A Homeland Security Department subcommittee heard testimony on how to counter China’s growing maritime threat. Experts testifying before a congressional subcommittee said Chinese companies have stakes in ports throughout the Western Hemisphere—including five major U.S. ports—that pose security concerns. While China’s influence on the Panama Canal may be the shiny object at the moment, China
An agency spokesperson said that Rowe ‘is currently enjoying a well-deserved break before his retirement.’ Ronald Rowe, who led the U.S. Secret Service after the attempted assassination of then-candidate President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, is retiring, according to an agency spokesperson. Rowe, the deputy director of the U.S. Secret Service,
The advisory board will be chaired by Devin Nunes, the former Republican congressman from California. President Donald Trump has named a new slate of appointees to the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, a panel tasked with advising the president on national security and intelligence matters. The list, announced by the White House on Feb. 11, includes
The DOJ is appealing a Rhode Island federal judge’s ruling requiring the executive branch to unfreeze government spending. The Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday denied an appeal by the Trump administration to pause an order by a Rhode Island federal judge which ruled that the administration can’t freeze government spending for
The president has encountered dozens of lawsuits during the first month of his second term of office. President Donald Trump said on Feb. 11 that he would abide by court rulings blocking his agenda, but would also appeal them in hopes that higher courts will reverse those decisions in his favor. “I always abide by
Washington — Marc Fogel, an American schoolteacher who had been held in Russia since 2021, arrived back on U.S. soil late Tuesday night after the White House announced earlier in the day that it had negotiated his release. The White House released a photo of a jubilant Fogel disembarking a plane at Joint Base Andrews in
The inspector general of USAID was fired by the White House on Tuesday, days after releasing a report criticizing the Trump administration's efforts to pause the agency's funding.