Nicaraguan migrant reacts to new changes on Title 42
After President Biden announced new changes on Title 42, migrants on the US-Mexico border in Yuma and San Luis say they’re frustrated after the announcement this morning.
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McCarthy loses seventh vote for speaker as he struggles to lock down votes
Kevin McCarthy came up short once again on Thursday as he lost the seventh House vote to elect a new speaker.
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Biden announces new migration programs as he prepares to visit the border on Sunday
President Joe Biden on Thursday announced he is expanding a program to accept up to 30,000 migrants per month from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela — along with a plan to expel as many migrants from those countries who circumvent US laws — as his administration confronts a surge of migrants at the southern border.
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House of Representatives pass second Speaker vote
A second vote failed to produce a winner for Speaker of the House during the opening session of congress Tuesday.
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California Rep. McCarthy did not win first House vote
Republican leader Kevin McCarthy did not win the first vote for Speaker of the House Tuesday.
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Senator Kelly sworn in for his full six-year term
Arizona Senator Mark Kelly has sworn in to fulfill his six-year term in the United States Senate.
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Congressman-elect Santos’ finances under scrutiny
Embattled New York Republican Congressman-elect George Santos is facing new scrutiny.
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Arizona governor’s tenure defined by push right, Trump feud
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey beamed as an excavator’s heavy claw smashed through the windows of an old state office building and began tearing off the façade.
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Paul Pelosi attack: Suspect enters not-guilty plea
The man who allegedly broke into U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s home and beat her 82-year-old husband in October pleaded not guilty Wednesday to six charges, including attempted murder, prosecutors said.
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BREAKING: Supreme Court blocks ending of Title 42 for now
The Supreme Court has blocked the Biden Administration from ending migrant expulsions under Title 42.
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Congressman-Elect George Santos addresses rumors of mass fabrication, digs deeper
The hits keep on coming for Congressman-Elect George Santos, the Republican from Long Island who got caught embellishing pretty much everything.
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House passes $1.7 trillion government spending bill as funding deadline looms
The House voted Friday to pass a massive $1.7 trillion spending bill that would fund critical government operations across federal agencies and provide emergency aid for Ukraine and natural disaster relief. The bill will next go to President Joe Biden to be signed into law.
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Migrants near US border face cold wait for key asylum ruling
Hairdresser Grisel Garcés survived a harrowing, four-month journey from her native Venezuela through tropical jungles, migrant detention centers in southern Mexico and then jolting railcar rides north toward the U.S. border.
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Title 42 border rules confound Washington, migrants alike
The drawn-out saga of Title 42, the set of emergency powers that allows border officials to quickly turn away migrants, has been chaotic at the U.S.-Mexico border. In Washington, it hasn’t unfolded much better.
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Federal spending bill would end pandemic provision that led to record Medicaid enrollment
States would once again be able to terminate residents’ Medicaid coverage if the federal spending bill working its way through Congress becomes law.
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Title 42 to remain in place for now as Chief Justice John Roberts temporarily freezes order meant to end it
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Monday put a temporary hold on the termination of a controversial Trump-era immigration policy known as Title 42 that was set to end on December 21, leaving it in place for now.
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Appeals court rejects bid by GOP-led states to keep Title 42 border policy in force
A federal appeals court on Friday rejected a bid by several Republican-led states to keep the so-called Title 42 rule in force, after a district court struck the controversial Trump-era border policy down.
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Senate passes defense bill that rescinds military Covid vaccine mandate
The Senate voted on Thursday to pass sweeping legislation that would authorize $858 billion in national defense funding and rescind the US military’s Covid vaccine mandate.
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Federal judge says Biden can’t yet end Trump-era ‘Remain in Mexico’ immigration policy
A federal judge in Texas has put on hold for now the Biden administration’s most recent attempt to end the so-called “Remain in Mexico” program.
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Senate passes legislation to ban TikTok from US government devices
The Senate passed legislation Wednesday evening to ban TikTok from US government devices, in a move designed to limit perceived information-security risks stemming from the social media app.
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