Arlington, VIRGINIA – The Arlington County board is ending the Arlington County Police Department’s ability to cooperate with U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement, or ICE in local arrests. Board members voted to eliminate Section 7 of the county’s “Trust Policy” previously, “Arlington’s Commitment to Strengthening Trust with Our Immigrant Communities.” Implemented in 2022, this section of […]
The anti-tax group Club for Growth is pressing Reps. Scott Perry (R-PA) and Mike Lawler (R-NY) to back the extension of President Donald Trump‘s tax cuts in Congress. New ads from the organization call on each of them to pass Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill,” which would extend his 2017 tax cuts and prevent what […]
From Washington to Newark, recent aviation mishaps are prompting Congress to scrutinize safety protocols, revealing a pattern of miscommunication, unauthorized flights, and technical failures. Senior Federal Aviation Administration officials on Wednesday testified before the Senate Commerce Committee about systemic vulnerabilities in air traffic control, safety oversight, and airport operations, while Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy faced […]
A federal judge temporarily blocked the Department of Justice from canceling grants to the American Bar Association. After the ABA joined a lawsuit against the Trump administration, the DOJ cut a number of grants to the organization — a move the judge ruled was aimed at punishing the organization for exercising its right to petition […]
A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the release of foreign Georgetown University researcher Badar Khan Suri from immigration detention, rebuking the Trump administration’s use of a Cold War-era law to justify Suri’s deportation over praise of and familial links to the terrorist group Hamas. Suri, a postdoctoral fellow in the United States on a student […]
Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Todd Lyons said his agency was operating its Delaney Hall Detention Center properly under “the law Congress enacted.” Lyons appeared on Fox News’s America Reports following Newark Mayor Ras Baraka’s arrest outside the detention center. The Department of Homeland Security has also accused Reps. Rob Menendez (D-NJ), LaMonica McIver (D-NJ), […]
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday called for his state to scale back healthcare for illegal immigrants in an effort to help balance the state budget that went from having a small surplus in January to being $12 billion in the red by May. The move to limit healthcare for undocumented migrants is a reversal […]
Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan is seeking to dismiss her federal obstruction case, which she said was based on an official act and therefore she was immune, citing a 2024 Supreme Court ruling involving President Donald Trump. Following her arrest last month, Dugan was charged with obstructing a federal agency and concealing a person […]
The State Department designated Cuba a “not fully cooperating country” over its harboring of 11 fugitives. In a Tuesday statement, State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce said the designation came over a violation of section 40A of the Arms Export Control Act, committed in 2024. The designation forbids Cuba from receiving defense articles and services. “In […]
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) avoided questions during an interview on Wednesday regarding former President Joe Biden‘s declining mental acuity while in office and its subsequent cover-up. The questions stem from the new book Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, written by CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios reporter Alex […]
