By KONSTANTIN TOROPIN and JON GAMBRELL, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States will send the world’s largest aircraft carrier to the Middle East to back up another already there, a person familiar with the plans said Friday, putting more Ameri...
By FATIMA HUSSEIN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS erroneously shared the taxpayer information of thousands of people with the Department of Homeland Security, as part of the agencies’ controversial agreement to share information on immigrants fo...
By PETER SMITH, Associated Press A member of the federal Religious Liberty Commission has been ousted after a hearing this week that featured tense exchanges on the definition of antisemitism. The ousted member, Carrie Prejean Boller, had defended prominent...
By HILLEL ITALIE NEW YORK (AP) — The wife of Noam Chomsky is acknowledging “serious errors in judgment” in the wake of new revelations about the couple’s ties to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. Valeria Chomsky also says she and her husband never wi...
By KEVIN FREKING, MARY CLARE JALONICK and SEUNG MIN KIM WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 a...
By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Activists planned protests at more than two dozen Target stores around the United States on Wednesday to pressure the discount retailer into taking a public stand against the 5-week-old immigration crac...
By JOEY CAPPELLETTI, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats took to the Senate floor Wednesday to deliver impassioned speeches denouncing the Justice Department’s attempt to indict a group of lawmakers who last year urged U.S. military members to resi...
By TY O’NEIL, JOHN SEEWER and HALLIE GOLDEN, Associated Press RIO RICO, Ariz. (AP) — Fresh surveillance images from Nancy Guthrie’s porch the night she went missing, coupled with intense police activity across Arizona and the detention of a man had raised h...
By SEUNG MIN KIM, BEN FINLEY, MARY CLARE JALONICK and MORGAN LEE, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The sudden and surprising airspace closure over El Paso, Texas, stemmed from the Pentagon’s plans to test a laser for use in shooting down drones used by Me...
By DAVE COLLINS Yale University says a prominent computer science professor will not teach classes while it reviews his conduct, after newly released documents show he sent Jeffrey Epstein an email describing an undergraduate as a good-looking blonde while ...
By PAUL WISEMAN, AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers added a surprisingly strong 130,000 jobs last month, but government revisions cut 2024-2025 U.S. payrolls by hundreds of thousands. The unemployment rate fell to 4.3%, the Labor Departmen...
By LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House voted Wednesday to slap back President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canada, a rare if largely symbolic rebuke of the White House agenda as Republicans joined Democrats over the obj...
By STEVE KARNOWSKI, Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Trump administration is ending the immigration crackdown in Minnesota that led to thousands of arrests, violent protests and the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens over the past two months, borde...
The world’s largest aircraft carrier has been ordered to sail from the Caribbean Sea to the Middle East, a person familiar with the plans said Thursday, as U.S. President Donald Trump considers whether to take possible military action against Iran.
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service improperly disclosed the confidential tax information of thousands of people to federal immigration enforcement authorities, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing three people familiar with the situation.
Carrie Prejean Boller has been removed from the White House Religious Liberty Commission after Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R), who chairs the body, accused her of trying to “hijack” a hearing on antisemitism this week.
Valeria Chomsky says she and her husband Noam Chomsky made serious errors in judgment in their relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
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...
Activists planned protests at more than two dozen Target stores around the United States on Wednesday to pressure the discount retailer into taking a public stand against the 5-week-old immigration crackdown in its home state of Minnesota.
A federal grand jury in D.C. refused the Justice Department’s attempts to indict six Democratic lawmakers over their comments to military service members — the latest rebuke of the Trump administration’s push to prosecute the president’s foes, according to ...
A person who was detained for questioning in the investigation into Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance has been released. The man was brought in for questioning on Tuesday in connection with the alleged kidnapping of the 84-year-old mother of NBC News anchor Sav...
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.
Yale University says a prominent computer science professor will not teach classes while it reviews his conduct, after newly released documents show he sent Jeffrey Epstein an email describing an undergraduate as a good-looking blonde while recommending her...
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.