Democrats are set to take control of Congress and are focusing on reining in President Donald Trump's immigration policies.

The U.S. Secret Service says a suspect has been taken into custody and charged after officers found him in a vehicle near the White House with multiple guns, claiming he heard voices in his head telling him to kill President Donald Trump.

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to identify any state or local officials who received letters seeking their compliance with the government’s efforts to prevent non-U.S. citizens from voting in the midterm election.

The Trump administration says it's blocking shipments from Chinese biotech company BGI and its affiliates, alleging ties to forced labor.

Democratic Party leaders are suing to block President Donald Trump’s administration from usurping states’ authority to administer elections.

Poll chaplains and lay peacekeepers have maintained a calm presence over the last few election cycles.

Attorneys for Rep_ Ilhan Omar are asking the Justice Department to immediately return property that federal agents seized from her home this week, arguing that the search stemming from an investigation into her citizenship status was “neither justified nor lawful.”.

The FBI and Postal Service are investigating “potentially hazardous” letters with “suspicious substances” mailed to congressional and election offices across the nation.

Lawyers for a New York man shot and wounded by federal immigration officers while in a car with his young son say the officers never identified themselves or showed a warrant.

Federal authorities investigating Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar have seized the Democratic lawmaker’s phone and have issued more than a dozen grand jury subpoenas, including to some of her relatives, according to a person briefed on the probe.

President Donald Trump's administration has taken the unusual step of searching Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar's home in Washington, just three weeks before the midterm election.

A senior Immigration and Customs Enforcement official says federal officers shot and wounded a Dominican man in New York because they believed their lives were in danger.

Vice President JD Vance is casting doubt about whether the Pentagon will livestream the firing-squad execution of the Fort Hood shooter in December.

As midterm elections approach, some voters are worried about immigration enforcement officers at polling places.

The Trump administration's push to shine a spotlight on noncitizen voting is highlighting how rare it is.

Former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has filed for divorce from her husband of 34 years.

The Department of Homeland Security has tapped $20 million to pay for campaign-style ads glorifying President Donald Trump.

Meatpacking industry groups are raising concerns about recent immigration operations in Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma.

The nation’s cybersecurity agency has released an election infrastructure security plan 40 days before November’s midterms.

A Democratic congressman says a Venezuelan man shot by a federal immigration officer in Texas has been told by a specialist he needs surgery to remove a bullet near his spine.

Virginia’s attorney general says the Department of Homeland Security may have violated several state election laws following a whistleblower report.

The White House says it is withdrawing its nomination of Lance Schroyer, a former Oklahoma state trooper, to lead U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ensuring that an agency at the forefront of President Donald Trump’s domestic agenda will remain without a Senate-confirmed leader for at least a while longer.

President Donald Trump's efforts to assert federal control over elections are marching on despite a recent loss in the Supreme Court.

A whistleblower claims a Trump administration effort to find noncitizen voters may violate state laws.

Democratic state parties are launching an operation for the midterm elections intended to recruit 10,000 volunteers to guard polling places in case armed federal officers show up.

Body camera footage of immigration arrests at a snack-food factory in upstate New York offers a rare glimpse inside a workplace immigration raid.

A federal appeals court says the Trump administration’s policy of holding immigrants without a chance for release recalls some of the darkest moments in the nation's history.

A deadline for the Trump administration to decide whether about 200,000 immigrants from El Salvador can remain protected from deportation has passed without any public announcement.

Temporary legal protections for about 200,000 immigrants from El Salvador are in limbo as a deadline nears for the Trump administration to decide on ending them, as they have for hundreds of thousands from Venezuela, Haiti and other countries.

A new AP-NORC/USA Facts poll finds that Americans are more skeptical of government information than they were a few years ago, with majorities now saying they have little or no trust in federal government information about elections, foreign affairs or the environment.

President Donald Trump and his allies are pressing hard about the perceived threats of voting by people who aren't U.S. citizens as the November election approach.

The pilot of a speedboat that capsized during a tour around the Statue of Liberty has been arrested by U.S. immigration authorities who say he was in the country illegally.

The Trump administration says it is temporarily pausing construction of a controversial border construction project in the Big Bend National Park while the head of the agency tasked with building the wall visits Texas to do an “on-the-ground evaluation.”.

The Senate has confirmed Cameron Hamilton as head of the embattled Federal Emergency Management Agency.

President Donald Trump’s border czar said the vetting of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer involved in the deadly shooting of a Colombian native in Maine is under internal review.

Democratic members of the House Homeland Security Committee say one ICE officer has been referred for discipline over a use-of-force incident since the Trump administration began.

A small Texas town is challenging the Trump administration's border wall plans, arguing they could cause flooding and bypass legal processes.

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has warned state officials they could lose funding or face investigations if they don't follow President Donald Trump’s election security demands.

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has pledged to aggressively pursue voter fraud cases at the White House complex after President Donald Trump revived debunked election theories in a primetime speech.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been rapidly expanding its workforce, hiring thousands of new officers.

The Trump administration has finalized a rule that will prevent international students from staying in the U.S. for more than four years unless they seek and obtain government approval, a departure from long-standing practice.

President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Transportation Security Administration addressed a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday.

Markwayne Mullin is facing his first major test as Homeland Security secretary after three people were killed in encounters with ICE officers in less than a week.

A familiar story has unfolded in the Maine city of Biddeford, where a federal officer shot and killed a driving a moving vehicle during an immigration enforcement operation.

Trump administration officials have told Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to suspend most vehicle stops after two deadly shootings in little over a week, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Sen. Angus King says the motorist killed by ICE officers in a Maine shooting was not the target of the warrant the officers were executing.

Homeland Security has not fulfilled its promise to equip all officers with body cameras, despite receiving significant funding.

The son of a Mexican national fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Houston says he was a hardworking father who had been working toward a work permit after 35 years in the U.S. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was driving to a construction job Tuesday morning when he was killed.

A lawsuit alleges that President Donald Trump's immigration agencies have shared confidential information about Iranian asylum seekers with the Iranian government.

An upstate New York resident sued U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for sending federal officers to his house with a warning over an email he sent to the agency’s one-time head.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has arrested 10,000 people over a five-day period at the end of June.

The United States is rapidly building what it calls a “smart wall” on the Mexico border, combining tall steel fencing with advanced technology like sensors and cameras.

Lawmakers have released a federal audit that found that only 25% of some $14 billion in federal funds obligated for Puerto Rico’s power grid after Hurricane Maria razed it almost a decade ago has reached the U.S. territory.

The Iranian national team has left North America, departing from its World Cup home in Mexico following a tournament marked by repeated disagreements with U.S. officials, flashes of athletic brilliance and, ultimately, disappointment over barely missing out on advancing beyond the group stage.

President Donald Trump says he is nominating Lance Schroyer as the next director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

A poll worker says two federal officers visited her at a voting location during New York’s party primaries to confront her about a social media post she’d written criticizing the ICE officer who fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is retreating from a plan to use warehouses to hold up to 10,000 people on a single site, jettisoning a key piece of former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s $38-billion plan to rapidly expand detention capacity this year.

Iran took another important step toward advancing in the World Cup, but once again the off-the-field play dominated the conversation.

President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency, is pledging to senators to be “fair and reasonable” in assessing requests for disaster.

President Donald Trump’s preferred candidates are having mixed results in Tuesday’s primaries, securing the Republican nominations for U.S. Senate in Alabama, Georgia and Oklahoma but not for Georgia governor.

Oklahoma voters will select nominees for federal and state offices including U.S. senator and representative, governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general and both houses of the state Legislature in a state primary on Tuesday.

A group of U.S. Democratic lawmakers have promised Puerto Ricans that they would try to speed up the island’s sluggish recovery from destructive hurricanes and earthquakes, a process that relies heavily on federal funds.

Fans who hear the whirring sound of a drone over a stadium might see it as a nuisance but law enforcement has long viewed those aircraft as a potential weapon of mass destruction.

Salt Lake City and its county have filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Department of Homeland Security’s plan to open a giant warehouse in the city that would be used to detain up to 10,000 immigrants.

House Republicans have passed a nearly $70 billion bill to fund immigration enforcement agencies for the next three years and the rest of President Donald Trump's term in office.

FIFA President Gianni Infantino recently addressed U.S. city leaders, joking about soccer "conquering" America as the World Cup approaches.

The upcoming World Cup will feature 48 teams and 104 matches across the United, Mexico, and Canada.

With virtually no strings attached, Congress is on the verge of providing a massive infusion of cash to the Homeland Security Department.

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin says Immigration and Customs Enforcement will increase training for new officers.

Democrats have attacked the leadership of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin during his first Senate hearing since being tapped by President Donald Trump.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio will face more questions about the Trump administration’s fragile or stalling diplomatic efforts around the world in back-to-back hearings on Capitol Hill for the first time since the Iran war began.

The Trump administration has extended protections shielding about 11,000 Lebanese from deportation, allowing them to stay and work in the U.S. for another six months and marking a rare reprieve to any of the people protected by temporary measures which have been harshly criticized by Republicans.

Democratic members of Congress are visiting a federal immigration detention center in New Jersey where protesters have been demonstrating in recent days and asserting that detainees inside are on a hunger strike.

The travel industry is on edge after Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin reiterated his threat to withdraw U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers from airports in so-called “sanctuary cities” in a move that could jeopardize international flights.

Mark Takano can't help but see the parallels in U.S. history.

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum said that she and the U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin agreed to maintain bilateral cooperation rooted in mutual respect.

Indigenous leaders say that federal contractors are desecrating sacred Native American places and cultural sites at an unprecedented pace in the rush to build more walls on the U.S.-Mexico border.

President Donald Trump plans to build an exhibit of statues featuring prominent Americans along the Potomac River.

The Trump administration says a former executive at a private prison operator will serve as the acting head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

President Donald Trump has nominated Cameron Hamilton to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

President Donald Trump says the leaders of Russia and Ukraine have agreed to his request for a three-day ceasefire and an exchange of prisoners.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says the immigration detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” always was meant to be temporary.

A council meant to reform the Federal Emergency Management Agency proposed Thursday a series of long-awaited changes to the disaster recovery body that stop short of the administration’s promises to dismantle it, but could reduce the number of disasters the federal government supports and the amount of money it doles out.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has begun offering new appointments to disaster workers whose contracts were not renewed in January.

President Donald Trump’s administration appears to be recalibrating its centerpiece policy of mass deportations after a series of major immigration enforcement operations in American cities soured the public’s mood on it.

Fourteen FEMA employees who signed a public letter criticizing the nation's disaster preparedness have been reinstated after eight months on paid leave.

President Donald Trump has signed a bill funding much of the Department of Homeland Security and ending the longest agency shutdown in history.

The Supreme Court is weighing arguments over the Trump administration’s push to end legal protections for Haitians and Syrians as migrants fleeing war and natural disaster.

The House has taken a crucial step toward funding the Department of Homeland Security.

A federal appeals court says the Trump administration cannot jail immigrants without a chance for a bond hearing, citing “serious constitutional questions.”.

Authorities say a man charged in a string of shootings near Atlanta that left three people dead has died in jail.

Authorities have charged Olaolukitan Adon Abel with killing two people and injuring another in the Atlanta area.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting director Todd Lyons, a key executor of President Donald Trump’s mass deportations agenda, will resign at the end of May, federal officials announced Thursday.

A man has been charged in a string of attacks near Atlanta over a matter of hours that left two women dead and a man in critical condition.

President Donald Trump has again denied a request from Colorado’s governor to help people affected by wildfires and flooding.

President Donald Trump has approved major disaster declarations for seven states.

Protesters are rallying against a planned immigration detention facility in Maryland.

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has toured North Carolina areas devastated by Hurricane Helene in 2024.

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has rescinded a rule that DHS expenditures over $100,000 be personally approved by his office.

Homeland Security is pausing plans to buy new warehouses for immigrant detention as it reviews contracts signed under former secretary Kristi Noem.