Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has authorized Defense Department (DOD) civilian employees to aid Department of Homeland Security (DHS) operations at the southern border and with “internal immigration enforcement,” in some cases for no pay, according to a new memo released Monday. DOD civilians can now travel to support DHS with the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement, though...
A Romanian citizen pleaded guilty on Monday to leading a years-long conspiracy targeting dozens of individuals — including members of Congress, places of worship, and a former United States president — with “swatting” calls and bomb threats intended to provoke fear and solicit a police response. Thomasz Szabo, 26, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge...
A Pentagon official begged her bosses not to cancel a Harvard University grant aimed at curtailing biological threats, arguing that pulling it would pose “grave and immediate harm to national security.” The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) director of contracting said the grant funded a Harvard research team that had reached a “pivotal juncture”...
The Justice Department on Tuesday agreed to dismiss a lawsuit seeking records from White House senior trade adviser Peter Navarro's time in the first Trump administration, brought during President Biden's presidency. In a short notice, government lawyers stipulated to the dismissal of the 2022 lawsuit seeking emails Navarro sent from a personal encrypted account but...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday took a shot at Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) for dismissing constituent concerns that President Trump’s sweeping domestic agenda — including Medicaid cuts — would cause people to die. Ernst churned headlines during a town hall last week, when a member of the audience warned that “people will...
The White House on Tuesday sent Congress a request to claw back $9.4 billion in funding for foreign aid and to public broadcasting — the first package that would codify the slashes spearheaded by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). It is a long-awaited move that many conservative activists have been clamoring for, even as...
Elon Musk and cohort of Senate Republicans find common ground in their disdain for the House GOP's version of President Donald Trump's "one big, beautiful bill."
Conservatives on social media widely mocked the DNC after it set up a taco truck near the RNC office in Washington, D.C., in an effort to troll President Trump on tariffs.
The permissive sanctuary-type laws in deep-blue Colorado created an environment in which this past weekend’s terror attack could occur, a local district attorney told Fox News Digital.