A series of shootings by federal immigration agents, including two deaths in Minneapolis, have galvanized intense local and national protests against the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operations. Federal immigration agents killed Renee Nicole Good, 37 – a mother of three – and Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old nurse, weeks ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Florida Rep. Vern Buchanan, a longtime member of the Ways and Means Committee, announced Tuesday that he will not seek reelection this year after nearly two decades in Congress.

Buchanan, 74, joins a growing list of Republicans departing the House, including fellow Floridians Neal Dunn and Byron Donalds, who is running for ...Read more

WASHINGTON — As they run for the same seat in Congress, Robert White and Trent Holbrook know all too well the power of a vote.

Why? They’ve lived it as former staffers to Democrat Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District of Columbia’s nonvoting delegate — a role that lacks a final say on the House floor.

“These are not normal times. We ...Read more

WASHINGTON — House Democrats again asked a federal judge to block the latest policy from the Department of Homeland Security requiring a seven-day notice for members of Congress to visit immigration detention facilities to conduct oversight visits.

The request for a temporary restraining order was filed Monday with more than a dozen sworn ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — President Donald Trump has announced an executive order to allow victims of the Los Angeles wildfires to rebuild without dealing with "unnecessary, dupicative, or obstructive" permitting requirements.

The order, which is likely to be challenged by the city and state, claimed that local governments have failed to adequately ...Read more

President Donald Trump once again is showering NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani with compliments, even after the mayor issued sharp attacks on Trump’s actions publicly and directly to the president.

In a Tuesday morning appearance on right-wing radio host Sid Rosenberg’s morning show, Trump acknowledged his political differences with Mamdani, but ...Read more

In Minneapolis, two recent fatal encounters with federal immigration agents have produced not only grief and anger, but an unusually clear fight over what is real.

In the aftermath of Alex Pretti’s killing on Jan. 24, 2026, federal officials claimed the Border Patrol officers who fired weapons at least 10 times acted in self-defense...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced he is investigating reports that TikTok is suppressing anti-Trump content days after the platform averted a nationwide ban by finalizing a U.S. ownership deal backed by Donald Trump.

"Following TikTok's sale to a Trump-aligned business group, our office has received reports — and ...Read more

A federal judge heard arguments on Jan. 26, 2026, as the state of Minnesota sought a temporary restraining order to stop the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operation in the state. The administration has sent some 3,000 immigration agents to Minnesota, and attorneys for the state have argued, in part, that it amounts to an ...Read more

The three major Democratic candidates vying to succeed retiring U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin clashed Monday night over who would be the strongest opponent to President Donald Trump and his aggressive deportation enforcement operations, each vowing to varying degrees to end the current tactics of his federal immigration agents.

The hourlong debate, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A compromise spending package would solidify the Trump administration’s drastic cuts to oversight components at the Department of Homeland Security at a time when clashes with the public have raised concerns about the policies involved in massively expanded immigration enforcement.

The Homeland Security portion of the measure ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A proposed 5% raise in Coast Guard discretionary funding in fiscal 2026 hangs in the balance amid a congressional fight over funding for the Department of Homeland Security.

Last week, the House passed the six fiscal 2026 spending bills that cover most federal spending but have yet to become law. These include the Defense and DHS...Read more

WASHINGTON ― Facing opposition from key Republican senators, President Donald Trump's nominee to be ambassador to Kuwait instead has taken a job with AmeriCorps in Washington.

Former Hamtramck Mayor Amer Ghalib said he started Monday as senior adviser for strategic partnerships at AmeriCorps, where his role will include working with local ...Read more

President Donald Trump threatened to hike tariffs on goods from South Korea to 25%, citing what he said was the failure of the country’s legislature to codify the trade deal the two nations reached last year.

Trump in a social media post on Monday said the new rate would apply to autos, lumber, pharmaceutical products and “all other ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The killing of a second U.S. citizen by federal agents in Minneapolis is deeply complicating efforts to avert another government shutdown in Washington as Democrats — and some Republicans — view the episode as a tipping point in the debate over the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement policies.

Senate Democrats ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The fatal shooting in Minnesota over the weekend has stirred up two extreme I-words in Congress: impeachment and insurrection.

In response to an immigration enforcement agent shooting and killing a citizen, Alex Pretti, in Minneapolis on Saturday, some House Democrats are renewing a push to impeach Homeland Security Secretary ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Senate inched closer to triggering a partial government shutdown Monday as GOP leaders pushed forward with a $1.33 trillion funding package that includes a Homeland Security bill Democrats vowed to oppose.

With only four days left before current funding for most federal agencies runs out, both parties sought to find an exit ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is finally experiencing some serious pushback after nearly a year of the world largely bowing to his every desire.

It started with skeptical American oil executives. Then came fed-up European and Canadian leaders. And now even Republican lawmakers are expressing frustration with the administration following...Read more

Apple CEO Tim Cook is being excoriated online for showing up at the White House Saturday night — hours after Border Patrol agents killed a Veterans Affair nurse in Minneapolis — to party with Donald and Melania Trump at an intimate, black-tie screening of Melania Trump’s controversial documentary.

Calls to boycott Apple products also ...Read more