National Guard members walk at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Broadview facility in Chicago on Oct. 9, 2025. Jeenah Moon/Reuters Texas and California National Guardsmen who had been deployed to Chicago and Portland, Oregon are returning home, the two states’ governors have said. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said on Nov. 22 that his
U.S. Customs and Border Protection security agents guide illegal immigrants onboard a C-17 Globemaster III for a removal flight at Fort Bliss, Texas, on Jan. 23, 2025. Dept. of Defense photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Nicholas J. De La Pena The Trump administration will not be allowed to expand certain efforts aimed at
It’s been nine months since President Donald Trump signed his executive order to dismantle the Education Department—something other U.S. leaders have called for, but never attempted. Trump has acknowledged that only Congress can completely eliminate the department. Instead, his plan is to press ahead and dismantle it, to move its functions to other agencies, and
A departures and arrivals screen is seen at the Simon Bolivar International airport in Maiquetia, La Guaira State, Venezuela, on June 3, 2024. Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/Reuters Three international airlines opted to cancel flights departing from Venezuela on Nov. 22 after a warning of a “potentially hazardous situation” flying over the country’s Maiquetia region was issued
A man jogs with his dog outside the Missions of the United States of America ahead of discussions on a US plan to end the war in Ukraine in Geneva, on Nov. 23, 2025. Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP via Getty Images Officials from the United States, Europe, and Ukraine met in Geneva on Nov. 23
U.S. Presidential envoy Steve Witkoff (2nd L), and U.S. Secretary of state Marco Rubio (R) at the beginning of talks with the Ukrainian delegation at the U.S. Permanent Mission in Geneva, Switzerland, on Nov. 23, 2025. Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Nov. 23 that U.S. and Ukrainian officials
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio (R) and Ukraine’s Presidential Office Chief of staff Andriy Yermak hold a press conference following their closed-door talks on a U.S. plan to end the war in Ukraine at the U.S. Mission in Geneva on Nov. 23, 2025. Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images The United States and Ukraine have