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The Secret Service, the once vaunted force charged with protecting the president, is again bracing for new leadership – the third director to helm the troubled agency in five years. The White House on Monday announced that Randolph “Tex” Alles would be stepping down amid a shakeup at the Department of Homeland Security, where DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was forced to resign, effective April 10. Trump tapped James Murray, a career…

President Trump announced on Twitter yesterday that Kevin McAleenan will be taking over as acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security following the resignation of Kirstjen Nielsen on Sunday. There’s one problem with this: It’s illegal. Federal law explicitly excludes the application of the Federal Vacancies Reform Act to this situation. University of Texas law professor Steve Vladeck points out that under the law, the acting secretary of DHS…

President Trump named James Murray as the new director of Secret Service, replacing Randolph “Tex” Alles, the White House said Monday. “United States Secret Service director Randolph “Tex” Alles has done a great job at the agency over the last two years, and the President is thankful for his over 40 years of service to the country,” White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement. “Mr. Alles will…

Juan Carlos Perla of El Salvador kisses his 10-month-old son, Joshua, inside a migrant shelter in Tijuana, Mexico, where they await their asylum hearing in San Diego. Gregory Bull/AP hide caption toggle caption Gregory Bull/AP Juan Carlos Perla of El Salvador kisses his 10-month-old son, Joshua, inside a migrant shelter in Tijuana, Mexico, where they await their asylum hearing in San Diego. Gregory Bull/AP A federal judge in California blocked…

<!– –> × SEARCH QUOTES Aerospace & Defense The EU has hit back at new U.S. proposals to target European goods with tariffs, following a World Trade Organization (WTO) ruling over subsidies for Airbus. Trade tensions between the EU and U.S. flared Monday after the U.S. said it’s considering $11 billion worth of retaliatory tariffs on a range of goods in response to illegal subsidies the EU granted to the…

Prosecutors said Gregory Abbott, chairman of a food and beverage packaging company, and his wife, Marcia Abbott, paid Singer $125,000 to inflate their daughter’s scores on college entrance exams. Singer’s alleged accomplice, 36-year-old Harvard graduate Mark Riddell, corrected their daughter’s answers on the SAT and later fixed her answers on two SAT subject tests.

MINNEAPOLIS — One year after making history as the first ever No. 1 seed to fall to a No. 16, Virginia has broken through with its program’s first-ever national championship. If you ask Tony Bennett, the players on the team or any of the alums in the house in Minneapolis or across the country, I doubt anyone would have things play out any other way. Virginia’s 85-77 overtime win against…

Amid a national emergency on the southern U.S. border, President Trump made two big changes at the Department of Homeland Security. On Friday, the White House pulled the nomination of Ron Vitiello to be the permanent director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after he served as the acting director of the agency since June 2018. A couple of days later, Trump fired DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, a move that…

Juan Carlos Perla of El Salvador kisses his 10-month-old son, Joshua, inside a migrant shelter in Tijuana, Mexico, where they await their asylum hearing in San Diego. Gregory Bull/AP hide caption toggle caption Gregory Bull/AP Juan Carlos Perla of El Salvador kisses his 10-month-old son, Joshua, inside a migrant shelter in Tijuana, Mexico, where they await their asylum hearing in San Diego. Gregory Bull/AP A federal judge in California blocked…

Amid a national emergency on the southern U.S. border, President Trump made two big changes at the Department of Homeland Security. On Friday, the White House pulled the nomination of Ron Vitiello to be the permanent director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after he served as the acting director of the agency since June 2018. A couple of days later, Trump fired DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, a move that…

Amid a national emergency on the southern U.S. border, President Trump made two big changes at the Department of Homeland Security. On Friday, the White House pulled the nomination of Ron Vitiello to be the permanent director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after he served as the acting director of the agency since June 2018. A couple of days later, Trump fired DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, a move that…

Amid a national emergency on the southern U.S. border, President Trump made two big changes at the Department of Homeland Security. On Friday, the White House pulled the nomination of Ron Vitiello to be the permanent director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after he served as the acting director of the agency since June 2018. A couple of days later, Trump fired DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, a move that…

If you think only one political group in the United States is susceptible to the proliferation of political propaganda on social media, you are sorely mistaken. Though it is true online disinformation campaigns have found a comfortable home in “MAGA” Land, the anti-Trump resistance is at least as gullible and ready to believe the worst of its enemies, as a single Twitter user demonstrated this weekend. A person named Mark…

More top Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials are leaving the Trump administration, two senior administration officials said Monday, increasing the leadership vacuum at DHS as Washington grapples with the news of DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen’s resignation.  U.S. Secret Service Director Randolph “Tex” Alles was fired Monday, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Lee Cissna, DHS undersecretary for management Claire Grady and DHS general counsel John Mitnick are also…

A US Secret Service agent inserted a USB drive infected with “malicious malware” into his laptop after the hardware was confiscated from a Chinese woman who was arrested late last month after attempting to gain entry to President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. Agent Samuel Ivanovich testified in court on Monday that he put the thumb drive into his own computer, and it began installing files in a “very out-of-the-ordinary” way….

Bernie Sanders over the weekend said that more states should let people with felony records vote while they’re in prison, Kevin Hardy reported for the Des Moines Register. “I think that is absolutely the direction we should go,” Sanders said during a town hall in Muscatine, Iowa, on Saturday, after he was asked if people should be allowed to vote from prison. Sanders’s home state of Vermont, which he represents…

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Yet another key figure in the Trump Administration has announced her departure: Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. This follows the resignation of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis in late 2018. And conservative attorney George Conway, husband of Trump adviser and GOP strategist Kellyanne Conway, has been speaking out about Nielsen’s departure on Twitter — declaring that it underscores Trump’s lack of leadership. MSNBC’s David Gura, on Twitter, noted that the United…

President Trump’s decision to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist group is a long overdue step that will help put the squeeze on one of the leading drivers of instability in the Middle East. The IRGC is a special branch of Iran’s armed forces that exists to protect the regime’s Islamic government and its global interests. Over the decades, IRGC has helped to squash internal dissent, built up…

Video Sanders on Fox News town hall: It’s important to talk to Trump supporters Bernie Sanders made waves as a presidential candidate in 2016 — with supporters backing the Vermont senator’s call for a “political revolution” and repeating the popular campaign phrase “Feel The Bern.” And though Hillary Clinton ultimately defeated him to become the Democratic party’s nominee, the 77-year-old is making quite a comeback. Sanders has already hauled in a whopping $18.2…