Senate Approves DHS Funding, Ends 42-Day Shutdown That Crippled US Airports
After 42 days without pay, TSA workers will finally receive their wages. ICE agents won't—and the political fight over immigration enforcement has only just begun.
After 42 days without pay, TSA workers will finally receive their wages. ICE agents won't—and the political fight over immigration enforcement has only just begun.
Nearly 500 TSA officers have quit during the five-week shutdown. Workers are selling plasma to survive. Now Trump says he'll pay them unilaterally — but nobody knows if it's legal.
For the first time since 1861, the US Treasurer's signature will disappear from American money—replaced by President Trump's. The bills enter circulation this summer.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stood before Pentagon employees this week and prayed for "overwhelming violence of action against those who deserve no mercy" — the first such service since the Iran war began.
Rejected asylum seekers could soon be detained in centers outside EU borders — in countries they've never set foot in. Human rights groups call them 'legal black holes.'
A first-time Democratic candidate just won the state legislative district that includes Mar-a-Lago—beating a Trump-endorsed Republican by 797 votes in territory the president carried by double digits.
Brazil's Supreme Court sent a convicted coup-plotter home Tuesday — but Jair Bolsonaro will wear an ankle monitor, cannot use a phone, and faces a 90-day review that could send him back to prison.
A Mississippi law could upend ballot-counting rules in 29 states. The conservative majority seems ready to agree that when Election Day ends, the election ends with it.
The former plumber and professional fighter now leads 260,000 federal employees—including 50,000 TSA officers working without pay—as airport security lines grow and officers quit in droves.
European diplomats have been quietly restricting classified material to Hungary for years. A Washington Post report explaining why just made it public.
The broadcaster founded to counter Nazi propaganda now faces accusations of producing its own — with political appointees allegedly dictating coverage to serve the White House.
The prime minister called it a chance to modernise Italy. Voters saw something else entirely — and the 54 percent who rejected it broke sharply along age and party lines.
European officials say Hungary's foreign minister spent years phoning Moscow during breaks in confidential meetings. If true, a NATO ally was briefing an adversary on alliance deliberations in real time.
The far-right Alternative for Germany more than doubled its vote share in Rhineland-Palatinate, proving it can win in the country's affluent west — not just its post-communist east.
Emmanuel Grégoire's victory in Paris extends a quarter-century of left-wing rule, but the far right's capture of Nice and a string of provincial towns reveals a France splitting along urban and rural lines a year before the presidential election.
At Slovenian gas stations, the Iran war costs €1.70 per liter — when you can find fuel. Now the army is distributing diesel while politicians haggle over who gets to govern.
Italy's prime minister initially kept her distance from a constitutional referendum on judicial reform. Then the polls tightened, a war tanked her ally's approval ratings, and she went all in.
The Pentagon wants $200 billion in supplemental funding after just three weeks of conflict with Iran — a price tag that clashes sharply with the White House's insistence the war is winding down.
A 31-year-old DOGE operative told Department of Energy staff to assume the nuclear safety regulator would do "whatever we tell the NRC to do." Then he started handing out startup hats to the inspectors.
TSA agents are quitting over missed paycheques and airport lines stretch past two hours. The president's solution: send in ICE, an agency untrained in airport security, to arrest immigrants from Somalia.