President Donald Trump’s campaign promise to deport “violent criminal illegal aliens” won him votes, but has now become a far broader effort ensnaring millions of law-abiding people living and working productively in all parts of the country.

And who are these dangerous foreigners?

They’re watching your kids. Building your homes. ...Read more

For the first time in a long time, we find ourselves in agreement with Elon Musk, the drug-addled former DOGE commissar who last week left the federal government and now calls President Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill” budget a “disgusting abomination.”

Musk’s concerns are not the bill’s slashing of important programs, but its ...Read more

The bitter feud that broke out this past week between Elon Musk and President Donald Trump is more than bravado gone bad. It highlighted the ugly, juvenile tendencies of both as they aired a personal grudge on a global scale.

As bizarre and, admittedly, entertaining in a sort of WWE way, it proved, there were no winners to declare. Not Musk, ...Read more

Two members of Congress were blocked Sunday from entering an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Manhattan after trying to inspect it amid widespread detainments and claims of unbearable heat and overcrowding — including detainees being forced to sleep on bathroom floors.

New York Democrat Representatives Adriano Espaillat and ...Read more

Public outcry was swift and forceful after a U.S. House committee last month hastily approved an amendment directing the federal government to sell off more than half a million acres of public land.

A few days later, lawmakers advanced the larger bill — a sweeping list of President Donald Trump’s priorities — but stripped the federal ...Read more

NEW YORK — Multiple demonstrators were taken into custody Saturday afternoon during a protest against Immigration and Customs enforcement in Lower Manhattan in response to ongoing migrant arrests this week.

Cops responded to outside immigration court around noon at 26 Federal Plaza where protesters were sitting in the middle of the street ...Read more

DALTON, Ga. — Inside a closed-door gala, Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon renewed his attacks on billionaire Elon Musk. Outside the fundraiser, though, GOP activists were less jubilant about the messy collapse of the president’s alliance with the world’s richest man.

Rather than celebrating the explosive MAGA-vs-Musk rift as they ...Read more

DALTON, Ga. – In Donald Trump’s era, even a whiff of moderation at the Georgia GOP convention can be disqualifying.

That was the message at this weekend’s state convention, where Republican hopefuls competed to prove their MAGA credentials.

Over the two-day conference that ended Saturday, candidates from the lowest-level party posts to ...Read more

MIAMI — A Miami Republican who co-founded the group Latinas for Trump is condemning President Donald Trump’s mass-deportation campaign and blasting recent immigration enforcement actions as harmful.

“This is not what we voted for,” state Sen. Ileana Garcia said in a statement on Saturday. “I have always supported Trump, through thick ...Read more

President Donald Trump vowed his former friend Elon Musk will face “very serious consequences” should he choose to support the Democratic party following their very public feud.

Trump delivered the warning in an interview with NBC News, during which he also said he had “no intention of speaking to” the tech billionaire any time in the ...Read more

President Donald Trump said Elon Musk will pay “very serious consequences” if the billionaire tech mogul funds Democratic candidates that challenge lawmakers who backed Republicans’ tax-and-spending bill.

Trump, in a phone interview with NBC News’ Kristen Walker, also said he has no desire to repair his relationship with Musk. The two ...Read more

A group of 18 leading U.S. research universities, including Princeton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, California Institute of Technology and Johns Hopkins, asked a federal judge for permission to file legal arguments in support of Harvard University in its high-stakes showdown with the Trump administration over more than $2 billion in ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court turned away a fresh gun-rights appeal, refusing to question the District of Columbia’s ban on large-capacity ammunition-feeding devices.

The justices on Friday rejected arguments from four firearms owners who said the ban violates the gun-rights protections in the Constitution’s Second Amendment.

On ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court to let him resume dismantling the Department of Education, seeking to lift a lower court order that requires the reinstatement of as many as 1,400 workers.

The emergency request Friday challenges a federal district judge’s conclusion that Trump’s effort to shut down the ...Read more

President Donald Trump urged the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates by a full percentage point, intensifying his pressure campaign against Chair Jerome Powell.

“ ‘Too Late’ at the Fed is a disaster!” Trump posted Friday on social media, using a derisive nickname for Powell. “Despite him, our Country is doing great. Go for a full ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senate Commerce Republicans’ decision to tie a moratorium on state and local regulation of artificial intelligence to the federal broadband expansion program is raising new questions as Republicans push to pass their sweeping budget reconciliation bill in the coming days.

The provision, which was included in reconciliation text...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he had no plans to speak to onetime ally Elon Musk and added that he was still looking at canceling the billionaire’s government contracts — an indication that their public feud is far from over.

“We’ll take a look at everything,” Trump told reporters Friday. “It’s a lot of subsidy.”

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After leading the U.S. House in a prayer with an entreaty to God to help people “remember that we belong to one family” on Friday, a Sikh man from South Jersey was the target of a highly critical social media post by U.S. Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., who found the participation by a non-Christian “deeply troubling.”

In a post that’s been...Read more