By Idrees Ali and Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden’s administration will temporarily send 1,500 additional troops to help secure the U.S.-Mexico border, the Pentagon said on Tuesday, in preparation for a possible rise in illegal immigration when COVID-19 border restrictions lift later this month. The 90-day deployment of active-duty troops will supplement the…
By Sarah N. Lynch and Jasper Ward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department announced on Tuesday the arrest of 288 suspects, as part of an international law enforcement operation aimed at curbing the illicit trafficking of fentanyl and other dangerous opioids on the dark web. The operation, dubbed Operation SpecTor, involved multiple law enforcement agencies…
By Kanishka Singh and Nate Raymond WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A former Harvard University professor was sentenced on Wednesday to six months’ house arrest for lying about his ties to a China-run recruitment program, prosecutors said, in one of the highest-profile cases resulting from a crackdown on Chinese influence on U.S. research. Charles Lieber, a renowned nanoscientist…
By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from a Texas inmate convicted of robbery who argues that the 27 years he was forced by prison officials to spend in solitary confinement violated the constitutional bar against “cruel and unusual” punishment. The justices turned away Dennis…
