President Trump said late Thursday night that he would suspend immigration from developing nations to the U.S. In a post to Truth Social, Mr. Trump wrote that he “will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries to allow the U.S. system to fully recover.” The declaration follows Wednesday’s shooting in downtown Washington, D.C., just
One of the two West Virginia National Guard members who was wounded Wednesday in what authorities described as an ambush-style shooting in Washington, D.C., has died, President Trump said Thursday, and the second Guard member is “fighting for his life.” Mr. Trump told reporters Thursday evening that 20-year-old Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom died in the
The Trump administration said Thursday it will be conducting a “full-scale, rigorous reexamination” of all green cards for every immigrant from “a country of concern” in the wake of the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, D.C. An Afghan national who arrived in the U.S. in 2021 has been arrested as a suspect
President Trump is spending Thanksgiving at his Florida estate Mar-a-Lago with his wife Melania. Mr. Trump played golf in the morning, and he and the first lady plan to call service members. Mr. Trump and Melania participated in the annual turkey pardoning at the White House on Tuesday, giving Waddle and Gobble a “full and unconditional
An Afghan national named Rahmanullah Lakanwal has been identified as the suspected shooter in the ambush attack that wounded two National Guard troops just blocks away from the White House on Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security said. The CIA said Thursday that Lakanwal previously worked with the U.S. government, including the CIA, as a
Federal immigration authorities said Wednesday they have paused processing requests from Afghan nationals, after a man who entered the U.S. from Afghanistan was identified as the suspect in a shooting that wounded two National Guard members in Washington, D.C. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said in a statement that the “processing of all immigration
An Afghan national named Rahmanullah Lakanwal has been identified as the suspected shooter in the ambush attack that wounded two National Guard troops just blocks away from the White House on Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security said. The suspect was shot by another Guard member and taken into custody, officials said. He is currently