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The order stops short of mandatory citizenship checks — but it tells banks to treat immigration status as a financial risk factor, and flags the tax IDs used by millions of undocumented workers as a "red flag."
The order stops short of mandatory citizenship checks — but it tells banks to treat immigration status as a financial risk factor, and flags the tax IDs used by millions of undocumented workers as a "red flag."
The Senate voted 50-47 to advance a war powers check on Trump's Iran campaign — the first such measure to pass in seven attempts. The war it targets officially ended three weeks ago. The fighting has not.
The IRS is 'forever barred' from examining Donald Trump's past tax returns, according to a one-page document signed by his former personal defense attorney — now the acting attorney general.
The same administration that froze the US refugee programme is now invoking emergency powers to resettle 10,000 white South Africans — at a cost of $100 million — over claims of genocide that no evidence supports.
Donald Trump dropped his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS on Monday. His Justice Department's side of the deal: a $1.776 billion fund to compensate his political allies, drawn from taxpayer money, with no judicial review.
Canada wasn't consulted before the US-Israeli strikes on Iran. Its foreign minister now aims to double non-American trade within a decade. This weekend, she went on television to question whether the United States can still be trusted.
Streeting promises a managed transition. Burnham demands a rupture with the recent past — reaching back 40 years. And one Burnham ally puts the left's priority bluntly: 'Stopping Wes is the top priority.'
More than 3,700 stock trades worth up to $770 million in a single quarter, made by a president who holds the power to move every stock he touched. The penalty for filing it all late: $200.
Latvia's government just collapsed over a Russian drone incursion. Finland is scrambling fighters. And the Pentagon has stopped sending new troops to Poland and Germany.
Wes Streeting's resignation letter delivered the line that will define this crisis: "Where we need vision, we have a vacuum." Britain may soon have its seventh prime minister since the Brexit vote — confirming that the chaos Starmer promised to end is a permanent condition.
The man who slept metres from Zelenskyy in a wartime bunker now faces 60 days in pre-trial detention on money-laundering charges. The president hasn't said a word.
Four Republican senators have now broken with their president on Iran. The latest — Lisa Murkowski — is the one her colleagues watch for permission to dissent.
Three Republicans broke ranks in the closest war powers vote yet. The resolution still failed — but with gas at $4.50 a gallon and no end in sight, the cracks in Trump's party are starting to show.
An 18-year-old carried Fahrenheit 451 to Argentina's presidential palace. Organizers say 600,000 more marched behind her. The government called the protest "completely political."
Companies have already received $35.5 billion in tariff refunds. On Tuesday, an appeals court put those tariffs — and potentially that money — back in legal limbo.
A corporate lawyer with no medical degree now heads the FDA. A person-to-person hantavirus has killed three aboard a cruise ship carrying passengers from 23 countries. These two facts are simultaneous.
Four ministers have resigned and 30-year gilt yields have hit 5.81%, the highest since 1998. The bond market is rendering its verdict on British political stability in real time — and it is not flattering.
A year after seizing Britain's last primary steelworks from its Chinese owner during a national security scare, Keir Starmer's government is moving to nationalise it outright. The bill so far: £377m and counting.
The defendant said nothing at his arraignment on four federal charges. The harder question is whether two of the Justice Department's top officials — who were in the ballroom when the shots rang out — can prosecute the man who allegedly tried to kill them.
The vote was 255 to 26. Sara Duterte now faces a Senate trial on charges including misusing ₱612 million in public funds and an alleged assassination plot against the president.