A new deadline is looming to avoid another partial government shutdown. Congress has until Feb. 13 to agree on a funding bill or shutter the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) until they can. Right now, Democrats and Republicans are locked in a standoff over immigration enforcement. Democratic leaders Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries say they won’t support a full-year DHS funding […]
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers have reportedly left so-called “death cards” behind after making arrests in Colorado. Now, Democratic lawmakers are demanding answers from the Department of Homeland Security. In January, reports surfaced that ICE agents were leaving ace of spades playing cards — labeled “ICE Denver Field Office” — inside vehicles after detaining […]
Bark beetles are attacking trees all over Colorado, but their effects are widely up for debate. State officials and scientists have recently expressed differing opinions on the beetles and the impact they have on wildfires, with some expressing concern that the state has an ulterior motive for its aggressive response to the bugs. Colorado state […]
If you’re in the San Francisco Bay Area this week and see a helicopter skimming the rooftops, don’t panic — it’s just the feds on a routine patrol of the city. They aren’t looking for trouble; they’re mapping background radiation levels to establish a baseline before Super Bowl LX kicks off. It’s part of a […]
A federal judge sentenced Ryan Routh, the man convicted of trying to assassinate President Donald Trump in 2024, to life in prison on Wednesday. In September, a jury previously convicted Routh of attempting to assassinate then-candidate Trump as he played on his golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida. During the trial, Routh represented himself. […]
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Britain’s Prince Andrew, has moved out of the family home much sooner than anticipated. It comes days after the U.S. government’s release of millions more Epstein files, which included never-before-seen photos of the disgraced royal. The brother of King Charles III, Mountbatten-Windsor has lived in the Royal Lodge in Windsor for decades. […]
The San Francisco Bay Area will fill up this weekend with football fans celebrating the final clash of the season’s two best billionaire-owned teams in Super Bowl LX. First, though, “dozens” of people apparently plan to march down the streets of San Francisco in support of California’s purportedly downtrodden billionaires. A group calling itself “March […]
California Democrats scored a big win Wednesday when the Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge to new congressional maps from the state’s Republicans and the Trump administration. The court declined to block California from implementing new congressional districts this year that are expected to add five Democratic seats in Congress. Democrats, who hold a […]
Apple’s Lockdown Mode blocked the FBI from accessing the iPhone of a Washington Post reporter, court records show. The finding sheds new light on the security feature’s effectiveness. The iPhone, owned by Hannah Natanson, was seized in January during a raid of the reporter’s home. Natanson was targeted as part of an investigation after allegedly […]
As scrutiny of how law enforcement agencies collaborate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement increases, some are signing new contracts, seeing it as a public-safety tool. Still, activists criticized the program, fearing racial profiling by agents. Public reaction to how local law enforcement interacts and works with ICE has become tense in some places as […]
