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While Asian Immigrants Work, Burglars Target Their Homes

Some law enforcement officials say they think organized crime rings from South America, in particular from Colombia, are responsible for the crime sprees.

© Celeste Noche for The New York Times

Law enforcement officials and prosecutors met with Asian residents in October at a public safety forum in Eugene, Ore.
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Justice Dept. Memo Blessing Boat Strikes Is Said to Rely on Trump’s Claims About Cartels

Accounts of a secret Justice Department memo offer a window into how administration lawyers approved the president’s desired course of action.

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The Trump administration has insisted that its boat strikes are lawful, telling Congress in September that Mr. Trump had “determined” that the United States was in a noninternational armed conflict.
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Mafia Member Recruited Son’s Friends for Gambling Ring, Prosecutors Say

Prosecutors say the New Jersey man farmed out his betting operations, and that some participants were college athletes. Gambling charges are on the rise throughout collegiate and professional sports in the United States.

© Dave Sanders for The New York Times

Matthew J. Platkin, the New Jersey attorney general, said the multimillion-dollar sports betting operation had unfolded despite the fact that sports gambling was legal in the state.
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Oklahoma inmate’s life spared moments before scheduled lethal injection

Republican Kevin Stitt commutes Tremane Wood’s death sentence to life in prison for 2002 murder of Ronnie Wipf

Tremane Wood, the 46-year-old death row inmate who faced execution on Thursday in Oklahoma, has had his life spared just minutes before he was set to receive a lethal injection.

Kevin Stitt, the state’s Republican governor, accepted the Oklahoma pardon and parole board’s recommendation that Wood’s sentence be commuted to life in prison without parole. It is just the second time during Stitt’s nearly seven years as governor that he has granted clemency.

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