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The suspension, which will take effect on Jan. 21, is the first time the U.S. is restricting applicants from Cambodia and Thailand, just months after U.S. President Donald Trump inked trade deals with both nations on the sidelines of the 2025 ASEAN Summit. He had assured Southeast Asian leaders at the event that they could view the U.S. as a "strong partner and friend" in the years to come.

The six-minute speech aired just hours after the Department of Homeland Security announced that Operation Metro Surge had resulted in 2,500 arrests across the state since last month. Federal officials said that roughly 800 Customs and Border Protection agents are now operating in the Minneapolis area, in addition to about 2,000 ICE and other federal agents already deployed in what the administration has described as the largest DHS operation in history.

The TPLF bill closely tracks a bill last considered in November 2025, the " Litigation Transparency Act of 2025," meant to curb the use of third-party litigation funding in U.S. lawsuits, which failed to get to a vote at the time and was later pulled. Both the Protecting TPLF From Abuse Act and the Litigation Transparency Act were introduced by Representative Darrell Issa (R-CA) and would require any party in a civil action to disclose third-party sources of funding in most cases.

The Department of Homeland Security said the officer fired the shot "fearing for his life and safety" as he was being attacked with a shovel and a broom handle during the arrest. The attempted arrest was made during a "targeted traffic stop." The incident occurred roughly 4.5 miles (7.2 kilometers) north of where an immigration agent fatally shot Renee Good on January 7. It's the latest confrontation amid militarized deportation sweeps ordered by President Donald Trump.

He began by characterizing what I had written as "fascinating," which could have meant a multitude of things coming from a teenager. He then explained that his eighth-grade English class included recent discussions about immigrant pursuits of the American dream. Accordingly, one major takeaway from those conversations with his teacher and peers was that many people come to the U.S. because it is perceived as a land of opportunity.

Not only is this America's 250th year, but it is a year when competing visions for America's economic future are coming to a head,

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday rejected a request to extradite a California physician accused of providing abortion medication to a Louisiana patient, marking the latest clash between states with sharply different abortion laws following the U.S. Supreme Court's 2022 decision overturning Roe v. Wade. "Louisiana's request is denied," Newsom said in a statement. "My position on this has been clear since 2022: We will not allow extremist politicians from other states to reach into California and try to punish doctors based on allegations that they provided reproductive health care services. Not today. Not ever."

Congress will dig into a new question this week: Do influencers need special labor protections? An April report from the Interactive Advertising Bureau estimated there were about 1.5 million full-time digital creators in the US. It's a growing job category, and Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California told Business Insider he wants to help make it feel more stable.

Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly sued Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday, warning that the Pentagon's effort to punish him "sends a chilling message" to veterans who speak out against the Trump administration. Hegseth accused Kelly of "seditious" acts after Kelly publicly reminded US service members that they are not required to follow illegal orders. The Pentagon's actions against Kelly have troubling implications for the political speech of millions ofveterans, military law experts said.

Now Congress wants to join the minerals rush by helping to secure - and stabilize - the domestic market for rare-earth and critical materials. Most of the world's supply is controlled by China, leaving the U.S. vulnerable to price swings and supply-chain disruptions for minerals needed to make advanced semiconductor chips and EV batteries. The goal is to create something akin to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which was established in 1975 in response to the Arab oil embargo.

The first 2028 presidential primaries are just two years away. And for the first time since 2016, both parties are expected to have serious competition for their nominations. While Vice-President J.D. Vance is likely to enter the cycle as a formidable front-runner for the GOP nod, recent history suggests there will be lots of other candidates. After all, Donald Trump drew 12 challengers in 2024.

They may set aside parking; if it's filled, you're going to get a ticket. We don't put sites where there's no parking anywhere else.

The Trump administration has cut over 157 open roles at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and outpatient clinics across the Bay Area. They warned that cuts will weaken the VA health care system by translating into higher strain on the medical center in the form of "longer wait times, heavier patient loads, reduced services and increased safety risks for the veterans who rely on the VA for care". The nationwide cuts were announced in December, targeting positions that have been vacant for at least a year. The VA has argued that the dissolution of these positions will not negatively affect care.

For Trump, it's the Donroe doctrine, or the western hemisphere is mine for whatever profit I and my elite group of loyal courtiers can wring from it. At the same time, Trump's honesty about his intention to use the astonishing military power he wields for unfettered plunder is at least refreshing. No more American pieties to democracy and human rights. The world hasn't seen this kind of unabashed dedication to amassing wealth since the British East India Company. All hail the new king emperor!

I am rarely rendered speechless, but it is hard for me to find the words to express my respect for and gratitude to the Federal Reserve chair, Jerome Powell, for doing something so few Republicans have been ready to do: Stand up to the lying and bullying of President Donald Trump and the cowardly sycophants in this case Attorney General Pam Bondi he has surrounded himself with.

Kong Vang posted the clip to Facebook, where it has since received more than 400,000 views, according to FOX 9 KMSP. Vang told the outlet that he was working from home Monday afternoon in the city's Frogtown neighborhood when his mother alerted him that someone was outside. He said he grabbed his phone and started recording because he believed the person at the door could be ICE.

Young was promised that Secretary of State Marco Rubio would appear before the Foreign Relations Committee in a public hearing after next week's recess and assured that the administration will come to Congress first if U.S. military forces are needed in Venezuela, he said. He cited his talks with Rubio as influential in his decision. "To have the secretary of state be at my disposal - really, I mean, countless phone conversations and text exchanges - was very reassuring to me," he told reporters.

"By federal law, if you sign someone up for Medicaid, you also give them the right to vote," Oz said in a Jan. 6 interview on Fox News' "Ingraham Angle." "It's true for (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) as well. As you give out social services, you also get them registered to vote. So you're building up a very partisan group of individuals. This is political patronage at the expense of Medicaid."

The suspension, which will begin Jan. 21, will not apply to applicants seeking non-immigrant visas, or temporary tourist or business visas, who make up the vast majority of visa seekers. Demand for non-immigrant visas is expected to rise dramatically in the coming months and years due to the upcoming 2026 World Cup and 2028 Olympics both of which the U.S. will host or co-host.

A former South Carolina Republican lawmaker and member of the ultra-Conservative Freedom Caucus, who supported drag and trans healthcare bans "to protect childhood innocence", has been handed a nearly two decade prison sentence for distributing vile child sexual abuse material.

Ryan lashed out at the Mercury in a public meeting Wednesday, after the Mercury published a story regarding text messages local real estate broker Brian Owendoff and other conservative political activists sent in a January 7 group chat. Toward the end of Wednesday's afternoon meeting, Councilor Ryan falsely claimed he wasn't provided context for the subject of the story, or given enough time to make an informed statement, despite email exchanges (below) that show otherwise.

Until recently, the terms were relegated mostly to the pages of dusty history books. But President Trump is leaning heavily on his own understanding of these concepts to justify his attack on Venezuela, his bullying tactics aimed at acquiring Greenland and his latest threats to strike Iran. At a news conference this month, Trump said U.S. troops captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro

The missive demanded that the free online encyclopedia remove the FBI's logo from an entry about the agency, claiming that reproducing the emblem was illegal and punishable with fines, imprisonment, "or both." Rather than back down, a lawyer for the Wikimedia Foundation, which hosts Wikipedia, shot back a sharp refusal outlining how the FBI's interpretation of the relevant statute was incorrect and saying that Wikipedia was "prepared to argue our view in court."

In the summer of 2020, I was working as a paralegal in Austin, Texas, remotely filling out asylum applications for migrants who were trapped in a dangerous limbo. A landmark policy of the first Trump administration-euphemistically called the "Migrant Protection Protocols," or MPP-was keeping tens of thousands of immigrants stateless and often homeless in Mexico's border regions while their asylum cases were adjudicated in U.S. border courts.

US President Donald Trump has said he was told Iran has halted the killing of protesters and will not carry out executions, while adding he would "watch it and see" on threatened military action. Speaking at the White House on Wednesday, Trump said he had received assurances from "very important sources on the other side" that Tehran had stopped the killings and that executions would not go ahead.