President Donald Trump's plans for mass deportations and other hardline immigration measures will result in roughly 320,000 people removed from the United States over the next ten years, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday in a report that also projected that the U.S. population will grow more slowly than it had previously projected.
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer on Wednesday filed an amendment to the annual defense authorization bill to force the Justice Department to release its files on the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case.
Black Democrats say Republicans' claim of underrepresentation in Congress is garbage and that its Congressional Black Caucus members are being targeted.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon is touting AI-run private schools and other alternatives to public education as she barnstorms the nation on a "Returning Education to the States" tour.
Labor unions representing millions of educators and school employees are suing President Donald Trump's administration over its immigration crackdown, saying arrests near school campuses are terrorizing children and their teachers, leading some students to drop out.
President Donald Trump has portrayed his federal law enforcement surge in Washington as focused on tackling crime. But data from the federal operation, analyzed by The Associated Press, shows that more than 40% of the arrests made over the monthlong operation were in fact related to immigration.
Three high-ranking FBI officials were fired last month in a "campaign of retribution" carried out by a director who knew better but caved to political pressure from the Trump administration so he could keep his own position, according to a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday that seeks reinstatement of the agents.