Finland's President is usually up by 5 am for triathlon training and a sauna. These days, his morning routine is often interrupted by a call from Donald Trump: “Why are you up already?” My latest from Helsinki on the unexpected—and high-stakes—bond between the two presidents

Thousands of federal agents once tasked with investigating drug smuggling, sexual exploitation and organized crime have been redirected to immigration enforcement. https://t.co/B1OsnstHr8 via @WSJ

Fishermen in Trinidad and Tobago feel their lives are at risk given the ongoing U.S. strikes and escalation of tensions with Venezuela. Trump, “is giving instructions to shoot and kill people…What could we do? We’re just a little dot.”

“Screening, inspection, and interdiction suffer,” says Jason Houser, a former ICE chief of staff. He says CBP officers are “used to chase landscapers and line cooks 1,000 miles from the nearest border.”  https://t.co/reHWrQl8SO

A federal team in El Paso that pursued child traffickers has been disbanded. A Kansas task force focused on stemming the flow of fentanyl has been redirected. Highway checkpoints on major drug-trafficking routes near the SW border have gone unstaffed

New with @Stevelfisher: Thousands of federal agents once tasked with investigating drug smuggling, sexual exploitation, and organized crime have been redirected to immigration enforcement under President Trump’s second-term push to accelerate deportations

Complex drug smuggling and child trafficking cases are have been abandoned as law enforcement agents are sent out to find migrants for deportation instead. With the great @VeraMBergen

Thousands of federal agents once tasked with investigating drug smuggling, sexual exploitation and organized crime have been redirected to immigration enforcement. 🔗 https://t.co/9R83O4hWQ9

Trump: "In recent weeks the Navy has supported our mission to blow the cartel terrorists the hell out of the water. You see that. And you know, there are no boats in the water anymore. We can't find any ... what we're doing is actually an act of kindness." https://t.co/HhlZulUvPF

Pete Hegseth’s emphasis on physical prowess comes as experts say future wars will depend more on cutting-edge technology, precision strikes and AI with ⁦@VeraMBergen⁩

Just a day after the closed-door briefing, Trump declared in a confidential notice to Congress that the U.S. is in a “non-international armed conflict” with the cartels. @laraseligman @alexbward

Senators on both sides of the aisle pressed the Pentagon’s top lawyer in a closed-door meeting to provide a better legal explanation for striking alleged Latin American drug boats in the Caribbean, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

President Trump has decided that the US is engaged in a formal “armed conflict” with drug cartels his admin has labeled terrorist organizations, and that suspected smugglers for such groups are “unlawful combatants,” per confidential notice to Congress https://t.co/Itg0r4OeEo

Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua are once again being excluded from the Summit of the Americas, a regional meeting of leaders from across the hemisphere.

A Ukrainian team is in Washington this week to craft a landmark agreement with the Trump administration that would involve Kyiv sharing its battle-tested drone technology with the U.S. in exchange for royalties or other forms of compensation

Canadians with gender neutral passports warned they may no longer be accepted at the U.S. border

The U.S. will provide Ukraine with intelligence for long-range missile strikes on Russia’s energy infrastructure, American officials said, as the Trump administration weighs sending Kyiv powerful weapons that could put in range more targets within Russia.

ICE had made only 85 arrests in Washington from Jan. 20 through the end of July. But from early August until mid-September, ICE made around 1,200 arrests, according to officials with knowledge of the data. We detail how that happened: https://t.co/fkHJnevnZC

EU leaders agreed to keep working on a plan to put hundreds of billions of dollars in Russian cash to use—without Kyiv ever needing to repay a cent. If approved, the proposal would reverse a policy on seized Russian assets from the war’s early days

The expiration of the so-called HOPE/HELP trade program is expected to crush what is left of Haiti’s biggest industry, which accounted for 90% of exports in a country mired in a gang war that has stoked hunger& generated a refugee crisis @kejalvyas

Some of the recent ICE recruitment ads posted by the Trump administration: "Safeguard Americanism" "Defend Your Culture" "For Humanity and Civilization"