Here’s a question about the shutdown submitted by an Associated Press reader, Deanna: Have agencies violated the Hatch Act by using Democrat-blaming language online in discussing the shutdown? Experts disagree on whether the Democrat-blaming language on the website of HUD and various other government agencies reaches the threshold of violating the 1939 Hatch Act, which […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday allowed President Donald Trump’s administration to strip legal protections from more than 300,000 Venezuelan migrants. The justices issued an emergency order, which will last as long as the court case continues, putting on hold a lower-court ruling by U.S. District Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco that […]
McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The Trump administration said Friday that it would pay migrant children $2,500 to voluntarily return to their home countries, dangling a new incentive in efforts to persuade people to self-deport. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement didn’t say how much migrants would get or when the offer would take effect, but The […]
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Five years after protests roiled Portland, Oregon, the city known for its history of civil disobedience is again at the center of a political maelstrom as it braces for the arrival of federal troops being deployed by President Donald Trump. Months of demonstrations outside Portland’s immigration detention facility have escalated after […]
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Native Americans watched the shuttered government on Friday and braced for damage to health care, education, infrastructure and other services funded by Washington under treaties struck more than a century ago. Tribal nations with casinos, oil and gas leases and other independent revenue sources said they expect to sustain operations for […]
A Spanish-language journalist who had been in immigration detention in Georgia since June was deported Friday to El Salvador. Mario Guevara, 48, was covering a protest just outside Atlanta on June 14 when local police arrested him and then turned him over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement several days later. His lawyers had been […]
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday he has personally reversed $187 million in funding cuts made by his administration for New York’s law enforcement and counterterrorism operations, following bipartisan outcry from New York officials. The Republican announced the restoration of federal funding on Truth Social. “I am pleased to advise that I […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has accused the independent watchdog for the Pentagon of being “weaponized” and says he’s overhauling the inspector general’s office, upending the way that service members report abuse and other problems in the ranks. Hegseth unveiled the plans during a speech at an unusual gathering of hundreds of top […]
ATLANTA (AP) — Real estate giant Greystar and 25 other property management companies have agreed to collectively pay more than $141 million to settle a class action lawsuit accusing landlords of driving up housing costs by using rent-setting algorithms offered by the software company RealPage. Greystar, the nation’s largest landlord, would pay $50 million under […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI Director Kash Patel says the bureau is cutting ties with two organizations that for decades have tracked domestic extremism and racial and religious bias, a move that follows complaints about the groups from some conservatives and prominent allies of President Donald Trump. Patel said Friday that the FBI would sever its […]
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s Democratic governor signed into law on Friday a criminal justice measure that the state’s Republican-controlled legislature approved in response to the stabbing death of a Ukrainian refugee on a Charlotte commuter train. Stein said he signed the bill because “it alerts the judiciary to take a special look at […]
Several Democratic state attorneys general say the Trump administration has backed away from requiring states to agree to cooperate with the president’s immigration agenda in order to access federal money for programs that help victims of crime. In a series of news releases Friday, several of the attorneys general announced that federal Victims of Crime […]
Hispanic Heritage Month, celebrated from Sept. 15 through October 15, offers the opportunity to recognize and celebrate the contributions of Hispanic cultures in the United States. Hispanic people in the U.S. are becoming one of the nation’s fastest growing racial and ethnic groups. But this growing community is far from being a monolith. From shifting […]
ATLANTA (AP) — After previous attempts to bring Fani Willis before a special state Senate committee formed to investigate her failed, the committee chairman said Friday that he expects the Fulton County district attorney to appear for questioning next month. State senators in January 2024 created the committee to look into allegations of “various forms […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Growing up in the West Bank, Leqaa Kordia was separated from family in Gaza by Israeli restrictions on movement between the territories. So aunts and uncles in Gaza would call from the beach there, allowing Kordia to share her cousins’ laughter and glimpse the waves. Now many of those relatives are […]
Being advised to max out your 401(k)is Personal Finance 101. But is that universally solid guidance? Tax-sheltered retirement plans offer the convenience of automatic investments and tax breaks—pretax contributions and tax-deferred compounding for traditional 401(k)s and tax-free compounding and withdrawals for Roth contributions. But the availability and quality of the 401(k) are also important considerations. […]
BROADVIEW, Ill. (AP) — Federal agents detained multiple people Friday near an immigration facility outside Chicago that has frequently been targeted by protesters during President Donald Trump’s administration’s surge of immigration enforcement this fall. A crowd grew over several hours, some riled by newly installed barricades to separate them from law enforcement officers stationed outside […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A lawsuit that claimed the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees had provided more than $1 billion that enabled Hamas’ deadly attack on Israel was dismissed this week by a federal judge in New York. U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres said the United Nations Relief and Works Agency was protected because […]
A stretch of a waterfront trail in the Florida Gulf Coast community of Clearwater is being renamed to honor the mustachioed, headscarf-wearing wrestling giant Hulk Hogan, who called the city home and died earlier this year. Florida residents and tourists alike will be able to memorialize “the Hulkster” by soaking up the sun along the […]
Federal officials on Friday confirmed that Florida has been reimbursed $608 million for the costs of building and running an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades, exposing “Alligator Alcatraz” to the risk of being ordered to close for a second time. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said in an email that the state […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex crimes trial involved testimony from 34 witnesses. They included Combs’ ex-girlfriends Cassie and Jane, who said he forced them into drug-fueled sex marathons, a sex worker they knew as “The Punisher,” personal assistants who said they witnessed violence, and other women who accused him of abuse. A […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said that Hamas must agree to a proposed peace deal for Gaza by 6 p.m. ET on Sunday and threatened that the group will face more attacks if it doesn’t. “An Agreement must be reached with Hamas by Sunday Evening at SIX (6) P.M., Washington, D.C. time,” Trump wrote […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Friday it will consider overturning a Hawaii law that imposes strict regulations on where people can carry guns. The Trump administration had urged the justices to take the case, arguing the law violates the court’s 2022 ruling that found people have a right to carry firearms in public […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs faces sentencing Friday in a sordid criminal case that could keep him locked up for years. The hip-hop mogul was convicted in July of flying people around the country for sexual encounters, including his girlfriends and male sex workers. A jury acquitted Combs, 55, of more serious racketeering […]
