Kinney County officials say Texas must do more to protect its border with Mexico, in light of federal government inaction. Officials from a Texas county bordering Mexico are calling on Gov. Greg Abbott to convene a special session to reconsider a bill establishing a Texas division of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Kinney County
Both cases prosecuted by the special counsel will miss their original trial dates. Special counsel Jack Smith argues in a court filing on April 14 that former President Donald Trump is using his criminal trial in New York to delay his federal documents case. “Following their pattern, the defendants responded to the Court’s deadline by
A Haitian migrant accused of killing two roommates in New York was paroled into the U.S. after making an appointment on the controversial CBP One app.
Two days into Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial, the first seven jurors have been selected, and they are now tasked with deciding the outcome of the first criminal trial of a former president in U.S. history. The anonymous jurors will hear evidence related to allegations that Trump participated in a scheme with his former
During his visit to the United Steelworkers headquarters, the president pledged to increase the existing 301 tariff rate. PITTSBURGH—President Joe Biden on April 17 called for dramatically higher tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from China, a move likely aimed at pleasing blue-collar voters in the battleground state of Pennsylvania before the 2024 election. The
The Biden administration on Monday confirmed that the Afghan suicide bomber who killed more than a dozen U.S. service members at the Kabul airport in 2021 had been freed from a prison abandoned during the U.S. military’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Michael McCaul (R., Texas) in a Monday statement said a
Former president’s longtime friend, Columbia professor Rashid Khalidi, warned Israel supporters would ‘infest’ the Trump admin The co-chair of Columbia University’s Board of Trustees, Claire Shipman, told a congressional panel on Wednesday that the proliferation of anti-Semitism on the school’s Manhattan campus is “shocking.” Shipman’s husband, Jay Carney, served as press secretary under former president