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By Sara Marcus
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Tugboats help the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy icebreaker into port, Nov. 30, 2018, following a four-month deployment to the Arctic Ocean. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
The Biden administration is facing a power struggle with China and Russia in a new realm: the Arctic.
The region has long been overlooked as the world powers focus on tension points such as Ukraine or North Korea, but the Arctic has become an area of increasing strategic importance.
Full of natural resources and gas reserves, the Arctic had the potential to become a major northern shipping route as ice floes melt, Fox News reported.
Coast Guard Cutter Legare returns to Portsmouth homeport after 50-day counter-narcotics deployment
U.S. Coast Guard photo by Chief Petty Officer Charly Tautfest
The Coast Guard Cutter Legare (WMEC 912) crew transferred 19 suspected smugglers to federal agents at Port Everglades, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, Dec. 7, 2020. The Legare crew patrolled the Eastern Pacific Ocean in support of an enhanced counter-narcotics operations in the Western Hemisphere to disrupt the flow of drugs in support of Presidential National Security Objectives.
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and last updated 2021-05-08 13:08:32-04
PORTSMOUTH, Va. - The Coast Guard Cutter Legare (WMEC 912) returned to its homeport of Coast Guard Base Portsmouth Thursday following a seven-week counter-narcotic patrol in the Central Caribbean.
Plainfield Jul 3, 2020
A Shelton man was arrested following a traffic stop in which a K9 found cocaine in his car, police said. The incident happened at approximately 5:21 p.m. on Thursday in the area of Wauregan Road. During a traffic stop, a police officer became suspicious that Alex Monteiro was in possession of narcotics. The officer and his K9, who is trained… Tijuana Jun 4, 2020
Major League Baseball will start testing for opioids and cocaine. But only players who do not cooperate with their treatment plans will be subject to discipline. Marijuana will be removed from the list of drugs of abuse and will be treated the same as alcohol as part of changes to the joint drug agreement between MLB and the players’ association.. Florida Nov 18, 2019