President Donald Trump is considering admitting far fewer refugees into the U.S. this year - as few as 7,500, and mostly white South Africans, officials say - a dramatic new low as the administration is conducting sweeping immigration raids as part of its mass deportation agenda.

House Speaker Mike Johnson spent the sixth day of the government shutdown laying out his case for blaming Senate Democratic leader Charles E. Schumer for a funding impasse that has no end in sight.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley opened a probe into two federal district judges who had to retract opinions this summer amid allegations that the rulings were plagued with errors from using artificial intelligence.

The head of the U.N. refugee agency suggested Monday that President Donald Trump's America has carried out deportation practices that violate international law, and criticized a wider "backlash" in some countries against migrants and refugees.

U.S. government lawyers say that detainees at the immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades known as "Alligator Alcatraz" likely include people who have never been in removal proceedings, which is a direct contradiction to what Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been saying since it opened in July.

Bad Bunny kicked off the 51st season of "Saturday Night Live" with a few timely jokes about his next high-profile gig: the Super Bowl.

Exports of U.S. distilled spirits fell markedly in the second quarter of 2025 compared to last year, a lobbying group said Monday in a report that sounded the alarm about trade tensions under President Trump.

Democrat Amy McGrath, a retired Marine aviator, on Monday entered the Senate campaign in Kentucky, vowing to be a "bulwark against authoritarianism" in launching a comeback bid after being trounced by Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell in 2020.