North America

Under the leadership of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the cartel revolutionized the various methods used to smuggle drugs and launder money.

Twenty-eight calls for help in the past two years have sent the Coast Guard scrambling off the Maryland coast — but in each case the call turned out to be a hoax that originated from the same person. The Coast Guard said in a press release Friday that it has spent $500,000 responding to the […]

Perry Coniglio was arrested Tuesday in his room adjoining the victim’s at a motel in Highlands. The motel sits next door to the police station in the Hudson Valley town, about 50 miles north of New York City. Coniglio, 43, used brute force and intimidation to get the mentally diminished veteran to cooperate with him, […]

Goias, appearing subdued, said, “I just want it to be over. I don’t agree with it, but you know what, I am out of jail, and I don’t ever have to see these people again.”

And with such methods being considered as “regular” by members, a woman operative recently arrested in California referred to as ‘La Peque’ by Mexican tabloids confessed to having sexual intercourse with corpses while working for the Los Zetas cartel.

A West Palm Beach man first talked with an FBI informant a year ago about his desire to travel to Syria to help the terrorist cause of America’s No. 1 foreign enemy, the Islamic State. Gregory Hubbard, also known as “Jibreel,” told the informant that he had a local friend “in touch” with a Syrian […]

The only time the public has heard Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl explain in his own voice why he left his base in Afghanistan — to expose problems in his Army unit, he said, and to “prove to the world” his soldiering skills — was on taped interviews broadcast on the podcast “Serial.” Now, Army prosecutors trying to send Sergeant Bergdahl […]

During a discussion at the Brookings Institution last week on identifying emerging security threats, CIA Director John Brennan said the bedlam in Syria has become one of the most intricate issues the US faces. “I must say in my experience in working in Middle Eastern issues, Syria is the most complex, complicated issue I have ever had to deal with,” Brennan […]

The White House will revisit a 2015 ban on police forces getting riot gear, armored vehicles and other military-grade equipment from the U.S. armed forces, two police organization directors told Reuters on Thursday. Shortly after the recent shooting deaths of police officers, President Barack Obama agreed to review each banned item, the two law enforcement […]

In 2001, Hanssen was arrested when he was caught leaving packages of secret U.S. intelligence at a dead drop site outside Washington in Vienna, Virginia.

Police took about a dozen people into custody Wednesday evening as scuffles broke out during a flag-burning protest in the streets outside the Republican National Convention. It was the most turbulent protest since the four-day convention began on Monday. The chaos briefly prevented delegates and members of the media from getting into the Quicken Loans […]

Activists from Black Lives Matter, Westboro Baptist Church and the KKK were in the square and, at one time, were said to be throwing urine at each other.