The Senate passed a $70 billion funding bill for ICE and Customs and Border Protection after an overnight vote marathon, leaving Democrats with none of the limits they tried to attach.
Vice President JD Vance and federal officials rolled out a tougher fraud crackdown in Ohio, unveiled a new FBI Most Wanted Fraudsters list, and cut Hawaii off from Medicaid fraud-control funding after years of weak enforcement.
A federal judge stopped the Justice Department’s Anti-Weaponization Fund before it could even get organized, freezing a program meant to compensate people harmed by political lawfare.
A man from Mauritania entered the U.S. illegally, sought asylum based on homosexuality, and later married the stepdaughter of the sheriff who hired him at an Indiana jail. DHS now says his claim appears fraudulent and he is in ICE custody.
Los Angeles is weighing a proposal for an armed DWP police force after copper wire theft keeps knocking out streetlights and draining millions from the city.
An Illinois alderman turned herself in after prosecutors said she submitted her dead mother’s mail ballot. The case has revived debate over voter-roll checks and mail-in safeguards.