Eric Holder slammed Trump administration immigration enforcement after ICE fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis, calling tactics "gestapo-like" during MLK Day remarks.
Congress released text of a $1.2 trillion spending bill that includes funding for Homeland Security, which remains a contentious issue between Republicans and Democrats.
Trump administration's GSA delivers $60 billion in federal contract savings, cuts 3 million square feet of government real estate in efficiency push from the DOGE era.
The U.S. military conducted strikes against several Islamic State group sites in Syria on Friday, retaliating a week after two U.S. service members and one civilian were killed by a gunman tied to ISIS in an ambush attack. U.S. forces, as part of “Operation Hawkeye Strike,” eliminated ISIS fighters, weapons sites and infrastructure in response to the...
President Trump nominated Lt. Gen. Francis L. Donovan to be the next leader of the U.S. Southern Command (Southcom) on Friday, a week after Adm. Alvin Holsey formally retired from the post two years ahead of schedule. Holsey — who spent more than three decades in the Navy and since November 2024 had led Southcom, which...
Cases of the flu continue to mount with health officials recently recording the first pediatric flu-related deaths of the season, but some states are seeing much higher activity than others.
The Trump administration will support the continued operation of the Dakota Access pipeline, it said Friday in a long-awaited but not surprising move. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued a final environmental impact report Friday recommending that oil keep flowing through the controversial pipeline. The Dakota Access pipeline carries oil from North Dakota to Illinois. It...
President Trump said Friday he plans to hold a meeting with major insurance companies in the coming days in a bid to pressure them to lower prices for consumers who are set to see premium costs soar when ObamaCare’s enhanced subsidies expire at the end of the year. “I'm going to call in the insurance companies that are making so much...
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) announced Friday that she was suspending her bid for New York governor and would also be retiring from Congress. Her stunning announcement came shortly after Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, a fellow ally of President Trump, jumped into the primary. “While spending precious time with my family this Christmas season, I...
The Justice Department on Friday publicly released a portion of the Epstein files in response to a law that garnered near unanimous support from both parties in Congress. The highly anticipated release of the files comes after months of building pressure on the White House and amid scrutiny of President Trump’s connection with the deceased sex offender....
The Trump administration on Friday announced a fresh batch of sanctions targeting extended family members of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro amid an ongoing pressure campaign against the embattled leader. The Treasury Department said it was imposing sanctions on several relatives of Maduro's nephew, Carlos Erik Malpica Flores, and family members of Panamanian businessman Ramon Carretero....
The White House announced Friday that nine additional pharmaceutical companies have agreed to follow President Trump's Most Favored Nation (MFN) drug pricing policy, with several of the companies throwing in several months worth of emergency drug supplies. According to a senior administration official, the following companies will abide by Trump's MFN pricing policy: Amgen, Boehringer...
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Brian Mast (R-Fla.) introduced a bill Friday that would allow Congress to block exports of advanced AI chips to U.S. foreign adversaries such as China and Russia. The Artificial Intelligence Oversight of Verified Exports and Restrictions on Weaponizable Advanced Technology to Covered High-Risk Actors (AI OVERSIGHT) Act seeks to create a review process...
The Supreme Court refused to intervene Friday in a battle concerning immigration judges’ speech restrictions, for now, snapping the Trump administration’s months-long winning streak on the court’s emergency docket. It marks the first time since the spring that the court has rejected one of the administration’s emergency appeals. No justice publicly dissented, but the order left the door open for the government to try again once the case...
