Drew Pittock

19 hours ago | san.com | Alan Judd |Cole Lauterbach |Drew Pittock

A new investigation links high-ranking Trump administration officials –– including FBI Director Kash Patel –– to Holocaust deniers and other antisemitic extremists. The report by NPR comes as the administration cuts grants to Harvard and other elite universities for allegedly failing to protect Jewish students from antisemitic threats and violence. The White House declined to comment. Some of the officials cited by NPR denied knowingly being involved with antisemitic extremists.

20 hours ago | san.com | Alan Judd |Cole Lauterbach |Drew Pittock |Evan Hummel

Twenty Democratic states, led by California, are suing the Trump administration as they seek to halt President Donald Trump’s threat to withhold funding for transportation, counterterrorism and disaster relief if they don’t work with federal immigration enforcement. The states filed a pair of lawsuits Tuesday, May 13, in a Rhode Island federal court.

1 day ago | san.com | Drew Pittock |Lauren Keenan

A federal judge ruled Tuesday, May 13, that the Trump administration can use the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) to deport suspected members of the Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua (TDA). U.S. District Judge Stephanie Haines ruled that the government can use the AEA to deport Venezuelans living in the U.S. illegally, who are age 14 or older, confirmed gang members, and not legal immigrants of the United States.

1 day ago | san.com | Drew Pittock |Ray Bogan |Snorre Wik

President Donald Trump is about to accept a jumbo jet from a country with a history of funding terrorism. The Boeing 747 being gifted by Qatar will be used as Air Force One, then transferred to the Trump Presidential Library Foundation, in a deal that does not encapsulate the complicated relationship between the two nations. When Trump first took office in 2017, he called on Middle Eastern countries, particularly those on the Arabian Peninsula, to stop supporting terrorism.

1 day ago | san.com | Drew Pittock |Kalé Carey |Zachary Hill

Off the coast of Oregon, thousands of feet beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean, scientists are watching an active volcano that may erupt for the first time in a decade. The site, known as , is being monitored by researchers at the University of Washington through an extensive underwater observatory network called the Cabled Array. Housed within UW’s College of the Environment, the Cabled Array is one of the largest underwater observatories in the world.