Washington — Senate Homeland Security Committee Democrats are urging the panel’s chairman, Sen. Rand Paul, to convene oversight hearings and call Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and White House border czar Tom Homan to testify, after the killing of Renee Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis. Good’s fatal shooting on Jan. 7 by an
A federal judge in California this week struck down the Justice Department’s demand for the state to hand over sensitive voter roll data, ruling that it would trample on residents’ privacy rights and potentially disenfranchise voters. “The taking of democracy does not occur in one fell swoop; it is chipped away piece-by-piece until there is
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Friday that efforts to crack down on Mexican cartels and slow migration north were showing “compelling results” in an effort to head off intervention talk by the Trump administration. The comments come after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened action against Mexican drug cartels by U.S. forces last week. Mr. Trump
Washington — President Trump said Friday he may hike tariffs on countries that decline to “go along with” his administration’s efforts to acquire Greenland, as Denmark, Greenland and other NATO allies remain staunchly opposed to his plans to acquire it. “I may put a tariff on countries if they don’t go along with Greenland, because
President Trump plans to pardon Puerto Rico’s former governor, Wanda Vázquez Garced, who pleaded guilty last year in a federal public corruption case, multiple sources told CBS News on Friday. Her two co-defendants, the billionaire Venezuelan-Italian banker and Britannia Financial Group founder Julio Martin Herrera-Velutini and Mark Rossini, will also be pardoned for their crimes
The number of detainees in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody has reached a new record high, surpassing 70,000 for the first time in the deportation agency’s 23-year history, according to internal Department of Homeland Security data obtained by CBS News. As of Thursday, ICE was holding about 73,000 individuals facing deportation in its custody
A bipartisan congressional delegation met with Danish and Greenlandic officials in Copenhagen Friday in an effort to show support for Greenland’s territorial integrity despite President Trump’s continued push to acquire the island. The delegation is led by Sen. Chris Coons, a Democrat from Delaware, and Sen. Thom Tillis, a Republican from North Carolina. Addressing reporters after