The move deepened the idea that a Vietnam-era law, which says congressionally unauthorized deployments into “hostilities” must end after 60 days, does not apply to airstrike campaigns.

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The U.N.’s human rights chief condemned deadly military attacks on vessels near South and Central America and called for an independent investigation.

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Even if critics who call President Trump’s boat attacks “murder” are right as a matter of law, it would not be easy to get the matter into a court.

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Indictments described two rings that together hawked millions of doses of heroin, fentanyl or crack cocaine in the park and on social media apps like TikTok and Snapchat.

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Zhi Dong Zhang, who escaped house arrest in Mexico this summer, is accused of supplying cartels with fentanyl from China, smuggling and money laundering millions under the alias “Brother Wang.”