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EAGLE PASS, Texas (AP) — Vice President JD Vance visited the U.S.-Mexico border on Wednesday and said that arrests for illegal crossings had fallen sharply because President Donald Trump is demanding that all of government prioritize the issue in ways his Democratic predecessor, Joe Biden, never did. Vance was joined by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth […]
Secretary of State Marco Rubio repeatedly stressed that the United States’ goal is getting Russia to the negotiating table, arguing that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky derailed that effort in the Oval Office on Friday by talking about the need for security guarantees, challenging Vice President JD Vance and trying to “Ukraine-splain” history. “We’re trying to […]
US Army’s lieutenant general Telita Crosland, the head of the military’s health agency, retired on Friday, making her the latest senior officer to leave under President Donald Trump’s administration. The retirement comes a week after Trump dismissed six senior military officials, including the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and the US Navy’s first […]
A Washington DC art gallery has abruptly cancelled two exhibitions featuring Black and LGBTQ+ artists, prompting accusations that it has caved in to Donald Trump’s crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programmes. The Art Museum of the Americas, run by the Organization of American States (OAS), was due to present the shows Nature’s Wild […]
President Trump has been busy upending the federal government, reorienting U.S. foreign policy, threatening trade wars and winning confirmation for his Cabinet choices. But he has managed to find time for a project closer to home: He has told associates that he wants to rip up the grass in the Rose Garden, one of the […]
The Trump administration aggressively publicized the arrests of more than 8,000 immigrants by federal agents since Inauguration Day, with the promise that those detained would be part of a historic mass deportation. But NBC News has learned that some have already been released back into the United States on a monitoring program, according to five […]
IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Hegseth meets with troops at Southern border in New Mexico 01:56 Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth visits Southern border: ‘We are going to get control of this’ 03:29 Now Playing Some migrants caught in Trump’s immigration crackdown released back into U.S. […]
Trump’s immigration crackdown could cause chaos for communities trying to rebuild after devastating wildfires and floods, as the vast majority of skilled disaster-restoration workers are immigrants, a leading expert has warned. Republican and Democratic voters across the US are reeling from climate-fueled disasters, with thousands of homes and businesses destroyed and damaged by the ongoing […]
Washington — The Trump administration’s swift crackdown on immigration has moved beyond those living in or entering the U.S. illegally, with officials also issuing bans and restrictions on legal immigration, including programs for refugees displaced by violence. President Trump made getting tough on illegal immigration a pillar of his presidential campaign, and he has already enacted […]
It has been less than three days since President Trump took office, but the immigration transformation he ordered has already begun. The Pentagon deployed 1,500 active-duty troops to the southern border on Wednesday. The head of the nation’s immigration courts was fired, along with three other senior officials. In Mexico, about 30,000 immigrants with asylum […]