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The Department of Homeland Security logo is seen during a news conference in Washington, Feb. 25, 2015. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

DHS renews deportation amnesty for nearly 1 million migrants

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas renewed temporary protected status -- an amnesty from deportation -- for hundreds of thousands of migrants on Friday, rushing to lock in protection before the next Trump administration takes office.

January 10, 2025
Sarah Baus, left, of Charleston, S.C., and Tiffany Cianci, who says she is a "long-form educational content creator," livestream to TikTok outside the Supreme Court, Friday, Jan. 10, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Justices weighing national security vs. free speech in TikTok case

TikTok's fate now rests in the hands of the Supreme Court, which grappled Friday with whether the company's ties to a foreign adversary are so deep that national security concerns outweigh the company's and its users' First Amendment free speech rights.

January 10, 2025
Trucks park at a truck stop. File photo credit: Vitpho via Shutterstock.

Truckers file lawsuit to carry guns across state lines

Two truckers have filed a lawsuit challenging Minnesota's gun laws, saying the state won't let them carry their firearms as they drive its roads, even though they're legally licensed to publicly carry their weapons in their home states.

January 8, 2025
Supporters of President Donald Trump climb the West wall of the the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) **FILE**

How the House GOP upended Democrats’ Jan. 6 narrative

Four years after the day of the fateful attack on the U.S. Capitol -- and two years after congressional Democrats' investigation laid blame largely at Donald Trump's feet -- that narrative has been severely altered thanks to a two-year GOP probe that has rewritten the script.

January 5, 2025
Police and military patrol Culiacan, Sinaloa state, Mexico, Jan. 6, 2023, the day after the government detained Ovidio Guzman, the son of imprisoned drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, which unleashed deadly firefights between the military and suspected members of the Sinaloa drug cartel. With Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán serving a life sentence, his sons steered the family business into fentanyl, establishing a network of labs churning out massive quantities they smuggled into the U.S., prosecutors in the U.S. revealed in an indictment unsealed April 14, 2023, in Manhattan. (AP Photo/Martin Urista) **FILE**

Drug cartels now Mexico’s 5th-largest employer

Some 175,000 people now actively work for Mexico's smuggling cartels, according to a shocking new estimate that would make them the country's fifth-largest private employer.

December 31, 2024