As the Trump administration works on the president's pledge to crack down on illegal immigration and carry out mass deportations, the flurry of activity has stretched across the federal government — well beyond the Department of Homeland Security, the traditional home to most immigration and border security functions. President Donald Trump's sweeping promises have translated into a whole-of-government approach for immigration enforcement. In other words, nearly every major Cabinet agency is an immigration agency in Trump's government.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Thursday said it is revising a list of more than 600 energy and other infrastructure projects it had earmarked to be fast-tracked under President Donald Trump's declaration of a national energy emergency. The Army Corps, a federal engineering service with permitting authority over projects involving wetlands and waterways, posted the list of priority projects requiring faster environmental approval review last week, without public notice. But the agency on Thursday said it will remove the list from its website database until it determines which projects meet the criteria laid out in Trump's executive order.
A U.S. flight carrying 135 deportees, half of them minors, from various countries was set to land Thursday in Costa Rica, making it the second Latin American nation to serve as a stopover as U.S. President Donald Trump 's administration steps up deportations. Upon arrival, the migrants will be bused from Costa Rica’s capital to a rural holding facility near the Panama border, where they will wait up to 30 days to be flown back to their countries of origin, said Omer Badilla, Costa Rica’s deputy minister of the interior and police. The arrangement is part of a deal the Trump administration struck with Costa Rica during Secretary of State Marco Rubio's visit earlier this month.
Rivian will report fourth quarter and full-year results after the bell on Wednesday, as investors look to see whether the pure-play adventure EV maker can limit losses and post a "modest gross profit" for the quarter, as projected.
Signage marking the Washington headquarters of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the consumer watchdog in the Trump administration's crosshairs, came down overnight, according to a reporter's observations and photographic evidence. President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk have sought to dismantle the agency since the Republican president's return to the White House a month ago. A Reuters photo showed signage over a separate entrance had disappeared by Thursday morning.
The United States on Thursday sanctioned a Rwandan government minister for his alleged role in the conflict in neighboring Congo, where Rwanda-backed rebels are battling the Congolese army and have captured more territory, including two key cities. Along with the Rwandan minister for regional integration, James Kabarebe, the U.S. also sanctioned a spokesperson of the M23 rebels, Lawrence Kanyuka Kingston. The M23 rebels are the most prominent of more than 100 armed groups that have been vying for control of eastern Congo’s trillions of dollars in mineral wealth.
Florida officials are holding off updating the state's population projections because of uncertainties about how the immigration policies of President Donald Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis are going to impact growth. Members of Florida's Demographic Estimating Conference met earlier this month to adopt a new population forecast.
A judge set a $250 million bond Thursday for a Michigan woman who is accused of leaving three children alone for years in a house where conditions were so offensive that police evidence technicians wore hazmat suits. Kelli Bryant, 34, shook her head at times during her first court appearance on child abuse charges in Oakland County. Three children, ages 15, 13 and 12, were removed last week from a house in Pontiac where they had lived on their own since 2020 or 2021, amid trash and feces and occasional food drops on the porch, police said.
The former gubernatorial candidate came up short in 2023 but is widely seen as the GOP leader’s heir apparent.
Gov. Kathy Hochul won't immediately remove New York City Mayor Eric Adams from office, but will instead push for increased oversight of City Hall as he faces intense scrutiny over his relationship with the Trump administration. The decision came after she solicited opinions this week from a roster of New York political figures over questions about whether Adams could independently govern after the Justice Department moved to drop his corruption case so he could help with Republican President Donald Trump's immigration agenda. Rather than remove Adams, Hochul plans to propose legislation that would require City Hall to operate within new guardrails.
Spotify on Thursday began accepting audiobooks narrated by digital voices created by artificial intelligence software firm ElevenLabs, pitching it as a cost-effective option for authors."We're excited to begin accepting audiobooks from ElevenLabs, an AI software company that provides easy-to-use, high-quality voice narration technology," Spotify said in a blog post Thursday.
Thirty people were evacuated and at least one garden was swallowed by a sinkhole that appeared in Godstone, a village in southern England.
Private equity firms Apollo Global Management and Sycamore Partners are among the bidders who are competing to acquire Family Dollar, a discount retail chain operated by Dollar Tree, according to people familiar with the matter. Investment firm Brigade Capital Management has also expressed interest in buying Family Dollar, the sources said, requesting anonymity as the discussions are confidential. A deal for Family Dollar, which could value the retailer at several billion dollars, is not imminent, the sources said, cautioning that Dollar Tree could choose not to sell the business.
Old Man Winter will begin to ease his icy grip on much of the central and eastern United States in the coming days and weeks, but there will still be some periodic outbursts from the Arctic, AccuWeather long-range meteorologists say. Frigid air forecast to build in eastern Canada will likely spill into part of the Northeast in March. Warmer days are on the way for much of the Central and Southern states with milder conditions for the Northeast following extended spells of teeth-chattering chills
Researchers working on the Career Firefighter Health Study received notice last week of the CDC contract’s termination.
The video shows an area in Antarctica where rocky outcroppings jut up above the ice sheet. The building is a South African research station.
New York’s governor says prison workers are being arrested today on murder charges in the death of an inmate who was beaten while handcuffed.
Hamas on Thursday put on a macabre handover ceremony in central Gaza to return the bodies of four Israeli hostages taken on October 7, 2023.
Several prominent government officials have decided to resign from the Trump Administration. Here's what to know.
Former Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell will not run for reelection in 2026, he announced in a speech on the Senate floor on Thursday morning.
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