Labor Secretary’s Aides Placed on Leave in Misconduct Investigation
The Labor Department is investigating a complaint alleging misconduct by Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer.Read More
Trump Suggests Renee Good’s ‘Disrespectful’ Attitude Justified Fatal ICE Shooting
President Trump suggested that Renee Good’s “highly disrespectful” attitude toward law enforcement played a role in her fatal shooting by an ICE agent.Read More
Trump’s Plans for Venezuelan Oil Run Headlong Into Reality
President Trump’s fixation on Venezuela’s oil raises the question of how much “energy dominance” is really worth nowadays.Read More
Trump Officials Are Sending 1,000 More Immigration Officers to Minnesota
The Customs and Border Protection officers are joining 2,000 other officers and agents at the Department of Homeland Security who have recently been deployed to the Minneapolis region.Read More
FBI’s ICE Shooting Inquiry Examines Renee Good’s Possible Ties to Activist Groups
Former department officials warned that such a broad inquiry raised the specter that forms of political protests could be criminalized.Read More
Top Fed Official Conveys Little Urgency for Immediate Rate Cuts
The Federal Reserve is likely to hold interest rates steady when it meets at the end of the month, keeping tensions high with President Trump.Read More
Lawyer Whom Maduro Didn’t Hire Is Booted From His Case
Last week, a lawyer came forward claiming to represent the unseated president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro. The judge overseeing the case settled the matter on Monday.Read More
U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane
Even accepting the Trump administration’s claim that there is an armed conflict with suspected drug runners, the laws of war bar “perfidy.”Read More
DOJ Charges Luis Nino-Moncada, Who Was Shot by Border Patrol in Portland
Last week’s shooting of two Venezuelan immigrants put the city on edge. Federal officials said the man who was shot had repeatedly backed into a Border Patrol car.Read More
Minnesota and Illinois Sue Trump Administration Over ICE Deployments
The two Democratic-led states claimed in separate lawsuits that the immigration enforcement campaigns violated the Constitution.Read More