President Donald Trump is signing a bill to avert a government shutdown. The signing ceremony is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. DEMOCRATS STRUGGLE WITH MIDTERM CREDIBILITY DESPITE ANTI-TRUMP BACKLASH The House voted 217-214 on appropriations legislation that separated full-year funding from Department of Homeland Security funding, which only covers 10 days. The new funding deadline for DHS is […]
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) is urging the Justice Department to open a formal investigation into what he describes as well-funded and professionally coordinated anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement demonstrations that he says are posing public safety and national security risks. In a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday, Hawley argued that recent protests against […]
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s initial declaration that a department agency would oversee the investigation into the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti left current and former senior federal law enforcement officials stunned, according to four sources. A day after Pretti was killed on Jan. 24, when two U.S. Customs and Border Protection employees opened fire […]
The Trump administration urged a federal judge not to block construction of the White House ballroom, arguing that stopping the project midstream would create security risks at the executive mansion and force an emergency appeal. In a late-day filing on Monday, the Justice Department asked U.S. District Judge Richard Leon to stay any injunction he might issue against the […]
RICHMOND, Virginia — The Washington Examiner wasn’t sure what to expect at the Altria Theater, where former Vice President Kamala Harris was speaking on Monday night. A snowstorm a week ago debilitated much of Richmond, and the roads were still icy. Would anyone brave the bad weather and show up to hear what the defeated Democratic […]
Customs and Border Protection has deployed tracking dogs to search for the missing mother of Today co-host Savannah Guthrie, Arizona law enforcement confirmed on Tuesday. “CBP’s role within this was in our search-and-rescue mission, where we constantly use them,” Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said, noting that his department does not have tracking dogs. “And […]
As Antropic’s relationship with the White House oscillated between warm and cold in 2025, the artificial intelligence giant’s spending on lobbyists skyrocketed. Anthropic’s monthly lobbying expenditures have increased by roughly 511% over the course of President Donald Trump’s second term in office, rising from $180,000 at the end of the first quarter of 2024 to […]
White House officials on Tuesday sought to downplay comments President Donald Trump made urging Republicans to “nationalize” elections. Trump, in a podcast interview with former deputy FBI director Dan Bongino, claimed that “Republicans should say, ‘We want to take over'” elections “in at least 15 places,” despite states being given large authority over administering elections […]
A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary protected status for more than 350,000 Haitians in the United States this week, in an opinion that drew fierce criticism from conservative legal experts. U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, issued a lengthy and scathing ruling late on Monday […]
A partial shutdown is ending after the House voted Tuesday to reopen the government, but a full-year Department of Homeland Security funding deal remains elusive as Democrats press immigration enforcement reform demands. The House voted 217-214 on an appropriations package that includes five full-year funding bills and a 10-day continuing resolution to fund the DHS. […]
