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Hochul, Schumer and the three mayoral candidates express outrage over federal operation in Chinatown Local and state officials in New York are expressing outrage after dozens of federal agents carried out a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) raid in Manhattan’s Chinatown on Tuesday. Eyewitnesses accounts and video footage captured the chaotic scenes in Lower … Read more

The Coast Guard is bolstering its forces along western Texas’ Rio Grande to support President Donald Trump’s border security mission as part of a “surge operation,” according to the service.  Trump declared a national emergency at the border in January, and his administration stood up Joint Task Force Southern Border in March to allow troops … Read more

President Donald Trump praised Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears this week after Democratic challenger Abigail Spanberger mocked the Republican over her non-endorsement with a SpongeBob Squarepants reference. Trump was asked about Earle-Sears on Air Force One and praised her debate performance while appearing to criticize Spanberger’s refusal to explicitly call for scandal-plagued attorney general candidate … Read more

FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is looking to hold Democrats’ “feet to the fire” with new legislation seeking special funding for farmers and food assistance programs amid the government shutdown. Hawley’s bills would reinstate federal funding for the Farm Service Agency as well as the federal SNAP food program. Democrats have so far … Read more

A White House official says that talks on the planning of a potential summit between President Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin has hit a setback after Russia’s foreign minister insisted that they would not agree to an immediate ceasefire without guarantees. NBC’s Keir Simmons reports for TODAY.

The federal government is now in its longest full shutdown ever, and Congress is not giving any signs that an end is in sight. A full government shutdown occurs when the end of the fiscal year comes on Sept. 30 with none of Congress’ 12 single-subject appropriations bills passed by the House and Senate. While … Read more

As the government shutdown enters Day 22, Oregon Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley gave an all-night marathon speech on the Senate floor protesting President Donald Trump. Meanwhile, Trump is suggesting he would meet with Democratic leaders only after the shutdown ends. NBC’s Ryan Nobles reports for TODAY.

Elite helicopter unit’s part in military deployment comes as Donald Trump ramps up pressure on Nicolás Maduro They call themselves the Night Stalkers and their unofficial motto hints at the group’s lethal nocturnal line of work: “Death Waits in the Dark”. “You can flee, but they will find you,” warns a rare book about the … Read more

FIRST ON FOX: A former top leader and “lifetime member” of the Democratic Socialists of America has been on the payroll of “Squad” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s, D-N.Y., campaign since she first ran for Congress in 2018. Frank Llewellyn, the former director of the largest socialist organization in America and a founding member of the socialist … Read more

Sequoia Park Zoo said staff were doing an inspection when they saw a wild black bear looking in at three captive bears A wild bear in California has broken into a zoo and paid an unexpected visit to the bear enclosure. In a Facebook post, the Sequoia Park Zoo in Eureka in the northern part … Read more