Laura Barrón-López
Laura Barrón-López covers the White House for MS NOW. Previously, she covered the White House and national politics for PBS NewsHour and Politico.
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Kristi Noem out as Homeland Security secretary
Her ouster comes after two contentious days of her testimony before Congress. Trump wants Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin to take her place.
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DHS still has $150 billion to spend on Trump’s deportation campaign
Less than a year after Republicans approved $191 billion for immigration enforcement, the vast majority remains unspent — even as the administration pushes to build detention facilities and ramp up arrests.
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Fourth American service member killed in Iran
Trump lamented the deaths and conceded there “likely will be more.”
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‘It’s fantastic’: Trump tells MS NOW he’s seen celebrations after Iran strikes
The interview with President Trump took place about 11 hours before the Pentagon announced the first U.S.military casualties of the war.
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DHS tells state election chiefs that ICE won’t be at voting sites
Democratic secretaries of state welcomed the assurance but expressed deep skepticism, pointing to the DHS official’s history of spreading election conspiracy theories.
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White House directing DHS to hunt for voter fraud by naturalized citizens, sources say
Agents will be required to turn over names of immigrants who voted before they became citizens — and then explain to the White House why they weren’t charged with a crime.
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Longtime Trump adviser Lewandowski sought to carry a firearm at DHS, alarming officials
A lawyer who refused the request was reassigned, according to two people familiar with the matter.
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‘Trump is showing us the playbook’: Officials scramble to protect against election interference
Election officials across the U.S. are taking Trump’s latest threats seriously, bolstering their defenses against federal efforts to block their constitutionally mandated role running elections.
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ICE eyeing Ohio next, where it is expected to target Haitian immigrants
An estimated 12,000 to 15,000 Haitians live in Springfield, Ohio, a community that President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance targeted during the 2024 campaign, falsely accusing the community of eating cats and dogs.
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Trump administration plans to deport 40 Iranians days after mass killings in Iran
Two of the deportees are gay and are terrified of returning to a country where homosexuality is punishable by death, their lawyer says.