When Luis Manuel Aviles was arrested by immigration authorities, his son was entering his ninth month on the USS Abraham Lincoln with the Navy - a vessel that set a U.S. military record for uninterrupted time at sea, stirring concerns about supply shortages and deteriorating mental health among soldiers.
A sailor onboard the USS Abraham Lincoln on Saturday said his father was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Joshua Aviles has spent roughly nine months deployed at sea due to the Iran war amid reported shortages of clean water, food and supplies. “I’ve been deployed for over nine months, out at sea in...
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) repudiated his Republican colleagues on Wednesday for opposing his effort to force the Justice Department (DOJ) to publicly release information on the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In remarks to CNN’s Manu Raju, the leader of the GOP rebellion warned his colleagues that they’re making a political mistake. “I care...
Google scored a much-needed win Tuesday when a federal judge ruled the tech giant could hold on to its Chrome browser, rejecting the wide-ranging penalties proposed by the Department of Justice (DOJ). The government had asked U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta to order Google to sell the browser, alongside numerous other remedies, after he found...
A Wisconsin judge who is accused of helping a migrant evade arrest by federal immigration agents will stand trial in December. The trial for Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan, who was indicted on two counts in May, had her trial set for Dec. 15 on Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman. The...
The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to rescue President Trump’s tariffs invalidated by lower courts. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit struck down the bulk of Trump’s tariffs in a 7-4 decision last week, ruling the president can’t use emergency powers to justify levies imposed on dozens of trading partners. “The...
The director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Russell Vought, said on Wednesday that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) should not exist. "We're not big fans of GAO. They are a quasi-legislative independent entity and something that shouldn't exist,” Vought said while addressing attendees at the National Conservatism Conference in Washington, D.C., according...
The Texas state Senate approved a bill to allow people to sue anyone who makes or distributes abortion medication in and outside of the state, and the legislation now heads to Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R) desk. Senators voted 17 to 8 in favor of House Bill 7, which allows private citizens to receive up to $100,000...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said she got “a lot” of pushback from the White House over supporting a discharge petition aiming to force the administration to release all of the documents related to late, disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “Oh, I got a lot of pushback. I got phone call after...
House Democrat Gwen Moore (Wisc.) took a hit at Republicans over their plan to rebrand President Trump's mega spending bill, comparing the decision to the recent uproar over Cracker Barrel's temporary logo change. "Republicans 'One Big, Beautiful Bill' is so unpopular they're being instructed by Donald Trump to start calling it the 'working families tax...
President Trump on Thursday will host two dozen high-profile tech and business leaders for the first event in the newly renovated White House Rose Garden, including Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and OpenAI founder Sam Altman, according to an invite list obtained exclusively by The Hill. The Rose...
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) compared the modern-day political landscape to the pre-World War II era in the United States, pointing specifically to tariffs and foreign policy. In an interview published Wednesday with a local Kentucky newspaper, the Lexington Herald-Leader, McConnell reflected on his storied career in the Senate as the Republican leader and said he...
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