President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order directing the Departments of State and Homeland Security to halt “birth tourism,” the practice of foreign nationals entering the United States on temporary nonimmigrant visas primarily to give birth on U.S. soil and secure citizenship for their children.
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The Spanish immigration crisis has exposed cracks in the European Union and an opportunity for right-wing leaders heading into elections next year in Spain, Italy and France.
Last week, tens of thousands of migrants poured over the Spanish border at Ceuta, a North African exclave ruled by Spain since 1580. The small coastal city is situated on a narrow peninsula on the southern edge of the Strait of Gibraltar between Spain and Morocco — the only place where a European border touches Africa.
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Along, long time ago—27 years, to be exact—my boss (the inimitable Mark Melcher) and I predicted that the European Monetary Union would be the death of the EU. The Euro, we wrote for our clients at a now-defunct big brokerage house, would be a disaster and would destroy everything that the post-war Europeans had spent the previous several decades working to build. Specifically, we wrote:
Psst! You wanna know a secret? The Euro, and the mess it represents, is going to be a social, economic and political catastrophe. Indeed, we think it is probable that the adoption of the Euro will be to 21st century Europe, what the killing of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand was to 20th century Europe; i.e., that point in time when history will record that the unraveling began in earnest.
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The Spanish government on Friday said that most of the migrants from Morocco that stormed Ceuta this week had returned to Morocco.
The government also confirmed that the death toll had reached at least 57, CNN reported.
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The Italian government on Friday announced the suspension of free travel with Spain amid the storming of the country’s African exclaves by migrants from Morocco.
Tens of thousands of people have overrun the borders between Spain and Morocco and Melilla and Ceuta this week, with footage of violent riots going viral. Italy, which has sought to curb illegal immigration to Europe, previously warned that it could suspend freedom of movement if Madrid failed to deal with the situation.
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Tesla’s ongoing electricity usage prompted two energy agreements related to solar projects in Arizona and Texas.
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The U.S. Immigration and Enforcement agency sent out a request for information seeking contractors who could operate detention facilities near Denver, Miami and Seattle, and central Pennsylvania.
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China invested up to $33.5 billion within the last six months, a recent report found.
The record investment exposes China’s expanding economic influence across Africa through the Belt and Road Initiative, as Beijing pours into green projects in Africa, according to the China Belt and Road Initiative Investment report.
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The Trump administration is accusing a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company of conducting a “covert” plot to steal Anthropic’s data to boost its AI models.
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Republican Georgia Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA-07) introduced a bill Thursday that seeks to ban birth tourism in the U.S., the Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.
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A Chinese Communist Party (CCP) intelligence official is the head of a U.S. taxpayer-funded facility in the Mojave Desert where authorities dismantled a massive illegal marijuana operation, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation discovered.
Police seized over 15,000 marijuana plants and arrested 14 people — including eight Chinese nationals — while conducting a July 2022 raid on a 75-acre Barstow, California facility owned by China-based quartz slab manufacturer American Quartz Inc. (AQ), which secured a multimillion-dollar Sunshine State grant earlier that year with support from Treasurer Fiona Ma and remains operational, according to the criminal complaint and state records.
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Intelligence community files released by the White House claim that China paid American journalists, social media influencers, and leveraged relationships with American businesses in order to sabotage President Donald Trump during his first term in the White House, with a CIA document claiming the foreign government went as far as to pay journalists to print negative articles.
In a Thursday speech delivered to the nation, Trump cited a CIA document that showed the agency determined, beginning in 2019, China “sought to identify U.S. journalists who had reported negatively on the U.S. president and pay them large sums of money to write more negative articles about him,” adding that the adversarial government “wanted the U.S. president to lose the next election.
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Andy Burnham will become British prime minister Monday after the ruling left-wing Labour Party formally declared him its new leader on Friday.
Burnham ran unopposed, with 379 of Labour’s 403 members of Parliament backing his bid, according to CBS News. He replaces deeply unpopular outgoing Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who faced weeks of pressure to quit after Labour’s disastrous showing in May’s local elections.
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Earlier this year, some state lawmakers pushed for new mandates to block Tennesseans from receiving medical treatments that use mRNA technology.
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President Donald Trump on Monday said that the U.S. would reimpose its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz amid renewed hostilities with Iran.
“The Hormuz Strait is OPEN, and will remain OPEN, with or without Iran. We are reinstating the THE IRANIAN BLOCKADE, so named because it is only stopping Iran’s ships or customers from entering or leaving,” he posted on Truth Social.
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President Donald Trump on Friday announced that Iran had sought to resume peace talks with the United States and that he had agreed to do so, but would not halt combat operations in the interim.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran has asked us to continue ‘talks.’ We have agreed to do so, but the United States has stated to them, in no uncertain terms, that the Cease Fire is OVER! Thank you for your attention to this matter,” he posted on Truth Social.
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In December 2025, India seized over 100,000 forged diplomas from 28 universities that had been accepted by American companies for employment.
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The United States Central Command said Tuesday it has launched new airstrikes on Iran after it targeted three vessels in the Strait of Hormuz earlier in the day.
The U.S. said the strikes were on commercial vessels that were transiting the strait, which were “crewed by innocent civilians in an international waterway.”
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Manufacturers around the world are leveraging AI to create drone swarms that could change the reality of war forever.
Both defensive and offensive drone swarm systems are going to be hitting battlefields across the globe soon. As companies such as Swarm Defense create new systems that will launch tidal waves of drones at targets, other companies like XCaliber Technologies are rapidly working to build a wall of drones and other defensive systems that can defeat the new offensive threat.
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A South Texas hospital has been openly advertising maternity services directly to pregnant women living outside the U.S., encouraging them to travel across the border to give birth at its facility.
Mission Regional Medical Center, located in Mission, Texas, has been promoting maternity packages to international patients, including through reported Spanish-language billboards targeting families in Latin America.
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A former CEO pled not guilty to charges concerning an alleged $800 million plot that reportedly provided subprime loans to illegal aliens.
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The Mortgage Bankers Association’s recent report appears to show that immigration contributes to an increase in home prices.
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President Donald Trump has made fighting illegal immigration the centerpiece of his second administration, but for too many families across the country, finding justice has been elusive.
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The United States Central Command said Friday that it has struck Iranian drone and missile storage locations in response to Iran’s attack on a commercial vessel in the Strait of Hormuz Thursday evening.
Iran’s strike Thursday came just hours after the Iranian military warned that ships crossing the Strait of Hormuz require their authorization. Those that don’t comply, it said, “will be dealt with.”
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President Donald Trump on Friday warned European nations that they would face a 100% tariff on their goods if they imposed a digital services tax on American companies.
“Numerous European Countries have been discussing the imminent implementation of a Digital Services Tax on American Companies,” he posted on Truth Social. “Some of these Countries are close to actually doing this. Please let this statement serve to represent that any Country that imposes such a Tax will immediately be met with a 100% TARIFF on any and all Goods sent to the United States of America.”
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Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi on Friday warned that ships seeking passage through the Strait of Hormuz must coordinate with Tehran, in accordance with a memorandum of understanding (MOU) it signed with the U.S.
“Safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz, with ambiguous arrangements, parallel routes, or decision-making outside of Iran’s considerations as the coastal state, cannot be guaranteed,” he posted on X. “Any credible framework must be based on coordination with Iran and the provisions of paragraph five of the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding. Otherwise, the outcome will be the suspension of the designated parallel route.”
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“The big Oil Companies are not dropping their price at the pump commensurate with the sharply lower prices they are paying for Oil. Those prices are dropping like a rock! In other words, customers are being ‘gouged.’ I have instructed the DOJ to immediately start looking into this. Gasoline prices better start going down a lot faster than what I’m seeing!”
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Lisa Daftari, Editor-in-Chief of The Foreign Desk, said the U.S. must approach ongoing negotiations with Tehran cautiously, arguing that the Iranian regime has spent decades mastering the art of using diplomacy to advance its own interests while avoiding meaningful concessions.
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Abelardo de la Espriella, a conservative political newcomer backed by President Donald Trump, declared victory Sunday in Colombia’s cliffhanger presidential election as Latin America continued to shift to the right during the American president’s second term.
De La Espriella captured 49.7% of the vote, with liberal Iván Cepeda taking 48.7% in a runoff seen as a verdict on outgoing President Gustavo Petro and a stagnant economy ridden by crime.
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British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced Monday that he will resign as leader of the Labour Party after losing the confidence of his parliamentary colleagues, but said he will remain in office for months while the party selects a successor.
The announcement marks the end of a turbulent period for Starmer, whose government has faced mounting political pressure and poor electoral results. Rather than stepping aside immediately, Starmer said he would stay on as caretaker prime minister until a leadership contest concludes after Parliament returns from its summer recess.
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Israel and Hezbollah reportedly agreed Friday to renew their ceasefire to end their fighting in southern Lebanon and help the US and Iran reach a broader deal to end their roughly four-month-long war.
CBS News is reporting the ceasefire, based on what it said was information from three diplomats briefed on the matter. The ceasefire follows renewed fighting overnight between Israel and Hezbollah.
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The Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday that the alleged ringleader of a foiled plot to carry out a mass-casualty attack on the UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House is a Mexican national in the country illegally.
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President Donald Trump signed the “Memorandum of Understanding” with Iran, which is aimed at ending the conflict in the Middle East, while visiting French President Emmanuel Macron at Versailles on Wednesday evening.
A Trump administration official read the terms outlined in the memorandum to reporters earlier in the day, which addressed Iran’s nuclear program, ongoing fighting in Lebanon, sanctions relief, and plans for the release of frozen funds.
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday had harsh words for Israel over its conduct in Lebanon and suggested that the Syrian government may be better suited to handle Hezbollah.
Israel and Hezbollah have been engaged in fierce fighting in southern Lebanon and a ceasefire there has become a sticking point in the larger Iran deal. Trump, for his part, criticized Israel over its propensity to cause collateral damage in strikes
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President Donald Trump told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday that he is ready to help end the conflict in Ukraine.
He called the end of hostilities “vital” during a conversation between the two leaders, which lasted nearly an hour, according to a statement from Kremlin foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov, Reuters reported.
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President Donald Trump announced over the weekend that the United States has reached a comprehensive deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran, ending months of conflict and authorizing the immediate reopening of the Strait of Hormuz to global shipping.
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The United States military said Wednesday evening that it has begun its next wave of self-defense strikes on Iran amid tensions over the downing of an American helicopter earlier this week.
The move is the second wave of strikes on the Middle Eastern country after the U.S. launched strikes on Iran on Tuesday evening in response to the downing of a U.S. Apache helicopter.
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The U.S. military launched “self defense” attacks against Iran on Tuesday evening in response to the downing of an American helicopter, officials said.
“U.S. Central Command forces began launching self-defense strikes against Iran at 5 p.m. ET today at the Commander in Chief’s direction, in response to yesterday’s downing of a U.S. Army Apache helicopter,” CENTCOM posted on X. “The mission is a proportional response to unjustified Iranian aggression.”
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President Donald Trump said Tuesday the Iranians shot down the U.S. Apache helicopter that fell overnight near the Strait of Hormuz and is calling for a response.
“I have just been informed by our Great Military that last night the Iranians shot down one of our highly sophisticated Apache Helicopters while patrolling over the Strait of Hormuz,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social.
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President Donald Trump early Monday demanded that Iran and Israel stop firing missiles at each other after a weekend of violence between the two threatened a fragile Mideast ceasefire.
“Israel and Iran must immediately stop ‘shooting,'” the president wrote on his Truth Social account.
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Eighty-two years ago on June 6, 1944, the United States, Great Britain, the Free French forces, Canada, and other Allies launched one of the most audacious military operations in history: the seaborne invasion of Normandy, France. Code-named Operation Overlord, the assault thrust 160,000 troops onto five beaches in a last-ditch bid to open a Western Front and crush Hitler’s Nazi empire.
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President Donald Trump said Monday that he does not “care” if peace negotiations with Iran are over, stating that the negotiations had been taking too much time.
The comment comes after Iran said it was suspending talks with the United States over the continued fighting in Lebanon, with the Iranian foreign minister asserting that the ongoing ceasefire agreement included Lebanon.
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The Islamic Republic of Iran suspended negotiations with the United States on Monday amid the ongoing U.S. naval blockade of Iranian ports and Israeli strikes against the terror group Hezbollah in Lebanon, an ally of Tehran.
Iran argues that the U.S. and Israel are in violation of the fragile ceasefire that began in April.
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Federal agents arrested two U.S. citizens in Minnesota on charges of conspiring to defraud Medicaid of more than $21 million through a multi-year scheme involving false claims for autism-related services under the state’s Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention (EIDBI) program.
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Chinese government officials are working to shore up their country’s grip over the Panama Canal, the South China Morning Post reported, as a battle over influence in the key waterway intensifies with Washington.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told Panamanian Foreign Minister Javier Martinez-Acha that Panama should not allow any third parties to influence the bilateral ties between China and Panama, the South China Morning Post reported, citing a Chinese Foreign Ministry readout on Wednesday. The discussion between the leaders comes as a dispute simmers over who will operate ports within the Panama Canal, with the U.S. playing an active role, according to the outlet.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping may not need to launch a full-scale invasion of Taiwan to put the island, the U.S. and the global tech economy in crisis, according to national security experts.
Some advisers to President Donald Trump reportedly fear Xi could move against Taiwan within the next five years following Trump’s recent summit with the Chinese leader, Axios reported. One Trump adviser told the outlet the summit signaled a “much higher likelihood” that Taiwan could be “on the table” during that window, warning that the highly vulnerable U.S. semiconductor supply chain would not be ready for such a crisis.
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Following the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) newly unsealed indictment against former Cuban leader Raul Castro and several co-defendants over the 1996 Brothers to the Rescue shoot-down, EJ Haust, official guest host of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, said the case highlights growing pressure on Cuba’s communist regime and renewed American attention on the island nation.
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The Trump administration announced a record-high increase in immigration judges on Thursday to speed up its deportation efforts.
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The distinguished political scientist Graham Allison, author of the 2015 Atlantic article “The Thucydides Trap,” argued that often in history an established power will stage a preventive war against an ascendant adversary — for fear that otherwise it will soon lose its primacy.
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The Supreme Court determined that a U.S.-based company — Havana Docks — can recover damages from four major cruise lines that used its docks previously confiscated by the Cuban government.
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