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NY Times – Politics

Officials said agents found weapons and illicit drugs inside the nightclub, including cocaine, methamphetamine and a mixture of powdered drugs known as pink cocaine. [...]

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s purse contained her driver’s license, government badge, passport and $3,000 in cash when it was swiped from an upscale burger restaurant. [...]

The children, 4 and 7, were put on a plane with their mother, who was deported. The family’s lawyer said the mother was given no choice but to take her children, which the Trump administration denied. [...]

A social worker, she became a Democratic Party insider and joined President Bill Clinton’s cabinet during his second term. [...]

The Treasury secretary said that the President Trump and Xi Jinping of China have a good relationship but that he was not aware of a call, which Mr. Trump had alluded to last week. [...]

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said there are reasons to be optimistic, but also asserted there are “other issues” on which the administration wants to spend its energy. [...]