Nation Aug 24 CIA sexual assault, battery case tried in public courtroom emboldens sexual misconduct reckoning A CIA officer trainee has been convicted in Virginia of attacking a female colleague with a scarf and kissing her inside a stairwell at the agency's headquarters in Langley.
World Aug 23 Sen. Rubio urges Biden administration to reject a former warlord’s extradition to Colombia Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio is calling on the Biden administration to reject Colombia's request for extradition of a former warlord after he was named a peace envoy in the South American nation.
Health Jul 19 DEA official resigns amid reports of previous Big Pharma consulting work Louis Milione’s four years of consulting for Big Pharma preceded his 2021 return to the DEA to serve as Administrator Anne Milgram’s top deputy, renewing concerns in the agency and beyond about the revolving door between government and industry and…
Health May 26 Drug distributor that failed to flag suspicious opioid orders gets license revoked after yearslong delay The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration stripped one of the nation's largest drug distributors of its license to sell highly addictive painkillers Friday.
Politics May 24 DEA’s failure to punish drug distributor blamed in opioid crisis raises revolving door questions The DEA has allowed one of the nation's largest drug distributors to keep shipping addictive painkillers for nearly four years despite a judge's recommendation to strip its license for turning a blind eye to thousands of suspicious opioid orders.
World Feb 05 Political turmoil in Peru threatens decades of relative financial stability The violence following President Pedro Castillo’s Dec. 7 impeachment and arrest has revived class and racial divisions and has many Peruvians wondering whether the country's long period of uneasy economic stability has run its course.
Politics Jan 31 House Democrats urge Biden to suspend aid to Peru over protest crackdown Some House Democrats are urging the Biden administration to suspend all U.S. aid to Peru over a “pattern of repression” of antigovernment protests that has resulted in more than 50 civilian deaths.
World Jan 11 Biden under pressure to expel Bolsonaro after riot in Brazil The Biden administration is under growing pressure from leftists in Latin America as well as U.S. lawmakers to expel Jair Bolsonaro from a post-presidential retreat in Florida following an attack by his supporters on Brazil’s capital.
World Jan 04 Former Bolivian interior minister receives stiff jail sentence for bribes A former Bolivian interior minister has been sentenced in the United States to nearly six years in prison for taking at least $532,000 in bribes to help a Florida company win a lucrative contract to sell tear gas to his…
Politics Dec 19 WATCH: Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso meets with Biden at the White House President Joe Biden says the U.S. is looking to expand and strengthen its relationship with Ecuador, one of its staunchest allies in South America and a country that's also getting plenty of attention from China.