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Eric Hagen

South Dakota jury finds consultant not guilty in pot case

A South Dakota jury on Wednesday cleared a consultant of drug charges after he helped an American Indian tribe grow marijuana ...

Justice watchdog says DEA botched deadly Honduras missions

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration misled the public, Congress and Justice Department officials about an aggressive yet ...

Chief: Boy called police to say father had drugs in luggage

Authorities in Massachusetts are praising an 11-year-old boy who called police to report that his father had drugs in his ...

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Trump, Santos Pledge Cooperation in Drug Fight

President Donald Trump vowed to collaborate with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on drug trafficking and the ongoing ...

Rex Tillerson

Tillerson: US must deal with demand to stem drug violence

Two top Trump administration officials said Thursday that Americans' demand for illicit narcotics is fueling violence in ...

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Coast Guard Seizes 18.5 Tons of Cocaine

The crew of the Coast Guard Hamilton brought in 18.5 tons of cocaine to Port Everglades. The drugs were seized during 20 ...

Coast Guard unloads $500M in cocaine from 20 seizures

The U.S. Coast Guard unloaded cocaine in South Florida worth nearly $500 million from 20 separate seizures in the eastern ...

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Top US, Mexican Officials Discuss Drugs, Crime

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly hosted a strategic dialogue with Mexico on ...

Native American tribe's cannabis consultant to face trial

Roughly two years after an American Indian tribe began an ambitious push to open the nation's first marijuana resort in South ...

Ex-reality TV star faces Phoenix hearing over arrest warrant

A court hearing is scheduled Friday over an arrest warrant for a former reality television star accused of vehicle theft and ...

Rash of media murders highlights deadly threats in Mexico

A journalist is shot dead as she pulls out of her garage in the morning with her young son. Gunmen ambush another journalist ...

'This is a democracy': Int'l court may be next for Duterte

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte acknowledged Tuesday that allegations he induced extrajudicial killings in his war on ...

Journalist Javier Valdez shot to death in Mexico drug state

Javier Valdez was driving in broad daylight down a street he must have known well, just a block from his office, when he ...

Noted journalist Javier Valdez killed in Mexico's Sinaloa

Javier Valdez, an award-winning reporter who specialized in covering drug trafficking and organized crime, was slain Monday ...

Xavier Becerra

California officials criticize 'stupid' US drug crackdown

California's attorney general and state lawmakers again moved Monday in the opposite direction from the Trump administration, ...

Rand Paul

Appalachia's approach to drugs at odds with AG policy

In Appalachian states hit hardest by the opioid epidemic, the tough-on-crime policy announced Friday by U.S. Attorney General ...

Jeff Sessions

Attorney general sparks fear with push for harsh sentences

The nation's federal prosecutors should bring the toughest charges possible against most crime suspects, Attorney General ...

Jeff Sessions

US prosecutors told to push for more, harsher punishments

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is directing federal prosecutors to pursue the most serious charges possible against the vast ...

The Latest: Sessions' predecessor slams sentencing policy

The Latest on Attorney General Jeff Sessions' directive to seek toughest charges possible (all times local): 11:50 a.m.

Man gets 5 years in prison after death of dermatologist

A man who pleaded guilty to a drug charge after a New York dermatologist died of cocaine and alcohol intoxication in his ...