Less than three years after President Joe Biden pardoned a close ally of Nicolas Maduro, the Justice Department is once again targeting the businessman, The Associated Press has learned, an investigation that could bolster the U.S. prosecution of the deposed Venezuelan leader.
President Donald Trump's top immigration officials appeared before Congress Tuesday for the first time since the shooting deaths of two American citizens in Minneapolis, seeking to defend their officers' actions as their agencies face intensifying scrutiny over nationwide immigration enforcement operations.
The Trump administration has stopped flying a rainbow flag at the Stonewall National Monument, angering activists who see the change as a symbolic swipe at the country's first national monument to LGBTQ+ history.
Republican lawmakers decried Tuesday what they said were invasive tactics in the investigation of President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election, pressing representatives from leading telecommunications companies about their role in providing prosecutors with phone records of certain sitting members of Congress.
Three Idaho families who are U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents are suing after they and hundreds of others were detained for hours during an aggressive immigration raid at a rural horse racing track last year.
Democrats are refusing to extend the latest deadline to fund the Department of Homeland Security, all but guaranteeing the department will shut down at midnight Friday.
Immigrant rights groups are seeking to toss out a Republican lawsuit that would prohibit the U.S. Census Bureau from counting people who are in the U.S. illegally during the 2030 census.
Two thousand miles across nearly 40 states, from New Mexico to Maine, Winter Storm Fern delivered ice, snow, and bone-chilling cold. More than 200 million people were impacted. Nearly 1 million lost power. Grid operators, utility planners, and policy analysts will remember Fern for its stress-testing of the grid. The grid passed, but net-zero energy […]
Last week, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act represents “Jim Crow” segregation laws because it would require states to obtain proof of citizenship in person when people register to vote. “I have said it before, and I’ll say it again, the SAVE Act would impose Jim Crow-type laws to […]
Most countries have failed to improve perceptions of public corruption within their borders over the last decade, a new survey found. Transparency International, a Berlin-based anti-corruption advocacy group, ranked 182 countries from across the globe on the basis of perceived public sector corruption in their latest annual survey for 2025. Only 31 of these countries...
Super Bowl LX drew an average audience of more than 124 million viewers, the second most of any in history, and set a new record for peak viewership during Bad Bunny's halftime show, according to NBC, which cited Nielsen Media Research data. The network said viewership peaked in the second quarter of the game at...
Presented by the Coalition to Strengthen America's Healthcare {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Legal pressures mount for Hims & Hers over GLP-1 sales The major telemedicine platform Hims & Hers is facing increased pressure from both the federal government and a major drugmaker due to its sale of popular compounded GLP-1 medications. ...
French President Emmanuel Macron has accused President Trump of seeking the European Union’s “dismemberment.” Macron called the Trump administration “openly anti-European,” said it has displayed “contempt” when it comes to the EU and has wanted “its dismemberment” in a recent interview with multiple European outlets, according to the Financial Times. “When there’s a clear act...
