Supreme Court to Consider Mexico’s Lawsuit Against U.S. Gun Makers
The justices will hear arguments in a $10 billion lawsuit by the Mexican government that claims gun makers are complicit in supplying drug cartels.
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Pentagon Sending Combat Forces to Help Secure Border
The troop mobilization indicates that President Trump is breaking with recent presidents’ practice of limiting deployments along the U.S.-Mexico border mostly to small numbers of active-duty soldiers and reservists.
Mexico Releases Cartel Operatives, Including Rafael Caro Quintero, Into U.S. Custody
The decision was said to be a signal that President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico planned to cooperate with the Trump administration in cracking down on the cartels.
Trump Officials Split Over How Hard to Go on Mexican Cartels
A Mexican delegation will meet in Washington on Thursday to finalize a security deal, as White House officials debate a strategy for fighting cartels and stemming the flow of drugs across the border.
Trump Names ‘Pardon Czar’ to Advise on Clemency
President Trump commuted Alice Johnson’s life sentence during his first term, and later pardoned her for her drug conviction. She will advise him on similar cases.
C.I.A. Expands Secret Drone Flights Over Mexico
The covert program, begun during the Biden administration and stepped up by President Trump, is hunting for the location of fentanyl labs.
How Trump Decided to Pardon Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht
Libertarian and crypto allies of Ross Ulbricht, who was serving a life sentence for distributing drugs on his Silk Road website, leveraged President Trump’s desire for political support to secure his release.
How Trump’s Plan to Label Some Drug Cartels ‘Terrorists’ Would Work
His administration would have more power to impose economic penalties and travel restrictions, and potentially even take military action inside foreign countries.
2 Americans Held in Afghanistan Are Freed in Prisoner Swap
In exchange, the Biden administration released an Afghan man convicted on narcotics charges in 2008.
Virginia Governor Criticizes Biden for Commuting Sentences of 2 Men
The men had been acquitted by a jury of the murder of a police officer, but the judge had concluded that they had been involved and sentenced them to life in prison.