Republicans are largely dismissing concerns about Elon Musk’s political liability in the wake of their loss in Wisconsin, where he played a central role. Their views so far seem to be reflected by President Trump, who has stood by Musk even as the tech billionaire has emerged as Democrats’ main foil amid sweeping anger over...
Republican senators are brushing off concerns that high-profile arrests and deportations of foreign students may ostracize a group that is a major contributor to the U.S. economy. International students injected $43.8 billion into the U.S. last year, a key economic influx that has rebounded from a major downturn during the pandemic. California, New York and...
A judge awarded $6.6 million combined to four whistleblowers who sued Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on claims he fired them in retaliation for reporting him to the FBI.
Senate Republicans passed budget reconciliation instructions last week that are far weaker on spending cuts than those House Republicans passed in February, which could set up a debt explosion should the Senate get its way when the final reconciliation bill is written later this year. The top-line budget numbers in the House reconciliation bill call […]
The Department of Justice (DOJ) placed one of its senior immigration lawyers, who criticized the Trump administration over mistakenly deporting a Maryland man to a prison in El Salvador, on leave. Erez Reuveni, who represented the U.S. government in court on Friday in the deportation case of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who was sent to...
The United States is revoking visas for South Sudanese passport holders because the country’s transitional government has not accepted citizens who were expelled from the U.S., according to the Secretary of State Marco Rubio. “As South Sudan’s transitional government has failed to fully respect this principle, effective immediately, the United States Department of State is...
A Justice Department lawyer who was arguing the Trump administration case over a Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador has been indefinitely suspended.
President Donald Trump's administration acted to roll back environmental safeguards around future logging projects on more than half of U.S. national forests under an emergency designation announced Friday that cites dangers from wildfires.