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  • People line up to apply for Real ID at a Real ID Supercenter in downtown Chicago, Tuesday, May 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)Travel & Leisure

    Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem says travelers without REAL ID can fly for now, but may have to deal with extra screening

    By Rebecca Santana, Olga R. Rodriguez, and others
  • WASHINGTON, DC – APRIL 29: U.S. President Donald Trump walks toward members of the media prior to answering questions before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on April 29, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump will travel to Michigan for a 100th Day in Office rally. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)Politics

    Trump is offering $1,000 stipends to immigrants living in the U.S. illegally who deport themselves

    By Rebecca Santana and The Associated Press
  • New York City Mayor Eric Adams takes his seat at the witness table during a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing with Sanctuary City Mayors on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, March 5, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)Politics

    GOP Congress members hammer mayors of Boston, Chicago, Denver and New York over ‘sanctuary city’ policies

    By Rebecca Santana, Tim Sullivan, and others
  • U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers use a chain to more comfortably restrain a detained person using handcuffs positioned in front, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025, in Silver Spring, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)Politics

    ICE officers say ‘worst’ criminal migrants will still go first but now that collateral arrests are allowed ‘nobody gets a free pass anymore’

    By Rebecca Santana and The Associated Press
  • FILE – A Border Patrol agent and volunteer Karen Parker escort asylum seeker Arelis Alonzo, of Guatemala, to a nearby van, to be processed in San Diego, June 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)Politics

    Trump plans to hit Mexico and Canada with tariffs over immigration. Here’s what the numbers say about border crossings, drugs and crime

    By Rebecca Santana and The Associated Press
  • FILE – U.S. Secret Service agents respond as Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is surrounded on stage by U.S. Secret Service agents at a campaign rally, July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)Politics

    Senate panel finds Secret Service failures before Trump shooting were preventable

    By Mary Clare Jalonick, Rebecca Santana, and others
  • U.S. Secret Service Acting Director Ronald Rowe, left, and FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate are sworn in before they testify before a Joint Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and Senate Committee on the Judiciary hearing examining the security failures leading to the assassination attempt on Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, Tuesday, July 30, 2024 in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)Politics

    Secret Service acting director says he is ‘ashamed’ over Trump shooting and blames agency’s ‘failure to challenge our assumptions’

    By Eric Tucker, Farnoush Amiri, and others
  • Secret Service agentsPolitics

    Secret Service investigates how gunman got so close to Trump as Biden orders independent review

    By Rebecca Santana, Michael Biesecker, and others
  • A person waves a Cuban flag during a gathering marking International Workers&#8217; Day at Jose Marti<br /> Anti-Imperialist Square in Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, May 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariel Ley)Finance

    U.S. is letting independent Cuban entrepreneurs open and access American bank accounts to boost private enterprise on island

    By Fatima Hussein, Andrea Rodriguez, and others
  • Nasa rocket at launch padSuccess

    Want a career in the U.S. government? These are the best and worst agencies to work at, according to a survey of over 1 million federal employees

    By Rebecca Santana and The Associated Press
  • Sundar PichaiTech

    ‘Google is winning because it’s better,’ lawyer tells antitrust judge. His response: that’s odd

    By Rebecca Santana and The Associated Press
  • Piet De Staercke, from back right to left, with his wife Jill Bornauw, their eldest son Stan De Staercke, watch their youngest Tuur de Staercke, get screened by a Custom Border Protection officer, right, in the port of entry at Washington Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Va. Monday, April 1, 2024. The Belgian family of four, used the Mobile Passport Control app, the newest technology in international travel, to ease their way to their port of entry. Within minutes they had bypassed a long line of people waiting at the airport&#8217;s passport control and were waiting for their luggage. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)Tech

    U.S. Customs and Border Protection is expanding screening tech to keep up with ever-growing post-pandemic flood of passengers

    By Rebecca Santana and The Associated Press
  • TOPSHOT &#8211; US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin looks on during a joint press conference with Israel&#8217;s defence minister, in Tel Aviv on December 18, 2023. (Photo by Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP) (Photo by ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images)Finance

    U.S. forces kill Houthi rebels attacking Maersk container ship in Red Sea, Lloyd Austin calls for ‘collective action’

    By Rebecca Santana and The Associated Press
  • Emergency test systemTech

    Here’s why the government just pinged your phone or TV with ‘THIS IS A TEST’

    By Rebecca Santana and The Associated Press
  • US President Joe Biden speaks during an eventPolitics

    Biden administration will give temporary legal status to 472,000 Venezuelan migrants, making it easier for them to work

    By Rebecca Santana, Elliot Spagat, and others