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Nearly two-thirds of Americans think Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has gone “too far” in its effort to deal with unauthorized immigration, a slight increase from just a week ago, according to a poll released Tuesday. The Ipsos poll, conducted last Friday and Saturday, found that 62 percent of U.S. adults said ICE’s actions were...

The Washington, D.C., theater scene is responding with shock and sadness to President Trump’s planned two-year closure of the Kennedy Center, and concerns are mounting that construction and renovation won’t do anything to win over a local population that considers his brand toxic. Trump has turned what was previously ceremonial White House oversight of the...

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is taking on Big Tech with a trip to the Capitol to call for reforms to a law that shields companies from lawsuits over user-generated content.  The "500 Days of Summer" star will join Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and parent survivors at a Wednesday news conference at the Capitol in support of reforms...

A January survey from Harvard University and The Harris Poll found that a slight majority of respondents believe that former President Biden was more effective than President Trump. The poll, released Monday, found that 51 percent of respondents said Trump is doing a worse job than Biden, while 49 percent said the president is doing...

A total of 21 Democrats voted with a majority of Republicans in the House on Tuesday to end a partial government shutdown.  The House voted to pass a funding package 217-214 that provides funding provided for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through Feb. 13 and full-year funding for the bulk of federal agencies. In...

Louisiana state Sen. Blake Miguez (R) announced on Tuesday that he would be shifting his run from a Senate challenge for Sen. Bill Cassidy’s (R-La.) seat to instead run for Rep. Julia Letlow’s (R-La.) seat in the House. “When I announced my campaign for the U.S. Senate last year, I promised Louisianans I would stand...

Vice President Vance sparred with Democratic Rep. Seth Magaziner (R.I.) over the legal status of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, who was released from a Texas detention center alongside his father earlier this week.  “Important for everyone to know: Liam’s parents didn’t enter the US illegally. They presented at a port of entry, requested asylum and...

FIFA President Gianni Infantino defended awarding President Trump the first FIFA Peace Prize in a new interview, while recognizing the "strong reaction" to the decision. “Whatever we can do to help peace in the world, we should be doing it, and for this reason, for some time we were thinking about (whether) we should do...

The Alabama Republican Party dismissed a challenge over the residency of Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), who is running for governor in the state. The challenge was filed last week by Ken McFeeters, an insurance agent who is running against Tuberville for the GOP nomination. McFeeters told the Alabama Reflector that he believes Tuberville lives in...

Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) on Tuesday questioned a top Trump health official on the administration modeling policy around Denmark, a largely homogeneous country of just over 6 million people. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Jay Bhattacharya appeared before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Education (HELP) on...