Newly minted Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard was sworn in Wednesday, pledging to restore Americans' trust in the intelligence community.
Confronted with almost $200 million in wild spending by the U.S. Agency for International Development -- such as $2 million for sex change and "LGBT activism" in Guatemala -- congressional Democrats said it was just a lame excuse to cut off foreign aid.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene kicked off the inaugural DOGE subcommittee hearing with a plea to her colleagues to set aside the political theater and partisan attacks in their quest to identify waste, fraud and abuse in federal spending.
Homeland Security said Wednesday it has recaptured tens of millions of taxpayer dollars it had recently sent to New York City as reimbursement for housing illegal immigrants.
Two top immigration enforcement officials have been reassigned amid frustrations in the Trump administration about the pace of immigration arrests, according to two officials with knowledge of the moves.
The Italian government denied Wednesday that it had spied on journalists and migrant activists using spyware but said it would cooperate with an investigation into "vulnerabilities" after at least seven Italian cellphones were apparently hacked with military-grade surveillance technology.
An illegal immigrant mother and her son ran a sex trafficking operation out of Tennessee, recruiting poor young Venezuelan women, paying to smuggle them into the U.S., and then forcing them into prostitution once here, federal prosecutors said.
A lawyer for New York City Mayor Eric Adams expressed confidence Wednesday that the criminal case against the Democrat is over, even though the Justice Department official who ordered the charges dismissed left the door open to the case being brought back next fall.