D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Thursday said she took seriously President Trump's call for a federal takeover of the District, but she also felt it was an "unnecessary distraction" by the president to unnerve other elected officials.
The Trump administration is throwing out protections for roughly half a million Haitians that had shielded them from deportation. The decision announced Thursday means they would lose their work permits and could be eligible to be removed from the country by August of this year.
Sens. Marsha Blackburn and Jon Ossoff are teaming up on a bipartisan bill to help identify child trafficking and abuse victims by encouraging states to record Child Protective Services interviews that can provide clues to law enforcement investigators.
A top White House official said Thursday that President Donald Trump's increasingly tough criticism of Volodymyr Zelenskyy reflects the administration's growing frustration with what they see as the Ukrainian leader creating roadblocks to finding an endgame to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The Senate on Thursday confirmed Kash Patel as FBI director, handing President Trump's outspoken nominee a green light to overhaul the bureau that conservatives say had been "weaponized" against them.
Unions for federal workers have filed a lawsuit to block the mass firings of probationary federal employees by President Donald Trump's administration, alleging that officials are exploiting and misusing the probationary period to eliminate staff across government agencies.
Drug Enforcement Administration agents touting immigration arrests, IRS agents poring over documents, the military escorting deportation flights. As the Trump administration works on the president's pledge to crack down on illegal immigration and carry out mass deportations, the flurry of activity has stretched across the federal government - well beyond the Department of Homeland Security, the traditional home to most immigration and border security functions.
A U.S. flight carrying 135 deportees, half of them minors, from various countries was set to land Thursday in Costa Rica, making it the second Latin American nation to serve as a stopover as U.S. President Donald Trump's administration steps up deportations.
Former Oklahoma Gov. David Boren, who became one of the nation's youngest governors in the 1970s at age 33 and later helped shape national intelligence as a U.S. senator, has died. He was 83.