The facility, located at a training airport in Florida, first received detainees last July as part of the Trump administration's ongoing immigration crackdown, but the detention center has been plagued by lawsuits and concerns from lawmakers and immigrant advocates regarding what they called inhumane conditions at the facility.

The controversial "Alligator Alcatraz" immigration detention center -- a costly Florida facility that became a symbol of US President Donald Trump's deportation drive -- has shut down after less than a year in operation,

DeSantis said the center was always supposed to be temporary and now federal officials have enough ability to handle detention and deportation in more permanent facilities. “It served its purpose for the time,

The immigration center built in the Florida swamps known as “Alligator Alcatraz” is closing after nearly a year of holding thousands of immigrant detainees, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday. DeSantis said the center was always supposed to be temporary and now federal officials have enough ability to handle detention and deportation in more permanent facilities.

House Speaker Mike Johnson said on Wednesday he expects President Donald Trump will sign the affordable housing bill within 10 days.

After meeting with the president, the speaker said he would send him a housing bill that Mr. Trump declined to sign this week. There was no word on whether he would sign it.

The president posted on social media that the signing was off until the Senate passes his election integrity bill. It is unclear whether he intends to kill the housing bill.

President Trump abruptly canceled a big bill signing for landmark bipartisan housing legislation, saying the SAVE America Act is a bigger priority.

A federal judge in Boston has blocked parts of President Trump's executive order to limit voting by mail. The Trump administration is expected to appeal the ruling.

A federal judge has halted President Donald Trump’s executive order that sought to create a federal voter list and limit who can receive a mail ballot

A federal judge in Massachusetts on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to restrict mail voting in federal elections in the states that challenged it, finding the executive branch and mail service did not have the power to do so.

WASHINGTON—A federal judge blocked key portions of President Trump’s executive order that would create lists of people considered by federal agencies to be eligible to vote and place new restrictions on mail-in ballots ahead of the November midterms.

The Department of the Interior said in a social media post on Tuesday that six people have been arrested for alleged vandalism at the Reflecting Pool and seven more were issued fe

Trump’s decision to have his motorcade drive across the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool last month is facing renewed scrutiny.

"Daily Show" host Josh Johnson is using Donald Trump's own words to debunk his vandalism claims about the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

President Donald Trump speaks from the Oval Office about those accused of vandalizing the Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C.

In two ideologically spit rulings that could affect millions, justices say the administration can deport some migrants and turn others away at the border.

The Supreme Court ruled that President Trump can immediately end deportation protections for Haitians and Syrians previously protected by TPS.

The Supreme Court voted 6-3 on Thursday to allow the Trump administration to end legal protections for migrants fleeing violence and natural disaster in Haiti and Syria, exposing hundreds of thousands more people to potential deportation.

In a pair of immigration rulings Thursday, the court held that the law permits the government to turn away asylum-seekers on the Mexico side of the U.S. border and end temporary protected status for Haitians and Syrians living in the United States.

The case involved a Second Amendment challenge to a Hawaii law that barred carrying concealed weapons without permission onto private property open to the public.

The Supreme Court has struck down a Hawaii law requiring people to get permission to carry guns into places such as stores and hotels

The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a Hawaii law that sharply restricts where people can carry guns in public, the latest ruling by the high court in recent years rolling back firearm restrictions.

The justices nixed a Hawaii law that made gun owners get permission to bring guns into certain establishments.