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The Trump administration has proposed making it tougher for asylum-seekers to obtain permission to work in the United States while their cases are pending, a move that immigrant advocates say would unfairly punish those who need humanitarian protection the most. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said Wednesday a proposed rule would double the time asylum-seekers must wait for a work...

Here is a redacted version of a secret whistleblower’s complaint involving President Donald Trump and a letter by the Intelligence Community Inspector General about the complaint. The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence released the declassified complaint and IG’s letter Thursday ahead of Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire’s testimony before Congress. “The Committee this morning will be releasing...

Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire delivers his opening statement during Thursday’s testimony before the House Intelligence Committee.

Rep Jim Himes, D-Conn., asks acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire if he ever discussed with President Donald Trump a whistleblower complaint that alleges wrongdoing by Trump.

Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., offers up his opening statement prior to Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire’s testimony in front of the House Intelligence Committee.

The chairman of the House intelligence committee has issued a subpoena to the acting Director of National Intelligence, saying Joseph Maguire is withholding a whistleblower complaint from Congress. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said in a statement Friday evening that the committee will require that Maguire testify Thursday unless he complies with the subpoena. The chairman did not detail...

President Donald Trump skirted the law when he appointed Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II as one of his administration’s top immigration officials, and certain actions by Cuccinelli’s office should have no force or effect, according to a lawsuit. The complaint was submitted to the U.S. district court for Washington, D.C. Friday by the Democracy Forward Foundation, Proskauer Rose LLP, Catholic Legal...

A number of Jeffrey Epstein’s accusers have taken a judge up on his unusual invitation to speak at a federal hearing following prosecutors’ motion to drop the case against the financier, who killed himself in his Manhattan prison cell while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.

Attorney General William Barr removed the acting director of the Bureau of Prisons from his position Monday, more than a week after millionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein took his own life while in federal custody. Hugh Hurwitz’s reassignment comes amid mounting evidence that guards at the chronically understaffed Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York abdicated their responsibility to keep the 66-year-old...

The Trump administration introduced a new rule Monday making it harder for low-income immigrants who receive food stamps or other forms of taxpayer-funded assistance to stay in the country legally, NBC News reported. The rule would require immigrants applying for a change in immigration status (like a green card) or those seeking to come here to prove that they are...

President Donald Trump on Thursday named Joseph Maguire, the nation’s top counterterrorism official, as acting national intelligence director, part of a leadership shake-up at the agency that oversees 17 U.S. spy agencies. Maguire will become acting director on Aug. 15, the same day that National Intelligence Director Dan Coats’ resignation takes effect. It’s also the same day that deputy national...

Two immigration officers had been parked outside a home well before dawn when their target — a Mexican man convicted of driving under the influence in 2015 — appeared to emerge as the sun illuminated a gray sky. “I’m going to do a vehicle stop,” an officer radioed. “I’m right behind you,” said another, lights flashing as they ordered the...

An Illinois state trooper has died after being involved in a head-on crash on I-94 westbound near Libertyville early Saturday morning.

The man charged with fatally shooting a deputy trying to serve a warrant at a Rockford hotel appeared in court Monday for the first time since the shooting and subsequent hours-long standoff last week.

The man charged with fatally shooting a deputy trying to serve a warrant at a Rockford hotel appeared in court Monday for the first time since the shooting and subsequent hours-long standoff last week. NBC 5’s Christian Farr has the details.

One day after authorities say a gunman fatally shot a deputy trying to serve a warrant at a Rockford hotel, a murder complaint details the moments leading up to the shooting.

Flowers, flags, and blue ribbons are lining the streets of Rockford after a shooting left a McHenry County deputy dead on Thursday. NBC 5’s Michelle Relerford has the latest on the investigation, and on a community still in mourning. 

A Trump administration official said Monday that federal income tax refunds would indeed go out despite a large part of the government being shut down. Russell T. Vought, acting director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, told reporters about the development in a briefing. “Tax refunds will go out,” Vought said.

Federal agencies have been directed to hold off enacting pay raises for top administration officials during a government shutdown that has left hundreds of thousands of federal workers without pay. The guidance was issued Friday in a memo from Margaret Weichert, the acting director of the Office of Personnel Management. The raises were the result of a pay freeze for...

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was joking when he discussed wearing a wire to secretly record President Donald Trump and does not believe Trump should be removed from office through the use of procedures outlined in the Constitution’s 25th Amendment, according to sources familiar with his conversations. The sources were responding to a New York Times report that Rosenstein, in...