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FILE – This June 13, 2016, file photo shows Drug Enforcement Administration agents in Florida. A current U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent and a former supervisor in the agency were indicted Friday, May 20, 2022 on federal charges accusing them of leaking confidential law enforcement information to defense lawyers in Florida in exchange for cash and gifts. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP) FLORL501 FLORL501

May 20, 2022 at 11:35 am

Veteran Miami DEA agents charged in bribery conspiracy

A current U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent and a former supervisor in the agency were charged Friday with leaking confidential law enforcement information to narco...

May 10, 2022 at 9:18 am

Mexico president threatens to skip Americas Summit

Mexico’s president says he won't attend next month’s Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles if the Biden administration excludes Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua.

May 5, 2022 at 9:29 am

Ruling threatens US power as world’s high-seas drug police

A little-noticed federal appeals court ruling this year threatens a key weapon in the United States’ war on drugs: A decades-old law that gives the...

May 5, 2022 at 9:17 am

Ruling threatens US power as world’s high-seas drug police

A little-noticed federal appeals court ruling this year threatens a key weapon in the United States’ war on drugs: A decades-old law that gives the...

May 4, 2022 at 10:49 am

‘Corrupt to core’ Caribbean premier gets bond in drug case

A federal judge in Miami has ruled that the premier of the British Virgin Islands can be released on a $500,000 bond, following his arrest...

May 2, 2022 at 11:39 am

British Islands premier asserts immunity in cocaine case

The premier of the British Virgin Islands is demanding his immediate release from U.S. custody, arguing he is immune from prosecution on cocaine-smuggling charges because...

May 2, 2022 at 8:51 am

Appeals court thwarts Maduro ally’s claim of diplomat status

A federal appeals panel has thwarted an ally of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s attempts to be recognized as a foreign diplomat.

April 27, 2022 at 2:12 pm

US unlikely to invite Cuba, Nicaragua or Venezuela to summit

A senior State Department official says the Biden administration is unlikely to invite the leaders of Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba to the upcoming Summit of...

April 15, 2022 at 8:12 am

US seafood imports fuel Russian war machine

A U.S. ban on seafood imports from Russia over its invasion of Ukraine was supposed to sap billions of dollars from Vladimir Putin’s war machine.

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FILE – An Atlantic pollock sits on ice at the Portland Fish Exchange in Portland, Maine on Thursday, May 5, 2016. A U.S. ban on seafood imports from Russia over its invasion of Ukraine was supposed to sap billions of dollars from Vladimir Putinâ€™s war machine. But shortcomings in import regulations means that Russian-caught pollock, salmon and crab are likely to enter the U.S. anyway, by way of the country vital to seafood supply chains across the world: China. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File) NY450 NY450

April 15, 2022 at 8:04 am

US seafood imports fuel Russian war machine

A U.S. ban on seafood imports from Russia over its invasion of Ukraine was supposed to sap billions of dollars from Vladimir Putin’s war machine.

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