Immigration policy is at the forefront of Texas voters' minds heading into Tuesday's primary. Yahoo Finance's Kristin Myers discusses the impact of immigration on farming with Bret Erickson, SVP of business affairs at J&D Produce.
When a group of citizens searching for missing relatives in the western state of Jalisco arrived at a remote ranch outside Mexico's second-largest city last week on an anonymous tip, all they had to do was push open the unlocked gate. Inside they went to work with simple tools — picks, shovels and metal bars — doing the work that state investigators supposedly had done six months earlier. What they found embarrassed state authorities and shook Mexico: dozens of shoes, heaps of clothing and what appeared to be human bone fragments.
Washington, D.C., which has often had a tenuous peace with the federal government when Republicans controlled Congress and the White House, is now facing its most urgent threat since it was given the power of Home Rule during the Nixon administration. The funding bill passed by the House this week calls for cuts in D.C. spending of $1.1 billion, a drastic cut that city officials said would treat the city like any federal agency and would result in a calamitous reduction in services ranging from schools to public safety.
President Donald Trump took his contentious bid to end birthright citizenship in the United States to the Supreme Court on Thursday.Trump's executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship, which he signed on his first day in office, was blocked by federal district courts in Maryland, Massachusetts and Washington state.
The US government, already shaken by Donald Trump's radical reforms, could begin shutting down entirely this weekend as Democrats grapple with the option of opposing the president's federal funding plans -- at the risk this blows up in their faces."When the government shuts down, you have government employees who are no longer paid, you have services that begin to lag.
Elon Musk, who is leading the Trump administration's effort to cut and streamline the federal government's workforce, visited the National Security Agency on Wednesday to meet with the NSA's head, a spokesperson for the agency told Reuters. Musk, a billionaire top adviser to President Donald Trump, is helping lead the Department of Government Efficiency, which has overseen cuts of more than 100,000 jobs across the 2.3-million-member federal civilian workforce. It is unclear what Musk discussed with NSA leadership.
The federal government's steward of funding for public broadcasting stations sued the Trump administration on Thursday over its pause in grant payments for upgrading the nation’s emergency alert system. The nonprofit Corporation for Public Broadcasting's federal lawsuit says a recent hold on grant funds for modernizing the alert system hampers the ability of federal, state and local authorities to issue real-time emergency alerts. The CPB sued the Federal Emergency Management Agency in Washington, D.C., to challenge its Feb. 18 hold on the $40 million grant program for the Next Generation Warning System.
If you plan on catching the rare total lunar eclipse Thursday night into early Friday morning, here are some of the key moments you'll need to know.
Grijalva, the son of a Mexican immigrant who rose to the halls of Congress in a public-service career that stretched more than 40 years, has died.
A former Milwaukee hotel bellhop accused of taking part in a dogpile that killed a man pleaded guilty Thursday to a reduced charge of misdemeanor battery, his attorney said. Prosecutors initially charged Herbert Williams with being a party to felony murder in connection with the June 2024 death of D'Vontaye Mitchell outside the Milwaukee Hyatt. Williams' attorney, Theodore O'Reilly, told The Associated Press that prosecutors reduced the charge to battery in exchange for his guilty plea and a promise to serve as a witness.
military options” to ensure unfettered American access to the Panama Canal, one of several new directives outlined in what amounts to a major overhaul of US strategic priorities, according to a new memo that was sent to senior leaders and reviewed by CNN.
A tornado touched down in Pico Rivera, California early Thursday morning, forecasters confirmed, as a brutal rain storm batters Southern California.
The North Dakota Senate on Thursday rejected a measure that would have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn its landmark 2015 ruling that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. A vote to approve would have made North Dakota the first state to make such an overture to the high court, after the state House passed the measure last month. Democratic Sen. Josh Boschee said in opposition, “I understand that this puts us all in a tough spot, but I ask you to think about who's put in the toughest position with this resolution: the people of North Dakota who are the subject of the resolution ... the gay and lesbian North Dakotans who did not ask to be the subject of this conversation, but the conversation was brought to us."
Turkey’s top diplomat, defense minister and intelligence chief paid a sudden visit to Damascus on Thursday, days after Syria’s interim government reached a deal to integrate a U.S backed Kurdish-led armed group into the country’s army. The agreement to integrate the Syrian Democratic Forces, or SDF, into the Syrian government followed fierce clashes that erupted last week between government security forces and gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad.
A group backed by Elon Musk is running ads targeting conservative Republican legislators in several states over their support of a federal drug pricing program. No one seems as surprised about the effort as the lawmakers themselves. The video ad by Building America’s Future is titled “Trump Underminers.”
Low-income consumers are already stretched. Now high-income consumers could be saying that's enough.
The number of migrants apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol after entering the United States from Canada dropped to the lowest point since 2022 last month, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection statistics published on Thursday. The number of those apprehended after crossing into Canada, however, appears to be ticking up. The U.S. Border Patrol apprehended 481 people near the Canada-U.S. border in February, down from 616 in January and 3,601 in June, which was a multi-year high.
Rodrigo Duterte's first appearance at the International Criminal Court has been set for Friday, the court said, as the former Philippines president faces crimes against humanity charges over his deadly war on drugs.But victims of the "war on drugs" hope that Duterte will finally face justice for his alleged crimes.
Global stock markets slid on Thursday, especially on Wall Street, as US President Donald Trump launched a new volley in his trade war, while gold hit a new record high."President Trump's threat of more tariffs, this time a 200 percent tariff on alcoholic beverages from the EU, has led to the resumption of the... sell-off in global stock indices," said analyst Axel Rudolph at online trading platform IG. Trump has launched trade wars against competitors and partners alike since taking office, wiel
Widespread confusion and fear rippled through the federal workforce Thursday as federal agencies faced a key deadline in President Donald Trump’s push to drastically downsize the government.
Hundreds of Jewish demonstrators overran New York's Trump Tower Thursday in support of the Palestinians and detained Palestinian student campaigner Mahmoud Khalil.Officers arrested Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil at the weekend, accusing him of harboring pro-Hamas views during protests at New York's Columbia University against Israel's war in Gaza in retaliation for the Palestinian group's attack in Israel.
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