It was envisioned to be the Mississippi River of South America. The Paraguay-Paraná waterway runs about 2,100 miles, connects at least 150 ports in five countries and serves as the most important ...

Debt-fueled spending sprees may ‘feel good’ today, but it’s like showering cocaine on an addict: it’s not compassion, it’s cruelty,” he wrote on social platform X. Ramaswamy is the co ...

Drug kingpin Rayful Edmond, infamous for running one of the largest cocaine operations in history, has died at age 60, the Bureau of Prisons confirmed to Time Magazine on Dec. 17, 2024.

Prosecutors had charged that he pulled in $2 million weekly from a vast drug-selling network that brought up to 1,700 pounds of cocaine into D.C. monthly during the late 1980s. In his heyday ...

On the northern shore of Jamaica, a new species shares a name with a famous special agent. Mazinger Z via Unsplash UPDATE: This story was updated to include a Temple University news release. The ...

He later became an informant. By Isabella Kwai Rayful Edmond, a drug kingpin who stoked a crack cocaine epidemic in Washington, D.C., in the 1980s and later cooperated with prosecutors to bring ...

A Kenyan woman who ingested 90 capsules containing cocaine worth Rs 14.2 crore has been arrested by customs officials at the Chennai Airport, authorities said on Tuesday. The woman was arrested ...

The indictment against Fainberg alleged that he intended to deliver it to a Colombian drug cartel, which hoped to use it to smuggle cocaine into the United States. Fainberg was uncooperative.

A D.C. cocaine kingpin who spent more than 35 years in prison has died at 60, just months after his release from prison, the Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed. Rayful Edmond, 60, was convicted ...

I was "blessed" with a scaly complexion all year round — yes, even in summer. But add in the dehydrating effects of being surrounded by the chillier air many of us are experiencing now ...

Hamilton police have arrested a 23-year-old in connection with the sale of cocaine and fentanyl — the latest in a recent blitz to get dangerous drugs off city streets. Police said Monday its ...

People convicted of possessing crack cocaine have historically been sentenced far more severely than if they had had the same amount of the drug in a powder form. The sentencing disparity "caused ...