Washington — The Senate is voting Thursday on funding for the Department of Homeland Security, facing an end-of-week deadline to avoid another partial government shutdown. But a deal that Democrats and Republicans have sought to reform the administration’s immigration enforcement operation has remained elusive. Funding for the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees Immigration and
Paul and Peters began the second panel by showing video of the lead-up to the shooting of Alex Pretti, who was filming federal agents before he was tackled to the ground and shot and killed. “The grant to use lethal force is so ominous … that society only allows such force to be used on
WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin on Feb. 12 announced the elimination of a 2009 finding that served as the basis of U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. “Effective immediately, we are repealing the ridiculous endangerment finding and terminating all additional green emissions standards imposed unnecessarily on vehicle models
The U.S. Department of Justice in Washington on Aug. 7, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times Gail Slater said on Feb. 12 that she is resigning from her role leading the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) antitrust litigation. “It is with great sadness and abiding hope that I leave my role as [assistant attorney general] for antitrust
Washington — A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return of Venezuelan migrants who he found were unlawfully deported to a Salvadoran prison under the Alien Enemies Act last year and then released into other countries. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg said in a brief opinion that the number of
President Donald Trump waves as he boards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Md., on Jan. 16, 2026. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images President Donald Trump on Feb. 12 warned Republican lawmakers they will face consequences if they vote against his tariff agenda, after a handful of GOP lawmakers sided with Democrats to pass
The USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier leaves Naval Station Norfolk, in Norfolk, Va., on June 23, 2025. AP Photo/John Clark, File President Donald Trump on Thursday appeared to confirm in a post on social media that a second aircraft carrier is being prepared to be sent to the Middle East as talks with Iran