The U.S. military carried out a raid in northwestern Syria on Friday, killing a senior ISIS leader and two of his sons in the Aleppo area, according to the United States Central Command (Centcom). Centcom said Friday that U.S. forces killed Dhiya’ Zawba Muslih al-Hardani, a senior ISIS leader, along with his two sons, Abdallah…
The U.S. would hardly be the first nation to label the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group.
Deportation flights have begun to leave Florida’s immigration detention center, also known as Alligator Alcatraz, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said Friday. Three flights operated by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have already taken off, DeSantis said. The first one had 100 detainees on board. It is not clear where the flights are going.…
President Trump will meet Sunday in Scotland with the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, for the two sides to discuss trade. “Following a good call with @POTUS, we have agreed to meet in Scotland on Sunday to discuss transatlantic trade relations, and how we can keep them strong,” von der Leyen posted…
A group of four Democratic lawmakers sent a Friday letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) urging the agency to investigate no-bid detention center contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Reps. Joe Neguse (D-Colo.); Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), ranking member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement; Jamie Raskin (D-Md.),…
The global scuba diving industry generates between $8.5 billion and $20.4 billion each year, while also providing widespread marine conservation benefits, a new study has found. The diving sector supports up to 124,000 jobs across 170 countries on an annual basis, contributing to both ocean ecology and local communities, according to the study, published Friday…
Sen. Bernie Sanders, Rep. Ilhan Omar, and other critics of the Trump administration’s energy policies have introduced the “End Polluter Welfare Act” to cut over $190 billion in federal subsidies for the fossil fuel industry over the next decade and prevent the Trump administration from opening public lands to new drilling and mining efforts.
The Department of Education announced Friday the conclusion of investigations into five Northern Virginia school districts, finding district policies accommodating transgender students violate federal law. The department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) opened probes into the Arlington, Alexandria, Fairfax, Loudoun and Prince William County school districts in February following requests to do so from America…
Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) and 13 other Senate Republicans are urging the Trump administration to release National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding that has been held up for months. The GOP senators warned in a letter to White House budget chief Russell Vought that the “slow disbursement of funds” that Congress appropriated in March “risks…
The House Ethics Committee has directed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) to make around $3,000 in additional payments in relation to her attendance at the 2021 Met Gala and the iconic “Tax the Rich” dress she wore there, saying it would consider the matter of her Met Gala attendance closed after those payments. Ocasio-Cortez had already…
