In a move affecting tens of thousands, the Department of Homeland Security officially ended Temporary Protected Status for Honduran and Nicaraguan nationals living in the United States, Fox News reported.
The July 9 decision eliminates TPS protections for approximately 76,000 people and reflects the Trump administration’s continued effort to scale back humanitarian immigration programs.
Temporary Protected Status, known as TPS, provides relief from deportation and work permits to nationals of countries facing armed conflict, environmental disasters, or other extraordinary conditions. Established by Congress in 1990, TPS designations require periodic reviews and are granted in 18-month increments.
Roughly 72,000 Hondurans and 4,000 Nicaraguans will lose their legal protections under the new measure. Most have lived in the U.S. for decades, originally granted TPS status following natural disasters in their home countries in the late 1990s.
Homeland Security officials said Honduras has sufficiently recovered from the effects of Hurricane Mitch, which devastated the country nearly 27 years ago. Similarly, the department determined that Nicaragua’s recovery from a natural disaster in 1999 no longer requires TPS support.
“It is clear that the Government of Honduras has taken all of the necessary steps to overcome the impacts of Hurricane Mitch,” said Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. She added, “Honduran citizens can safely return home, and DHS is here to help facilitate their voluntary return.”
The decision to revoke these protections follows previous TPS terminations issued in recent months. Haitians lost their TPS status weeks ago, and Venezuelans faced a similar outcome earlier in the year.
The Venezuelan termination initially faced legal pushback. A federal judge blocked the move, but in May, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Trump administration, removing the injunction and allowing the policy to proceed.
“Temporary Protected Status was designed to be just that—temporary,” Noem said, underscoring the administration’s broader goal of restoring TPS to its original intent and time-limited scope.
To assist those affected by the change, DHS is offering a voluntary return program. Migrants who agree to leave the country can register through the CBP One app, which helps them coordinate travel arrangements.
Those who opt into the program will receive a free one-way plane ticket back to Honduras or Nicaragua. In addition, they will get a $1,000 “exit bonus” to aid in their reintegration process upon arrival.
A DHS spokesperson said, “The environmental situation has improved enough that it is safe enough for Nicaraguan citizens to return home. This decision restores integrity in our immigration system and ensures that TPS remains temporary.”
DHS framed the move as part of a commitment to enforcing immigration laws as written. Officials say extending TPS indefinitely undermines U.S. policy and turns a temporary relief program into a permanent residency pathway.
“Honduras has been a wonderful partner of the Trump Administration, helping us deliver on key promises to the American people,” Noem said. “We look forward to continuing our work with them.”
With the end of these protections, tens of thousands of individuals will face decisions about their future in the U.S. Many must choose between returning to countries they haven’t lived in for decades or seeking new forms of legal relief.
After pleading guilty to the murders of four college students, Idaho killer Bryan Kohberger will spend the rest of his days in prison, but the question remains why he did it.
Kohberger had maintained his innocence throughout a highly publicized pre-trial battle before suddenly pleading guilty to avoid facing the death penalty.
The stunning reversal came weeks before Kohberger was scheduled to face trial for the brutal quadruple murders of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin in November 2022.
While a motive is not necessary for a conviction, prosecutors often use motives to persuade the jury. In this case, they had none.
“We will not represent that he intended to commit all of the murders that he did that night, but we know that that is what resulted,” Latah County Prosecutor Bill Thompson said following Kohberger's plea.
The motive will likely never be known, a painful reality for the families of the victims, who are already divided over the guilty plea that ensures he won't face the death penalty.
Jack Baylis, a childhood friend of Kohberger's, said the criminology student may have developed a morbid fascination that led him to kill.
"I think he did it to see what it felt like, to experience it. If he wanted to write a paper about what killers feel and why they kill, to be accurate, you have to experience it yourself to truly understand it," Baylis told the Idaho Statesman. "To get into the mind of a killer, you have to be a killer, would be my guess."
Kohberger - chillingly - continued to attend classes at Washington State University after the killings, as if nothing ever happened.
"I just can’t even begin to get inside the head of somebody who could do something like that, and then attend class like it’s business as usual," Ben Roberts, 33, a former criminology student at Washington State University said. "That’s just completely alien to me."
At the time of the murders, Kohberger was living in Pullman, Washington, only minutes from the crime scene in Moscow, Idaho. According to prosecutors, in the early morning of November 13, 2022, Kohberger entered the off-campus home through a glass sliding door around and proceeded to kill the four victims, three of whom were sleeping. He left two survivors, one of whom saw a man with "bushy eyebrows."
Investigators found DNA on a knife sheath near one of the victims' bodies. The DNA was later identified as Kohberger's after it was linked to a Q-tip discarded outside of his family home in Pennsylvania, but the murder weapon was never found.
His cellphone pinged cell towers near the victims' home 23 times between the hours of 10 p.m. and 4 a.m. in the months before the killings - and surveillance footage also showed Kohberger's white car speeding away from the neighborhood after the murders.
Prosecutors said Kohberger's background as a student in criminology likely played a role in the methodic planning that went into the murders. In the days after the killings, he meticulously cleaned his car and apartment, leaving nothing for investigators.
"The defendant has studied crime," Thompson told the court. "In fact, he did a detailed paper on crime scene processing when he was working on his Ph.D., and he had that knowledge skill set."
Kohberger will be sentenced on July 23 to four life sentences without parole.
A federal court has ruled that the Trump administration must continue funding Planned Parenthood.
Judge Indira Talwani blocked for 14 days a provision in President Trump's megabill that would strip Medicaid funding from the largest abortion provider in America.
Planned Parenthood furiously denies using federal money for abortion, which is illegal under the Hyde Amendment.
But the organization is notoriously opaque, and the fact that money is fungible has led critics to say that Planned Parenthood's federal funding subsidizes abortion indirectly.
The "Big, Beautiful Bill" attempts to address that concern by rescinding all Medicaid funding for non-abortion services at Planned Parenthood and its affiliates for one year.
Although Planned Parenthood is never named in the law, the organization says it is being singled out for retaliation since it applies to only to abortion nonprofits that receive over $800,000 in Medicaid reimbursements, a threshold that excludes most smaller abortion providers.
“The Trump Administration is ending the forced use of Federal taxpayer dollars to fund or promote elective abortion – a commonsense position that the overwhelming majority of Americans agree with," the White House said in response to the judge's ruling.
Planned Parenthood sued, accusing the Trump administration of trying to cripple its services over its abortion advocacy, which Planned Parenthood insists is "wholly outside the Medicaid program."
Even still, Planned Parenthood conceded that without this funding, many abortion clinics could be forced to close down.
"Many Planned Parenthood Members will be required to lay off staff and curtail services, with serious adverse consequences for the many patients served at those centers even if they do not use Medicaid to access services. Worse still, Members may be forced to shutter a substantial number of their health centers nationwide, many of which are in rural or underserved areas without alternative providers,” the lawsuit reads.
On the same day the lawsuit was filed, Judge Talwani, an Obama appointee, ordered the Trump administration to take "all steps necessary to ensure that Medicaid funding continues to be disbursed in the customary manner and timeframes to Planned Parenthood Federation. of America and its members."
The judge's intervention has put on hold what was hailed by many in the pro-life movement as a historic victory.
Planned Parenthood said the fight is "just beginning."
"We're grateful that the court acted swiftly to block this unconstitutional law attacking Planned Parenthood providers and patients... The fight is just beginning, and we look forward to our day in court!" Planned Parenthood said in a statement.
Zohran Mamdani's SAT score has been made public, exposing his background to further scrutiny as he faces accusations of lying about his race.
The reporting adds another layer to an affirmative action scandal that could overwhelm his upstart campaign to be mayor of New York.
The Ugandan-born radical received a 2140 out of 2400 on the standardized test, which was below the median for Columbia University students at the time when he applied for admission, according to journalist Christopher Rufo. The bombshell is sure to raise questions about whether Mamdani tried to compensate for a below-average application when he ticked the box for "African American."
"African American" was popularized by black civil rights leader Jesse Jackson in the 1980s, and the term is widely understood to describe black people descended from former slaves.
Mamdani was born in Uganda, a country in East Africa, but has Indian heritage on both sides of his family. His father, Mahmood Mamdani, is a professor at Columbia.
The New York Times reported that Zohran Mamdani identified as "African American" when he applied to the school. Although he was rejected by Columbia in the end, his critics say he created a false impression about his race to score points with university admissions.
The Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in 2023, but it was widely practiced in 2009 when Mamdani applied to Columbia. At the time, the median Columbia student scored between 2110 and 2300 on the Math, Critical Reading and Writing sections of the SAT.
Mamdani's score of 2140 was on the low end for Columbia and likely above the median for black students, according to Christopher Rufo.
Mamdani's history is coming under a microscope after he won the Democratic primary in New York's mayoral election.
New York mayor Eric Adams, a black Democrat who is seeking re-election as an independent, has accused Mamdani of exploiting African-Americans' painful history for personal gain.
“The African American identity is not a checkbox of convenience. It’s a history, a struggle and a lived experience. For someone to exploit that for personal gain is deeply offensive,” Adams said last week.
Mamdani has responded to his critics with word games, insisting he is “an American who was born in Africa," and also suggesting his identity is just too complex to be labeled.
"Even though these boxes are constraining," Mamdani said, "I wanted my college application to reflect who I was."
In addition to checking the "African American" box, Mamdani specified "Ugandan" on the application and also signified he has "Asian" heritage.
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
A shooter, armed with a rifle and wearing tactical gear, tried an ambush of U.S. Border Patrol agents at a facility in McAllen, Texas, and was shot and killed, authorities reported.
"The Department [of Justice] has zero tolerance for assaults on federal officers or property and will bring the full weight of the law against those responsible," explained Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.
Police reported the shooter wounded one officer, but he was in stable condition.
The dead man was identified as Ryan Louis Mosqueda, and reports revealed no known motive yet.
But they said it was a "targeted" attack on federal officers.
A report at the Washington Examiner explained border czar Tom Homan said on Fox News that attacks on ICE officers increased since last year by 690% as of July 4.
He blamed, in part, leftist rhetoric constantly being unleashed by opponents of President Donald Trump who are in Congress.
"We have senators, we have congresspeople, that compare ICE to the Nazis, compare ICE to racists, and it just continues. The public thinks, 'well if a member of Congress can attack ICE, why can't we,'" he said.
From Jan. 21 to June 20 of last year there were 10 attacks on ICE agents, the report said. This year during the same time, there have been 79.
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
A new report reveals that sources are suggesting that perjury charges may be in the offing for John Brennan, Barack Obama's leftist CIA chief who was part of the team that pushed the lies from the Steele Dossier onto the American public during President Donald Trump's first campaign.
They were trying to stop his campaign, or even put him in jail, and failed, giving America's economy and reputation a chance to surge during his first term, results that now are being implemented again during Trump's second term.
At the heart of the scheme at that point was the fabrications made up in the dossier, done by a former British agent who was paid by the Hillary Clinton campaign through a campaign, a law firm and a campaign research corporation.
The text, "leaked" so that the lies would be reported to the American public as legitimate concerns, made wild and unsubstantiated claims about Trump, including that his campaign was colluding with Russia, claims that since have been debunked.
It is the the Federalist that has reported on the latest details of an investigation into Brennan, then-FBI head James Comey, and others participating in the attacks on Trump.
The report said now a still-classified staff report from the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence reveals the Brennan-led 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment ICA on those Russian interference claims was "significantly worse and significantly more corrupt than conveyed in the memorandum released last week by CIA Director John Ratcliffe.
The report cited sources familiar with the report, who said the HPSCI staff report also reveals more details of the corruption.
The new revelations "suggest" that "Brennan may finally face justice for his role in the Russia-collusion hoax. In fact, sources familiar with closed-door testimony Brennan provided to Congress suggest perjury charges are in the offing.
One circumstance is that Brennan testified behind closed doors he did not advocate for the dossier of lies to be included in the ICA. But that conflicts with the new CIA review that detailed how he specifically included it in the ICA, "over the objections of career intelligence officials."
Brennan apparently worked hands-on with that report, according to the most recent CIA confirmations.
One "conclusion" created at the time was that Russia was interfering in the election to help Trump.
There was lack of an evidence to support Brennan's "high confidence" in that, the report said.
Further, the report confirmed, "Those sources told The Federalist that HPSCI, under the leadership of then-Chair Devin Nunes, 'found the ICA significantly worse and significantly more corrupt than was conveyed in the CIA report.' The staff report also reveals more details related to the ICA's report on Russia's 2016 influence campaign."
The chief of the HPSCI, Rep. Rick Crawford, R-Ark., already has noted that there's strong public interest in making the report public.
The Federalist report concluded, "Given his record, there is no reason to doubt that Director Ratcliffe will ensure the HPSCI staff report will be declassified when the time is right. Here, the public would be well advised to remember that transparency and accountability may sometimes be at cross purposes: It may well be that Director Ratcliffe or the other members of the Trump Administration working to rid D.C. of the Augean-stable levels of corruption have not yet finished investigating the additional details and/or individuals implicated in the HPSCI staff report. And if that is the case, perjury may be the least of Brennan's worries."
Tennessee GOP Rep. Mark Green has announced his resignation effective July 20, Straight Arrow News reported. The House Homeland Security Committee chairman's exit further imperils Republicans' edge in the House of Representatives.
Green announced his resignation in a video posted to X, formerly Twitter, on July 4. "It's with a heavy heart that I say farewell," he captioned the video.
"To my constituents across Tennessee’s 7th District—thank you. The trust you put in me is humbling. I will look back fondly on my years of serving as your voice in Washington," Green wrote.
It's with a heavy heart that I say farewell.
To my constituents across Tennessee’s 7th District—thank you. The trust you put in me is humbling. I will look back fondly on my years of serving as your voice in Washington. pic.twitter.com/fwjVMCRtpQ
— Rep. Mark Green (@RepMarkGreen) July 4, 2025
Green's announcement throws the GOP's majority in jeopardy and creates an uncertain future for lawmakers. The balance is currently at 219-212, including four vacant seats, favoring Republicans.
The governor of Tennessee will have 10 days to call a special election under the state's law, so Green's seat won't be vacant for long. However, this comes on the heels of a particularly close vote to pass President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act, where every vote counted.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) wheeled and dealed to cobble together support for the legislation. It passed narrowly, 218 to 214, after two Republicans defected to vote with the Democrats, who unanimously opposed the bill.
To make matters worse, Nebraska Republican Rep. Don Bacon had already announced on June 30 that he wouldn't be seeking reelection. His seat is located in District 2, a swing district that includes Omaha, which could spell trouble in the near future.
It's known as the "Blue Dot" in the red state, as it often votes Democratic in presidential elections. Although it went for Trump in 2016, the district voted for Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris in the 2008, 2020, and 2024 elections, respectively, suggesting that it could be flipped.
According to the New York Post, Green is being cagey about his next step. "While I cannot give the details here, I will be doing something specifically designed to help America compete against the CCP [Chinese Communist Party], but this time in business," Green said in his video announcement.
Aside from the complications his exit has created, Green already had his own issues. In September, the retired U.S. Army officer's wife filed for divorce after publicly accusing him of having an affair with a woman at Axios.
Initially, Green announced he would not seek another term at the end of 2024. However, his wife would later walk back that claim, and Green would change his mind and decide to run again after all.
"I want to correct the record because I misidentified someone in that message. My husband has never had a relationship with a reporter from Axios, and I regret having said that," Green's wife claimed. Regardless, the damage was done.
Politicians have their share of problems, no matter what side of the aisle they're on. However, when the numbers are this close, any misstep can create a big problem for the party in power, and Green has inched Republicans that much closer to a precarious situation.
The White House now claims no client list was left behind by late financier and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, Fox News reported. This contradicts previous remarks Attorney General Pam Bondi made earlier this year.
Reporters inquired about the shifting narrative during a news conference on Monday. According to a memo from the FBI and the Department of Justice that day, a review of the case was completed over the weekend and revealed no client list exists for Epstein.
This contradicts remarks Bondi made in February about a list of people who may have patronized Epstein's island of ill repute. "It's sitting on my desk right now to review. That's been a directive by President Trump. I'm reviewing that," the attorney general claimed at the time.
REPORTER: Will you really be releasing the Epstein files?
Pam Bondi: "It's sitting on my desk right now to review.”
IT’S HAPPENING pic.twitter.com/35THYYN9Fk
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 21, 2025
With such starkly conflicting information coming out of President Donald Trump's administration, reporters were not about to let White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt off the hook. Fox News' Peter Doocy quoted Bondi and asked Leavitt about her remarks in light of the recent memo.
"She was saying the entirety of all of the paperwork, all of the paper, in relation to Jeffrey Epstein's crimes, that's what the attorney general was referring to, and I'll let her speak for that," Leavitt claimed. She said the agencies held back evidence that was explicit.
"There was material they did not release because, frankly, it was incredibly graphic, and it contained child pornography, which is not something that's appropriate for public consumption," Leavitt said. This comes after Bondi had already promised to release the files.
Shortly after Trump took office, Bondi met with several influencers and presented them with binders supposedly containing information about the Epstein case. There was nothing new, which was disappointing at the time. However, those same people invited for the photo op held her feet to the fire on social media.
Some, like Rogan O'Handley, said the memo from the DOJ and FBI was a "shameful chapter in our country's history." Others like Liz Wheeler called for Bondi's ouster. "I'm supposed to be on vacation, but it’s time to fire Pam Bondi," Wheeler wrote.
The problem for the White House is that Bondi doubled down on claims of a client list. She said in May that they were sifting through "tens of thousands of videos of Epstein with children or child porn, and there are hundreds of victims."
Instead, the memo said "files relating to Epstein" included "ten thousand downloaded videos and images of illegal child sex abuse material and other pornography." This distinction raises questions about all of Bondi's statements regarding the case.
Meanwhile, the White House is engaging in damage control, including a Department of Justice spokesperson who sidestepped the question of the conflicting reports. "We've delivered more transparency in 6 months than the Biden administration did in 4 years," the spokesperson deflected.
Besides the question about a client list and other materials, the memo addressed longstanding theories that Epstein did not commit suicide by hanging, as was previously reported. The memo claims that Epstein definitely killed himself while in jail, case closed.
Trump made many promises to his voters during the campaign, including that the Epstein client list would be released. Now the White House is telling people there's no such thing, and that isn't sitting well with people skepitcal of the claim.
Former White House Physician Kevin O'Connor, who said that President Joe Biden was fit to hold office even as his cognitive decline became crystal clear to the rest of the world, is now seeking to delay his testimony before the House Oversight Committee because of disagreements about the scope of the questions he would be asked.
O'Connor was scheduled to testify Wednesday, but he is reluctant to disclose information about Biden's health while in office and his use of an autopen to sign documents and legislation.
A lawyer for O'Connor requested the testimony to be moved to July 28 or August 4 to give him time to meet his "ethical obligations" in the matter.
"Dr. O’Connor has legal and ethical obligations that he must satisfy and for which violations carry serious consequences to him professionally and personally," a letter to the judge read.
The letter also argued that no other doctor has every been subpoenaed
"We are unaware of any prior occasion on which a Congressional Committee has subpoenaed a physician to testify about the treatment of an individual patient. And the notion that a Congressional Committee would do so without any regard whatsoever for the confidentiality of the physician-patient relationship is alarming."
The Oversight Committee responded by saying that O'Connor could object to individual questions during the testimony, but that the delay was not permissible.
A spokesperson for the committee accused O'Connor of attempting to "stonewall" the process unnecessarily.
O'Connor is expected to testify on Wendesday due to the issued subpoena and faces consequences if he does not show up to do so.
Former top aide to Biden, Neera Tanden, testified weeks ago that she directed autopen signatures under Biden's direction but said she didn't know where the authorization to do so came from.
"Ms. Tanden testified that she had minimal interaction with President Biden, despite wielding tremendous authority," Comer said at the time. "She explained that to obtain approval for autopen signatures, she would send decision memos to members of the President’s inner circle and had no visibility of what occurred between sending the memo and receiving it back with approval. Her testimony raises serious questions about who was really calling the shots in the Biden White House amid the President’s obvious decline. We will continue to pursue the truth for the American people."
O'Connor is clearly terrified at being asked why Biden was so uninvolved in his own presidency and whether his health had anythign to do with it.
Lying under oath to Congress is a criminal act punishable with jail time, so he obviously has something to hide in trying to avoid the testimony.
Federal attorneys under U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi are investigating whether election officials could face federal criminal charges for failing to meet national voting security standards, Lifezette reported.
The Department of Justice has launched a preliminary review examining whether mismanagement or cybersecurity negligence in electronic voting systems may be punishable under federal law.
The effort, which remains in an exploratory phase, could pave the way for unprecedented legal accountability targeting state and local election administrators accused of inadequate security practices.
The focus of the DOJ review includes machine calibration failures and potential breaches in cybersecurity protocols that have drawn attention since the 2020 election.
Though not legally tied to previous allegations about vote machine irregularities, the investigation reflects broader concerns about election system vulnerabilities raised in recent years.
This move follows a growing push within the federal government to evaluate existing legal tools for holding officials accountable when public trust in the electoral system is at risk.
Election offices in Wisconsin, North Carolina, and Colorado have reported receiving questions from the DOJ, and additional states are expected to be contacted as the review expands.
One inquiry reportedly asked state officials to describe the technological safeguards used to prevent unauthorized access to the statewide voter registration system.
According to a DOJ spokesperson, “The department will leave no option off the table when it comes to promoting free, fair, and secure elections,” signaling a broad scope for the inquiry.
In March, President Trump signed an executive order directing Bondi and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to secure the nation's elections and assess technology vulnerabilities.
The order prohibits noncitizens from involvement in election operations and requires a report from DHS on risks associated with electronic voting systems across the country.
Within the DOJ, officials remain divided on the legal path forward, with some citing constitutional limits tied to decentralized election administration at the state level.
FBI Director Kash Patel recently reopened an investigation into an alleged 2020 plot by the Chinese government to interfere in the U.S. presidential election using counterfeit identification.
Patel testified that earlier FBI leadership ignored key intelligence, including seizures of over 10,000 fake driver’s licenses believed to be connected to foreign actors seeking to exploit the election system.
He and Deputy Director Dan Bongino claimed an internal report on the matter was intentionally removed from agency databases, accusing former officials of politicizing enforcement efforts.