Day: March 26, 2025

Weaning Caribbean countries from their dependence on Venezuelan oil and combating illegal immigration will top Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s tour of the Caribbean this week, a visit that comes as the Trump administration increasingly focuses its attention on the Western Hemisphere.

The Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a major legal fight over the $8 billion a year the federal government spends to subsidize phone and internet services in schools, libraries and rural areas, in a new test of federal regulatory power.

An 81-year-old former North Dakota lawmaker is scheduled to be sentenced in federal court after pleading guilty last year to traveling to Europe with the intent to pay for sex with minors.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is visiting the high-security El Salvador prison where Venezuelans who the Trump administration alleges are members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang have been held since their removal from the U.S.