As the U.S. tracks suspected Venezuelan gang members, a look at a a group that’s helping
A small team of Venezuelans and former U.S. officials with deep connections to police and intelligence in the South American ...
Synthetic drugs, crypto, social media redefining cartels
Much has changed since Omar Arellano was busting drug dens in northern New Mexico as part of the Drug Enforcement ...
The truth about Tren de Aragua, the gang at the center of Trump's immigration crackdown
The Trump administration says the group should be treated as an invading force. Critics say it’s a pretext for the ...
He came to Minnesota from Mexico’s narco capital. Now he’s a star in college wheelchair basketball.
Just as Southwest Minnesota State’s wheelchair basketball team began its season in November, Emmanuel Fuentes Cervantes, the reigning national collegiate player of the year, came into his coach’s ...
U.S. Consolidates Position Among Highest-Spending Cities
In 2020, there were five U.S. entries among the cities with the biggest consumer spending in the world. This will grow to six ...
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Five Big Texas Cities Lack Enough Money to Pay Their Bills
Despite continuing to increase taxes on residents, five of Texas’ largest cities are in the red, according to an analysis by Truth in Accounting, a Chicago-based nonpartisan fiscal transparency ...
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FBI applauds Mexico’s arrest and handover of ’10 Most Wanted’ gang figure
Mexico has also stepped up operations against the Sinaloa cartel, a main trafficker of fentanyl to the United States. President Claudia Sheinbaum has worked to show U.S. President Donald Trump ...
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Borderlands in limbo
In Mexican border cities, the scene at migrant shelters is ... national guardsmen to the border and hundreds more troops to Sinaloa state, a major fentanyl trafficking hub. Officials and those ...
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Indian chemical firm, executives indicted in US over illegal fentanyl precursor imports
Additionally, between August and September 2024, VPC and the undercover agent negotiated a four-metric-tonne purchase of the chemical N-BOC-4P, with two metric tonnes destined for Sinaloa ...