President Donald Trump’s decision this week to revoke the security clearances of more than four dozen former intelligence officials is an unprecedented move, underscoring his willingness to break decades-old norms to please his supporters and punish his perceived opponents, legal experts say. “This is the most politically saturated security action since the Oppenheimer case in the 1950s,”...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggested Friday that Israel might not withdraw all of its forces from Lebanon by a deadline set in its ceasefire with Hezbollah, and Washington appears prepared to push for an extension. Under the deal reached in November, Israel is supposed to complete its withdrawal from the country by Sunday. Hezbollah militants must pull...
Chicago Public Schools said its officials erred Friday when they claimed immigration agents had gone to a school, mistaken information that caused alarm amid fears of a new White House administration. The agents who went to Hamline Elementary School were actually with U.S. Secret Service, and not Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as district officials...
The Trump administration is stepping up its timeline for terminating federal employees in diversity, equity and inclusion roles. In a memo Friday, the acting head of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management said agency heads “shall take action to terminate, to the maximum extent allowed by law, all DEI, DEIA, and ‘environmental justice’ offices and positions...
California’s deadly wildfires could come to an end in the coming days when a weekend storm douses historically dry terrain, but the storm will come with the potential for a different problem: flash floods. Flood watch alerts have been issued in the same Los Angeles areas that were burned by the blazes that began burning...
For more than two years, Sherita Harris has been waiting for someone to be held responsible for a bullet that struck her in the head while she rode in the passenger seat of a car in Jackson, Mississippi. On Friday, the mother of five finally got a sign. The Mississippi Attorney General’s Office announced that...
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WASHINGTON — Mexico denied a U.S. military plane access to land Thursday, at least temporarily frustrating the Trump administration’s plans to deport immigrants to the country, according to two U.S. defense officials and a third person familiar with the situation. Two Guatemala-bound Air Force C-17s, carrying about 80 people apiece, flew deportees out of the...
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio directed the State Department on Wednesday to suspend all passport applications seeking to change a sex marker and all applications requesting an “X” sex marker, according to a memo reviewed by NBC News. The memo references an executive order issued by President Trump hours after his inauguration, declaring that the...