Tom Homan officially retired after 34 years of government service last June, but it’s pretty hard to tell. He has been an upstate New York beat cop, a Border Patrol officer and, these days, he’s the acting head of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
US Border Patrol is breaking up asylum-seeking families if the parents are HIV positive, an official told Congress today, contradicting existing US policy.
A congressional hearing on Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election turned into probe of the special prosecutor instead, as Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee questioned his motives, his patriotism, and his competence.
Kenneth Starr, the special prosecutor who precipitated the impeachment of Bill Clinton, is casting a shadow over today’s House Judiciary Committee questioning of Robert Mueller, whose report could conceivably lead to the same treatment for Donald Trump.
The Republican strategy during Robert Mueller’s House Judiciary Committee testimony has been to attempt to undermine the former special prosecutor, questioning everything from the path of his government career to his legal logic.
When the US next year hosts the G7 summit, a meeting between some of the world’s biggest economies, guests may want to be wary of using the pool.
US president Donald Trump’s days-long attack on four non-white American Congresswomen is turning into a galvanizing moment in his presidency.
Updated July 19, 9:15am
The US House of Representatives voted decisively July 16 to condemn US president Donald Trump’s racist insults toward four freshman Congresswomen. But it almost didn’t happen at all.
The Trump administration introduced a new rule that would essentially ban Central American immigrants from seeking asylum in the US today, the latest attempt to radically rewrite US immigration policy outside of Congress.
US president Donald Trump spent a lot of time during a White House’s “social media summit” this week complaining that his tweets don’t get the same engagement that they used to.
Border agents separated three girls who traveled with their father from Honduras to the US to claim asylum because he is HIV positive, immigration attorneys told Quartz.
Update, 6pm: The Trump White House backtracked on a plan to add a citizenship question to in a press conference. Attorney General William Barr said there was no way “to implement any new decision without jeopardizing our ability to carry out the census.”
How, exactly, did accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein propel himself from a middle-class boy in Brooklyn to a secretive, maybe-billionaire with multiple mansions and a private jet?
A recent Washington Post-ABC news poll finds that just 29% of Americans approve of how US president Donald Trump is dealing with climate changes and the environment. Conservation group the Sierra Club says he has the “worst record on the environment and climate action of any president in the history of the country.”
The top Democratic candidates raised nearly $100 million for the 2020 presidential election in the second quarter of 2019, with Pete Buttigieg, the Indiana mayor, in the lead.
US president Donald Trump’s “Salute to America” speech on July 4th was delivered to a soggy crowd of thousands on the National Mall, without serious incident.
US president Donald Trump’s “Salute to America” Fourth of July celebration will feature tanks, military plane flyovers—and potential clashes between white supremacists and counter-protesters.
There will be tanks.
Border Patrol agents told detained migrants to drink from the toilets in their overcrowded cells, Democrat members of Congress said after a visiting detention camps on the Texas-Mexico border.
Updated July 1, 2019
Joe Biden defended his record on civil rights during a speech in Chicago today—and may have further damaged his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination instead.
California senator Kamala Harris confronted former vice president Joe Biden directly about his lack of support for desegregation of US schools the 1970s in the most impactful moment so far of the two Democratic presidential candidate debates.
Evangelical leaders are “deeply troubled” by the way the US government is treating children and families seeking asylum on the southern border, and say Christian faith demands that the White House and Congress do better.
