The Board of Immigration Appeals on Thursday denied Mahmoud Khalil's latest attempt to dismiss his deportation case, issuing a final order of removal against the 31-year-old former Columbia University graduate student who led pro-Palestinian protests on campus. The ruling, reported by the Associated Press, moves…
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt took the podium Wednesday to declare the United States had "achieved and exceeded" every core military objective in the war against Iran, all within the four-to-six-week window President Donald Trump projected at the start of Operation Epic Fury. The…
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Wednesday rejected AI company Anthropic's emergency request to stop the Department of War from designating it a supply chain risk to national security, a ruling the administration called "a resounding victory for military…
A Biden-appointed federal judge blocked the Trump administration on Wednesday from terminating Temporary Protected Status for thousands of Ethiopian nationals who have lived in the United States since 2022, ruling that the Department of Homeland Security bypassed the procedures Congress wrote into immigration law. U.S.…
Jasveen Sangha, the Los Angeles drug dealer prosecutors dubbed the "Ketamine Queen," received a 15-year federal prison sentence Wednesday for her role in the 2023 overdose death of Friends actor Matthew Perry. U.S. District Judge Sherilyn Garnett handed down the sentence at the U.S. District…
China is buying American oil. Not a token amount. Enough to cover the gap in its Asian fuel markets opened by a war Beijing is allegedly winning. Asia Times reported it earlier this month: Chinese refiners are importing US crude to keep Asian fuel supplies…
Rex Heuermann, the 62-year-old Long Island architect who led a double life for decades, pleaded guilty Wednesday to seven counts of murder and admitted responsibility for an eighth uncharged killing, ending one of the most haunting serial murder cases in modern American history before it…
Chris Taylor, a former Democratic state legislator running as an independent, defeated Republican-endorsed Maria Lazar on Tuesday night to claim a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, the Associated Press projects. Taylor took 60.8% of the vote to Lazar's 39.1%, a margin that wasn't close…
Speaker Mike Johnson's allies are openly fuming after what they describe as a "bait and switch" on a Department of Homeland Security funding bill, a sudden reversal that left rank-and-file House Republicans blindsided during a conference call and raised fresh questions about the Speaker's grip…
A 38-year-old illegal immigrant charged with snatching a 4-year-old girl from a Patchogue, New York, laundromat was re-arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after local authorities released him back into the community, the Department of Homeland Security told the New York Post. Carlos Corte…
Bodycam footage played in a Fort Worth, Texas, courtroom Wednesday captured the moment Tanner Horner, the FedEx driver who abducted and killed seven-year-old Athena Strand, told officers he could lead them to the child, and then described how he disposed of her body. "She wasn't…
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told American service members Tuesday they have "a duty to refuse illegal orders", a striking call from a sitting lawmaker aimed directly at undermining the military chain of command while President Donald Trump presses Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and…
The California Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco to stop his investigation into alleged fraud in last November's special election, directing him to preserve more than 650,000 ballots his office had already seized from local election officials. The order freezes a…
A federal judge sentenced Jasveen Sangha, the drug dealer known as "the Ketamine Queen", to 15 years in prison for supplying the ketamine that killed actor Matthew Perry. United States District Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett handed down the sentence, matching the term prosecutors had recommended.…
