Republican Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski (A-AK) are working with Democrat Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) on a bill to block part of the Trump administration’s effort to dismantle the Department of Education (ED).
On Thursday, the Senate HELP (Health, Education, Labor and Pensions) Committee approved the bill, S. 5046, in a 13-9 vote to prohibit ED from moving special education and several other education offices to other federal agencies, Politico reported.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deported more illegal aliens from the United States this week, including those convicted of kidnapping, assault with a weapon, and cocaine smuggling, among other things.
“Just yesterday, ICE deported criminal illegal aliens that include pedophiles, kidnappers, burglars, and gang members,” the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Lauren Bis said.
President Donald Trump’s State Department has started revoking visas for foreign nationals arrested for drunk driving, agency officials announced this week.
“The Trump Administration is keeping reckless foreign drivers off our streets by revoking visas and denying further travel to the United States,” officials wrote in a statement. “The State Department is keeping our streets safe from foreign nationals who drive impaired, disregard laws, and endanger Americans.”
President Donald Trump told reporters Friday that Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) is holding up the confirmation of Todd Blanche as attorney general because he is angry Trump endorsed Ken Paxton in Texas’s Republican U.S. Senate primary.
Cornyn, who is on the Judiciary Committee and whose support is critical to advancing Blanche’s nomination out of the committee, is withholding any support of Blanche, the acting attorney general, until he receives written assurances from the Justice Department “that the fund be rescinded and that the scope of the IRS audit immunity agreement in the settlement be narrowed,” as ABC News reported.
Saudi Arabia on Thursday held the first planning session for its proposed Red Sea maritime defense coalition which would secure the vital trading passage through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and Gulf of Aden against piracy and terrorism, primarily from the Iran-backed Houthi separatists of Yemen.
The marriage between WNBA star Brittney Griner and her wife Cherelle will soon come to an end.
Brittney Griner filed for divorce after eight years of marriage; the couple has one child together.
The filing was made in Fulton County, Georgia, according to Page Six.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is cracking down on foreign nationals voting in New Jersey, Breitbart News has learned. This month, Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D) admitted that a so-called “software error” allowed thousands of foreign nationals to register to vote in the state, with hundreds voting in elections since 2023.
Belgian prosecutors this week announced the arrest of a Canadian intern for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) who was accused of espionage.
Media investigations soon revealed the suspect is a Chinese-born Canadian national who was allegedly spying for China.
Vice President JD Vance said at Friday’s cabinet meeting that the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, of which he is chair, has identified $230 billion in fraud and prevented $56 billion in fraudulent payments.
Speaking after President Donald Trump at the first-ever televised cabinet meeting from Camp David, Vance provided an update on the efforts of the task force which is implementing a whole-of-government approach in its war on fraud.
Federal Communications chief Brendan Carr posted a montage video to social media of some of ABC daytime talk show The View’s most biased, left-wing chatter and electioneering for Democrats as the agency considers whether the show has broken federal equal time rules.
Queer fans of Disney star Pedro Pascal were in a fury Thursday over news that the actor was photographed vacationing shirtless on a Yacht in Spanish Mallorca alongside male model Christian Hogue.
Pascal has been living it up in the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea this week having been seen cavorting with such celebs as Jason Bateman, Judd Apatow, Jessica Sklar, Jennifer Aniston, and Courtney Cox, according to TMZ.
A top Ukrainian diplomat told NBC News in a report published Thursday that Kyiv had brokered an agreement with Washington to share its drone technology, potentially allowing for collaboration to improve drone models.
The report follows the Ukrainian government, including President Volodymyr Zelensky personally, promoting Ukraine as a global heavyweight in drone technology, both in developing its own drones to resist the ongoing Russian invasion of its territory and in responding to the use of inexpensive Iranian “Shahed” drones on the battlefield. Zelensky has offered his Shahed experts to Gulf states facing periodic terrorist attacks by the Iranian regime and the experts are believed to be aiding with national security in Saudi Arabia, a routine target of the Iranian terror state.
