Federal programs such as Medicaid, Social Security, and food assistance (e.g., SNAP) have strict eligibility rules that are often based on income or work history. For immigrants, there’s typically another requirement: an eligible immigration status. Since 1996, access to many federal programs has been limited to citizens and people that the law defines as “qualified aliens” — such as green card holders, refugees, and asylees. In 2025, a series of changes, most tied to legislation known as...

Outgunned in the national redistricting war, Democrats are launching a multi-pronged legal battle to try and prevent GOP gains ahead of next year’s midterms. It stands to be a grueling, lengthy and costly process for Democrats to counter President Donald Trump’s effort to draw new congressional maps that boost Republicans as they look to grow their slim majority next year. But with limited options to redraw maps in blue states outside Gov. Gavin Newsom’s effort in California, the courtroom...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is launching an operation in Chicago targeting undocumented immigrants who have committed crimes, the Department of Homeland Security announced Monday — a decision long rumored and opposed by local officials. DHS said the ICE effort is called “Operation Midway Blitz" and blamed so-called sanctuary policies in Chicago and Illinois. The DHS announcement didn’t mention using the National Guard, which President Donald Trump has publicly talked about.

There may be no other phrase more fitting for the second Trump administration than “I don’t give a sh-t.” That was Vice President J.D. “Very Online” Vance on Saturday morning, though the full quotation is, “I don’t give a sh-t what you call it.” The “you” in this case was Brian Krassenstein, a prominent left-wing poster on X, and the “it” was last week’s strike by the U.S. military on a boat in the southern Caribbean that President Donald Trump has said was manned by members of the...

The Israel Defense Forces said in a statement that it conducted “a precise strike,” adding that prior to it, “measures were taken in order to mitigate harm to civilians, including the use of precise munitions and additional intelligence.” The IDF did not say who the target was or whether it had confirmation that the target was killed in the strike. The strike marks the first time since Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack that Israel has conducted strikes in Qatar, which houses Hamas’s...

A new poll from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, or FIRE, found that more college students support violence to shut down a speaker than they did in recent years. The 2026 College Free Speech Rankings survey found that number is especially rising amongst students who identify as Republicans. Speakers and violence The new survey shows students identifying as Republicans now outnumber Democrats when it comes to justifying violence to stop a speaker. Specifically, FIRE...

The U.S. Justice Department is in talks with Homeland Security Investigations about transferring the sensitive voter roll data it has collected from states for use in criminal and immigration-related investigations, according to government documents seen by Reuters. The voter registration data was gathered over the last several months by the DOJ's Civil Rights Division, which has sent requests for voter registration-related information to at least 24 states. Of those, the division...

Immigration advocates warned that the supreme court has “effectively legalized racial profiling”, granting federal agents the power to stop people in Los Angeles simply for speaking Spanish or appearing Latino – and opening the door, they say, to a broader unraveling of civil rights protections nationwide. In a 6–3 decision on Monday, the court’s conservative majority lifted restrictions on “roving” immigration patrols across the LA area after a lower court...

As the Trump administration considers declaring a national housing emergency, an affordable housing developer who began his career at Lehman Brothers unequivocally agrees the proclamation is overdue. "I think for sure we're in a national housing emergency. I think we've been here for some time," Dan Coakley, Property Markets Group Affordable principal, told Fox News Digital. "As far as I'm concerned, it's right on time," he added. "If you look back over the last 10-plus years where there'...

A man was fatally shot in Southeast Washington just after midnight Tuesday, snapping D.C.’s 12-day stretch without a homicide, an unusually long respite from violence for which President Donald Trump claimed credit at a news conference Monday. “In the last 11 days we’ve had no murders and that’s the first time that’s taken place in years actually, years,” Trump said Monday morning, though city crime statistics show otherwise. D.C. went 16 days without a homicide earlier this...