Court-appointed lawyers and their clients face fallout from government shutdown, funding crisis

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The longest U.S. government shutdown in history is officially over, but the fallout will continue to hit two groups particularly hard for months to come: federally funded defense lawyers and the people they represent. Thousands of co…

24 people charged in money laundering scheme involving Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, prosecutors say

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A five-year investigation by U.S. officials has uncovered a complex partnership between one of Mexico’s most notorious drug cartels and Chinese underground banking groups in the U.S. that laundered money from the sale of fentanyl, cocaine and other drugs, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. Associates of the powerful Sinaloa Cartel conspired with […]