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Close Maduro Associate Alex Saab Faces Money Laundering Charge After Deportation to U.S.

The charge stems from alleged corruption detailed in the 2024 FRONTLINE-Armando.info investigation 'A Dangerous Assignment.’ ...
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Venezuela Says It Deported a Close Ally of Maduro to Face Criminal Proceedings in U.S.

Venezuela’s government says it has deported Alex Saab, a close ally of Nicolás Maduro, to face judicial proceedings in the ...
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A Protester Threw a Snowball. Federal Agents Responded With Tear Gas and Pepper Balls.

Five days after an ICE agent fatally shot activist Renee Good, tensions were running high in the Minneapolis neighborhood where she was killed. As federal immigration agents surrounded and questioned ...
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Inside the Trump Administration’s Unprecedented Pressure Campaign on the Fed

President Trump wanted the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates. Fed Chair Jerome Powell refused. Then came the insults, ...
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Where to Watch FRONTLINE’s Documentary on Trump’s Fight With the Federal Reserve

President Trump has mounted an unprecedented attempt to exert control over the most powerful institution in the U.S. economy.
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Trump Calls for an End to U.S. Sanctions Against Syria Under New President. Who Is Ahmad Al-Sharaa?

President Donald Trump met with Syria’s interim president, Ahmad al-Sharaa, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on May 14, a day after saying that he would order an end to U.S. sanctions on Syria in order to ...
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The President vs. the Fed

FRONTLINE examines President Donald Trump’s unprecedented attempts to assert control over the most powerful institution in the U.S. economy: the Federal Reserve. From filmmakers James Jacoby and Anya ...
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The Problem with “Broken Windows” Policing

A child walks past graffiti in New York City in 2014. New Police Commissioner Bill Bratton has made combating graffiti one of his top priorities, as part of the Broken Windows theory of policing. For ...
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In Hundreds of Deadly Police Encounters, Officers Broke Multiple Safety Guidelines

This combination of images from body-camera videos shows police encounters with, top row from left, Jeffrey Melvin in Colorado in 2018, Johnathan Binkley in Tennessee in 2019; bottom row from left, ...
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Where Are the Yazidis Today, Almost a Decade After ISIS’ Genocidal Campaign?

People attend a funeral ceremony for 41 members of the Yazidi community, who were executed by ISIS militants in 2014, in front of a memorial monument in Sinjar in northwestern Iraq on January 24, 2024 ...
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‘Trying to Silence Us’: Salvadoran News Outlet El Faro Says Bukele Government Has Frozen Some Assets

The news comes a month after FRONTLINE and El Faro released a documentary on Bukele’s dealings with El Salvador’s gangs. (L-R) El Faro editor-in-chief Carlos Dada and El Faro journalists Carlos ...
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Myanmar Declares a ‘Zero Tolerance’ Policy for Cyberscams. But the Fraud Goes On

Myanmar’s military leadership has vowed to crack down on cyberscam centers, starting with the notorious KK Park. This combination of satellite image shows KK Park along Myanmar’s border with Thailand ...