US agency halts emergency funds, demands state population data reflecting deportations
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency said on Friday it stopped distributing funds for emergency preparedness to states until they provide updated population counts that account for migrants deported since President Donald
Trump administration offers migrant children $2,500 to voluntarily return to home countries
McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The Trump administration said Friday that it would pay migrant children $2,500 to voluntarily return to their home countries, dangling a new incentive in efforts to persuade people to self-deport. U.S. Immigration and
Kansas deputy charged with murder kneeled on inmate for 1 minute and 26 seconds
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A white Kansas sheriff’s deputy charged with murder in the death of a Black jail inmate shoved his knee into the cuffed man’s back for one minute and 26 seconds after he
Universal to reopen Stardust Racers ride two weeks after man’s death
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Universal Orlando Resort plans to reopen its Stardust Racers ride at Epic Universe more than two weeks after a 32-year-old man died of blunt force injuries after going on the high-speed roller coaster.
Spanish-language journalist arrested while covering protest near Atlanta deported to El Salvador
ATLANTA (AP) — A Spanish-language journalist who had been in immigration detention in Georgia since June was deported Friday to El Salvador. Mario Guevara, 48, was covering a protest just outside Atlanta on June 14 when local
Federal shutdown hurts services for Native Americans and they worry worse is coming
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Native Americans watched the shuttered government on Friday and braced for damage to health care, education, infrastructure and other services funded by Washington under treaties struck more than a century ago. Tribal nations
Takeaways from AP’s interview with the only protester still locked up after Trump’s campus crackdown
Nearly seven months after the Trump administration cracked down on pro-Palestinian activists, the only one still jailed is breaking her silence, recounting how the suffering of family members in Gaza drove her to protest. Leqaa Kordia, a
Key Democrat blasts ‘abrupt’ end of popular US tariff exemption for package shipments
By David Lawder and Lisa Baertlein WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The top Democrat on the U.S. Senate Finance Committee accused the Trump administration of having inadequate customs procedures in place as it ended the “de minimis” U.S. tariff exemption
Trump’s $100,000 fee for H-1B worker visas challenged in lawsuit
By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) -A coalition of unions, employers and religious groups filed a lawsuit on Friday seeking to block President Donald Trump’s bid to impose a $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas for high-skilled foreign workers.
Trump reverses $187M funding cuts for New York counterterrorism after bipartisan outcry
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday he has personally reversed $187 million in funding cuts made by his administration for New York’s law enforcement and counterterrorism operations, following bipartisan outcry from New York officials.