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How the head of ICE responded to questions in Congress over Trump’s immigration policies

President Donald Trump's top immigration officials appeared before Congress Tuesday for the first time since the shooting deaths of two American citizens in Minneapolis, seeking to defend their officers' actions as their agencies face intensifying scrutiny over nationwide immigration enforcement operations.

Trump administration takes down a rainbow flag at the Stonewall National Monument

The Trump administration has stopped flying a rainbow flag at the Stonewall National Monument, angering activists who see the change as a symbolic swipe at the country's first national monument to LGBTQ+ history.

Republican lawmakers grill telecom officials over phone records access in Trump investigation

Republican lawmakers decried Tuesday what they said were invasive tactics in the investigation of President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election, pressing representatives from leading telecommunications companies about their role in providing prosecutors with phone records of certain sitting members of Congress.

U.S. citizens and legal residents sue over aggressive immigration raid at Idaho horse racing track

Three Idaho families who are U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents are suing after they and hundreds of others were detained for hours during an aggressive immigration raid at a rural horse racing track last year.

DHS shutdown all but inevitable after Democrats reject offer to postpone the Friday deadline

Democrats are refusing to extend the latest deadline to fund the Department of Homeland Security, all but guaranteeing the department will shut down at midnight Friday.

Immigrant rights groups seek to dismiss a Republican lawsuit to exclude noncitizens from U.S. census

Immigrant rights groups are seeking to toss out a Republican lawsuit that would prohibit the U.S. Census Bureau from counting people who are in the U.S. illegally during the 2030 census.

Winter Storm Fern exposed net zero’s failures

Two thousand miles across nearly 40 states, from New Mexico to Maine, Winter Storm Fern delivered ice, snow, and bone-chilling cold. More than 200 million people were impacted. Nearly 1 million lost power.  Grid operators, utility planners, and policy analysts will remember Fern for its stress-testing of the grid. The grid passed, but net-zero energy […]

Brian Kemp proved Jim Crow 2.0 accusations are false

Last week, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act represents “Jim Crow” segregation laws because it would require states to obtain proof of citizenship in person when people register to vote. “I have said it before, and I’ll say it again, the SAVE Act would impose Jim Crow-type laws to […]

Democracies’ anti-corruption efforts slipping: Survey

Most countries have failed to improve perceptions of public corruption within their borders over the last decade, a new survey found. Transparency International, a Berlin-based anti-corruption advocacy group, ranked 182 countries from across the globe on the basis of perceived public sector corruption in their latest annual survey for 2025.  Only 31 of these countries...

Iran strikes coming? US vessels warned to stay away from territorial waters

Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security   The Big Story Iran strikes coming? US vessels warned to stay away from territorial waters The Trump administration has warned American commercial vessels to keep away from the waters around Iran amid rising tensions between the countries. © Information...

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