Federal Agencies
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DOJ pushes back on AP report finding lower number of noncitizen voters on rolls in California
"This is a bogus report by the activist illegal immigrant rights group CHIRLA. How would they know who is registered to vote and who is a citizen? They don’t (and shouldn’t) have access to any official records," he wrote.
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Mullin defends Trump administration’s 'large' investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar
"We’re enforcing our nation’s laws, and we’re going to do that. We’re not weaponizing. We’re not using political theater on this," Mullin says
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RFK Jr. defends remarks about Arabs in lengthy social media post
“My speech was not a critique of Arabs or Islam, but of Islamism (also known as ‘Islamofascism’ or ‘Political Islam’), a toxic ideology conceived and promoted by the terrorist group, the Muslim Brotherhood,” Kennedy wrote.
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U.S. Embassy warns of potential mass-casualty threat at Moscow tourist attraction
The alert identified the Tsaritsyno Museum Reserve as the potential target and urged people to avoid the area on Oct. 31.
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Department of Justice charges fifth foreigner with voting illegally in Nevada
The department charged Argentine national Mariela Delia Mendoza, who is in the United States legally but is not a U.S. citizen, with the crime, which carries a penalty of up to one year of imprisonment, a fine of up to $100,000, or both.
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US Attorney, ICE push back on Harris County indictment of ICE agent
Democrat Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare announced Friday that ICE officer Mario Alberto Morales had been indicted in Houston on charges of hitting and injuring a Mexican national illegally in the country. Morales faces second-degree felony charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
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Federal prosecutor in Alaska confirms criminal investigation into Senate Dem nominee is underway
The investigation comes after Mary Peltola denied Thursday that she had any knowledge of the effort to put another Dan Sullivan on the ballot alongside incumbent GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan.
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Lone Star Mission: ICE arrests more than 4,000 in 10 days in Texas without incident
Through Lone Star Mission, five ICE-Enforcement and Removal Operations field office staff working with law enforcement partners arrested 4,170 foreign nationals illegally living in Texas
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‘Operation Ghostbusters’: DOJ charges five in student aid scheme it says sent money to Kenya
Investigators say the scheme used stolen identities of real Americans to enroll fake students and take more than $200 million in taxpayer-funded aid. The money never reached its intended recipients.
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Fire breaks out at Department of Energy nuclear site in South Carolina, emergency declared
The fire, which was reported at 5:39 p.m. Eastern, has since been extinguished and no contamination has been reported outside the affected facility.
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Treasury Department sanctions North Korean IT worker schemes for facilitating fraud on US businesses
The department said profits from the schemes go to North Korea's unlawful weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programs.
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Three arrested after FBI foils planned shooting at Georgia high school
Cherokee High School was allegedly the intended target of the shooting, which arrest warrants claimed was scheduled to take place next August.
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Fed holds rates steady in last meeting before midterms
The decision comes despite President Donald Trump's public pressure on the regulator to lower rates.