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February 24, 2026 10:24 PM

Trump’s immigration enforcement record by the numbers

U.S. President Donald Trump has stepped up arrests of immigrants in the U.S. illegally, cracked down on unlawful border crossings and stripped legal status from hundreds of thousands of migrants since taking office in 2025. ARRESTS Trump won back the White House promising record numbers of deportations. A Trump administration budget document published last year said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement aimed to deport 1 million immigrants per year. ICE has cast a wider net than under then...

December 12, 2025 1:19 PM

Can Trump invalidate Biden actions recorded by autopen?

U.S. President Donald Trump has claimed, without evidence, that some actions by former President Joe Biden were invalid because he signed them using an autopen, including appointments to the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors. Below is a look at the controversy and legality of the device. WHAT IS AN AUTOPEN? It is a mechanical device that replicates a signature with a pen or other writing device and is used by government officials, celebrities, business leaders and members of Congress. It a...

December 3, 2025 9:00 AM

Trump says he’s terminating any Biden pardons signed with autopen

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he is terminating all documents, including pardons, that he said his predecessor Joe Biden had signed using an autopen, a move that legal experts doubted would hold up in court. The autopen is used to replicate a person's signature with precision, typically for high-volume or ceremonial documents. It has been employed for years by presidents of both major parties to sign letters and proclamations. Trump and his supporters have made a variety of unfou...

September 11, 2025 2:20 PM

Kamala Harris calls Biden 2024 candidacy reckless, new book says

Kamala Harris believes it was reckless to allow former President Joe Biden to decide to seek re-election in 2024, but she felt she was the last person who could advise her 81-year-old boss not to run, according to excerpts from her new book released on Wednesday. Biden, a Democrat, ended his re-election campaign on July 21, 2024, after a poor debate performance against Republican candidate Donald Trump that prompted aides and party officials to question publicly whether he could endure a full c...

May 19, 2025 8:46 AM

Former US President Biden diagnosed with ‘aggressive’ prostate cancer

Former U.S. President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with an "aggressive form" of prostate cancer that has spread to his bones, his office said in a statement on Sunday. Biden, 82, was diagnosed on Friday after experiencing urinary symptoms, and he and his family are reviewing treatment options with doctors, according to the statement. "While this represents a more aggressive form of the disease, the cancer appears to be hormone-sensitive which allows for effective management," his office ...

January 21, 2025 12:06 PM

Trump revokes Biden 50% EV target, freezes unspent charging funds

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday took aim at electric vehicles, revoking a 2021 executive order signed by his predecessor Joe Biden that sought to ensure half of all new vehicles sold in the United States by 2030 were electric. Biden's 50% target, which was not legally binding, had won the support of U.S. and foreign automakers. Trump said in an executive order he was halting distribution of unspent government funds for vehicle charging stations from a $5 billion fund, called for ending a...

January 20, 2025 7:58 PM

Biden issues pardons to protect Milley, Fauci, Cheney from Trump retaliation

U.S. President Joe Biden issued pre-emptive pardons on Monday for people Republican successor Donald Trump has targeted for retaliation, including former Republican lawmaker Liz Cheney, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley and former White House chief medical advisor Anthony Fauci. The pardon covers all lawmakers, including Cheney, who served on the congressional select committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, storming of the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters, as well as...

January 16, 2025 11:20 AM

“Economic corridor vision from India, Middle East, Europe can now become reality”: Biden on Gaza ceasefire

US President Joe Biden expressed optimism on Wednesday that his vision of an economic corridor linking India, the Middle East, and Europe—first introduced at the G-20 Summit in New Delhi in September 2023—could now materialize following the Israel-Hamas ceasefire and hostage deal. Speaking on the agreement, Biden said, "At G-20 in Delhi in September 2023, I rallied key countries behind a vision of an economic corridor from India across the Middle East to Europe. That vision can now become a...

January 16, 2025 9:26 AM

Biden warns US faces oligarchy as Trump looms over legacy

President Joe Biden capped a half-century political career on Wednesday with a final Oval Office speech as he hopes to seal a legacy overshadowed by Democrats' failure to stop Donald Trump from returning to the White House. Biden opened his speech with a familiar message - asking Americans to join together - but quickly warned about a dangerous concentration of wealth in the United States. "Our system of separation of powers, checks and balances may not be perfect, but it has maintained our de...

January 16, 2025 8:41 AM

Israel, Hamas ceasefire accord followed by airstrikes on Gaza, residents say

Israel intensified strikes on Gaza hours after a ceasefire and hostage release deal was announced, residents and authorities in the Palestinian enclave said, and mediators sought to quell fighting ahead of the truce's start on Sunday. The complex ceasefire accord between Israel and militant group Hamas, which controls Gaza, emerged on Wednesday after months of mediation by Qatar, Egypt and the U.S. and 15 months of bloodshed that devastated the coastal territory and inflamed the Middle East. ...