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The Transportation Security Administration's new facial recognition technology is seen at a Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport security checkpoint, April 26, 2023, in Glen Burnie, Md. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, File)

TSA’s facial recognition is better than 99% effective

The government's civil liberties watchdog gave a relatively clean bill of health to the TSA's use of facial recognition technology to screen travelers, saying it's strikingly effective and is largely immune to abuse.

May 9, 2025
Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden arrives at the presentation of the Gershwin Prize, to be awarded to Joni Mitchell at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington March 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades, File)

Trump fires Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden

President Trump fired Carla Hayden as the librarian of Congress on Thursday, sparking the ire of congressional Democrats who said he was ousting a groundbreaking professional from a critical nonpartisan job.

May 8, 2025
A spool of stickers rests on a table at a polling station during Massachusetts state primary voting, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024, at the Newton Free Library, in Newton, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) ** FILE **

DOGE is now helping DOJ sniff out illegal voters

President Trump's Department of Government Efficiency has turned its attention to illegal voting, scouring records to discover -- and report to federal prosecutors -- the names of noncitizens who have registered and voted in U.S. elections.

May 8, 2025
The sign outside the Internal Revenue Service building is seen. May 4, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Trump has booted 11,000 IRS employees so far, and counting

President Trump has given buyouts or tried to terminate employment of more than 11,000 people at the IRS, with a disproportionate share of those coming from the agency's ranks of auditors, an inspector general said Monday.

May 5, 2025
Posters of alleged criminals who officials said were arrested in a recent immigration enforcement operation are displayed as Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a press conference at the South Florida office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Enforcement and Removal Operations, Thursday, May 1, 2025, in Miramar, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

DeSantis sets pace for GOP governors on immigration

President Trump, working to curb illegal immigration on the federal level, has found an unparalleled partner in Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is leading the country's preeminent test of immigration enforcement at the state level.

May 4, 2025