The Trump administration plans to construct nearly 10 miles of new wall system along the San Diego-Mexico border, waiving certain environmental laws and regulations to do so, officials said.

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem issued the waiver “to ensure the expeditious construction of barriers and roads,” according to a Federal ...Read more

The top four congressional leaders will meet with President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday, a day before federal funding would expire if the two parties can’t agree on a short-term spending bill.

The discussions will be the first between Trump and congressional leaders ahead of the deadline to avoid a shutdown. Senate Democratic ...Read more

As the Trump administration seeks sweeping changes to the controversial H-1B visa for skilled foreign workers, bipartisan scrutiny is falling on Bay Area tech giants Meta, Apple and Google, which are among the companies that use it the most.

“In evaluating the high unemployment rate for American tech workers, we cannot ignore the massive, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The top four congressional leaders will meet with President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday, according to two people familiar with the matter, as the threat of an Oct. 1 government shutdown looms.

The meeting will be the first between Trump and Democratic leaders ahead of the funding deadline. Senate Democratic leader ...Read more

When Colombia’s outspoken President Gustavo Petro took up a megaphone at a pro-Palestininan rally on the streets of New York to call on U.S. troops to disobey President Donald Trump, he must have anticipated a backlash.

“I ask all the soldiers of the United States not to point your guns at humanity,” Petro declared on the sidelines of the...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — On the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Helene’s deadly strike in Western North Carolina, U.S. Senate candidate Michael Whatley stood before a crowded hall at the Salt & Light Conference in Marion and leaned on faith and President Donald Trump’s backing as he pitched his run for U.S. Senate — even as critics outside ...Read more

President Donald Trump ordered the military to be deployed to Portland, Oregon, to quell protests over his immigration policy, escalating his campaign against demonstrators opposing his policies.

“At the request of Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, I am directing Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to provide all necessary Troops to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Trump administration has launched an investigation into allegations of antisemitism across all 22 campuses of the California State University system, prompting concerns about the chilling of free speech on campus and the violation of staff members’ privacy.

In an email to the CSU community Friday afternoon, Chancellor ...Read more

U.S. government shutdowns have become so common in recent decades that every federal agency has a playbook for how to implement them.

But the Trump administration is quickly rewriting those plans in advance of the end of the fiscal year next Tuesday, making a potential shutdown even more unpredictable — and potentially disruptive — than any...Read more

The U.S. government plans to continue collecting tariff revenues and pursuing its immigration crackdown in the event of a shutdown, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

With government funding set to expire after Sept. 30 unless Congress acts, federal agencies are updating their operational plans in the event of a shutdown.

DHS ...Read more

President Donald Trump ordered the military to be deployed to Portland, Oregon, to quell protests over his immigration policy, escalating his campaign against demonstrators opposing his policies.

“At the request of Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, I am directing Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to provide all necessary Troops to ...Read more

At a tense political moment in the wake of conservative lightning rod Charlie Kirk's killing, President Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum focusing federal law enforcement on disrupting "domestic terrorism."

The memo appeared to focus on political violence. But during a White House signing Thursday, the president and his top advisers...Read more

President Donald Trump ordered the military to be deployed to Portland, Oregon, to quell protests over his immigration policy, escalating his campaign against demonstrators opposing his policies.

“At the request of Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, I am directing Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to provide all necessary Troops to ...Read more

President Donald Trump ordered the military to be deployed to Portland, Oregon, to quell protests over his immigration policy, escalating his campaign against demonstrators opposing his policies.

“At the request of Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, I am directing Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to provide all necessary Troops to ...Read more

During this week's White House press conference in which President Donald Trump named the over-the-counter drug Tylenol as a possible cause of rising autism rates, he did not mince words, urging pregnant women to "fight like hell" not to take it.

But outside those remarks in the Roosevelt Room — during which Trump himself acknowledged "I'm ...Read more

President Donald Trump said Friday that Microsoft should fire Lisa Monaco, the company's president of global affairs who served as deputy attorney general under the Biden administration.

The statement, which the president posted on his Truth Social account, came about two months after Monaco started working for Microsoft.

Trump's tirade ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The White House is telling agencies to consider mass layoffs for positions that aren’t protected from a partial government shutdown, which is set to begin Oct. 1 if the two parties can’t come to a swift agreement on a stopgap funding patch.

Is that legal? The answer appears to be yes, though it’s complicated.

A federal ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought’s new partial government shutdown guidance implies the executive branch will use a hatchet in some areas and go easy elsewhere — with Democratic priorities likely first on the chopping block.

A February memo to agencies from Vought and the Office of Personnel Management on ...Read more