President Donald Trump signed a bill into law on Wednesday that gives his immigration and deportation agenda a nearly $70 billion boost for the rest of his time in the White House.

North Dakota's lone U.S. House member faces a partial rematch of her 2024 nomination race in a state primary on Tuesday.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is set to return to Capitol Hill on Tuesday after the Trump administration signaled it was pausing contentious plans to move forward with a nearly $1.8 billion fund that could compensate allies of President Donald Trump who believe they have been unjustly investigated and prosecuted.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says he is optimistic about the potential for a resumption in nuclear talks with Iran despite a shaky ceasefire in the war looking increasingly in doubt.

Americans do not want AI-enabled surveillance; we need new legal guardrails to protect us.

Speaker Mike Johnson will need near perfect attendance and unity on his side to complete weeks of action on the bill.

It needs to stop hunting for scapegoats and start clearing the way for the private market to build.

South Dakota's governor, the speaker of the state House, the state's lone representative in Congress and a businessman will face off in a competitive Republican primary for governor on Tuesday.

For those aligned with Trump's campaign promise for the largest mass deportation operation in U.S. history, it all but guarantees an uninterrupted flow of money to carry out the administration's immigration enforcement operations — and comes on top of some $170 billion Congress already approved for the department last summer, as part of Trump's big tax breaks bill.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was back on Capitol Hill to testify before the House Ways and Means Committee on the department's priorities, one day after he refused to say whether President Donald Trump and his family would still get immunity from IRS audits after the administration abandoned plans for a $1.776 billion compensation fund that would have benefited the president's allies.

US president says he will look for a permanent director ‘with experience in National Security’ after backlash against Bill Pulte’s lacking record

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Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown is largely targeting people from the countries most vulnerable to displacement from climate-driven disasters, a Guardian analysis shows.

As the Trump administration pushes policies to boost planet-heating fossil fuels, millions of people are being forced to flee their homelands due to storms, floods and droughts worsened by the climate crisis.

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This is as sad as it is absurd.