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...
The White House on Friday is expected to send its 2027 budget proposal to Congress. It is expected to include a major boost to defense spending, as much as $1.5 trillion, with about $350 billion funded via reconciliation, an official with the Office of Management and Budget tells The Hill. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth carried...
The U.S. job market accelerated in March, adding far more jobs than expected after a major February decline. U.S. employment grew by 178,000 jobs last month, according to data released Friday by the Labor Department. The March job boost came in far higher than the gain of roughly 60,000 jobs expected by economists, according to...
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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said Thursday that Pam Bondi's ouster from the Justice Department was not related to the Trump administration's release of files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “I have never heard President Trump say anything that the attorney general was, that anything that happened to her had anything to do...
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President Trump issued a warning to Iran to make a peace deal on Thursday evening, saying the U.S. military has not begun “destroying” the Middle East nation and reupping his vow to “finish the job." “Our Military, the greatest and most powerful (by far!) anywhere in the World, hasn’t even started destroying what’s left in...
The 2028 Republican nomination will be influenced by Trump's confrontational nature and the potential for chaos, with Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio as potential candidates, and Trump's mental state and the possibility of a presidential health crisis as key factors.
The world’s largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, has departed Croatia after receiving repairs during a five-day port visit, the Navy announced on Thursday, a sign the warship could be poised to rejoin U.S. military assets in the Middle East. The ship sailed out of the region early last week after sustaining damage...
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Thursday defended the SAVE America Act after a George Washington University student challenged whether the proposal was “worth” risking the possible disenfranchisement of millions of Americans to stop “a few hundred cases of voter fraud.” Republicans are facing pressure from President Trump to pass the measure, which would...
A federal judge in New York tossed out actor Blake Lively’s sexual harassment claims Thursday against actor Justin Baldoni over their roles in the movie “It Ends With Us,” but he left intact two retaliation claims.
