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Gambinos and Other NYC Mob Families Are Still in Business

Four of the city’s five Mafia families were part of a high-tech scheme that netted $7 million, prosecutors said, by fleecing high rollers at illegal poker games.

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New York City’s organized crime families have become less visible, but they remain alive and well, investigators say.
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Trump Calls Off Federal Operation in San Francisco

President Trump said he had halted a planned federal deployment of immigration agents to the city. It was not clear what that meant for the rest of the Bay Area.

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People rallied on the steps of the San Francisco City Hall after President Trump called off a planned federal deployment in the city.
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NBA Gambling Scandal: What We Know

Two indictments detailed schemes involving sports betting and rigged poker games, prosecutors said. The link was current and former N.B.A. players and coaches.

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Chauncey Billups, the head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers, was among the former and current N.B.A. basketball players who were arrested on Thursday in connection with two illegal gambling investigations.
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Here Are the Defendants Named in the N.B.A. Gambling Indictments

More than 30 people were charged in what prosecutors said was a gambling scheme involving N.B.A. players and coaches.

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Federal and local law enforcement officials announced on Thursday dozens of arrests into what they described as illegal gambling schemes.
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N.B.A. Figures Charged in Gambling Schemes

Also, Trump halted his plan to send federal agents to San Francisco. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday.

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Damon Jones, Chauncey Billups, and Terry Rozier
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The U.S. and Europe Are Trying New Ways to Pressure Russia

For the first time in his second term, President Trump is imposing new sanctions, but they may not shift the course of Russia’s war in Ukraine.

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The headquarters of the Russian oil giant Lukoil in Moscow on Thursday.
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Trump’s Sanctions on Russian Oil Sector Ratchet Up Economic War

After months of restraint, President Trump’s move to blacklist Lukoil and Rosneft will hit Russia where it hurts.

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The moves to impose new sanctions demonstrate the extent of President Trump’s frustration with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.
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