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Fentanyl pills are displayed at a Drug Enforcement Administration research laboratory on Tuesday, April 29, 2025, in Northern Virginia. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, file)

Justice Department watchdog to review DEA tactic that permitted deadly fentanyl to hit streets

August 17, 2026 at 3:24 p.m.

The U.S. Justice Department’s internal watchdog on Monday announced a review of a controversial tactic in which federal law enforcement allowed fentanyl to hit the streets to build bigger cases...

FBI director Kash Patel testifies before the Senate Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies hearing on Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request for the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration; the United States Marshals Service and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives the on Capitol Hill, Tuesday May 12, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Emails show FBI Director Kash Patel’s Hawaii trip included ‘VIP snorkel’ at a Pearl Harbor memorial

May 14, 2026 at 2:10 p.m.

When Kash Patel visited Hawaii last summer, the FBI took pains to note the director was not on vacation, highlighting his walking tour of the bureau’s Honolulu field office and...

Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-Ill, speaks during a news conference to introduce The Full Body Restraint Prohibition Act on Capitol Hil, Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Citing AP investigation, new bill seeks to prohibit DHS from using full-body restraints

February 25, 2026 at 11:41 a.m.

The Department of Homeland Security would be barred from using a full-body restraint device called the WRAP under a new bill introduced in the House on Wednesday.

FILE – Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson, center, answers questions during a news conference at the Minneapolis federal courthouse, Wednesday, March 19, 2025, after a jury found the alleged ringleader of a massive pandemic fraud case guilty on all counts. (Kerem Yücel/Minnesota Public Radio via AP, File)

How a defendant in Minnesota went free because of Justice Department turmoil

February 19, 2026 at 10:52 a.m.

The federal prosecutor’s office in Minnesota has been gutted by a wave of career officials resigning or retiring over objections to Trump administration directives.

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)

Minneapolis mourns ICU nurse killed by a Border Patrol agent as a warmhearted neighbor and caregiver

January 25, 2026 at 5:03 p.m.

As Minneapolis mourned the intensive care nurse killed by Border Patrol officers in a hail of gunfire, those who knew Alex Pretti came forward Sunday to dispute the narrative of...

People gather for a vigil after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a woman earlier in the day, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Bruce Kluckhohn)

Woman killed by ICE agent in Minneapolis was a mother of 3, poet and new to the city

January 8, 2026 at 6:06 a.m.

The woman shot and killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis was Renee Nicole Macklin Good, a 37-year-old mother of three who had recently moved to...

FILE – Wilma Fuentes yells at Customs and Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino and some of his agents as they walk through a neighborhood during an immigration crackdown, in Kenner, La., Dec. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Records reviewed by AP detail online monitoring, arrests in New Orleans immigration crackdown

December 8, 2025 at 8:32 a.m.

State and federal authorities are closely tracking online criticism and protests against the immigration crackdown in New Orleans, monitoring message boards around the clock for threats to agents while compiling...

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)

President Donald Trump says stopping suspected drug boats doesn’t work. But the US reports record cocaine seizures.

November 15, 2025 at 12:33 p.m.

In justifying American military strikes on boats suspected of smuggling drugs, President Donald Trump has asserted that the longtime U.S. strategy of interdicting such vessels at sea has been a...

This photo provided by Safe Restraints Inc., in October 2025, shows a custom version of the WRAP restraining equipment made for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. (Safe Restraints via AP)

ICE’s use of full-body restraints during deportations raises concerns over inhumane treatment

October 14, 2025 at 8:35 a.m.

The AP found ICE has used the WRAP device despite internal concerns voiced in a report by U.S. Department of Homeland Security's civil rights division.

Charlie Kirk hands out hats before speaking at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, on Sept. 10, 2025. (Tess Crowley/The Deseret News)

Charlie Kirk’s shooting death exposes security gaps at political events

September 11, 2025 at 2:01 p.m.

The assassination of Charlie Kirk offers the latest example of how ordinary security measures can be defeated in an era of escalating political violence, when anyone associated with the political...

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