Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told senators on Tuesday that she personally ran her plans by President Trump to spend more than $200 million on pro-deportation ads that have boosted her own profile.
Rep. Nancy Mace, South Carolina Republican, is facing a House Ethics Committee investigation over allegations she improperly billed her congressional office for expenses tied to her Washington, D.C., home -- and the fallout could shape the trajectory of her political future.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Tuesday that her officers have used administrative warrants -- those that aren't approved by a judge -- to enter homes to make arrests 28 times so far.
Stocks on Wall Street opened sharply down Tuesday as investors digested surging oil prices and the realization that the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran is likely deepening instead of abating after days of military strikes.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) announced Tuesday that his state is joining the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, becoming the second state to do so since the U.S.’s withdrawal from the organization became official last month. Officials said Illinois’s participation means the state will now be “directly connected to timely...
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Tuesday urged President Trump to put more pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin, suggesting that the current U.S. strategy to deter attacks on Ukraine is “not working.” “Clearly the pressure we’re applying to Putin to come to the peace table and stop massive attacks against Ukraine is not working,” Graham...
The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) on Tuesday published a position statement recommending that surgeons delay "gender-related breast/chest, genital, and facial surgery" until a patient is 19 years old, drawing praise from the Trump administration for "protecting children from harmful sex-rejecting procedures." The ASPS, which represents more than 11,000 physicians globally, released its position...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) pushed back Tuesday morning on comments from U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro threatening jail time for people who carry firearms in the nation’s capital. “Second Amendment rights are not extinguished just because an American visits DC,” DeSantis wrote on social platform X. “American gun owners who...
Melinda French Gates, the ex-wife of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, said Tuesday that he needs to answer for the allegations made against him in a newly released batch of documents related to the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. “Whatever questions remain there of what I don’t — can't even begin to know all of it,...
House and Senate Democrats on Tuesday listened to the testimonies of U.S. citizens who said they were assaulted, injured or shot by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officers, starting with the brothers of Renee Good, a Minneapolis woman shot and killed by a federal immigration officer last month. "The most important thing is to understand...
President Trump on Tuesday signed a bill to end a partial government shutdown after the funding legislation was held up by lawmakers who have been agitated over the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) immigration enforcement efforts. The bill funds DHS for the next 10 days, with a new deadline set for that agency’s funding to...
Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.) on Tuesday said the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is the “greatest threat” to the homeland right now as Democrats fight to reform the agency and restrict the Trump administration's most controversial immigration enforcement practices. “Let me be very blunt, I'm gonna just say it: The greatest threat to the homeland...
Bruce Springsteen's protest song ripping what he calls the "state terror" tactics by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is topping the music sales charts in the United States. "Streets of Minneapolis" was last week's highest-selling song in the United States, Billboard reported Monday. The tune took the top spot on Billboard's digital song sales chart...
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) warned against Democrats’ proposed reforms to immigration enforcement warrants, saying, “That is a road we cannot and should not go down.” Democrats in both chambers of Congress are pushing for tightened restrictions around immigration agents’ use of warrants in making arrests. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has listed warrant...
The French offices of Elon Musk’s X were raided Tuesday amid an investigation into the social platform, according to the Paris prosecutor’s office. The prosecutor’s office said in a post on X that its cybercrime unit had executed a search warrant at the company’s offices as part of a probe launched last January. It also...
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) will speak with reporters Tuesday afternoon as Democrats raise concerns about Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard's presence during the recent FBI raid on an election office in Fulton County, Ga. FBI agents were seen removing documents from the office that were tied to the 2020 presidential election. President Trump has...
