DHS revealed that a suspect who fled to China after allegedly planting a deadly explosive device at an important military base is the child of two Chinese illegal immigrants.
The Trump administration will move the headquarters for the U.S. Forest Service from Washington, D.C., to Salt Lake City, it announced Tuesday. In a press release, the Department of Agriculture said the move will also be accompanied by a “sweeping restructuring” at the agency. A department spokesperson told The Hill that 260 positions will move...
Ledford explained that he and Cawthorn were driving when he briefly fell asleep and then woke up when he crashed into a concrete barrier on the interstate.
The Iraqi government on Tuesday said that a foreign woman journalist was kidnapped and that it is pursuing operations to track down the perpetrators and secure her release. Iraq’s interior ministry said the woman was kidnapped in the evening and that security forces pursued the kidnappers, resulting in the interception of a vehicle, which overturned...
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon on Tuesday said the U.S. needs to wrap up its military operation in Iran, pressing the Trump administration to “finish it right” amid negotiations. “Now, I don't know what the military knows. I don't know what President Trump knows. I just think now we've got to finish this thing and finish...
ATLANTA - A month into the primary election victory of progressive organizer Analilia Mejia, she is preparing for yet another voting day. Mejia secured a victory last month in a crowded Democratic primary for the U.S. House seat vacated by New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D). Mejia is a former staffer of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who campaigned for her, and...
New York Times correspondent Maggie Haberman said Monday that Americans are “confused” by President Trump’s plans to wind down the war with Iran, as the conflict reaches 32 days on Tuesday. “What exactly the endgame here is hasn’t been articulated,” Haberman, who has covered the White House dating back to Trump’s first term, told host...
Sheriff Chad Bianco (R), one of the Republicans running in the California gubernatorial race, paused his investigation into election fraud allegations on Monday, as he faces mounting legal challenges, including from California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D). Bianco, of Riverside, Calif., told The Los Angeles Times that his investigation was put "on hold ... because...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday said the U.S. military looks “to be unpredictable” in putting American troops on Iranian territory amid speculation of a U.S. ground invasion. “We’re not going to foreclose any option,” Hegseth said during a Pentagon briefing when asked to respond to criticism from those who support President Trump but don’t...
The White House is maintaining its support for Casey Means to be the next U.S. surgeon general one day after President Trump said he was open to withdrawing her nomination. Trump said over the weekend that he did not know how Means, sister of White House senior adviser Calley Means, was doing in the nomination...
Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson (D) on Monday signed the state’s first income tax on residents making more than $1 million annually. The “millionaire’s tax,” which advanced by the state Legislature last Wednesday and will impose a 9.9 percent annual tax on qualifying earners, is expected to boost the state’s budget by $4 billion. The funds...
California Democratic Sens. Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla sent a letter Monday to top immigration officials, requesting more information on data sharing between the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after a woman was arrested in front of her child at San Francisco International Airport last week. “The reporting following this...
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson broke with her two fellow liberal justices Tuesday as she dissented alone from the Supreme Court’s decision backing a challenge to Colorado’s “conversion therapy” ban. “To do anything else opens a dangerous can of worms,” Jackson wrote in her 35-page dissent. “It threatens to impair States’ ability to regulate the provision...
Attorneys for Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) are warning the FBI against releasing files in a decade-old case related to an investigation into a Chinese spy. The cease and desist letter comes amid reports FBI agents and other personnel in California have been directed to gather and redact sensitive information from documents in preparation for sharing...
