New Orleans, federal authorities launched Operation Catahoula Crunch this week, deploying DHS personnel to target immigrants accused of violent crimes after weeks of local preparation and speculation. Agents began street-level activity while Hispanic-owned businesses reported worker absences on Dec. 1. DHS said targets include individuals released after arrests for serious...
Washington — Federal and state officials clashed over new Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program rules, data sharing and emergency assistance after a government shutdown disrupted benefits. The USDA issued guidance tightening eligibility and requested recipient data from states; the administration warned it could withhold administrative funds. Several states sued to block...
United States — Waymo expanded autonomous operations this week and launched a DoorDash delivery partnership in Phoenix. On Monday and Tuesday companies announced trunk-delivery for DashMart orders within Waymo’s 315-square-mile Phoenix service area. Waymo began test driving in St. Louis, Baltimore and Philadelphia ahead of public launches, with trained specialists...
Miami — Miami Dade College's Board of Trustees unanimously reapproved transferring a roughly 2–3 acre downtown parcel to the state on Tuesday to support plans for the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library, following a judge's temporary block over inadequate public notice of an earlier vote in September. The revote followed...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Republican lawmakers and voting-rights groups clashed this week as Florida began committee meetings on a mid-decade congressional redistricting. House leaders convened a select committee Thursday without a proposed map while Gov. Ron DeSantis and President Donald Trump urged reopening maps. Dozens of civil-rights groups rallied Tuesday, citing...
WASHINGTON — House Republicans engaged in disagreements after Rep. Elise Stefanik accused Speaker Mike Johnson of lying about the exclusion of her proposed requirement that federal investigators notify Congress if they open probes into candidates. Stefanik posted objections on social media Monday and threatened to withhold support for the National...
Washington President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that his administration will pursue reconstruction of Dulles International Airport, calling the facility "not a good airport" and "terrible." Transportation officials said the Department of Transportation will solicit proposals and request bids to redesign terminals and modernize people movers after a people‑mover crash hospitalized...
Carson City, Nevada — The U.S. Geological Survey issued and then retracted a ShakeAlert Thursday after automated systems reported a magnitude 5.9 earthquake near Dayton that did not occur. MyShake and other alert systems sent warnings to thousands across California and Nevada around 8:06 a.m., and the USGS removed the...
United States. Emergency crews responded to a series of fires across states this week and in recent weeks, resulting in evacuations, property loss, and at least one fatality. Fire departments in Colorado, Iowa, Kentucky, Texas, Arizona, Connecticut, North Carolina and Ohio reported vehicle, residential, apartment, commercial and vacant-building blazes that...
Las Vegas — Amazon Web Services announced on Tuesday at its re:Invent conference that it will integrate NVIDIA’s NVLink Fusion into a future Trainium4 AI chip and launch coordinated AI Factories with NVIDIA to offer customers high-performance accelerators, networking, storage, and managed services. AWS outlined industry-focused cloud expansion in the...
