The Biden administration on Friday announced that it is extending Temporary Protected Status for Salvadoran nationals ahead of the incoming Trump administration.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas renewed Temporary Protected Status -- an amnesty from deportation -- for hundreds of thousands of migrants on Friday, rushing to lock in protection before the next Trump administration takes office.
TikTok's fate now rests in the hands of the Supreme Court, which grappled Friday with whether the company's ties to a foreign adversary are so deep that national security concerns outweigh the company's and its users' First Amendment free speech rights.
Prosecutors say former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez should be imprisoned for 15 years, after the Democrat from New Jersey became the first to be convicted of abusing a Senate committee leadership position and the first public official to be convicted of serving as a foreign agent.
President-elect Donald Trump doesn't have to go to jail, pay a fine or perform community service as a result of his New York hush money conviction. A judge ended the case Friday with a sentence of an unconditional discharge, closing the case with no punishment.
More than 200,000 Salvadorans who have lived more than two decades in the United States can legally remain another 18 months, the Department of Homeland Security said Friday in one of the Biden administration's final acts on immigration policy.
President Biden slapped new sanctions on more than 180 tankers shipping Russian oil, expanding his effort to bolster Ukraine's war effort against Moscow before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.