WASHINGTON—The pace of the 2016 presidential election campaign is quickening as White House contenders from both major political parties hone their closing arguments less than a month before the first votes are cast in Iowa. President Barack Obama injected a new issue into the campaign Tuesday with new executive actions aimed at tightening criminal background […]
An armed militia group has seized control of a federal government facility in a remote area of the northwestern U.S. state of Oregon. The group broke into the headquarters of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge Saturday after staging a march in the nearby town of Burns to protest the imminent imprisonment of two local ranchers […]
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A Lebanese man convicted of air piracy after he hijacked a commercial airline in 1996 was removed from the United States Sunday by officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO). Saado Mohamed Ibrahim, 47, of Lebanon, was convicted of air piracy and sentenced to 20 years […]
NEWARK, N.J. — Two members of a violent street gang were charged in federal court Tuesday with trying to kill another gang member, whom they suspected had cooperated with law enforcement. These charges resulted from an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations. “We expect today’s charges will add further notice […]