In the Trump Administration, Nearly Every Major Department Is an Immigration Agency The departments of State, Defense and Justice have made immigration a clear priority in their work and public messaging.
Senate GOP Pushes Ahead with Budget Bill That Funds Trump's Mass Deportations and Border Wall On a party-line vote, 50-47, Republicans launched the process, skipping ahead of the House Republicans who prefer President...
Migrant Shot and Injured by National Guard Soldier Patrolling Border It’s the first known incident since the mission began in which a soldier has shot and injured a migrant.
DOJ Investigating Texas' Operation Lone Star for Alleged Civil Rights Violations Under the initiative, the state has deployed more than 10,000 National Guard members and Department of Public Safety troopers...
Democrats Raise Ethical Concerns Over GOP Donor's $1 Million Funding of Border Deployment A billionaire's donation to fund a National Guard mission to the border has raised questions of whether the military is...
Billionaire GOP Mega-Donor Funds National Guard Mission to US-Mexico Border The tab is being picked up by the private Tennessee-based Willis and Reba Johnson's Foundation.
Texas Governor: State, Crowdsourcing Will Fund Border Wall How far Texas Gov. Greg Abbott can go with a project whose total cost, length and timeline are unclear and could face legal...
Pentagon Cancels Border Wall Projects, Will Recover Funding Diverted by Trump Funds freed up by the cancellations will now be used for "previously deferred military construction projects."
Small Arms Training, Alaskan Missile Field: DoD Details Projects Funded by Border Wall Cancellation The unobligated money the DoD was able to recover is a fraction of what had been steered toward the border wall.
With Border Wall Funding Cut, New SecDef Must Decide Whether to Withdraw Troops There are currently about 4,000 National Guard troops from 22 states and Puerto Rico on the border.
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
