Gov. Tina Kotek won’t expand restrictions on undercover Oregon plates to agencies helping ICE

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://lincolnchronicle.org/gov-tina-kotek-wont-expand-restrictions-on-undercover-oregon-plates-to-agencies-helping-ice/

Trump administration tells prosecutors to avoid criminal probes of acting Venezuelan president
The Trump administration has quietly instructed federal prosecutors in Miami to avoid pursuing criminal investigations into Venezuela's acting President Delcy Rodríguez, a longtime target of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, according to current and former U.S. law enforcement officials — the latest...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/delcy-rodriguez-venezuela-trump-prosecutors-9.7214651?cmp=rss
The Big Questions About Jeffrey Epstein: What The Times Has Learned

Here is what we know about the sexual predator whose secrets spurred an international reckoning over money, power and complicity. Check back for updates.

The New York Times

Chicago Sun-Times - All | Hombre chino ayudó a enviar $3 millones a cárteles mexicanos en operativo de lavado de dinero en Chicago by Frank Main

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The article reports that Chinese national Weiliang Zheng pleaded guilty in a Chicago federal court to helping a money‑laundering network move roughly $3 million of illicit drug proceeds from Chicago to Mexican cartels through China. From 2016 to 2018 Zheng and his alleged accomplice Di Xiong Luo collected cash from Chicago‑area drug sales, counted it, and transferred it to a Chinese contact using “mirror‑exchange” schemes that moved equivalent funds from U.S.‑based Chinese couriers into Chinese bank accounts and then to Mexican accounts to evade U.S. banking detection. Zheng faces a minimum sentence of about 70 months; Luo remains awaiting trial. The case is part of a larger U.S. crackdown on Chinese‑run laundering operations that have been supplanting Mexican money‑launderers for the cartels, with other figures such as Xianbing Gan and Haiping Pan receiving lengthy prison terms for similar schemes.

Read more: https://chicago.suntimes.com/la-voz/2026/05/11/hombre-chino-ayudo-a-enviar-3-millones-a-carteles-mexicanos-en-operativo-de-lavado-de-dinero-en-chicago

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Hombre chino ayudó a enviar $3 millones a cárteles mexicanos en operación de lavado de dinero en Chicago

La DEA comenzó a ver en 2015 a lavadores de dinero chinos reemplazando a los mexicanos. Weiliang Zheng podría enfrentar al menos 70 meses de prisión por ayudar a mover ganancias ilegales provenientes de drogas de Chicago a México a través de China.

Chicago Sun-Times

At Trump’s Summit in Miami, Bolivia Makes a Political U-turn Toward the U.S.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/world/americas/bolivia-us-relations-trump-paz.html

Via #CBS - Feb 26, 2026

Senator calls for #DEA 2 provide info on "incredibly disturbing" Epstein drug investigation.

A leading Sen #Democrat is calling on US #DrugEnforcementAdministration 2 provide info on a long-running, long secret, investigation in2 possible #DrugTrafficking & suspicious financial transactions involving #JeffreyEpstein & 14 allegd co-conspirators..basd on heavily redacted 69-page DEA memo found in #EpsteinFiles.

#MoneyLaundering #SexTrafficking

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey-epstein-dea-drug-trafficking-investigation-senator-wyden/

Senator calls for DEA to provide info on "incredibly disturbing" Epstein drug investigation

Federal drug enforcement investigators targeted Jeffrey Epstein and 14 others in a yearslong probe first reported by CBS News.

Hedges Report: America the Rogue State
https://consortiumnews.com/2026/01/07/hedges-report-america-the-rogue-state/
Iraqis, a million of whom were killed during the U.S. war and occupation, know what comes next for Venezuela. The reigning gangsters will use the threat of death and destruction to procure subservience. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost The ruling class of…
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Hedges Report: America the Rogue State

Iraqis, a million of whom were killed during the U.S. war and occupation, know what comes next for Venezuela. The reigning gangsters will use the threat of death and destruction to procure subservience. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost The ruling class of the United States, severed from a fact-ba

Consortium News

A Pardon and a Prosecution in New York Show Trump’s Personal Geopolitics

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/world/americas/trump-maduro-juan-orlando-hernandez.html