Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas was ripped by one Republican lawmaker Tuesday over special agents within his department being reassigned to “make sandwiches” at the border for illegal immigrants being held there. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., took aim at Mayorkas based on the testimony of a special […]

A Jewish student at New York City’s Columbia University called out the general faculty for failing to properly educate students about the differences between Palestinian civilians and Hamas, as well as why the antisemitism being shown through demonstrations and attacks is abhorrent. Eli Shmidman, vice president of the Jewish Law […]

United Nations peacekeepers on Tuesday withdrew from a rebel stronghold in northern Mali weeks earlier than planned because of growing insecurity, leaving the town in the hands of ethnic Tuareg separatists. Underscoring the uptick in violence, at least two peacekeepers were wounded en route to the largest U.N. base in […]

A woman has sued a Tennessee police department after her son was shot and killed when he tried to drive away from a traffic stop with an officer leaning into the car. Linda Allen, whose son Eric Allen, 39, died in the November 2022 interaction with Mt. Juliet Police, filed […]

FBI Director Christopher Wray went silent Tuesday when questioned over whether the country was safer since President Biden took office. “Is the United States safer from foreign terror threats today? Are we safer than when Joe Biden took office — from the day he took office?” Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., […]

An eight-mile section of the scenic Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina is closed after visitors were caught “feeding and attempting to hold a young bear,” the National Park Service said in a news release. The park service said that the decision to shut down the stretch of the national […]

Three bills seeking to expand and strengthen Pennsylvania’s anti-hate crime statutes were passed Tuesday by the state House of Representatives. All members of the chamber’s Democratic majority supported the proposals along with a handful of Republicans, voting amid national concerns about a spike in hate crimes during the ongoing war […]

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday confirmed to Senate lawmakers that there had been more than 600,000 “gotaways” at the southern border in fiscal year 2023. Mayorkas was asked by Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, at a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing how many gotaways Customs and Border Protection recorded […]

Police in England offered another update in the shocking death of 29-year-old former NHL player Adam Johnson, who died over the weekend when his neck was cut by the skate of an opposing player during a game.  South Yorkshire police said in a news release on Tuesday that investigators are […]

Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., questioned Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and FBI Director Christopher Wray on what actions are being taken to combat antisemitic violence during a committee hearing Tuesday.  Rosen, who is Jewish, recently received calls from a Las Vegas man who allegedly threatened to kidnap, assault […]