Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler warns Maryland's Community Trust Act could force jails to release dangerous illegal immigrants flagged by ICE back onto streets.
A New Jersey school district faces a lawsuit over its transgender policy allowing students to socially transition without ever notifying their parents.
The Trump administration proposed new regulations to strip the tax-exempt status of private schools if they offer targeted programs supporting specific racial groups.
Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Commissioner Summer Mersinger is leaving the agency to lead the Blockchain Association, the crypto trade group announced Wednesday. Mersinger, who has spent the last three years at the agency, will take over as CEO of the Blockchain Association as its longtime CEO Kristin Smith leaves to head up a new...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Wednesday proposed to pause enrolling immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally into a state-funded health care program, in order to cut down costs. The Medi-Cal program currently provides health care coverage to low-income adults who are residents of the state regardless of federal legal status. Newsom said he hopes...
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Wednesday lent some support to calls to suspend habeas corpus as part of the administration’s immigration crackdown after aide Stephen Miller said the White House was considering the idea. A writ of habeas corpus compels authorities to produce an individual they are holding and to justify their confinement, and...
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) accused President Trump on Wednesday of conducting his trip to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, the first major foreign trip of his second term, as a “personal business venture.” “Donald Trump’s trip to Middle East seems less like a presidential visit and more like a personal...
Trump voters are willing to suffer as long as other groups suffer more, and Democrats need to convince them that Trump's policies are hurting them just as much, or more, to weaken Trump's hold on his base.
Former White House chief of staff and Democratic politician Rahm Emanuel says he turned down bribes from the Saudi government while traveling to the country on a state visit with then-President Obama. “The White House has a for sale sign on the front lawn," Emanuel said while appearing on ABC's "The View," in reference to...
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said his citizens were not “impressed” by Great Britain's decision to invite President Trump for a state visit, even as the U.S. leader talks of making Canada a U.S. state. “I think, to be frank, they [Canadians] weren’t impressed by that gesture ... given the circumstance,” Carney said during a...
A half dozen Senate Democrats are pressing President Trump over his firing of the head of the U.S. Copyright Office, arguing that the move is illegal. “It threatens the longstanding independence and integrity of the Copyright Office, which plays a vital role in our economy,” the members said in the letter. “You are acting beyond...
Google said Tuesday that it has updated Androids to detect new text scams, including fraudulent messages warning of unpaid tolls. The tech giant said in a blog post that its artificial intelligence (AI) powered scam detection system can now recognize “dangerous crypto and financial scams, toll road scams, gift card scams and more to...
President Trump’s approval rating has gone up to 44 percent, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll. While it is a small tick up from the 42 percent approval rating he measured in the prior survey by Reuters/Ipsos last month, it does run in time with some good news for the president. Trump paused his tariff...
The editorial board of The Washington Post is coming out against President Trump's decision to tap former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro to serve as the top prosecutor in the District of Columbia. Pirro, a former judge and prosecutor who was elected multiple times to serve as district attorney for Westchester County in New York,...
President Trump is in Doha, Qatar, on Wednesday after a swing through Saudi Arabia that saw him securing billions in economic and military investments between Washington and Riyadh. In a signal of thawing tensions, Trump met and also praised the new Syrian president, Ahmad al-Sharaa, ahead of a Gulf Corporation Council meeting alongside the Saudi...
