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The U.S. Transportation Department said Thursday it is taking steps to retain and recruit more air traffic controllers to address a significant staffing shortage. Read More

A federal judge on Thursday barred the Trump administration from deporting any Venezuelans from South Texas under an 18th-century wartime law. Read More

With the 2026 midterms deciding which party will control the House during the final two years of President Donald Trump’s term, both parties are seeing members opt out of reelection campaigns. Read More

House Republicans have rejected an amendment to their budget bill planning that would have blocked Immigration and Customs Enforcement from detaining or deporting U.S. citizens for any reason. Read More

Former White House trade chief Robert Lighthizer has been working as a senior adviser on global trade to Citigroup for much of the past year, The Wall Street Journal reported. Read More

President Donald Trump’s former cybersecurity chief who denied claims that 2020 election fraud sent Joe Biden to the White House told CNN his Global Entry membership had been revoked. Read More

Planned negotiations between Iran and the United States this weekend over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program were postponed, Oman announced Thursday. Read More

Bosnian Cardinal Vinko Puljic, 79, has arrived in Rome to take part in the upcoming conclave to elect a new pope after he had previously been ruled out and missed last week’s burial of Pope Francis due to heath reasons. Read More

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered a “comprehensive transformation” of the U.S. Army. Read More

The U.S. Army reportedly plans to shed outdated equipment and supply each of its combat divisions with approximately 1,000 drones, in the service branch’s largest overhaul since the end of the Cold War. Read More