Nationwide anti-ICE protests expected as border czar orders plans for eventual drawdown in Minnesota
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White House border czar Tom Homan has ordered federal immigration authorities to work on a drawdown plan for law enforcement in Minnesota. Follow for live updates
• Anti-ICE protests: Nationwide demonstrations against President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown are expected today, with organizers calling for a boycott of school, work, and shopping. • Federal plan: White House border czar Tom Homan has ordered federal immigration authorities to work on a drawdown plan for law enforcement in Minnesota. Increased cooperation between county jail systems and immigration authorities would be key to the drawdown plan, Homan said. • Alex Pretti shooting: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said she was using “the best information we had at the time” when making initial statements about Pretti’s killing. Noem described the situation as “chaotic” and noted she was “being relayed information” from agents and officers on the ground. Senate leaders have a bipartisan funding deal in hand, but it remains to be seen whether they will avert a costly government shutdown as the clock ticks down toward Friday’s midnight deadline. Lawmakers left Capitol Hill late Thursday after all rank-and-file senators could not come to agreement to swiftly move the spending package – the contours of which negotiators from both parties and the White House struck earlier in the day. Senators are set to return Friday with an eye toward sending the bills back to the House for final approval, but negotiations can change rapidly. The deal, announced by Minority Leader Chuck Schumer hours before, includes a two-week stopgap funding extension for the Department of Homeland Security that Democrats had requested.
Cuba is going dark under US pressure. How the crisis unfolded and why its troubles are far from over
Almost three months after the US effectively imposed an oil blockade on Cuba that worsened its energy crunch, nearly every aspect of Cuban society has been feeling the strain.
The Department of Homeland Security has been ensnared by a partial government shutdown as Congress did not act to fund the agency by the end of Friday. But nearly all DHS workers will remain on the job — even if many won’t get paid until the lapse ends — and the public probably won’t notice much of a change.
The USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier is moving away from operations tied to the Iran war and sailing to the US Navy’s base in Crete for repairs after a fire broke out in the ship’s laundry area last week, a US official said.
An American college student visiting friends for spring break has gone missing in Spain, his family said, adding police have his phone.
A typically friendly setting for one of their own turned tense on Capitol Hill Wednesday with senators grilling Markwayne Mullin for roughly three hours as he vies to become President Donald Trump’s next Department of Homeland Security chief.
Top Trump administration officials testified publicly Wednesday for the first time since the launch of the Iran war three weeks ago.
The White House is temporarily lifting key limits on the shipping of oil, gas and other commodities throughout the US, in its latest effort to counter rising energy prices sparked by its war with Iran.
Any attempt by the United States to take control of Cuba would be met with “impregnable resistance,” Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said Tuesday, as power returned to some parts of the island following a nationwide grid collapse.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche defended the Justice Department’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files and asserted it does not have new evidence to prosecute anyone for crimes related to the convicted sex offender, in an interview released Tuesday.
TSA workers face reality of working without pay as passengers unaware of the shutdown see long lines
More than a third of the security screeners at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport didn’t show up to work Tuesday, the airport’s general manager said, causing passengers to have to wait in line for up to two hours.
Any attempt by the United States to take control of Cuba would be met with “impregnable resistance,” Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said Tuesday, as power returned to some parts of the island following a nationwide grid collapse.
Many assume JB Pritzker’s run for president is just a year away. His effort to engineer a victory for his lieutenant governor, Juliana Stratton, in Illinois’ Senate primary was also a victory for him and a political operation with national ambitions.
Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton’s win in the Senate Democratic primary was also a win for Gov. JB Pritzker, while big-spending groups like AIPAC got mixed results in Tuesday’s contests.