U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s mass round-ups of illegal immigrant workers at job sites have not made headlines for months, and immigration groups who want President Donald Trump to do more blame Republicans’ ties to Big Business for the hold-up on enforcement. Trump promised to carry out the “largest-ever” deportation operation in history, while simultaneously […]

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed on Friday that President Donald Trump‘s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and special envoy Steve Witkoff are headed to Islamabad, Pakistan, for a second round of peace talks to end the Iran war. Vice President JD Vance, who led the U.S. delegation during the first round of talks, will not […]

The Justice Department announced a series of actions on Friday aimed at restoring and expanding the use of the federal death penalty, including new execution methods and efforts to speed up capital cases.  The department directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons to broaden its execution protocols to include additional methods beyond lethal injection, such as […]

Allies of the United States are responding to an internal Pentagon email that allegedly floated several ideas for punishing uncooperative members of NATO. Top Pentagon policy adviser Elbridge Colby allegedly wrote in an email that compliance with U.S. requests to access foreign bases is “just the absolute baseline for NATO” — a standard that multiple […]