Both Afghans as well as general asylum seekers were left reeling over the weekend after the Trump administration announced further measures to severely restrict immigration in response to the shooting on Wednesday of two National Guard troops in Washington D.C. by a gunman officials identified as a 29-year-old man from Afghanistan. West Virginia National Guard…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Department of State has paused all visas for individuals traveling on Afghan passports after an attack in Washington, D.C., Wednesday targeting National Guard members. Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, an Afghan national, was charged with first-degree murder among other counts related to the ambush, which has since claimed…
President Donald Trump offered his theory for the motive behind the shooting of two National Guard members near the White House on Wednesday. Speaking during his Thanksgiving address to troops from his Mar-a-Lago estate on Thursday, the president suggested that the gunman may have targeted the guard members after becoming “upset” by the success of…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Afghan national accused of shooting two National Guardsmen just blocks from the White House on the day before Thanksgiving served in an elite CIA counterterrorism unit in Afghanistan, according to new details that emerged Thursday about the suspect’s background. Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, served in Afghanistan with…
Federal immigration agents part of the Trump administration’s “Operation Midway Blitz” may soon leave Chicago, according to multiple sources who said the controversial mission was rapidly winding down after a contentious two months of enforcement raids that have set the city and suburbs on edge. Cmdr. Gregory Bovino, the top official on the ground leading…
A court in West Virginia is set to hear arguments in a lawsuit challenging the deployment of the state National Guard to patrol the streets of Washington, D.C., as part of President Donald Trump’s push to send the military into Democratic-run cities. The hearing Monday afternoon is the third in the past three weeks in…
President Donald Trump received some “bad” news in three political and legal developments over the past few days, attorney and legal analyst Glenn Kirschner said in an October 29 video. Kirschner announced it’s “been a really bad 24 hours” for the Trump administration, pointing to three recent developments regarding the federal militarization efforts in Portland, Oregon, the…
ByABC7 Chicago Digital Team Monday, October 20, 2025 10:32PM The state of Illinois has responded to the Donald Trump administration’s appeal to the Supreme Court to allow Chicago National Guard deployment. Copyright © 2025 WLS-TV. All Rights Reserved. Source link
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to allow the deployment of National Guard troops in the Chicago area, escalating President Donald Trump’s conflict with Democratic governors over using the military on U.S. soil. The emergency appeal to the high court came after a judge prevented, for at least two…
Speaking with reporters in the Oval Office this week, President Donald Trump did not rule out using the Insurrection Act to stamp out crime in Chicago. The 19th-century statute, a combination of different laws enacted by Congress between 1792 and 1871, would allow the use of active-duty military personnel to perform law-enforcement duties within the United States. In recent…