Deportations by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement soared to a 10-year high in fiscal year 2024 under the Biden administration, surpassing the Trump-era high recorded in 2019, according to a government report released Thursday. ICE deported more than 271,000 unauthorized immigrants in fiscal year 2024, the highest tally recorded by the agency since fiscal year
‘There is a pardoning process in the state of New York,’ she said in a press conference. ‘It is lengthy. It requires a couple of elements. One is remorse.’ New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said on Thursday that President-elect Donald Trump would need to show remorse before she considered pardoning him on the criminal conviction
Other prosecutors unlikely to relitigate case that Trump’s attorney says ‘should have never been brought’ Fani Willis (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis’s case against President-elect Donald Trump is “effectively dead,” according to legal experts, after a Georgia appeals court disqualified her from the investigation in a Thursday ruling. The court disqualified
Republicans and Democrats are concerned about Kennedy’s views on issues including vaccinations, pesticides, and abortion. WASHINGTON—Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is President-elect Donald Trump’s intended nominee to be secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), has spent the week meeting with U.S. senators to seek their support for his confirmation. So far, across senators from
The details of a new bill have not yet been released. Amid the ongoing backlash over congressional leaders’ controversial spending deal, some Republican lawmakers are voicing support for replacing embattled House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) with Elon Musk. “The Speaker of the House need not be a member of Congress …” Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.)
Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo filed a lawsuit Thursday against a former aide who alleged he sexually harassed her in 2020. His legal filing came just days after she withdrew her own lawsuit against him. In the filing, Cuomo’s lawyers claimed Charlotte Bennett, a former executive assistant in his office, lied about him making
The new deal was negotiated after Trump opposed a previous bill. WASHINGTON—An agreement backed by President-elect Donald Trump to avoid a government shutdown at the end of the week has been reached and a vote is set for the night of Dec. 19, The Epoch Times has learned. It is a pared-down 116-page funding bill,