U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting director Todd Lyons, a key executor of President Donald Trump's mass deportations agenda, will resign at the end of May, federal officials announced Thursday.
President Donald Trump plans to nominate Cameron Hamilton, a former U.S. Navy SEAL whom the administration fired as the Federal Emergency Management Agency's acting leader last year, as FEMA's permanent administrator, according to a person familiar with the matter.
House Republicans leaders are moving forward on a last-minute, late-night compromise with GOP rebels to extend the nation’s foreign spy powers for five years while adding in warrant language and enhanced criminal penalties for violations. Text of the provision was uploaded at about 10:30 p.m., about seven hours after a scheduled procedural vote. The House...
The acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will leave his role at the end of next month, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin confirmed on Thursday evening. Todd Lyons will be departing for a new role in the private sector on May 31, Mullin announced in a post on the social platform X. “Director...
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} View Online Health Care Health Care The Big Story An unusually late RSV season runs into spring A later-than-expected season of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) has states extending eligibility for preventive measures in children. Experts are urging parents to keep in mind the measures that...
The Artemis II crew will give remarks from the Orion spacecraft on Thursday evening, just days after the four astronauts traveled further into space than anyone before them. The crew — Cmdr. Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency mission specialist Jeremy Hansen — embarked on the 10-day lunar flyby mission...
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) on Wednesday went after the Republican response to President Trump’s recent post threatening Iran in which he stated that “a whole civilization will die." “It says something about just how bankrupt the Republican Party has become under Donald Trump, that none of them said a peep. And so, the reality...
A Wisconsin mayor who removed an absentee ballot drop box from city hall ahead of the 2024 presidential election will not face charges, a special prosecutor said Wednesday. Doug Diny, the mayor of Wausau, has maintained that he did nothing wrong when he carted away the city’s lone ballot drop box in September 2024, according...
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Thursday called artificial intelligence models that have found success in anticipating how the high court will rule in upcoming cases “a very bad thing.” “It shows we're way too predictable,” Sotomayor told students while speaking at the University of Alabama School of Law. “And we may not be stepping...
President Trump on Thursday tore into several right-wing media figures who had been reliably supportive of him during his second term until the U.S. war in Iran broke out. The president attacked several of the hosts and commentators personally, dismissed their viewpoints on the war and defended the military operation in the Middle East. "I...
The State Department will host a meeting next week in Washington, D.C., to discuss ongoing ceasefire negotiations with Israel and Lebanon, a department official confirmed Thursday. The official gave no further details on the talks, which will be focused on ending current hostilities between Israel and the militant group Hezbollah, which Israel has targeted in...
Retired Gen. David Petraeus, the former commander of U.S. Central Command, said there is a “paradoxical question” about the future of Iran amid its conflict with the U.S. and Israel. “We can only answer it when the ultimate resolution is achieved here, but that is whether Iran will emerge militarily very weakened,” the retired general...
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) on Wednesday slammed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for reportedly being in the White House's Situation Room weeks before the U.S.-Israeli joint military operation in Iran began. "Let's start with this pledge," Khanna, a possible 2028 White House contender, wrote on the social platform X. "The next Democratic President will never...
Ticket exchange and resale giant StubHub has agreed to pay $10 million to customers to settle a deceptive ticket pricing case, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said Thursday.
President Trump on Thursday confirmed he told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to scale back on a barrage of strikes Israel is conducting in Lebanon, as that operation stands to threaten a fragile ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran. Iran has indicated that a two-week ceasefire agreement reached Tuesday with the U.S. includes the halting...
NASA officials are set to give their daily update on the historic Artemis II mission, as the four astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft are on their way back to Earth. The crew — Cmdr. Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency mission specialist Jeremy Hansen — are expected to splash down...
The U.S. general fertility rate fell by 1 percent in 2025, reaching a new record low for another consecutive year according to latest statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The general fertility rate, which covers women between the ages of 15 and 44, was about 53.1 births per 1,000 females with...
