{
  "id": 729334,
  "title": "US News: Colombian President relies on US aid in fight against drugs, according to Hegseth",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/usa-kolumbiens-prasident-setzt-laut-hegseth-auf-us-hilfe-im-anti",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-13T04:04:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Handelsblatt",
    "slug": "handelsblatt",
    "url": "https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/international/usa-kolumbiens-praesident-setzt-laut-hegseth-auf-us-hilfe-im-anti-drogen-kampf/29669594.html"
  },
  "original_language": "de",
  "account": "A plane has entered a temporary no-fly zone in the US state of Ohio during a visit by US President Donald Trump. F-16 fighter jets intercepted the civilian plane and escorted it safely out of the restricted airspace, the relevant military command (Norad) announced. Flare cartridges were also used to get the pilot's attention.\n\nTrump visited a sports event in Geneva, Ohio, on Tuesday evening (local time). To protect US presidents, temporary no-fly zones are often imposed at their locations.\n\nA US federal judge has prevented the US Postal Service from implementing parts of a directive by President Donald Trump. The directive aims to tighten the rules for postal voting before the congressional elections in November.\n\nWith her nationwide decision in Boston, the judge extended a previous order from June. This had prevented the implementation of the directive in 23 predominantly Democrat-led states. Several civil rights groups had called for an extension of the ban.\n\nIn her reasoning, the judge, an appointee of Democratic President Barack Obama, wrote that the executive branch of the federal government had no authority to regulate elections.\n\nThis responsibility was assigned to the individual states by the US Constitution.\n\n\"The fact that there are now less than 90 days until the congressional elections on November 3, 2026, underscores the urgent need for a preliminary injunction,\" the judge wrote.\n\nThe directive had required states to submit lists of eligible voters who could receive absentee ballots. If the states had not complied, the US Postal Service would have refused to deliver the ballots.\n\nThe White House and the Justice Department initially did not respond to requests for comment.\n\nAt the behest of President Donald Trump, the US government health care system will no longer pay for operations and hormone treatments for transgender children and adolescents.\n\nMany other medical treatments will also no longer be supported, according to Mehmet Oz, head of the government health systems Medicare and Medicaid.\n\nTreatment of mental health problems was exempt.\n\nThe new rules are to take effect on October 13.\n\nWhile Medicaid was created as a health program for people with lower incomes, Medicare focuses on seniors and people with disabilities.\n\nThe billing of services through the programs makes up a significant portion of the revenue of many clinics.\n\nThere is no comprehensive health insurance like in Germany in the United States.\n\nUS President Donald Trump has extended the exemption from a federal law for sea trade in US waters for another 90 days.\n\nThis allows foreign ships to continue transporting goods such as oil, fertilizers, and other fossil fuels between US ports.\n\nTrump had first suspended the so-called Jones Act on March 17 to facilitate the transport of oil and refined fuels between US ports and reduce price pressure after the start of the war with Iran.\n\nThe latest extension takes effect on August 17.\n\nUnder the Jones Act, goods between US ports must be transported on ships under the US flag.\n\nThe law, which dates back to the 1920s, was originally intended to protect the US shipbuilding industry.\n\nCritics blame it, among other things, for higher gasoline prices.\n\nUS President Donald Trump wants to significantly reduce vaccination recommendations for children and distribute previous combination vaccinations over several doctor visits in the future.\n\nWith a new order, Trump announced that his administration would only recognize vaccinations against eleven diseases as central recommendations for all children.\n\nIt was initially unclear whether the order would have immediate effects.\n\nA similar restructuring was provisionally stopped by a federal court in March, and many vaccination rules are also in place in the states.\n\nA US judge on Monday dismissed the charges of fraud and bribery against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani.\n\nJudge Nicholas Garaufis thus granted a motion by the US Department of Justice, which had announced in May that it would no longer pursue the case.\n\nThe judge had previously examined whether promises had been made in return for the discontinuation of the proceedings.\n\nThis particularly concerned an announcement by Adani from November 2024 to invest $10 billion in the US.\n\nIn a sworn statement in mid-July, Adani assured that he was not aware of any such agreements.\n\nA high-ranking representative of the Department of Justice also rejected media reports that the investment pledge had played a role.\n\nAdani had been charged in 2024.\n\nHe was accused of bribing Indian government officials to obtain approval for a solar power plant.\n\nHe was also accused of deceiving US investors about his company's anti-corruption guidelines.\n\nThe Adani Group had always denied the allegations.\n\nThe Department of Justice justified its move by stating that the allegations were difficult to prove, the facts took place mainly abroad, and did not correspond to the authority's current priorities.\n\nThe decision is part of a series of dropped economic crime cases during the second term of US President Donald Trump.\n\nAdani's lawyer stated that the department had made it clear that the company's willingness to invest in the US would not be part of a settlement.\n\nThe Pentagon has called on representatives of the US arms industry to accelerate the production and delivery of weapons.",
  "summary": "US fighter jets intercept plane during Trump's visit to Ohio Trump: spokeswoman Leavitt to leave at end of month US immigration authority apparently planning electric shock gloves The news blog.",
  "key_points": [
    "US President Donald Trump reduced COVID-19 vaccine recommendations for children.",
    "US law extension for 90 days on maritime trade regulation.",
    "Federal judge dismissed fraud and bribery case against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani."
  ],
  "editors_take": "The US Justice Department's dismissal of a fraud and bribery case against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani reflects a pattern of dropped economic crime cases during President Donald Trump's second term.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}