The Department of Veterans Affairs is facing its first-ever net workforce loss, with more than 40,000 employees leaving in fiscal 2025, nearly 90% of them healthcare workers, a Democratic watchdog report warns. The report, released by Democratic staff on the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, finds the staffing decline has left an estimated 1.2 million veterans […]

A federal judge issued a sweeping ruling Thursday entitling noncitizen students who have sued the Trump administration to a court hearing if their immigration status is changed. The Trump administration has faced several hurdles from district courts in pursuing parts of its deportation agenda, including revoking the visas of pro-Palestinian students who have engaged in […]

Federal prosecutors on Friday arrested a California charity director charged with wire fraud after he allegedly siphoned millions of dollars meant to combat homelessness in Los Angeles to bankroll his lavish personal life. Alexander Soofer, 42, was arrested on a federal criminal complaint accusing him of fraudulently obtaining more than $23 million in taxpayer funds […]

U.S. intelligence officials are on high alert for terrorist acts that may be planned to upend celebrations planned to mark the country’s semiquincentennial this year.  At the start of 2026, the National Counterterrorism Center circulated a memo to staff, warning that “lone actors” inspired by al Qaeda and the Islamic State Group pose a possible […]