Politics

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said Thursday there is no new agreement with the federal government allowing county jails to notify U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) of inmate release dates, disputing claims made earlier by border czar Tom Homan."I did not make, and could not have made, any agreement with him about how sheriffs share with ICE information about people in their county jails," Ellison said in a statement.Ellison’s […]

House conservatives are expressing skepticism after Senate Democrats and the White House announced a deal had been reached to fund the government without a long-term Department of Homeland Security funding bill. One House member warned that Republicans should not give in to demands to "handcuff ICE."  With any deal reached in the Senate needing approval in the House of Representatives, Rep. Mark Harris, R-N.C., told Fox News Digital, "[Senate Minority Leader […]

President Donald Trump has filed a $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS, accusing the agency of unlawfully leaking his confidential tax returns in a politically motivated violation of federal privacy laws.A spokesman for Trump’s legal team told Fox News "a rogue, politically motivated" IRS employee disclosed private and confidential tax information involving Trump, his family and the Trump Organization to outlets, including The New York Times and ProPublica.The suit claims […]

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott called on the state's attorney general to strip the Council on American-Islamic Relations of its non-profit status on Thursday.Abbott made the request in a letter to Attorney General Ken Paxton that was released by the governor's office. The letter also urges Paxton to prevent CAIR and its affiliates from operating in Texas."Under Texas law, the Texas Attorney General is the only elected official charged with regulating […]

Newly minted New Jersey Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill ducked a question from Fox News Digital over an illegal alien in her state who allegedly fractured an eight-year-old girl’s skull by throwing a rock at a school bus.Sherrill, who was inaugurated on Jan. 20 and expressed support for sanctuary-type policies during her campaign, declined to comment on the attack or the girl’s injuries. Instead, a spokesperson for Sherrill’s office referred Fox […]

President Donald Trump said Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to not open fire on Kyiv, Ukraine, for one week due to the freezing weather rocking the region. "I personally asked President Putin not to fire on Kyiv and the cities and towns for a week during this," Trump said. "It's extraordinary cold, record-setting cold. Over there too, they're having the same conditions. It's a big it's a big pile […]

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., called White House deputy chief of staff for policy and Homeland Security advisor Stephen Miller a "hateful bigot," but the White House fired back, labeling the lawmaker a "buffoon.""Stephen Miller is one of the malignant architects of the violence and brutality DHS has unleashed on the American people," Jeffries asserted in a Wednesday post on X. "He slandered hero nurse Alex Pretti as a would-be […]

President Donald Trump announced that the commercial airspace over Venezuela would reopen after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) released an emergency notice earlier in January to block civil flight operations of U.S. aircraft in Venezuela airspace. The notice came as the U.S. conducted strikes in Venezuela and captured dictator Nicolás Maduro. The Trump administration has said that the U.S. would run Venezuela until a peaceful transition could occur and is currently working […]

A New Jersey township councilwoman forcefully defended Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during a heated public meeting, criticizing disruptive protests and condemning comparisons of federal agents to Nazis as ignorant and historically offensive.Old Bridge Township councilmember Anita Greenberg-Belli made the remarks during a Jan. 27 council meeting as residents debated immigration enforcement, local police cooperation with federal authorities and protests targeting ICE operations across the country."We have to recognize that […]