ICE officers now checking IDs in airport security lines

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Some Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers have started checking travelers’ identification documents (IDs) after receiving standard training from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), officials from the latter agency said. Acting TSA Administrator Ha Nguyen McNeill told the House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday that ICE officers deployed to select airports throughout the country were…

Kennedy Center announces Bill Maher will receive Mark Twain Prize

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Washington — Television host, comedian and satirist Bill Maher will receive the 27th Mark Tain Prize for American Humor this year, the Kennedy Center announced Thursday, days after the White House called reports that Maher would receive the prize “fake news.”  The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, whose board is filled with the president’s

DOJ tells judge it incorrectly used ICE memo for immigration court arrests

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The Justice Department this week conceded to a federal judge in New York it had been incorrectly citing an Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo to partially justify arrests at immigration courthouses, calling the oversight a “material mistaken statement of fact.” Justice Department lawyers disclosed in a letter on Tuesday that a May 2025 ICE memo

For America at 250, Some Jewish Wisdom on How to Last 3,000 Years

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Ruth Wisse’s ‘grateful Jewish message on staying power’ Ruth Wisse gives the lecture at the Trump Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., on March 25, 2026. (Ira Stoll) March 26, 2026 image/svg+xml The scholar of Yiddish Ruth Wisse began her Jefferson Lecture last night at the Trump Kennedy Center in Washington with the observation that “There