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The Senate voted on Monday to confirm Markwayne Mullin to lead the Department of Homeland Security. It comes as the partial shutdown of the sprawling agency is dragging into its sixth week. Mullin replaces Kristi Noem, whom President Donald Trump fired over a combination of mounting controversies.

California Democrats blasted federal immigration authorities after a viral video showed officers arresting two people, including a crying woman, at San Francisco International Airport. The video shows the woman — who the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said is an illegal alien — wailing and dropping to the ground as she is being arrested by … Read more

An American man held by the Taliban for more than a year without charges has been released and is on his way home, Special Envoy for Hostage Affairs Adam Boehler told Fox News. Dennis Coyle, 64, an academic who spent nearly two decades working in Afghanistan, was taken from his home in Kabul in January … Read more

Park police chief says officer was ‘ambushed’ by two gunmen who fired as officer drove in unmarked vehicle A US park police officer was seriously wounded Monday evening in a shooting in Washington DC in what the park police chief called an ambush. Park police chief Scott Brecht said in a press briefing that the … Read more

A journalist who was wrongfully detained for five hundred and forty-four days never got to say goodbye to Tehran. Now he’s fielding messages about chaos and destruction in the home he left behind.

The network’s experiment in style was embarrassing, but it may tell us more about the state of podcasting than it does about legacy media.

A brewing fight over privacy rights and national security will come to a head in the House of Representatives in the coming weeks, shaping up to be the latest test for House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and his razor-thin GOP majority. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) is set to expire on … Read more

Francesca Albanese recommended ICC arrests and investigations over Gaza. Who will be the administration’s next target? We are North American university professors and human rights lawyers who teach, write, and speak about the human rights of people around the world, including Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank and Gaza. In a country that purports … Read more

A new book explores the career of a player who many credit with inventing the curveball, and why he has been kept out of the Hall of Fame The Civil War provides a host of baseball-related mysteries pertaining to pitcher James Creighton. By the time of his death at age 21 in 1862, Creighton had … Read more

Combination of US and Spanish companies would create $40bn fashion and beauty group Business live – latest updates The US cosmetics company Estée Lauder is in talks over a potential merger with the Spanish group Puig, the owner of brands including Jean Paul Gaultier and Rabanne, to create a $40bn fashion and beauty giant. Estée … Read more