A Venezuelan migrant accused of fatally shooting Loyola student Sheridan Gorman was flagged as a flight risk before being released at the border in 2023.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Sunday his country could feasibly defend itself in the event of a U.S. ground incursion. “For the time being we are capable enough. We have very brave soldiers, who are waiting for any enemy who enters into our soil to fight with them, and to kill them and destroy...
Iranian clerics elected the son of the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as the next leader of the country, Iranian state media reported Sunday, as the U.S. and Israel continue to pummel the country with military strikes. Mojtaba Khamenei was elected by a body of 88 Iranian clerics in the wake of the death...
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) on Sunday did not commit to either supporting or opposing additional funding for the Pentagon amid the war in Iran. “We'll cross that bridge when we get to it in terms of if the administration makes a request to Congress to consider additional funding,” Jeffries told host Kristen Welker...
A week after President Trump launched strikes against Iran, Democrats are digging in against reopening the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) without significant reforms to the agency. Party leaders are amplifying their demands for tougher rules governing agents of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Rank-and-file Democrats appear to...
House Republicans will gather Monday at President Trump’s Doral, Fla., resort for a three-day issues conference aimed at charting their legislative agenda for the year ahead and sharpening their message for the 2026 midterm elections. The meeting comes after a turbulent week for the GOP conference. Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) confessed to having an affair...
Sections of Kansas City International Airport were evacuated Sunday, the airport said in a social media post. “The Kansas City Aviation Department is aware of a situation at Kansas City International Airport (MCI). As a precaution, the department has evacuated sections of the Airport Terminal,” the airport said in an afternoon post on the social...
A seventh U.S. service member has died in the conflict with Iran, U.S. Central Command (Centcom) announced Sunday. Centcom wrote on the social platform X that the service member passed away “from injuries received during the Iranian regime’s initial attacks across the Middle East” on Mar. 1. The service member was “seriously wounded at the...
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) on Sunday said Democrats want to fund several agencies housed under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with the exception of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP). “Let's just pass those funding bills. Let's confine the ICE and CBP reform discussion just to those two agencies...
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz urged the public to allow for an investigation into the deadly strike on an Iranian girls' school last week. “Let’s let the investigation play out,” Waltz told host Kristen Welker on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” Neither the U.S. nor Israel has taken responsibility for the strike in...
Two states didn't "spring forward" an hour on Sunday. More than a dozen others are vying to join them in locking the clocks on year-round standard time.
A device ignited at a Saturday protest at New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s (D) home, Gracie Mansion, was explosive, according to police. “The NYPD Bomb Squad has conducted a preliminary analysis of a device that was ignited and deployed at a protest yesterday and has determined that it is not a hoax device or...
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) on Sunday said White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller was “calling the shots” at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) under DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, and he said Miller will continue to remain in control after her departure. Noem was ousted from her role on Thursday after facing months...
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz said Sunday that President Trump has not ruled out putting boots on the ground in Iran, as joint U.S.-Israeli strikes against the Middle Eastern country continue into a second week. “I'm not going to get ahead of those conversations. I could tell you, unlike his predecessors, both...
Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Sunday that the Trump administration’s policy toward Russian oil has not changed, despite Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent lifting some restrictions on the commodity earlier this week. “The United States' policy towards Russia has not changed at all,” Wright told host Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union.” On Thursday,...
