66 m. ago Suspect in Brown University mass shooting is found dead as police link former PhD student, 48, to killing of professor

THE suspect in the Brown University mass shooting has been found dead, cops revealed. Authorities identified the suspect as Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, a 48-year-old former Brown graduate student. Investigators revealed that the suspect, a Portuguese national, took his own life inside a storage facility. He was found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Investigators believe...

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38 h. ago Federal appeals court allows National Guard deployment in Washington to continue for now

A U.S. appeals court has ruled that the National Guard deployment in Washington, D.C. can continue for now

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59 h. ago Trump expands travel ban, adding 5 more countries and imposing new limits on others

The Trump administration is expanding its travel ban to include five more countries and impose new limits on others

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60 h. ago Trump will travel to Delaware for return of National Guard members killed in Syria, White House says

President Donald Trump is traveling to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware this week for a dignified transfer for the two Iowa National Guard members killed Saturday in an attack in the Syrian desert that is testing the rapprochement between Washington and Damascus

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3 d. ago Two victims named in Brown University shooting as police continue search for killer

Two students, Ella Cook and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, identified in shooting after authorities released sole suspect Brown University shooting – latest updatesTwo students who died in Saturday’s mass shooting at Brown University were being remembered Monday – as a manhunt for their killer continued following the release by authorities in Rhode Island of the sole person of interest detained in the case.Ella Cook, a second-year student from Alabama, was “an incredible, grounded, faithful, bright light”, according to the Cathedral Church of the Advent, Birmingham, which paid tribute to her at a service on Sunday. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Afghans live in fear of ICE in wake of Washington National Guard attack

Many detained had requested asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border in the last two years

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1 week ago ICE arrests of Afghans are on the rise in the wake of National Guard attack, immigration lawyers say

Immigration lawyers and authorities say arrests of Afghans are on the rise following the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, D.C. The suspect in the attack is an Afghan national

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1 week ago Washington's Mayor Bowser says the city's police chief, Pamela Smith, is stepping down

Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser says the city's police chief, Pamela Smith, is stepping down

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1 week ago West Virginia National Guard member who survived DC shooting is slowly healing, governor says

The West Virginia National Guard member who survived last week’s shooting in Washington is slowly healing

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1 week ago Trump administration will expand travel ban to more than 30 countries, Noem says

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says the Trump administration is expanding its travel ban to more than 30 countries

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2 w. ago Trump’s sweeping changes to US immigration policy – here’s what to know

President orders pause on asylum claims and extra scrutiny of migrants from 19 countries after Washington shootingDonald Trump is seizing on the shooting of two national guard members, allegedly by an Afghan man, to press his immigration crackdown still farther. In the aftermath of the attack, which left guard member Sarah Beckstrom dead and colleague Andrew Wolfe in critical condition, Trump directed US Citizenship and Immigration Services to pause all pending asylum applications.USCIS followed up that announcement with more seismic shifts to immigration policy. This is how the White House is reshaping the process for requesting asylum, green cards and citizenship. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Trump is using a tragic shooting to demonize millions | Mohamad Bazzi

The administration is heightening its anti-immigrant crackdown – and punishing people from a country the US helped destroyAfter two national guard members were ambushed in Washington DC last week, killing one and leaving the other in critical condition, Donald Trump went on a hate-filled social media rant and vowed to “permanently pause migration from all Third World countries.”Trump’s late night Thanksgiving posts devolved into a fury, evidently because the suspected gunman is an Afghan national. He had worked with the US government, including the CIA, and was evacuated to the US in 2021 after the American military withdrew from Afghanistan.Mohamad Bazzi is director of the Center for Near Eastern Studies, and a journalism professor, at New York University Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Pentagon says every national guard soldier deployed in Washington DC ‘is now armed’

Move to arm all 2,375 estimated troops marks shift in rules of engagement for domestic military deploymentsUS politics live – latest updatesThe Pentagon said on Tuesday that every national guard member deployed in Washington DC would now be armed with live weapons, and that they had begun conducting joint patrols with the local police department.“I can confirm that everybody in DC is now armed, and a lot of our DC national guardsmen are now also doing joint patrols with members of the police department here in DC,” said Kingsley Wilson, the defense department’s press secretary, at a press conference. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Man charged in National Guard shooting pleads not guilty during court appearance from hospital bed

A man accused of shooting two National Guard troops near the White House has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and assault charges

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2 w. ago Trump's Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem reveals extraordinary travel ban on 'EVERY country flooding US with killers, leeches, and entitlement junkies'

Kristi Noem did not specify which countries would be banned but her announcement follows an attack on two National Guard members in Washington DC last week.

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2 w. ago Kristi Noem calls for 'full travel ban' on countries flooding US with 'killers, leeches, and entitlement junkies'

The Department of Homeland Security Secretary did not specify which countries she was calling for a ban from in the wake of the attack on two National Guard members in Washington.

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2 w. ago Kristi Noem claims suspect in national guard shooting was ‘radicalized’ in US

Homeland security secretary also blamed ‘activist’ judges for defying court order to halt deportation flightsKristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, claimed on Sunday that the suspect in the national guard shooting in Washington DC was “radicalized” in the US and blamed the Biden administration, though the suspect’s asylum was approved under Donald Trump.The shooting suspect, 29-year-old Rahmanullah Lakanwal, was granted asylum under the Trump administration in April 2025. He worked with CIA backed units in Afghanistan, coming to the US in September 2021 under an Operation Allies Welcome program. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago US halts all asylum decisions as suspect in shooting of National Guard members faces murder charge

The Trump administration has halted all asylum decisions and paused issuing visas for people traveling on Afghan passports in the wake of a shooting that left one National Guard member dead and another in critical condition near the White House

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2 w. ago Trump administration officially instructs a pause on all asylum decisions after National Guard 'terror attack'

The Trump administration ordered a nationwide pause on asylum decisions after two National Guard members were shot this week in Washington, DC.

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2 w. ago Trump says he will cancel all Biden executive orders signed by autopen – live

US president’s social media post escalates longstanding campaign to portray his predecessor as addled and not in charge by end of his termWest Virginia governor Patrick Morrisey reaffirmed his support for the state’s National Guard members deployed in Washington, DC.“When you have these terrorists, when you have these evildoers, you’re not going to back down when they go after our servicemen and women,” Morrisey, a Republican, told CNN.I’m devastated to learn of the passing of Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, a member of the West Virginia National Guard. She was only twenty years old.As families across the nation come together today to celebrate Thanksgiving, let us take a moment to think of those in West Virginia who have been plunged into unimaginable grief. Continue reading...

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