Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons submitted his resignation letter to Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on Thursday, ending a 20-year federal career that included overseeing roughly 584,000 deportations since President Trump's second inauguration. Lyons plans to stay on through May 31 to help with the…
Virginia voters head to the polls Tuesday to decide a redistricting referendum that could hand Democrats a commanding 10-1 advantage in the state's congressional delegation, but a pending Virginia Supreme Court challenge may ultimately void the entire effort over allegations that lawmakers broke state law…
Former Biden White House press secretary Jen Psaki broke with more than 50 Democratic lawmakers this week, flatly declaring that efforts to invoke the 25th Amendment against President Donald Trump are "not going to happen" and questioning why her own side keeps spending energy on…
The Federal Aviation Administration will slash more than 300 flights from Chicago's O'Hare International Airport this summer, capping daily operations at 2,708 in a bid to tame a delay problem that made O'Hare one of the worst-performing airports in the country last year. The limits…
A New York appeals court granted former NYPD Sgt. Erik Duran $300,000 bail on Friday, clearing the 38-year-old married father of three to leave prison while he challenges his manslaughter conviction, a case that has divided law enforcement advocates and the Bronx legal establishment since…
Two Senate Republicans who helped block Democratic efforts to rein in President Trump's military campaign in Iran now say their support has limits, and the clock is running. Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Thom Tillis of North Carolina each signaled this week that they…
President Donald Trump announced Thursday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Lebanese President Joseph Aoun agreed to a ten-day ceasefire, set to take effect at 5 p.m., after Secretary of State Marco Rubio mediated the first direct talks between the two nations in more…
Darin Hoover lost his son at Abbey Gate. For three and a half years, he says, the government gave his family almost nothing, no real answers, no accountability, and no indication anyone in charge cared to look back at what went wrong. Now a new…
Vice President JD Vance told Fox News on April 13 that "in some cases it would be best for the Vatican to stick to matters of morality" and leave American public policy to the president. Three Catholic theologians say he has it exactly backward, that…
U.S. District Judge Richard Leon ordered the Trump administration on Thursday to halt all above-ground construction on the planned White House ballroom, ruling that national security concerns do not give the executive branch a "blank check" to bypass congressional authorization for the $400 million project.…
Los Angeles police arrested 21-year-old singer D4vd, real name David Anthony Burke, on Thursday on suspicion of murdering 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, whose decomposed and dismembered body was discovered months earlier in a Tesla registered in his name. Burke was taken into custody shortly after…
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, Republican of Florida, said Thursday that Senate Majority Leader John Thune's office and Senate ethics officials were reviewing information she provided about Sen. Ruben Gallego, information she described as involving an incident "sexual in nature, allegedly" and "apparently issues of campaign…
Social media erupted this week after viewers claimed Savannah Guthrie vanished from Wednesday's edition of NBC's Today show midway through an interview with actress Anne Hathaway, a claim that turned out to be false. Guthrie was back on camera roughly twenty minutes later for a…
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor apologized for what she called "inappropriate" and "hurtful" remarks about a colleague widely understood to be Justice Brett Kavanaugh, after she publicly questioned his background during a law school appearance earlier this month. The apology, issued in an official statement…
