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Sidney Thomas

Judges weigh scope of Trump sanctuary cities order

A federal appeals court on Wednesday scrutinized whether President Donald Trump's executive order to withhold funding from ...

Scott Pruitt

Dems: No evidence of credible threats against EPA's Pruitt

Confidential security assessments in the Environmental Protection Agency show no evidence of specific, credible, physical ...

Tom Bossert

Day after Bolton takes over, homeland security aide is out

President Donald Trump's homeland security adviser Thomas Bossert resigned Tuesday in the latest White House shakeup.

FEMA faulted for failed contracts to deliver hurricane aid

The Federal Emergency Management Agency awarded contracts for hurricane supplies without adequately researching whether ...

Donald Trump

The Latest: Trump back on immigration theme

The Latest on President Donald Trump (all times local): 4:55 p.m. The White House says President Donald Trump was referring ...

The Latest: Iowa governor would send troops to Mexico border

The Latest on President Donald Trump's order for the National Guard to deploy to the U.S.-Mexico border (all times local): ...

Kirstjen Nielsen

Trump signs proclamation directing troops to secure border

Asserting the situation had reached "a point of crisis," President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a proclamation directing ...

Kirstjen Nielsen

The Latest: Mexico says US troops on border won't be armed

The Latest on President Donald Trump and immigration (all times local): 9:55 p.m. The Mexican foreign ministry says U.S.

Migrant caravan stops in field in southern Mexico

President Donald Trump is warning about "caravans" of migrants heading to the U.S., though the caravan of Central American ...

DHS proposal would penalize immigrants who use tax credit

The Trump administration is considering a proposal that would penalize immigrants for accepting almost any form of public ...

Environmentalists seek to block New Mexico border wall work

A coalition of environment groups filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking to stop work to replace existing vehicle barriers along ...

Immigrants sue US over end to temporary protected status

The Trump administration's decision to end a program that lets immigrants from four countries live and work legally in the U.

Tillerson visits Chad and gets an earful about US travel ban

On an unlikely visit to dusty and desolate Chad, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Monday told the African nation's ...

ACLU sues Trump administration to stop family separation

The American Civil Liberties Union filed a class-action lawsuit Friday accusing the U.S. government of broadly separating ...

Mother separated from child in immigrant detention released

A Congolese woman at the center of a lawsuit accusing the U.S. government of unlawfully separating her from her 7-year-old ...

Donald Trump

Turnover, investigations have Trump administration adrift

Rattled by two weeks of muddled messages, departures and spitting matches between the president and his own top officials, ...

Donald Trump

Trump adrift: Tumult in West Wing amid exits, investigation

Rattled by two weeks of muddled messages, departures and spitting matches between the president and his own top officials, ...

Trump continues to vent against California

President Donald Trump lashed out at California on Wednesday, threatened to prevent construction of a border wall in a state ...

Bill Haslam, John Hickenlooper

February 25, 2018

Govs fear for election security amid Russian cyberattacks

Will your vote be safe this year from foreign adversaries working to undermine U.S. democracy? Some of the nation's governors ...

February 24, 2018

Homeland Security's No. 2 official will retire in April

The No. 2 official at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is retiring after a tenure that included several months as ...