From Medieval Plague Ships to Hantavirus: How Outbreaks at Sea Helped to Shape the International Public Health System

State law enforcement officers on Friday arrested a federal immigration officer in Texas who officials say was involved in a nonfatal shooting in Minneapolis earlier this year. Agents from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of the Inspector General and the Texas Rangers arrested Christian Castro after he was located by the Minnesota Bureau…

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) announced that the House will vote Thursday morning on extending the nation’s foreign spy powers through July 2, a move that comes amid a partisan clash over President Trump naming Bill Pulte to be the acting director of national intelligence (DNI). The expected vote comes after Democrats in the Senate largely…

New Jersey’s attorney general is responding to arrests that were made after a curfew went into effect Sunday night around Delaney Hall, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility, and some people did not comply.

Podcaster Joe Rogan said the deployment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers across the country by the Trump administration sets a “dangerous precedent.” “A different ruler could use this precedent in a very damaging way for our free society. That’s my perspective on it,” Rogan said during the Wednesday episode of his podcast. “It’s…

The wife of a U.S. Army soldier has been released from federal custody after spending a month in an immigration detention center. Deisy Rivera Ortega, married to Sgt. First Class Jose Serrano, was arrested at an immigration office in El Paso, Texas, on April 14. Sen. Tammy Duckworth’s (D-Ill.) office told The Hill that the…

Hundreds of U.S. airstrikes have targeted one of Iran’s key strengths in recent months: naval mines. U.S. officials believe those strikes have wiped out 90 percent of Iran’s once-formidable stockpile. But that’s not the only statistic that matters right now. The risk that even a few Iranian mines may have landed in the Strait of Hormuz has helped paralyze shipping traffic in one of the world’s most important waterways.

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