Jan. 17 (UPI) -- A drug interception this week at the Brownsville and Matamoros International Bridge resulted in officers finding $158,145 worth of heroin in a single enforcement action.

Jan. 17 (UPI) -- Michael Whatley was re-elected to lead the Republican National Committee on Friday as its chair after leading the GOP to the presidency and control of both chambers of Congress.

Jan. 17 (UPI) -- American officials on Friday slapped a Chinese company and a man affiliated with China's Ministry of State Security with sanctions for their roles in cyberattacks in December.

Jan. 17 (UPI) -- New York City Mayor Eric Adams is expected to meet with President-elect Donald Trump on Friday about challenges facing the nation's largest city in the face of his own legal woes.

Jan. 17 (UPI) -- A Russian court handed down prison sentences of between 42 and 66 months Friday to three lawyers of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny after they were convicted of aiding his Anti Corruption Foundation.

Jan. 17 (UPI) -- Officials in Monterey County, Calif., ordered an evacuation around the Moss Landing Power Plant, which caught fire Thursday.

Jan. 17 (UPI) -- President Joe Biden announced on Friday that he was commuting the sentences of nearly 2,500 people convicted of non-violent drug crimes who he believed were serving disproportionately long sentences.

Jan. 17 (UPI) -- The man who crashed a rented truck into barriers protecting the White House in an attempt to overthrow the U.S. government and replace it with a Nazi dictatorship has been sentenced to eight years in prison.

SEOUL, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- North Korea warned Friday that it would exercise its right to self-defense "more intensively" as it condemned recent joint air drills among South Korea, the United States and Japan.

Jan. 17 (UPI) -- The United States has sanctioned the leader of the Sudanese Armed Forces, accusing Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan of destabilizing the war-torn Northeast African nation and undermining peace efforts.