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 […]

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 […]

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., […]

A sophomore Yale student whose pro-Israel column published in the Yale Daily News was edited without her knowledge spoke out on Tuesday.  An Oct. 12 column by Sahar Tarak titled, “Is Yalies4Palestine a hate group?” was hit with an editor’s note on Oct. 25, reading, “This column has been edited […]

Legalized sports gambling on sports will be available in Maine starting Friday, following months of discussion about how to roll it out. Maine joins more than 30 states in allowing sports gambling. A law making it legal went into effect in August 2022, but authorities in the state favored a […]