10 h. ago Federal authorities are cleaning up an oil spill in southeast Louisiana

Federal authorities are seeking to contain and clean up the damage from a decades-old oil well in southeast Louisiana that spewed crude and natural gas for more than a week

Culture

3 d. ago NYPD shared a Palestinian protester's info with ICE. Now it's evidence in her deportation case

New York City’s police department provided federal immigration authorities with information about a Palestinian woman who was arrested at a protest

Events

3 d. ago Trump 100 days: White House action plan makes Project 2025 look mild

Donald Trump tried to distance himself from the radical rightwing blueprint for government during the campaign but its prescriptions are all over the administration’s agendaTrump’s whirlwind start to his second presidencyWhen Donald Trump chose a Project 2025 author to lead a key federal agency that would carry out the underpinnings of the conservative manifesto’s aims, he solidified the project’s role in his second term.Shortly after he won re-election, the US president nominated Russ Vought to lead the office of management and budget. Vought wrote a chapter for Project 2025 about consolidating power in the executive branch and advances a theory that allows the president to withhold funds from agencies, even if Congress has allocated them. Consolidating power, in part through firing a supposed “deep state” and hiring loyalists, is a major plank of the project – and of Trump’s first 100 days. Continue reading...

Politics

9 d. ago Wife of US Coast Guard member arrested over expired visa after security check for military housing

U.S. officials say the wife of an active-duty Coast Guardsman was arrested earlier this week by federal immigration authorities inside the family residential section of the U.S. Naval Air Station at Key West, Florida, after she was flagged in a security check

Events

1 week ago Americans linked to Congo coup attempt plead not guilty to US criminal charges

Four Americans pleaded not guilty to criminal charges in a federal court in Utah after authorities said they conspired to stage a violent coup in Congo that failed

Events

2 w. ago Fresh fears spread across colleges after campus cops partner with ICE to quiz students on immigration status

Campus police can enforce some federal immigration laws under the agreement with local authorities and ICE

Politics

2 w. ago Authorities say they have charged the leaders of a Mexican organized crime group

Federal authorities said they have indicted the top two leaders of a Mexican drug trafficking organization

Politics

3 w. ago Schumer seeks to halt flights for New York helicopter company after deadly Hudson River crash

New York Sen. Chuck Schumer is calling on federal authorities to revoke the operating permits of the helicopter tour company whose sightseeing chopper broke apart in midair and plunged into the Hudson River

Events

3 w. ago Cleanup underway of the Keystone oil pipeline spill in North Dakota

Trucks and workers started a cleanup effort at the site of a spill of the Keystone oil pipeline in rural North Dakota

Politics

3 w. ago US cites Georgia firm after chemical cloud disrupted life in Atlanta's suburbs

Federal authorities have found that a Georgia company improperly stored hazardous chemicals before a fire southeast of Atlanta last year that produced a toxic chemical cloud over the area

Politics