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ICE confirms illegal migrant held at NJ's Delaney Hall detention center has died in custody
The detainee has been identified as 41-year-old Salvadoran migrant Edwin Lopez-Cornejo, who died after experiencing a medical emergency while in ICE custody on Saturday. Lopez-Cornejo's cause of death has not been released so far.
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Senate advances stopgap spending measure to fund federal government through December
The chamber advanced the resolution by invoking cloture in a bipartisan 89-4 split and comes as senators prepare to leave town for their August recess.
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Justice Department touts 'largest denaturalization effort ever' with 25 cases filed in two weeks
The department also noted that since the start of the second Trump administration, it has filed 123 civil denaturalization complaints, which it declares is the most in recorded history.
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Trump to Democrat critics of capturing Maduro in Venezuela: 'All they do is complain'
"They did an incredible job, these men and women that went out there last night, the courage they had, going into an area where, you know, all the lights were turned, we turned off almost all of the lights in Caracas," he added.
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Before ouster, Maduro's thuggish and illegal behavior chronicled in two decades of U.S. documents
Maduro's 2020 indictment laid out evidence of how Venezuela's dictator ran a brutal drug cartel that addicted and poisoned Americans.
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U.S. Senate races will decide balance of Congress in 2026
In 2024, Republicans flipped the U.S. Senate from blue to red and hold a 53-47 majority. Two senators are independents who caucus with Democrats.
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Congress faces govt. shutdown date, health care bills, Epstein on return
With the current CR expiring Jan. 30, lawmakers have less than a month to finish the remaining nine bills or pass yet another CR, otherwise, the government will partially shut down.
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Democrats declare Trump’s capture of Maduro illegal despite past presidents' similar actions
"Congress must act to rein him in. Immediately," Rep. Melanie Stansbury, D-N.M., says of Trump
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DOJ formally charges Maduro and his wife after they were captured in Venezuela following U.S. strike
"They will soon face the full wrath of American justice on American soil in American courts," Bondi says
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Trump blocks chips deal over national security, China-related concerns
The president claimed HieFo was "controlled by a citizen of the People's Republic of China," and that there was evidence to believe HieFo, through the merger, may "take action that threatens to impair the national security of the United States."
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You Vote: Based on the first couple days of Mamdani as mayor of NYC, what are your expectations?
Mamdani, who was sworn in as New York City mayor on Thursday, signed several executive orders on his first day, including one to rescind those issued by Adams since his September 2024 indictment.
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Federal court strikes down California open carry gun ban as unconstitutional
The California law in question banned openly carrying guns in counties with a population greater than 200,000 people.
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Obama failed to support Iran’s freedom protesters two decades ago, but Trump just rectified that
Another chance at an "Arab Spring": If Iran violently kills peaceful protesters, the United States of America will come to their rescue, Trump said in a 3 a.m. post Friday on his TruthSocial platform. "We are locked and loaded and ready to go."