The Trump administration sent a new group of migrants to the U.S. military base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, on Thursday to await deportation, claiming that they may have ties to a Venezuelan gang, according to officials with knowledge of the operation. An Immigration and Customs Enforcement charter flight from El Paso transported about 20 people,…
A US federal judge said the government “evaded its obligations” to answer his questions about this weekend’s deportations of alleged Venezuelan gang members. James Boasberg, the top federal judge in Washington DC, gave justice department lawyers a Thursday deadline provide information on the government’s deportation of Venezuelans to El Salvador by plane. They provided a…
The US government has defunded one programme and left another that both document alleged Russian war crimes in Ukraine. The Trump administration cut funding for Yale University’s Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL), which had detailed the mass deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia. It has also withdrawn from a multinational group meant to investigate the leaders…
The Trump administration replaced the top lawyer at the Internal Revenue Service, according to three people familiar with the change, in a shake-up that came as administration officials sought to use the agency’s taxpayer data to help with deporting immigrants. William Paul, a civil servant who became the acting chief counsel at the I.R.S. in…
America’s largest federal employees’ union filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the Homeland Security Department and its leadership to stop the Trump administration from canceling a collective bargaining agreement for Transportation Security Administration workers. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Seattle, is the latest example of how the union, the American Federation of Government…
The decision appears to conclude a gradual reversal of fortune for Southwest Key, which has worked with the federal government for more than two decades, operating more than 25 shelters across Texas, Arizona and California. It has been awarded more than $6 billion in federal funds since 2007. After the H.H.S. announced that it would…
The Trump administration on Friday replaced the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the latest leadership shake-up as agency officials try to meet White House pressure to ramp up deportations and arrests across the country. The decision to reassign Caleb Vitello, a career official who was selected for the job in December, comes as…
The Trump administration on Tuesday said it will keep using strict guidelines adopted by the administration of former President Joe Biden to review proposed corporate mergers. The decision to retain the guidelines — which have been widely disliked by corporations since their adoption in 2023 — was detailed by Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson…
The Trump administration has begun firing hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) employees, according to the Professional Aviation Safety Specialists (PASS) union, weeks after a fatal mid-air plane collision in Washington DC. Several hundreds of the agency’s probationary workers – who have generally been in their positions for less than a year – received the…
A woman walks down the stairs in front of the U.S. Capitol building, ahead of the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump, in Washington on Jan. 15, 2025. Marko Djurica | Reuters The Trump administration is offering millions of federal workers the option to accept buyouts through a government-wide “deferred resignation” program if they resign by…
