Polls suggest most voters trust Trump more to handle the border and immigration. A survey conducted last month by Decision Desk HQ and News Nation found 46 percent of registered voters trust Trump more. Twenty-six percent had more faith in Biden, and 13 percent said they were not sure.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Thursday announced major steps to combat the opioid crisis, including sanctions taken against several people affiliated with a Mexican criminal organization officials say is known for trafficking fentanyl and other drugs into the United States

The telegram, addressed to Henry E. Battle, a prominent physician in Andalusia, Ala., was dated April 14, 1918; the time stamped 2:34 a.m. “The Navy Collier Cyclops on which your son, Lee Otis Battle, seaman second class, U.S.N., was a member of the crew is overdue at an Atlantic Port since March thirteenth.”

Tropical Storm Alberto formed on Wednesday in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico, the first named storm of what is forecast to be a busy hurricane season. Alberto is bringing strong winds, heavy rainfall and some flooding along the coasts of Texas and Mexico, reported three deaths from the storm’s rains.

Nearly 400 National Guard troops in California are now deployed in a mission to stop people from smuggling fentanyl into the state at its southern border with Mexico, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office announced.

The chief of the National Guard Bureau said Tuesday that stationing Guard members on the U.S.-Mexico border detracts from their military mission and underutilizes troops.

The USS St. Louis left Naval Station Mayport, Fla., on Saturday on its first deployment. The primary mission for the Freedom-variant littoral combat ship will be to counter illicit drug trafficking in the Caribbean.

Canadian lawmakers “knowingly or through willful blindness” accepted money from foreign powers, colluded with foreign officials to “improperly” interfere in parliamentary business to “the advantage of the foreign state” and gave information obtained in confidence to a foreign intelligence officer.

Plans by the U.S. Navy to deploy a nuclear submarine to Cuba this week were considered so routine, little thought was given to the move within the U.S. government — until the Biden administration learned of Russia’s plans to dock one of its own in Havana at the same time.

A Canadian navy patrol ship sailed into Havana early on Friday, just hours after the United States announced a fast-attack submarine had docked at its Guantanamo naval base on Cuba, both vessels on the heels of Russian warships that arrived on the island earlier this week.

U.S. Southern Command said the USS Helena, a nuclear-powered fast attack submarine, pulled into the waters near the U.S. base in Cuba on Thursday, just a day after a Russian frigate, a nuclear-powered submarine, an oil tanker and a rescue tug crossed into Havana Bay.

A team of divers in Atlantic Canada has found the Quest, the ship on which renowned polar explorer Ernest Shackleton died in 1922, the Royal Canadian Geographical Society said Wednesday.

A former U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer was found guilty in San Diego federal court of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes in exchange for allowing smugglers to bring drugs and undocumented migrants through his inspection lane at the San Ysidro Port of Entry.

A longtime Department of Defense Education Activity employee is facing child exploitation charges after prosecutors alleged that he placed a hidden camera in a girls’ bathroom at an elementary school in Puerto Rico.

Russian naval vessels practiced hitting targets with long-distance missiles in simulated drills in the Atlantic Ocean ahead of a planned visit to Cuba.

The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Resolute returned to its St. Petersburg, Fla., homeport Saturday after a 60-day patrol of the Caribbean during which the crew stopped drug smugglers and helped in rescue efforts.

The Cuban armed forces announced Thursday that Russia will dock three naval vessels and one nuclear-powered submarine at the port in Havana next week.

The United Nations General Assembly on Thursday elected Denmark, Greece, Pakistan, Panama and Somalia to the 15-member U.N. Security Council for two-year terms starting on Jan. 1, 2025.

Garry Conille, the longtime United Nations civil servant tapped to lead Haiti’s latest political transition, finally made his way back to his country on Saturday.