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President Trump said his administration will move forward “fairly soon” with a plan to arrest thousands of migrant families in surprise roundups across major U.S. cities, with the two-week deadline he imposed on Democrats expiring Saturday. Trump tipped off the mass arrests in a June 17 tweet, vowing “millions” of deportations, but called them off five days later. The president tweeted that he delayed the raids for two weeks at Democrats’…

Video Panicked diners rush from a restaurant as a 7.1-magnitude earthquake hits Southern California The quake, which initially was reported as magnitude 7.1, would be the largest temblor in the region in 20 years; Jeff Paul reports from Ridgecrest, California. Communities in Southern California were bracing for hundreds of aftershocks Saturday after the region was rattled by two of the largest earthquakes felt there in two decades, resulting in multiple fires, punctured water…

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President Donald Trump’s favorite polling company released a new poll on Friday showing that the leading Democratic candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden, would comfortably beat him Trump a head-to-head matchup. The Rasmussen Reports survey measured 48 percent support among likely voters for Biden, who is currently running for the Democratic nomination, ahead of Trump’s 44 percent support. “Joe Biden may be finding the going a little rougher in his…

Video Kamala Harris stands by decision to confront Joe Biden at debate Biden supporters push back against Harris; reaction and analysis from Fox News contributor Mo Elleithee and Guy Benson. Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., announced Saturday that she would invest $100 billion of federal money into housing assistance for black families as part of an effort to close the racial wealth gap in the United States if elected president. “After…

A Migrant Jail This story was a collaboration between The New York Times and The El Paso Times. CLINT, Tex. — Since the Border Patrol opened its station in Clint, Tex., in 2013, it was a fixture in this West Texas farm town. Separated from the surrounding cotton fields and cattle pastures by a razor-wire fence, the station stood on the town’s main road, near a feed store, the Good…

Royal fans aren’t happy: Meghan and Harry will not be allowing press photographers to hover outside Archie’s christening. They are not even releasing the names of his godparents. They want, instead, to “shield” him. Within this shield they have, meanwhile, spent some £2.4 million of public money on Frogmore Cottage, their new residence, apparently turning it into a sort of rustic fantasia. And with a £5,000 freestanding copper roll-top bath!…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Latest on Southern California’s strongest earthquake in 20 years (all times local): 9:30 a.m. A fire official says there were no fatalities or major injuries in Ridgecrest after the 7.1 magnitudes earthquake on Friday night. Kern County Fire Chief David Witt also said Saturday there were no major building collapses but some structures could be weakened from the back-to-back quakes. Friday’s quake occurred a day…

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Preliminary estimates show there is a 10% chance of a further magnitude 7 or higher earthquake, according to Lucy Jones, a Seismologist with Caltech. At an overnight news conference, Jones said aftershocks will continue. She said the earthquakes that struck near Ridgecrest on Thursday and Friday were part of an ongoing sequence of a “very energetic system,” Jones said. The latest 7.1-magnitude earthquake was the mainshock, while Thursday’s 6.4-magnitude quake was…

Video Panicked diners rush from restaurant as 7.1 earthquake hits Southern California The quake, which initially was reported as magnitude 7.1, would be the largest temblor in the region in 20 years; Jeff Paul reports from Ridgecrest, California. A magnitude-7.1 earthquake hit Southern California on Friday evening — just a day after a magnitude-6.4 earthquake that was the largest temblor in the region in two decades, the U.S. Geological Survey confirmed. The newest earthquake’s…

Media captionUS President Donald Trump speaks to reporters at the White House The Trump administration will continue to pursue a way of adding a citizenship question to the census, lawyers said in court filings submitted on Friday. But administration lawyers failed to provide any legal justification for the census question by a court deadline. The Supreme Court rejected the initial rationale for adding the question to the 2020 census as…

(Reuters) – President Donald Trump said on Friday mass deportation roundups would begin “fairly soon” as U.S. migrant advocates vowed their communities would be “ready” when immigration officers come. Trump, who has made a hardline immigration stance a key issue of his presidency and 2020 re-election bid, postponed the operation last month after the date was leaked, but on Monday he said it would take place after July 4. “They’ll…

And according to several reports from seismologist’s, there is a 1 in 20 chance a bigger earthquake could happen soon, which hall says causes even more concern. “So that’s what is scary about it. It’s kind of a new one. And you know, California is on a series of fault lines and somehow they are all connected. So, you don’t know if that’s going to trigger another fault or what’s…

President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump considering executive order on citizenship question for Census US women’s soccer star Alex Morgan says verdict on Trump White House invite will be team decision China renews demands that US lift all tariffs for trade deal MORE avoided infusing partisan rhetoric into his rainy July 4 speech on the National Mall, though he still received energetic applause from a drenched crowd of supporters. At his long-planned…

And according to several reports from seismologist’s, there is a 1 in 20 chance a bigger earthquake could happen soon, which hall says causes even more concern. “So that’s what is scary about it. It’s kind of a new one. And you know, California is on a series of fault lines and somehow they are all connected. So, you don’t know if that’s going to trigger another fault or what’s…

President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump considering executive order on citizenship question for Census US women’s soccer star Alex Morgan says verdict on Trump White House invite will be team decision China renews demands that US lift all tariffs for trade deal MORE avoided infusing partisan rhetoric into his rainy July 4 speech on the National Mall, though he still received energetic applause from a drenched crowd of supporters. At his long-planned…

And according to several reports from seismologist’s, there is a 1 in 20 chance a bigger earthquake could happen soon, which hall says causes even more concern. “So that’s what is scary about it. It’s kind of a new one. And you know, California is on a series of fault lines and somehow they are all connected. So, you don’t know if that’s going to trigger another fault or what’s…