President Donald Trump's White House said that the first deportation flights of immigrants who entered the US illegally were carried out this week. The president promised a mass deportation campaign with military assistance.

Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, confirmed the first of the flights on Friday morning, posting photos of people in restraints being boarded onto Air Force C-17 Globemaster IIIs.

The Trump administration claims it has started flying immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally out of the country using military aircraft, a White House spokesperson said Friday. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt shared photos on the social media site X of individuals in handcuffs boarding a military plane. “Deportation flights have begun,” Leavitt said. “President Trump is sending a strong and clear message to the entire world: if you illegally enter the United States of America, you will face severe consequences.” The use of military planes for deportation is...

The White House early Friday announced that "deportation flights have begun," while releasing photographs of lines of people being led onto military planes to be taken out of the country. "President Trump is sending a strong and clear message to the entire world: if you illegally enter the United States of America, you will face severe consequences," White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Friday on X, while showing two photographs of people boarding the planes. It was not specified when the photographs were taken, or where the deportations were...

President-elect Donald Trump vowed to repeal President Joe Biden’s “radical and foolish” executive orders “within hours” of taking office on Monday and reiterated his commitment to getting a U.S. investor to buy TikTok from its Chinese owner.

Trump took the stage at the Capital One Arena in downtown Washington, D.C., where he took a victory lap the night before his second inauguration. The 20,000-seat arena was packed, despite the cold weather, with thousands of Trump supporters who were eager to celebrate the president-elect’s return to the White House.

CNN political commentator Scott Jennings called out former Biden aide Ashley Etienne on Wednesday for praising President Biden's focus on misinformation in his farewell address to the nation, suggesting that the president told his share of lies in office.

The U.S. Justice Department wants a judge to declare that a Pennsylvania city’s method of electing council members citywide instead of by districts has illegally diluted the political power of its growing Hispanic population, arguing in a lawsuit that Hazleton is violating the federal Voting Rights Act.

A complaint filed Tuesday in Scranton federal court claims the “at-large” system “results in Hispanic citizens not having an equal opportunity to participate in the political process and to elect candidates of their choice.”

A Department of Justice (DOJ) lawsuit alleges that Hazleton, Pennsylvania’s city council elections violate federal law because not enough “Hispanic-preferred candidates” are winning – without defining what a Hispanic-preferred candidate is.