homebuyers.

Technology

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang sells an additional $12.94 million worth of shares

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July 19, 2025

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang sells an additional .94 million worth of shares

Jensen Huang, co-founder and CEO of Nvidia Corp., speaks during a news conference in Taipei on May 21, 2025.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang sold 75,000 shares on Friday, valued at about $12.94 million, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Friday’s sale is part of a plan adopted in March for Huang to sell up to 6 million shares of the leading artificial intelligence company. Earlier this week, Huang sold 225,000 shares of the chipmaker, totaling about $37 million, according to a separate SEC filing. The CEO began trading stock per the plan last month.

Surging demand for AI and the graphics processing units that power large language models has significantly boosted Huang’s net worth and pushed Nvidia’s market capitalization beyond $4 trillion, making it the world’s most valuable company.

Nvidia announced this week that it expects to resume sales of its H20 chips to China soon, following signals from the Trump administration that it would approve export licenses. Earlier this year, U.S. officials had stated that Nvidia would require special permission to ship the chips, which are specifically designed for the Chinese market.

“The U.S. government has assured NVIDIA that licenses will be granted, and NVIDIA hopes to start deliveries soon,” the company said in a statement on Tuesday. Huang said during a news conference on Wednesday in Beijing that he wants to sell chips more advanced than the H20 to China at some point.

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Hubble Uncovers Multi-Age Stars in Ancient Cluster, Reshaping Galaxy Origins

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July 19, 2025

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Hubble Uncovers Multi-Age Stars in Ancient Cluster, Reshaping Galaxy Origins

Astronomers call ancient star clusters like NGC 1786 “time capsules” for their galaxy, preserving some of its oldest stars. A new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope offers an unprecedented close-up of this dense cluster 160,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Hubble’s data show that NGC 1786 contains stars of different ages – a surprising find, since such clusters were once thought to hold a single stellar generation. This multi-age discovery is reshaping our view of how galaxies built their first stars, and suggests more complex early history.

Mixed-Age Stars in a Galactic Time Capsule

According to the official source, this Hubble image shows the globular cluster NGC 1786, a ball of densely packed stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud about 160,000 light-years from Earth. Astronomers captured this picture as part of a program comparing ancient clusters in nearby dwarf galaxies (like the LMC) with clusters in our own Milky Way. The surprising discovery is that NGC 1786 hosts stars of multiple ages. In fact, astronomers expected all stars in such a cluster to form at the same time, so finding multiple stellar generations was unexpected. This suggests even ancient clusters in other galaxies have more complex, layered histories than scientists expected.

Clues to Galaxy Evolution

For astronomers, the discovery provides clues to galaxy formation. Each globular cluster is like a snapshot of its galaxy’s past, so finding multiple stellar generations implies the Large Magellanic Cloud built its stars in stages rather than all at once. By comparing NGC 1786 to clusters in the Milky Way, researchers can retrace how both galaxies assembled their oldest stars. As one NASA scientist notes, this study “can tell us more not only about how the LMC was originally formed, but the Milky Way Galaxy, too”. Overall, the discovery supports a picture of gradual galactic growth through multiple waves of star formation and mergers, rather than a single early burst.