The NewsShutdowns used to be clear political losers. Ahead of Saturday’s scheduled Department of Homeland Security shutdown, Republicans aren’t quite sure that rule holds.They think the Trump administration did everything necessary to show it was listening,...
US President Donald Trump said he insisted to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that nuclear talks with Iran would continue, despite Israeli skepticism about a diplomatic breakthrough.Israel is inclined to support US military action against Tehran, ...
US President Donald Trump is reportedly weighing exiting the North American trade pact he signed during his first term.The US-Mexico-Canada Agreement is up for review this year, and the US trade representative said the White House would hold separate talks ...
The Senate will vote on keeping the Department of Homeland Security funded past Friday, but unless something drastic changes, the government looks to be headed into another partial shutdown. One Democratic senator told Semafor that Republicans currently “do...
Confusion is mounting over why the Federal Aviation Administration ordered — and then rescinded — a 10-day closure of airspace over El Paso, Texas. An administration official told Semafor that “Mexican cartel drones breached US airspace” and that the Pentag...
US employers added more jobs in January than economists had expected, but growth was concentrated in just a few sectors.Outside of health care, hospitality, and government, the economy has been “consistently losing jobs,” ING analysts wrote. “This will do n...
House Democrats can force votes on President Donald Trump’s tariffs as soon as Wednesday after three Republicans crossed party lines Tuesday to prevent GOP leaders from continuing a blockade. Republican Reps. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Don Bacon of Nebraska...
US President Donald Trump’s border czar said Thursday that the administration was ending its immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota.The announcement appears to draw to a close Trump’s months-long deportation efforts in the US state, which at its height ...
Senate Democrats voted Thursday to block a motion to advance a House-passed bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security, putting Washington on the brink of a partial government shutdown that will affect more than 260,000 federal employees.
US President Donald Trump said "nothing definitive" was agreed but that he had "insisted" talks with Iran continue during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday.
The president has asked aides why he shouldn’t withdraw from the pact, which he signed during his first term, though he has stopped short of flatly signaling that he will do so, Bloomberg reports.
A disruption in reimbursements to states for disaster relief costs. Delays in cybersecurity response and training. And missed paychecks for the agents who screen passengers and bags at the nation’s airports, which could lead to unscheduled absences and long...
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration lifted its temporary closure of airspace over El Paso on Wednesday, saying all flights will resume as normal and that there was no threat to commercial aviation.
The U.S. added 130,000 jobs in January but gained far fewer jobs than initially reported in 2025, according to data released Wednesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The January employment report showed the labor market booming last month, with th...
The House on Wednesday passed a resolution disapproving of President Donald Trump’s tariffs against Canada, a blow to Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and a rare Republican rebuke of the president’s signature economic policy.
The immigration crackdown in Minnesota that led to mass detentions, protests and two deaths is coming to an end, border czar Tom Homan said Thursday.