Trump
Administration
Epstein book: Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released an image of the sexually suggestive note and drawing apparently bearing the signature of Donald J. Trump, taken from a 2003 book celebrating the 50th birthday of the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. Mr. Trump has insisted he never wrote such a note. Lawyers for Mr. Epstein’s estate provided a copy of the book to the committee in response to a subpoena. Read more ›
Immigration stops: The Supreme Court at least temporarily lifted restrictions on immigration-related stops by government agents in the Los Angeles area that challengers called “blatant racial profiling.” The decision lifts a federal judge’s order that agents not make indiscriminate stops relying on factors like a person’s ethnicity or that they speak Spanish. But the ruling is not the last word in the case. Read more ›
Chicago: Mr. Trump’s promised immigration crackdown in Chicago has begun, the administration said, though local officials said they hadn’t seen many arrests. The Department of Homeland Security said the effort was targeting undocumented immigrants with criminal records. At least three people were arrested there on Sunday by federal agents, an advocacy group said.
