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Ryan Wedding represented Canada at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

He was indicted in the United States in 2024 on federal criminal charges including cocaine conspiracy and murder.

Prosecutors allege that Wedding heads a drug trafficking network that has shipped massive amounts of cocaine to the United States and Canada and has orchestrated multiple murders to further its drug business.

The FBI added Wedding to its top 10 most wanted fugitive list in March, and in November, the State Department upped the reward money for information leading to his arrest to $15 million.

Now, Attorney General Pam Bondi says Wedding is in custody and has been flown to the United States to face justice.

Ryan Lucas, NPR News, Washington.

The Washington Post says in a new court filing that the Trump administration's search of reporter Hannah Nathanson's Virginia home and the seizure of her confidential news gathering materials violate the Constitution's free speech protections and should not be allowed to stand.

The paper urges the court to order the immediate return of all the seized materials, including two computers, a cell phone, and an external hard drive.

FBI agents seized those items during a court-authorized search last week as part of an investigation into a defense contractor.

Magistrate Judge William Porter set a hearing for early next month on the Post's legal challenge and has ordered the government to preserve, but not review, the materials taken in the search until the court authorizes it to do so.

Ryan Lucas, NPR News, Washington.

The FBI searched the home of Washington Post journalist Hannah Nathanson, who has been one of the newspaper's lead reporters on the Trump administration's efforts to reshape the federal workforce.

In a post on social media, Attorney General Pam Bondi did not identify Nathanson by name, but said the FBI executed the search warrant at the home of a Washington Post reporter who is receiving classified information from a Pentagon contractor.

The FBI search sparked immediate concern among First Amendment advocates.

The president of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Bruce Brown, called the search, quote, a tremendous escalation in the administration's intrusions into the independence of the press.

Ryan Lucas, NPR News, Washington.

The ruling from U.S.

District Judge Lorna Schofield applies to John Sarkone, the top federal prosecutor in the Northern District of New York.

In her 24-page ruling, the judge says Sarkone was not lawfully serving in the position because the Justice Department did not follow statutory rules to put him in the post.