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Border Patrol hiring spree offers lessons as another immigration agency embarks on massive growth
Trump’s bill allocates about $170 billion for border and immigration enforcement, with $4.1 billion for CBP hiring that ...
Opinion
Warning signs keep building on coming pain from Trump’s tariffs
President Donald Trump’s bizarre pivot from one extreme to the other in the Jeffrey Epstein fever swamps dominated the news in recent days, for understandable reasons. This was a ...
Nationwide strike by Republic sanitation workers in the US poses need for fight against Teamsters bureaucracy
The same playbook used by the AFSCME union to sabotage the city workers’ strike in Philadelphia is now being used by the ...
Immigration agents are demanding tenant information from landlords. What to know
Some legal experts and property managers say the demands pose serious legal questions because they are not signed by a judge ...
Trump is checked for lower leg swelling and diagnosed with a common condition in older adults
The White House says President Trump had a recent medical checkup after he noticed 'mild swelling' in his lower legs.
The House is poised to OK Trump’s $9 billion cut to public broadcasting and foreign aid
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is expected late Thursday to approve President Donald Trump’s request to claw back about $9 ...
Trump administration hands over nation’s Medicaid enrollee data, including addresses, to ICE
WASHINGTON (AP) — Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials will be given access to the personal data of the nation’s 79 ...
State Department layoffs affect key Trump priorities like intelligence, energy and China
Trump administration officials have defended the mass dismissals, saying they are overdue and necessary to make the ...
Federal Reserve says building renovation complies with law, defends costs
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Thursday said the agency’s renovation of two of its buildings is in ...
Searching for pennies: With the cut in federal funding public broadcasters are looking to cope
The federal money is appropriated to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which distributes it to NPR and PBS. Roughly 70 ...
Zelenskyy appoints a new prime minister for a war-weary nation
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Fresh off securing a plan to receive more U.S. weaponry, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has ...
Average long-term US mortgage rate rises to 6.75%, second straight uptick
The average rate on a 30-year U.S. mortgage rose for the second week in a row, another setback for the U.S. housing market, ...