Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Todd Lyons said on Wednesday that the federal law enforcement agency will “flood the zone” with immigration agents in Boston after Mayor Michelle Wu (D) fired back at President Trump’s administration over the city’s sanctuary policies. “We’re definitely going to, as you’ve heard the saying, flood the zone,...
U.S. forces on Tuesday killed a senior ISIS official in Syria, U.S. Central Command (Centcom) announced in a statement Thursday. The “successful raid” in northern Syria targeted an unnamed senior ISIS member who also served as a “key financier who planned attacks in Syria and Iraq,” according to the Centcom statement. Centcom said the senior...
President Trump on Thursday visited federal law enforcement at a U.S. Park Police operations center in Anacostia amid his crackdown on crime in Washington, D.C, touting what he described as significant changes to the nation’s capital. Trump spoke to hundreds of federal law enforcement officers, including those from the FBI; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms...
President Trump’s administration is pausing all issuance of worker visas for foreign truck drivers, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Thursday, arguing the growing number of international, commercial operators is putting the lives of Americans in danger. “Effective immediately we are pausing all issuance of worker visas for commercial truck drivers. The increasing number of...
Republican strategist Karl Rove on Thursday underscored the stakes of the Russia-Ukraine peace talks, saying failure to come to a resolution could be the downfall of President Trump’s presidency. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, Rove outlined the three possible outcomes from Trump’s efforts to end the war in Ukraine: a successful peace deal; a...
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story CDC finalizes about 600 layoffs Following a revised order from a federal judge, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) finalized laying off roughly 600 staffers Wednesday, according to the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), which...
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Will Putin 'wriggle out' of Zelensky meeting? Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday warned that his Russian counterpart is looking for a way out of a bilateral meeting being pushed by President Trump. AP Photo/Jae C....
California's Democratic-controlled Legislature formally approved a plan Thursday to redraw the state's congressional lines, teeing up a special election this fall that will let Californians weigh in on mid-decade redistricting in response to a plan pushed by Texas Republicans. Both the state Assembly and Senate approved three pieces of the Election Rigging Response Act legislative package, which...
{beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story AI's impact on the job market Business leaders have offered dire warnings in recent months about the turmoil artificial intelligence (AI) could unleash on the job market, predicting widespread worker displacement and mass unemployment. Experts say the picture is still unclear, with the full impact yet to be...