Federal law enforcement at Immigration and Customs Enforcement has made worksites a major focus of its strategy, going after illegal immigrants at job sites in the hopes of rounding up large numbers of people at one time, according to two sources with firsthand knowledge. “Worksite enforcement is the big ticket now,” said the first official, […]
President Donald Trump is inviting fresh congressional scrutiny over his power as commander in chief with a crackdown on drug smuggling off the coast of Venezuela. In the coming weeks, Democrats will force a vote on Trump’s authority to sink boats that he says are run by “narcoterrorists” trafficking drugs into the United States, while […]
Each week, distinguished academics, activists, and media professionals join forces — sometimes unknowingly — to help the Chinese Communist Party portray the United States as a decaying empire in contrast to an ascendant China. China Global Television Network is one of the country’s most prolific state-run media outfits. Operating under the Central Propaganda Department of […]
Xp Lee won a special election in Minnesota on Tuesday to replace Melissa Hortman, the former speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives, who was assassinated in June. She was the top Democrat in the House. Lee is a former city councilman of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, the Associated Press reported. He easily defeated his Republican […]
President Donald Trump is arriving in the United Kingdom on Tuesday for an unprecedented second state visit, this time hosted by King Charles III. The president will be kept mostly behind the walls of Windsor Castle, far from the London streets that just days ago were packed with more than 100,000 “Unite the Kingdom” protesters. […]
The Department of Justice announced on Tuesday that it had sued the states of Maine and Oregon for failing to relinquish voter registration lists. The DOJ claimed both states violated federal law by not complying with requests to turn over voter registration lists, particularly information about ineligible voters in each state, the Associated Press reported. […]
Congress acted on youth crime in the nation’s capital on Tuesday, passing legislation to change how youth are prosecuted in the district. The effort is part of President Donald Trump’s attempt to crack down on crime in Washington. Two bills passed with at least some bipartisan support — the D.C. Crimes Act and the D.C. […]
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) dismissed her colleague Rep. Nancy Mace’s (R-SC) censure resolution against her as no more than a political move. Mace filed a resolution to censure Omar on Monday for comments she made about the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk. “Fun fact: Nancy Mace is trying to censure me over comments I never […]
Former Vice President Mike Pence joined George Mason University’s staff on Tuesday, the university announced. The prominent Republican will join the Northern Virginia college’s staff as a “distinguished professor of practice” at the university’s Schar School of Policy and Government. “It’s a privilege to join the Schar School as Professor of Practice,” Pence said in […]
The House Oversight Committee released a transcript from its first closed-door interview with former Attorney General Bill Barr in which he acknowledged the mishandling of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s detainment and pointed to other possible files. Barr, who twice served as attorney general and led the Justice Department during President Donald Trump’s first […]
