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Ten House Republicans broke with their party Thursday evening and voted alongside Democrats to pass a bill extending Temporary Protected Status for roughly 350,000 Haitian nationals living in the United States, handing President Trump a rare legislative defeat on immigration from within his own caucus. The measure, led by Democratic Reps. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts […]

President Donald Trump told a packed Friday night rally in Phoenix that the first batch of government files from a Pentagon study on UFOs will be released to the public in the near future, following months of rising public pressure and a February directive ordering federal agencies to begin the declassification process. Speaking at Dream […]

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Saturday in the Oval Office directing his administration to speed access to medical research and treatments based on psychedelic drugs, a move aimed squarely at veterans suffering from PTSD, traumatic brain injuries, addiction, and depression. Podcaster Joe Rogan stood at his side for the signing, having personally pushed […]

The Senate voted unanimously Friday morning to extend the federal government’s controversial surveillance authority for just ten days, a last-ditch move forced by the House’s failure to pass any longer-term renewal of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act before its April 20 expiration deadline. The short-term patch buys Congress breathing room, but not […]

Ten House Republicans crossed party lines Thursday to help Democrats pass a bill extending Temporary Protected Status for more than 350,000 Haitian nationals, a measure the White House opposes and the Senate is unlikely to touch. The final vote was 224-204, Fox News Digital reported, making it the first time the Republican-controlled Congress has voted […]

A federal judge in Wilmington ordered Delaware’s Department of Labor to turn over confidential wage reports and employee records to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ruling that the state had no legal ground to defy a lawful federal subpoena targeting businesses suspected of hiring illegal immigrants. U.S. District Judge Colm Connolly found the ICE subpoena lawful, […]

The number of foreigners approved for U.S. citizenship dropped by roughly 50 percent after the Trump administration overhauled screening procedures at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, with new applications falling just as sharply, from more than 169,000 in a single month to barely 41,000 weeks later, according to USCIS data reported by NPR. The numbers […]

Mississippi’s state Senate passed SB2114 last week, sending a bill to Republican Gov. Tate Reeves that would make illegal entry into or presence in the state a criminal offense under Mississippi law. Reeves has until April 13 to sign or veto the measure. If he signs it, the law takes effect July 1. The bill’s […]

House Democrats on Tuesday unveiled a 10-page bill that would establish a 17-member commission empowered to conduct a medical examination of President Trump and determine whether he should be removed from office under the 25th Amendment. The legislation, introduced by House Judiciary Committee ranking member Jamie Raskin of Maryland, arrived with 50 Democratic co-sponsors, and […]

A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., handed the Trump administration a temporary win Saturday, allowing construction of the president’s planned White House ballroom to move forward while ordering a lower court judge to take a harder look at whether halting the nearly $400 million project would compromise national security. The U.S. Court of Appeals […]