President Donald Trump entered his second term in the White House with a firm grip on the Republican Party, muscling his agenda and Cabinet nominees through Congress. But Trump is now facing regular pushback from lawmakers and even more speculation that he will soon be a lame-duck president, a marked shift that GOP strategists and […]
As the Trump administration wages a full-scale crackdown on illegal immigrants residing in the United States, one population has largely gone overlooked: visa overstayers. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and its federal partners have focused on arresting and deporting illegal immigrants with criminal histories, those who have failed to depart the country after being ordered […]
MEDAN, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers searched Thursday in rivers and the rubble of villages for bodies, and when possible survivors, after flash floods and landslides on Indonesia’s Sumatra island left 49 people dead and 67 missing. Monsoon rains over the past week caused rivers to burst their banks in North Sumatra province Tuesday. The deluge tore through […]
The suspected shooter of two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday is a native of Afghanistan who previously worked in the United States for multiple government agencies, one of which was the Central Intelligence Agency. Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the suspected shooter, entered the U.S. in 2021 as part of the initiative of the Joe […]
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei was among three tech executives invited to testify before the House Homeland Security Committee next month on how state-sponsored Chinese hackers used the startup company’s artificial intelligence technology in a widespread cyber espionage campaign this year. Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R-NY), who chairs the House committee, asked the Anthropic executive to testify […]
President Donald Trump blamed his predecessor on Wednesday for letting the suspected gunman linked to the National Guard shooting in Washington, D.C., enter the United States four years ago. The suspect has been identified as 29-year-old Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal, who reportedly arrived in the U.S. under the Biden administration’s Operation Allies Welcome. The operation […]
President Donald Trump will deliver a speech on Wednesday’s shooting targeting two National Guard members in Washington, D.C. “I will be speaking on the horrific attack on our Great National Guard Warriors, at 9:15 P.M., sharp,” Trump announced on Truth Social 10 minutes before the scheduled start time. He will be speaking from West Palm […]
A panel of federal judges handed North Carolina Republicans a legal victory on Wednesday, allowing them to use a redrawn congressional map that flips one House seat in a swing district red. The ruling further bolsters the Republican Party’s mid-decade redistricting agenda as President Donald Trump seeks to maintain the House GOP majority leading up […]
Federal authorities identified the gunman responsible for shooting two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday afternoon as an Afghan national in the preliminary investigation. The suspect is believed to be 29-year-old Rahmanullah Lakanwal, according to multiple news reports based on law enforcement sources. He reportedly entered the United States in 2021 and overstayed […]
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating Amazon after a delivery drone collided with an internet cable in Texas last week, the agency said on Wednesday. One of Amazon’s MK30 delivery aircraft struck the cable in Waco, Texas, around 12:45 p.m. local time on Nov. 18, the FAA told multiple news outlets. The incident unfolded when […]
