A federal judge is preparing to block the Trump administration from requiring states to turn over detailed information on food stamp recipients.
U.S. District Judge Maxine Chesney indicated she will side with more than 20 states that sued over the policy.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture had sought data including immigration status related to SNAP benefits, arguing it helps prevent fraud.
The court appears ready to keep the block in place, maintaining protections for state privacy and program administration.
President Donald Trump says his newly formed Board of Peace will announce $5 billion in pledges to rebuild Gaza.
Member nations of the board are also expected to commit thousands of personnel to help stabilize and police the territory.
The funding and security plans will be unveiled at the board’s inaugural meeting in Washington later this week.
Officials describe the effort as a major step in post-conflict reconstruction for the region.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in Budapest as the two countries move toward signing a civilian nuclear cooperation agreement.
The pact is expected to strengthen energy and security ties between the Trump administration and Hungary, a key European ally.
Orbán — a close partner of Donald Trump — has worked with U.S. leaders on immigration enforcement and conservative policy initiatives.
Officials say the deal will promote energy independence and bolster strategic cooperation.
U.S. military forces have boarded another oil tanker in the Indian Ocean after tracking the vessel from the Caribbean Sea in an effort to enforce sanctions tied to Venezuela’s oil trade, the Pentagon said.
The defense department said its forces boarded the Panama-flagged tanker Veronica III overnight, describing the action as a “right-of-visit, maritime interdiction and boarding.” The vessel was targeted after what the Pentagon called an attempt to evade a quarantine on sanctioned tankers first ordered by President Trump last year.
Video released by the Pentagon shows U.S. troops boarding the ship, though officials have not said whether the tanker has been formally seized. The operation follows a similar boarding of another sanctioned tanker in the Indian Ocean last week as part of broader efforts to disrupt illicit oil shipments.
There’s still no resolution in sight to the partial government shutdown as Democrats and the Trump administration remain at odds over immigration enforcement.
Funding for the Department of Homeland Security remains on hold after negotiations failed to produce a deal.
Lawmakers are demanding increased oversight of federal immigration officers following recent incidents, while the White House continues to defend its enforcement policies.
With Congress in recess until Feb. 23, both sides appear dug in.
Investigators say they may be closing in on a major break in the disappearance of 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie — the mother of TV host Savannah Guthrie.
The FBI confirmed Sunday that DNA has been recovered from a glove found near Guthrie’s Arizona home. Authorities say the glove appears to match the pair worn by a masked prowler captured on her doorbell camera shortly before she vanished.
According to FBI Director Kash Patel, the sample was initially tested by a private lab in Florida and is now undergoing final quality checks before being run through the national Combined DNA Index System database. Forensic experts say the process could generate a potential match — known as a “hit” — as early as Monday.
The glove was one of roughly 16 recovered in a field about two miles from Guthrie’s Tucson home. Most were believed to have been dropped by search crews, but investigators say this one closely resembles the gloves worn by the suspect seen attempting to disable the home’s doorbell camera. Surveillance images also showed the individual carrying a gun and an overstuffed backpack.
Guthrie, who has limited mobility, was last seen January 31 and is believed to have been abducted. Blood found on her porch was confirmed to be hers, and at least two ransom notes have surfaced since her disappearance.
The investigation remains ongoing.
More than 1,000 federal immigration agents have left Minnesota’s Twin Cities as the Trump administration winds down Operation Metro Surge — the largest ICE enforcement push in state history.
White House border czar Tom Homan says a small security force will stay temporarily to protect federal personnel and respond to any disorder as agents continue targeted investigations.
Homan said the drawdown follows major enforcement operations in the Twin Cities and stressed that immigration crackdowns will continue nationwide.
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The U.S. military has completed the transfer of thousands of Islamic State group detainees from Syria to Iraq, where they are expected to stand trial in the future, the U.S. Central Command said Friday.
CENTCOM said that the transfer that began on Jan. 21 saw U.S. forces transporting more than 5,700 adult male IS suspects from detention facilities in Syria to Iraqi custody.
The prisoners were transferred to Iraq at the request of Baghdad — a move welcomed by the U.S.-led coalition that had for years fought against IS.
“We appreciate Iraq’s leadership and recognition that transferring the detainees is essential to regional security,” said Adm. Brad Cooper, CENTCOM commander.
Iraq's National Center for International Judicial Cooperation said a total of 5,704 suspects from 61 countries who were affiliated with IS were transferred from prisons in Syria.
The Center said most of the suspects were Syrian or Iraqi, though there were other foreign nationals from Europe as well as Australia, Canada and the United States, among other countries.
Over the past three weeks, the U.S. military escorted the detainees from prisons in northeastern Syria run by the U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, to Baghdad.
The transfers have helped calm fears that the recent rounds of fighting in Syria between government forces and the SDF would allow the IS prisoners to flee from detention camps there and join militant sleeper cells that are still carrying out attacks in both Iraq and Syria.
Iraq is looking to put on trial some of the thousands of the IS detainees who were held for years in Syria without charges or access to the judicial system.
When IS declared a caliphate — a self-proclaimed territory under a traditional form of Islamic rule — in large parts of Syria and Iraq that the militant group seized in 2014, it attracted extremists from around the world.
From the caliphate, the extremists plotted attacks around the world that left hundreds dead from Europe to Arab countries and Asia.
“The successful execution of this orderly and secure transfer operation will help prevent an ISIS resurgence in Syria,” said U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Kevin Lambert, commander of the Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve, that led the mission planning, coordination, and execution. He used an acronym to refer to the Islamic State group.
President Trump used a Fort Bragg appearance on Friday to praise U.S. Special Forces for last month's raid that removed Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro. But his visit also felt at times more like a political rally than an official trip to fete the military. Trump even called Michael Whatley, a Republican Senate candidate in North Carolina, to the stage. Trump also told troops and their families that the operation against Maduro shows America’s true military might, and makes enemies fear the U.S.
A grand jury indicted an Arizona man on two counts of first degree felony murder and dozens of other charges stemming from a state helicopter crash that killed the pilot and a trooper during a shootout between the defendant and police, authorities said Friday.
Terrell Storey, 50, fired on officers from multiple rooftops in a Flagstaff residential neighborhood over almost two hours on the night of Feb. 4, police said. He was captured about the same time as the helicopter crash and hospitalized for gunshot wounds that were not life-threatening.
Trooper paramedic Hunter Bennett, 28, and pilot Robert Skankey, 61, were killed.
The indictment does not specify whether Storey fired at the helicopter with the semiautomatic long rifle that police said he was using. The cause of the crash remains under investigation by federal authorities.
Coconino County Attorney Ammon Barker said Friday that he anticipates Storey will be arraigned on Feb. 23 but declined further comment on the facts of the case.
The indictment names as victims 25 law enforcement officers who responded to the scene and people who live in homes in the area.
The indictment totals 60 criminal counts, including the two felony murder charges for the deaths of Bennett and Skankey. Other charges include aggravated assault, burglary disorderly conduct and endangerment.
Storey remained hospitalized Friday, said Jon Paxton with the Coconino County Sheriff’s Office.
He's being held on a $5 million bond and is represented by the Coconino County Public Defender’s Office. The Associated Press left a voicemail message for Public Defender Jennifer Stock.
The confrontation that led to the helicopter crash began when officers responded to a domestic violence call, according to Flagstaff Police Chief Sean Connolly.
As the officers spoke with the victim in the front yard, Storey shot at them from the back of the residence with a semiautomatic rifle, Connolly said. A protracted gunbattle ensued, with the suspect “hopping from roof to roof” in the neighborhood while shooting at officers, the chief said.
The helicopter crew had been playing a common role, helping officers on the ground. Before crashing, the helicopter was making a pass back to the shootout scene when it slowed to almost a hover about 1,000 feet (300 meters) over a hilltop, according to public flight-path data.
Skankey was a longtime resident of Kingman, Arizona, and had been hired by the Arizona Department of Public Safety in May 2021. He previously served in the U.S. Marine Corps and was married with four children.
Bennett was an honors graduate of Arizona State University and the top graduate of his 2023 Arizona Law Enforcement Academy class. He transferred to an air rescue unit in 2024 and months later married his high school sweetheart, officials said.
Barker said in a statement announcing the indictment that his office was “committed to pursuing this case with the diligence and care it requires.”
“Our hearts remain with the families of Hunter Bennett and Robert Skankey, and with all the families impacted by this incident,” Barker said.
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