The number of people charged with breaking federal drug laws dropped to the lowest level in decades this year after the Trump administration ordered enforcement agencies to focus on deporting immigrants, a Reuters review of nearly 2 million federal court records found. So far this year, about 10 p
Plunged into a government shutdown, the US is confronting a fresh cycle of uncertainty after President Donald Trump and Congress failed to strike an agreement to keep government programmes and services running by Wednesday’s deadline. Roughly 750,000 federal workers are expected to be furlou
The United States is deporting around 100 Iranians back to Iran, the New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing two senior Iranian officials involved in the negotiations and a US official with knowledge of the plans. A US-chartered flight took off from Louisiana on Monday and was scheduled to arri
After some six months as Canada's Prime Minister, former banker Mark Carney faces a tepid economy and mounting obstacles as he attempts to forge a new path for the country amid tariff disputes with its two largest trading partners. Carney has not sealed a new economic relationship with the United
US President Donald Trump on Saturday said he was directing the US military to deploy to Portland, Oregon and to protect federal immigration facilities against "domestic terrorists", saying he was authorising them to use "full force, if necessary." Ordering the latest crackdown on a Democrat-led c
Family and friends gathered in a small Mexican town on Friday to mourn and demand justice for a 38-year-old father of two who was killed by an immigration agent during an arrest attempt in a Chicago suburb earlier this month. Silverio Villegas Gonzalez left Irimbo, in Mexico's Michoacan state, for
Canada Post workers went on a nationwide strike on Thursday after the Canadian government called for the postal company to undergo a widespread transformation to bolster its finances and modernize operations, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers said. "In response to the Government's attack on our
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has summoned senior US military officers from around the world to a meeting in Quantico, Virginia next week, five officials told Reuters on Thursday, a rare gathering of US military leadership in one location. It was not clear why Hegseth has ordered the generals
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday that he says will allow TikTok to continue operating in the United States in a way that meets national security concerns. Trump's order will enable an American-led of group of investors to buy the app from China's ByteDance, though th
Hundreds of federal employees who lost their jobs in Elon Musk's cost-cutting blitz are being asked to return to work. The General Services Administration has given the employees — who managed government workspaces — until the end of the week to accept or decline reinstatement, accordi
Thousands of mourners dressed in red, white and blue slowly made their way through security to attend a memorial service for Charlie Kirk at a football stadium in Arizona on Sunday, where President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and other prominent Republicans will pay tribute to the assassi
A new $100,000 fee for H-1B visas in the United States that goes into effect on Sunday will be levied per petition and will not be applied to existing holders of valid visas re-entering the country, the White House said on Saturday. "This is NOT an annual fee. It’s a one-time fee that appl
The death toll from an explosion involving a tanker truck carrying liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) in Mexico's capital has climbed to 25, the city's Health Ministry said on Friday. The truck, hauling about 50,000 litres of LPG, overturned and slammed into a wall. A rupture vented gas that ignited, s
