Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Todd Lyons said parents in Washington, D.C. should not expect to see ICE officers visiting schools when kids go back to school in the nation’s capital on Monday. Continue reading ICE director says agents won’t be at D.C. schools on the first day — but may be going forward
California voters overwhelmingly support redrawing the state’s congressional map to fight back against the GOP’s redistricting move in Texas, a new poll released Friday found. And it’s a good sign for Democrats’ chances at staving off Republicans’ attempts to rig the 2026 midterms. The UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll conducted for the Los Angeles Times found that 48% of registered voters said they … Continue reading California voters are all about sticking it to Republicans
Newly released audio and transcripts show Ghislaine Maxwell telling the Department of Justice that she never saw any client list of Jeffrey Epstein and that she was not aware of any blackmail around it. Continue reading Maxwell told DOJ Epstein had no ‘black book’ client list
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Takeaways from Kristen Welker’s interviews with Vice President JD Vance, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Sergiy Kyslytsya, Ukraine’s first deputy foreign minister. Continue reading Where the Russia-Ukraine peace talks go from here: From the Politics Desk
Progress toward ending the Ukraine war appears to have slowed after Donald Trump’s meeting with Vladimir Putin, with no planned meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Continue reading ‘We’ll see what happens’: Trump ends week of Ukraine-Russia talks on a more tentative note
President Donald Trump held an unhinged Oval Office press conference on Friday where he lied about the success of his authoritarian takeover of Washington. Then he upped the ante by targeting Chicago for his next military invasion, calling it a “mess” and claiming that Black women are begging him to turn their city into a police state. “The people in Chicago,” Trump said, as Vice … Continue reading Watch Trump get creepy as he fantasizes about invading Chicago next
At an obstacle course in the humid Georgia heat, an instructor shows recruits how to pull a wounded partner out of danger. In a classroom with desks cluttered with thick legal books about immigration law, recruits learn about how the Fourth Amendment governs their work. And on a firing range littered with shell casings, new recruits for Immigration and Customs Enforcement practice shooting their handguns. “Instructors, give … Continue reading Inside the facility where ICE is training recruits to take on Trump’s deportation goals
NBC News Law Enforcement and Intelligence Correspondent Tim Winter joins Meet the Press NOW with the latest on the Department of Justice releasing transcripts and tapes from their interviews with Jeffrey Epstein’s associate Ghislaine Maxwell. Continue reading Ghislaine Maxwell says she ‘never witnessed’ Trump in any inappropriate setting in DOJ tapes
Sergiy Kyslytsya, Ukraine’s first deputy foreign minister, sat down with Meet the Press to discuss the latest in the peace process between his country and Russia, and his reaction to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov telling her there is no meeting planned between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Continue reading Zelenskyy ready to discuss ‘territorial issue’ with Putin: Ukrainian first deputy foreign minister
