Senate Republicans put Congress on track to deliver President Trump’s most significant first-year accomplishment. But the ambitious package, opposed by Democrats, challenges GOP orthodoxy against deficit spending.
In what would be an extraordinary test of a chief executive’s authority to revoke boundaries of the country’s national monuments, President Trump is expected to formally propose chopping Utah’s Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante monuments into five separate and much smaller national monuments....
In a case that defense lawyers warned could create a “constitutional black hole,” a federal judge expressed exasperation Thursday at the U.S. government’s secret detention of an American citizen in Iraq for more than two months. The American, who has not been publicly identified, allegedly fought...
When the Almanzas returned to their hometown of Malinalco in 2012, they were not alone. Census data shows more than 1 million Mexicans and their families left the U.S. for Mexico between 2009 and 2014, and fewer made their way north, a demographic shift that is reshaping the immigration equation.
The U.S. Justice Department on Friday issued an arrest warrant for a man in the country illegally who had been accused of killing a woman in San Francisco but acquitted by a jury this week. The warrant for Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, a seven-time felon who has been deported from the U.S. to Mexico...