An appeals court ruled on Tuesday that the Trump administration must admit thousands of people granted refugee status before Jan. 20, but declined to stop President Trump from halting the admission of new refugees. The ruling, issued by a three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, often a reliably liberal
WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 25: Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard appeared during a Senate Committee on Intelligence Hearing on March 25, 2025 in Washington, DC. Despite a decline in fentanyl overdose deaths, her team ranked smuggling and drug cartels as top threats to U.S. security. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle
A Columbia University student who moved to the US as a child is suing the Trump administration over attempts to deport her for participating in pro-Palestinian protests. Yunseo Chung, 21, a legal permanent US resident who moved from South Korea when she was seven, alleges immigration officials have executed search warrants at multiple Columbia facilities,
The Trump administration is dealing with the fallout of an extraordinary leak of internal national security deliberations, disclosed in an encrypted group chat that mistakenly included a journalist from The Atlantic. In the group message among cabinet officials and senior White House staff, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth disclosed war plans two hours before U.S. troops
Frank Bisignano, the Wall Street veteran being considered to lead the Social Security Administration, will go before the Senate on Tuesday morning, where lawmakers will demand answers about his plans for an agency recently thrown into tumult. The plans being laid by the Trump administration for the typically staid agency — long viewed as a
By INDERDEEP BAINS, DEPUTY CHIEF REPORTER Published: 20:15 EDT, 24 March 2025 | Updated: 21:37 EDT, 24 March 2025 Russia has been ‘influencing’ White House policy with propaganda about the Ukraine war, Volodymyr Zelensky claimed last night. In an interview released as peace talks began, the Ukrainian president pointed to a ‘pattern’ of high-level officials
The Trump administration has clarified why pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil is facing deportation, in response to claims he was targeted for his free speech. Khalil, 30, a graduate student and legal US resident involved in the anti-Israel protests at Columbia University last year, was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Homeland Security Investigations agents on campus
The Trump administration’s campaign to dismantle the Education Department drew a court challenge on Monday, as opponents called the plan an attempt to evade congressional authority. The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Massachusetts by the American Federation of Teachers, the American Association of University Professors and a pair of public school districts in
The Trump administration said on Monday that it planned to extradite a handful of Venezuelan men to Chile after declaring them subject to the Alien Enemies Act, a wartime law whose novel use is the subject of a pitched court battle. In a statement, Justice Department officials said three men had been declared “alien enemies”
Last Updated:March 23, 2025, 00:11 IST Sirajuddin Haqqani was allegedly involved in planning significant attacks, and a major one was the 2008 strike on the Serena Hotel in Kabul, which killed six people, including a US citizen Sirajuddin Haqqani is the first deputy leader of Afghanistan and the acting interior minister in the post-2021 Taliban