Politics

Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., set out to El Salvador this week to find Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man at the center of an erroneous deportation, and get answers about his condition. While he was relieved to get a chance to meet the Abrego Garcia face to face on Thursday, […]

csfotoimages/Getty Images/STOCK (ANNAPOLIS, Md.) — The Navy said it canceled a speaking engagement at its academy in Annapolis, Maryland, with popular podcaster and author Ryan Holiday because it wanted to steer clear of what it saw as political content aimed at young naval officers. Holiday, who speaks frequently about the value of stoicism and has […]

White House “Border Czar” Tom Homan speaks with ABC News while appearing on ‘This Week.’ Via ABC News. (WASHINGTON) — Trump White House border czar Tom Homan stood by the administration’s position on the return to the U.S. of Kilmer Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran national the Justice Department said was erroneously deported to a prison […]

Bettmann Archive/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard suggested Friday that a newly released batch of documents related to the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy raise “more questions than answers.” Her comment comes after doubts and conspiracy theories advanced by the late senator’s son and current secretary of Health and Human Services, […]

J. David Ake/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has ordered an immediate halt to the planned firings of nearly 1,500 employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and is ordering the Trump administration to hand over communications and make top officials available for testimony to determine whether they deliberately violated one of her […]

Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Democrats are demanding the White House preserve the independence of the Smithsonian Institution after President Donald Trump signed an executive order in late March that directed federal agencies and the Smithsonian to eliminate what the order calls “anti-American” and “improper” content from the vast network of museums and national […]

Hisham Ibrahim/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Internal Revenue Service is considering revoking Harvard University’s tax-exempt status and a decision could be made in the coming days, sources told ABC News on Thursday. The White House has already put a freeze on $2.2 billion in multi-year grants and $60 million in multi-year contract value after the […]

Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., said he was blocked Thursday from entering the El Salvador prison that is holding the Maryland resident whom the courts say was erroneously deported from the United States last month. The Maryland senator, who flew to the country on Wednesday, shared a video on social media showing guards stopping […]

Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., said he was blocked Thursday from entering the El Salvador prison that is holding the Maryland resident who the courts say was erroneously deported from the United States last month. The Maryland senator, who flew to the country on Wednesday, shared a video on social […]

Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court on Thursday said it would hear expedited oral arguments next month over President Donald Trump’s emergency request to rollback nationwide injunctions against his executive order to end birthright citizenship. The nation’s highest court set arguments for May 15 at 10 a.m. The move by the justices sets […]