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This undated photo provided by Michael Pretti shows Alex J. Pretti, the man who was shot by a federal officer in Minneapolis on Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026. (Michael Pretti via AP)

Alex Pretti, the 37-year-old man killed by Border Patrol in Minneapolis, was an ICU nurse at veterans hospital and had no criminal record

By Michael Biesecker, Tim Sullivan, and others

delcy

Trump accused Venezuela’s Maduro of massive drug dealing. The AP has receipts about the DEA’s probe of Delcy Rodriguez, too

By Jim Mustian, Joshua Goodman, and others

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Renee Good’s ex-husband describes her as no kind of activist whatsoever, she was heading home before ICE encounter

By Michael Biesecker, Jim Mustian, and others

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37-year-old mother of 3 shot and killed by ICE in Minneapolis was a U.S. citizen who had recently moved to the state

By Michael Biesecker, Jim Mustian, and others

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‘There are a lot of people concerned he’s not the same old Chuck Grassley’: Where has the oversight chief gone under Trump 2.0?

By Joshua Goodman, Jim Mustian, and others

FILE – President Donald Trump answers questions from reporters during a roundtable on criminal cartels in the State Dining Room of the White House, Oct. 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

The Coast Guard has seized a record amount of cocaine — while Trump says interdiction has failed and is blowing up suspected drug boats

By Joshua Goodman, Jim Mustian, and others

Trump

Trump, who mocked Biden’s use of autopen, caught posting identical signatures on pardons

By Jim Mustian, Brian Slodysko, and others

FILE – Debris covers the area of Camp Mystic in Hunt, Texas, Monday, July 7, 2025, after a flash flood swept through the area. (AP Photo/Eli Hartman, File)

FEMA removed dozens of Camp Mystic buildings from 100-year flood map before expansion, records show

By Ryan J. Foley, Christopher L. Keller, and others

A Camp Mystic sign is seen near the entrance to the establishment along the banks of the Guadalupe River in Hunt, Texas, Saturday, July 5, 2025, after a flash flood swept through the area. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Texas approved Camp Mystic’s disaster plans just 2 days before deadly flooding killed more than 2 dozen people there

By Jim Mustian, Christopher L. Keller, and others

CIA director William Burns stands in a courtroom

A veteran CIA officer reached up a colleague’s skirt and forcibly kissed her in front of co-workers, prosecutors allege in sexual misconduct case

By Jim Mustian, Joshua Goodman, and others

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is rushed offstage by U.S. Secret Service agents after being grazed by a bullet

Motive of man who tried to assassinate Donald Trump remains elusive as authorities hunt for clues

By Michael Biesecker, Alanna Durkin Richer, and others

Marijuana

Biden’s DEA to reclassify marijuana in historic shift that still doesn’t decriminalize it, sources say

By Zeke Miller, Joshua Goodman, and others

Manuel Rocha

Elite Miami lawyer hid in plain sight as a Yale graduate and top exec while spying for Cuba for 50 years: AP investigation

By Joshua Goodman, Jim Mustian, and others

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) headquarters are pictured in Langley, Virginia, on July 8, 2022. – US President Biden is visiting the CIA headquarters today to congratulate the Agency and staff on the 75th anniversary of its founding. (Photo by Samuel Corum / AFP) (Photo by SAMUEL CORUM/AFP via Getty Images)

Ex-CIA officer accused of drugging and sexually abusing two dozen women pleads guilty in the latest embarrassment for the spy agency

By Fu Ting, Jim Mustian, and others

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The FBI flipped DEA snitch ‘Bowling Ball,’ and he’s blowing the lid open on Miami’s ‘white powder bar’ of cocaine lawyers

By Joshua Goodman, Jim Mustian, and others