Liberia has agreed to accept up to 1,200 third-country deportees from the United States, authorities in the West African country said Tuesday, in one of the largest such arrangements under the Trump administration's broader crackdown on immigration.

Gun rights groups involved in obtaining a limited injunction against part of the National Firearms Act pertaining to sales taxes on silencers and certain guns are using the court ruling to drive a broader membership recruitment effort.

President Trump said Tuesday his administration is not speaking to Iran and asserted U.S. control over the Strait of Hormuz while Tehran signaled a new phase of defiance and aggression in the region, raising tensions across the Gulf region.

Rep. Randy Fine was caught on a homeowner's doorbell camera opening a stranger's mailbox and flipping through the contents while canvassing ahead of Tuesday's Republican primary.

Minnesota's attorney general sued the governor of Texas on Tuesday, seeking to compel the extradition of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent charged with wounding a man and then lying to justify the shooting during the agency's crackdown in Minneapolis.

The person Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents targeted in Maine last month when an officer shot and killed a motorist was a roommate who was not subject to a final removal order, a Democratic congresswoman from the state said.