Exclusive: key White House loyalist orchestrating multi-agency effort condemned by critics as cruel and racist

A company that helped run the Florida detention center known as Alligator Alcatraz has a $382 million contract for ‘armed ground transportation’ of ICE detainees in Texas.

The visionary filmmaker behind ‘The Matrix’ opens up about her new studio for marginalized voices, J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk.

The economy, inflation and how those forces could impact the lives of Americans were front and center over the past week. Trips to the grocery store and gas station are more painful than they were last year, and rising costs are impacting the decisions of both households and businesses.

According to an AP-NORC poll, four in 10 American Jewish adults say they’ve disagreed with a family member over Israel, and three in 10 said they stopped talking to someone over it.

The Clear Labels Act was designed to alert consumers to where their drugs are coming from. After two major changes to the bill, experts worry it won’t be as effective.

The agreement would allow the US to expand its military presence, while Denmark and Greenland say it preserves their sovereignty and right to self-determination

Hours after EU President Ursula von der Leyen proposed an ‘alliance for the future’ with Canada, the U.S. president called it a potentially ‘hostile act.’

A new report said spending on paid administrative leave grew sixfold last year because of a deferred resignation program to shrink the government workforce.

A teen in North Carolina who prosecutors say played a key role in the deadly San Diego mosque shooting — by livestreaming the attack and disseminating the shooters’ writings — is facing murder charges in her home state.

As the deterioration of the American civil service has continued, coupled with the selective enforcement of the law according to the president’s priorities, unions and courts have managed to stave off some of the worst emaciation of the administrative state. Whether those victories prove durable, or whether the Trump administration is able to get their in-house umpires at the Supreme Court to reverse strike calls to balls, only time will tell.

In short, the update is mostly bad news, interspersed with faint signs of life.

A group that has tracked the activity of federal officers since the president’s crackdown has previously been private about the effort.

The health secretary disclosed over $250,000 in gifts from security specialist Gavin de Becker

Google’s Gemini hacked three companies in the first known breakout, after the model accessed the internet and breached external systems during an evaluation of its cybersecurity capabilities.

Though the document does not directly describe the Trump administration’s plans to use the list, Freeman told NPR that the “logical inference … is that they are thinking about prosecution of federal election crimes in jurisdictions where elections are conducted in a language other than English.”

I was reminded of this during the Mississippi Free Press’s Trusted Elections Solutions Circle on Sept. 15 when one participant noted that their first lessons about the importance of voting came from history teachers in middle and high schools. My elementary school teachers had recognized the importance of immersing us in the process then. Today, schools and teachers are still leaving lasting civic impressions on the next generation of voters. Mock elections still happen, and I wonder whether those students will remember it the same way I do. 

The report raises questions regarding the military’s line-of-duty investigations following service member deaths.

The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission engaged a national energy consulting firm for the report

Consumers asked a major data broker for their files. What they got back shows interest in how fat they are, how much they drink, and how likely they are to get a mammogram, among many other characteristics.

The proposed copper sulfide mine threatens to unleash 40 million tons of toxic waste in Michigan’s wetlands.

Health workers and other front-line workers in the Ebola response are being prioritized to receive the Ervebo vaccine that was effective in past Ebola outbreaks caused by a different, more common type of virus. Clinical trials are ongoing to find a licensed vaccine for the current outbreak, caused by the Bundibugyo virus, which has no licensed vaccine or treatment.

Spend time on the ground and you see how high the stakes are for next month’s contest – for Israelis and Palestinians alike

This was the first time an alert was sounded in Riyadh since an escalation between the Houthis in Yemen and the Saudis.

Moscow’s mayor described the wave of drones as the “largest ever” attack on the Russian capital and said there had been damage to a Moscow oil refinery and a residential building.

Used car dealers in the world’s biggest EV market are turning away 5-year-old cars, exposing a battery anxiety problem heading for Western buyers next.

As Serbia gears up for what many already describe as a historic election scheduled for October 18, the challenge is not simply whether an entrenched government can be defeated, but whether almost two years of student-led mobilisation can translate into electoral power.

The cute and chubby elephant-headed god has evolved in some festival depictions.

Christy Kinahan, the Irish founder of the Kinahan Organised Crime Group who is being pursued by authorities around the world from his bolthole in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has had his residence permit cancelled.

What can the border between Mexico and Guatemala tell us about the limits of North America?

Most medieval textiles haven’t survived. Though we can glimpse some, in records and reality, that put the British Museum’s prize exhibit to shame

The death of Raúl Castro could alter the internal balance of power within the Cuban regime at a time marked by economic crisis and growing social discontent.

While government representatives debated international policies and standards inside the United Nations, the Indigenous delegation occupied public space to convey a message: There can be no legitimate development when its realization depends on the destruction of the material, spiritual, and political conditions that sustain a people’s existence.

The US State Department denied visas to Palestinian officials seeking to attend the UN summit, yet authorized the Iranian delegation’s travel to New York.

“It is state-led discrimination, politics of fear and the ​dismantling of civil society,” the Turkish Human ⁠Rights Association said.

Charles lands at Heathrow with just two bags and nowhere to go as a result of Brexit and Stockholm’s hardline immigration position

The “blue line” — now marked by blue metal barriers — was the demarcation line drawn up by the U.N. for another Israeli withdrawal in 2000, after 18 years of occupation in southern Lebanon. Now marked by blue plastic barriers, it has served as a de facto border between two countries which has never formally agreed on boundaries.

Since the political transition in Dhaka following the monsoon revolution in August 2024, the land frontier separating India and Bangladesh has re-emerged as one of the most contentious flashpoints in South Asian bilateral relations, largely due to a practice that Bangladeshi authorities term “push-in” and that Indian commentators more often describe as “pushback.”

In Brazil, women make up the majority of voters, but hold less than 20% of seats in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, highlighting the gap between electoral weight and political power.

Saudi Arabia is likely to focus on hosting key sporting events and developing the esports scene after the failures of LIV Golf.

Former president of Chile drops out after support collapsed in security council straw poll, leaving seven candidates in contest