President Donald Trump said the United States will take direct action against Mexican drug cartels, claiming they are “running Mexico” and that drugs crossing the border kill about 300,000 Americans each year.

FILE - A view of the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse in Washington, Sept. 22, 2014. WASHINGTON (AP) — A Mexican drug cartel member accused of faking his death to avoid capture was sentenced Thursday to more than 11 years in U.S. prison for his money ...

Thomas V. Cash, a charismatic Drug Enforcement Administration official who ran its Miami field division during a cocaine-soaked era and as a supervisor helped take down the Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega and the Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, died on Dec. 25 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He was 85.

Eight bullet holes in a tight pattern are spread across the passenger window of an SUV where a man was found dead inside on Dec. 9 in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico. (Jason Burles/CBC - image credit) A mule grazed on a recent Thursday afternoon at the end of a ...