Trump Says He Will Not Seek Authorization for Cartel Strikes
The president said he would bypass Congress rather than ask for approval for his military campaign against drug traffickers, even as he said it would expand from sea to land.Read More
Protester Who Played ‘Star Wars’ Song Sues After Arrest in Washington
Sam O’Hara was playing the “Imperial March” theme from the movie while protesting the deployment of National Guard troops in the capital when he was handcuffed by city police officers.Read More
Trump Official Says U.S. Can House Migrants at All of Its Overseas Bases
A Justice Department lawyer made the claim in response to a challenge to the administration’s use of the base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to hold detainees designated for deportation.Read More
Tensions Mount as Agents, Including Gregory Bovino, Clash With Chicagoans
Mr. Bovino, a Border Patrol leader, appeared to use tear gas during a confrontation with residents on Thursday. Plaintiffs in a suit over federal tactics say that violated a court order.Read More
U.S. Charges N.B.A. Figures in Gambling Schemes That Tainted Games
Terry Rozier, a Miami Heat guard, and Chauncey Billups, coach of the Portland Trail Blazers, were among those arrested. Two indictments spanned the worlds of professional sports, Mafia families and online betting.Read More
Trump Calls Off Federal Operation in San Francisco
President Trump said he had halted a planned federal deployment of immigration agents to the city. It was not clear what that meant for the rest of the Bay Area.Read More
NBA Gambling Scandal: What We Know
Two indictments detailed schemes involving sports betting and rigged poker games, prosecutors said. The link was current and former N.B.A. players and coaches.Read More
Here Are the Defendants Named in the N.B.A. Gambling Indictments
More than 30 people were charged in what prosecutors said was a gambling scheme involving N.B.A. players and coaches.Read More
Gambinos and Other NYC Mob Families Are Still in Business
Four of the city’s five Mafia families were part of a high-tech scheme that netted $7 million, prosecutors said, by fleecing high rollers at illegal poker games.Read More
The U.S. and Europe Are Trying New Ways to Pressure Russia
For the first time in his second term, President Trump is imposing new sanctions, but they may not shift the course of Russia’s war in Ukraine.Read More