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The Secret Service said the driver was arrested and there was no longer a threat. President Trump was in the White House at the time, the Secret Service said.
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Dozens of federal officers descended on the sidewalks of Lower Manhattan on Tuesday, detaining nine people and drawing protests.
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In recent weeks, the United States has conducted several deadly airstrikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean Sea, which the Trump administration has claimed, without providing evidence, were being used to traffic drugs. A group of United Nations experts said U.S. strikes targeting boats in the Caribbean off the coast of Venezuela amount to "extrajudicial executions."
"There seems to be a much bigger political context behind this than really going after drug traffickers, which seems to be … not at all the main goal of the U.S. administration," says Guillaume Long, senior research fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research and former foreign minister of Ecuador. Long says "regime change in Venezuela" and anger over Colombian President Gustavo Petro's pro-Palestinian politics are also motivating factors in the U.S. campaign. Meanwhile, Manuel Rozental, a Colombian physician and activist, says the drug war is about economic control.
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Paul Ingrassia withdrew after a number of GOP senators said they would not back him following reports about his racist texts.
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Officials said immigration officers had fired shots after the man rammed a law enforcement vehicle. The immigrant and a deputy marshal were wounded in the shooting.
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(First column, 5th story, link)
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The feuding reflected rising tensions in Latin America over U.S. attacks in the Caribbean. President Trump's administration had already slashed aid to Colombia this year.
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