Coast Guard admiral, DEA administrator defend strikes on alleged drug boats: "We're going to apply every single tool"

Coast Guard admiral, DEA administrator defend strikes on alleged drug boats: “We’re going to apply every single tool”

The U.S. Coast Guard on Wednesday offloaded a nearly 50,000-pound haul of cocaine worth more than $360 million, bringing it onshore at Port Everglades in southern Florida..  “It’s the most cocaine ever seized by a single cutter in one deployment. So business is good,” Adm. Nathan Moore, the commander of Coast Guard Atlantic Area, said…

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Trump administration sues California for banning federal agents from wearing face coverings

Trump administration sues California for banning federal agents from wearing face coverings

The Department of Justice is suing California over two recently enacted laws that would prohibit federal agents from wearing facial coverings and require them to identify themselves while conducting their duties.  The lawsuit filed Monday argues California’s laws violate the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause, under which federal laws take precedence over state laws. The Trump administration also…

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Amelia Earhart records released by U.S. include her last known communications and search locations for missing aviator

Amelia Earhart records released by U.S. include her last known communications and search locations for missing aviator

The U.S. National Archives has published a batch of newly declassified government records on Amelia Earhart, the American aviator who vanished over the Pacific in 1937, officials said. Earhart went missing while on a pioneering round-the-world flight with navigator Fred Noonan, and her disappearance is one of the most tantalizing mysteries in aviation lore. President…

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Hundreds of National Guard members to leave Portland, Chicago, source says

Hundreds of National Guard members to leave Portland, Chicago, source says

Hundreds of National Guard troops that were dispatched to Portland, Oregon, and Chicago, Illinois, from California and Texas in response to protests over the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown will return to their home states, a Defense Department official confirmed to CBS News Saturday. Last month, about 200 federalized California National Guard soldiers were sent to…

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Trump administration appeals ruling blocking National Guard troop deployment in Portland

Trump administration appeals ruling blocking National Guard troop deployment in Portland

President Trump’s administration on Friday appealed a ruling from a federal judge in Oregon that barred it from deploying the National Guard to Portland. The ruling last week from U.S. District Court Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, followed a three-day trial in which both sides argued over whether protests at the city’s U.S. Immigration…

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Robert Alexander

Why Donald Trump’s BBC Defamation Claim Is Doomed To Fail: Attorneys

President Donald Trump’s threatened $1 billion lawsuit against the BBC over an edited broadcast of his January 6, 2021, speech would confront formidable legal obstacles, according to Mark Stephens CBE, a leading international media lawyer. In an exclusive interview with Newsweek, Stephens said Trump’s claim “isn’t the legal hill to die on—it might just as…

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