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Gustavo Petro

Trump smacks Colombia with failing to cooperate in drug war for first time in nearly 30 years, stunning long-time ally

By Joshua Goodman, Astrid Suarez, and others

Signs at the side entrance to the FOX News Headquarters at NewsCorp Building in Midtown Manhattan.

From Los Angeles to Manila, prosecutors say $300 million voting machine helped fund Smartmatic’s foreign bribes

By Joshua Goodman, Jennifer Peltz, and others

FILE – Elon Musk attends the finals for the NCAA wrestling championship, Saturday, March 22, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, file)

Two of Elon Musk’s top DOGE hires are a married couple who worked at X and lived at Twitter’s HQ with their infant child

By Byron Tau, Joshua Goodman, and others

Workers enter the Bureau of Reclamation office Thursday, March 13, 2025, in Boise, Idaho. (AP Photo/Rebecca Boone)

DOGE’s frenetic rush to cancel government leases will hit dozens of federal offices by June and hundreds more over coming months: ‘It’s like a blitzkrieg’

By Ryan J. Foley, Joshua Goodman, and others

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump brings Susie Wiles to the podium at an election night watch party.

Trump’s incoming chief of staff—known as the ‘ice maiden’—faces a raft of special interests

By Brian Slodysko, Joshua Goodman, and others

FILE – Trump co-campaign manager Susie Wiles is seen at Nashville International Airport as Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump arrives, July 27, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Trump’s chief of staff is a former lobbyist. Now she’ll play the other side, policing special interests who want access to the president

By Brian Slodysko, Joshua Goodman, 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

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

Nancy Gonzalez

‘Egregious’—designer who smuggled purses made of python and caiman sentenced to 18 months in prison

By Joshua Goodman and The Associated Press

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

Fishing

Your seafood was probably produced by modern slaves, bombshell report on ‘widespread human rights crisis’ finds

By Joshua Goodman and The Associated Press

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

A jar of krill

From Antarctica to Tasmania, the debate over whether to fish a creature the size of a paper clip is key to saving the climate—and the humpback whales

By Joshua Goodman, David Keyton, and others

DEA

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

Joseph Ruddy

One of America’s top cocaine cops just blew a 0.17% blood-alcohol level and handed his business card to a cop wearing a bodycam

By Joshua Goodman, Jim Mustian, and others