news2shortsJohn Cornyn and Greg Casar debate TSA agent pay outside Austin airport as partial shutdown enters second month Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Republican senator John Cornyn and Democratic congressman Greg Casar of Texas squabbled outside Austin’s international airport on Monday over funding for the … Read more
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Rep. Greg Casar, D-Texas, got into a heated exchange Monday afternoon over Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding after the progressive lawmaker attempted to interrupt the senator’s news conference. “Why don’t you tell the Democrats to vote to pay these poor people,” Cornyn told Casar, referring to Transportation Security Administration … Read more
President Donald Trump’s former defense lawyer received swift backing from conservative legal figures online after facing pushback at a recent American Bar Association (ABA) conference for praising the Trump Department of Justice. Attorney John Lauro, who defended Trump in special counsel Jack Smith’s 2020 election case, said the DOJ was “in a better place” under … Read more
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent cast doubt on the planned trip earlier, while insisting it was not meant to pressure China to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
Storm system dumps snow in midwest and threatens east coast with high winds and possible ‘long-track tornadoes’ Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox A late winter storm continued a destructive, elemental march across the eastern US, with thousands of flights canceled or delayed as powerful winds … Read more
Wiles, 68, praised by president as ‘one of the strongest people I know’, to continue working while having treatment Susie Wiles, the first woman to serve as White House chief of staff, has been diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer but plans to continue working while undergoing treatment. The 68-year-old revealed on Monday that the illness … Read more
Gregory Bovino, the U.S. Border Patrol agent who became the face of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, will retire at the end of the month, sources say.
The Supreme Court on Monday said it will review the Trump administration’s effort to revoke temporary legal protections for hundreds of thousands of Haitian and Syrian migrants living in the U.S. — a significant update that comes as the president looks to deliver on his hardline immigration enforcement promises in his second White House term. … Read more
Bovino was demoted in January as head of controversial and deadly immigration crackdown in Minneapolis Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Gregory Bovino of the US border patrol, who was demoted in late January as the public face of the controversial and deadly immigration crackdown in … Read more
You’ll hear volumes from congressional Republicans about the importance of passing the SAVE America Act in the coming days. The bill requires proof of citizenship to vote. “We need to make it easy to vote and hard to cheat in America,” said Sen. Jon Husted, R-Ohio. “The SAVE America Act is an important bill,” said … Read more
