Sebastián Marset is among the world's most important drug traffickers. But while authorities hunted him across the globe, he was hiding in plain sight: Marset was the starting midfielder on a professional soccer team he had purchased. Part 1 of our series: wapo.st/3WsKUqc

NEW: Tense election raises concerns of new Venezuelan exodus to U.S. with Samantha Schmidt⁩ washingtonpost.com/world/2024/07/…

NEW: Behind the scenes as Joe Biden lost control of the Democratic Party. A long read on the nightmare July for the party of "unity" w/ Tyler Pager Josh Dawsey Ashley Parker Paul Kane and Marianna Sotomayor washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

🚨🚨SCOOP --- Before a gunman got close to killing Donald Trump at a Pa. rally, the U.S. Secret Service denied repeated requests from worried agents on Trump's security detail seeking more protection for him at other events. The Secret Service and director had earlier claimed to

The Secret Service has encouraged the Trump campaign to stop holding large, outdoor rallies after the assassination attempt in Pennsylvania on July 13. washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

Mexican politics is so reactive to anything posted on Twitter President AMLO lamented today the fake passing of Jimmy Carter. 👇

Just like in 2022, more questions about the Secret Service, DHS, and OIG w ⁦Jacqueline Alemany⁩ Watchdog for Homeland Security alleges stonewalling at DHS on Jan. 6 attack - The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/national-secur…

NEW: THE STAGGERING RISE OF AMERICA'S GLOBAL ECONOMIC WARFARE 1st in a series Federica Cocco & I found: 1. ~1/3 of all nations on Earth now face some form of US sanctions. Huge increase from when mostly applied to Cuba & a handful of regimes 2. +*60%* of *all poor countries*

Excited to share our deep dive on the influx of Chinese migrants at the southern border w Nick Miroff and very talented photographer Li Qiang - unpacking why people are risking their lives to flee the world's second largest economy washingtonpost.com/immigration/in…

Migrants from China ‘walk the line’ to U.S. border, testing Biden and Xi. Special Report by Cate Cadell Nick Miroff Li Qiang et al The Washington Post wapo.st/46r8ozs

Wyoming mayoral candidate vows to let an AI bot run Cheyenne — wild story via ⁦Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff⁩ washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

An elite rock climber went blind. Then he relearned to climb sheer rock faces without vision. Here's our piece on Jesse Dufton: an account of human achievement and a love story between two climbers. washingtonpost.com/world/interact…

Trump held his border wall event last week along a section of barrier built during the Obama admin. Plus some borderlands straight talk from rancher John Ladd. Great story via Isaac Arnsdorf Marianne LeVine ⁦Erin Patrick O'Connor⁩ washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

NEW Judge halts Biden program offering legal status to undocumented spouses washingtonpost.com/immigration/20…

NEW lawmakers investigating assassination attempt visit Butler Pa site, say no evidence shooter didn’t act alone — with ⁦Carol Leonnig⁩ washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/08…

A federal judge in Texas has frozen President Joe Biden’s attempt to offer a path to citizenship to hundreds of thousands of immigrants who are married to U.S. citizens and living in the United States illegally. wapo.st/475lti0

As we expected, Thomas Crooks had no bipods and no magnified optic when he took shots at Trump, among other missteps that probably helped prevent further death. Photo via FBI

The lead architect of President Joe Biden’s border strategy is not Vice President Kamala Harris, despite persistent Republican claims to the contrary. That role belongs to a little-known policy adviser named Blas Nuñez-Neto. wapo.st/3ANafTo

On today's A1, our profile of Blas Nuñez-Neto, the Biden policy advisor who has helped engineer a dramatic turnaround at the border, shoring up one of the Democrats' biggest vulnerabilities heading into Nov election washingtonpost.com/immigration/20…

How China extended its repression into an American city wapo.st/4e8r4qd