Authorities are investigating potential terrorism links to two suspects in custody over what New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said was an improvised explosive thrown near Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s residence, people familiar with the investigation said.
A counter-protester flees after throwing a homemade explosive device towards police during a protest organized by far-right influencer Jake Lang" in front of Gracie Mansion in New York on March 7, 2026. Photographer: Charly Triballeau/AFP/Getty Images
Kristi Noem’s 13-month tenure leading the Department of Homeland Security was marked by controversy. But it wasn’t the two American citizens’ deaths at the hands of federal immigration agents that ultimately cost her the job, nor the allegations of an affair with an adviser, or the criticism that she was slow to provide federal reimbursements to states after natural disasters.
Kristi Noem during a House Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, March 4.
John Daghita, a government contractor accused of stealing more than $46 million in cryptocurrency from the US Marshals Service, was arrested late Wednesday on the island of Saint Martin in the Caribbean.
President Donald Trump removed Kristi Noem as Homeland Security secretary after months of controversy and announced he would replace her with Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem faced a barrage of misconduct allegations before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, including about her living arrangements, a blocked watchdog, a no-bid contract awarded to a newly established company, delayed hurricane relief and a Coast Guard pilot allegedly fired over a misplaced blanket.
Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem at the House Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington on March 4.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem faced bipartisan criticism Tuesday over federal immigration operations that left two American citizens dead in Minneapolis, as a Republican senator threatened to block Trump administration nominees and Democrats pressed her to acknowledge making mistakes.
Kristi Noem during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington on March 3. Photographer: Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg
Federal authorities are investigating whether a mass shooting outside a bar in Austin early Sunday was a reaction to the US-Israeli strikes on Iran, people familiar with the investigation said.
FBI agents investigate near Buford's bar in downtown Austin, Texas, on March 1, 2026.
The US Secret Service heightened security around the White House, the homes of former presidents and other protected locations Saturday, citing the agency’s active monitoring of the situation in Iran.
The White House in Washington. Photographer: Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg
FBI Director Kash Patel said he put the bureau’s counterterrorism and counterintelligence teams on high alert Saturday after the US and Israel launched a sweeping military assault on Iran.
Former President Bill Clinton delivered a sweeping denial of any knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes during roughly six hours of closed-door testimony Friday before a House committee investigating the disgraced financier’s political connections.
Bill Clinton, left, and Hillary Clinton in Washington in 2025.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he had a “productive” meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday, as the pair discussed efforts to expand residential development.
Zohran Mamdani, mayor-elect of New York, left, and US President Donald Trump during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Friday, Nov. 21, 2025. Trump said he talked about the need for New York utility Consolidated Edison Inc. to lower rates during a meeting with Mamdani at the White House. Photographer: Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg
Federal agents executed search warrants at the Los Angeles Unified School District’s headquarters and at the home of Superintendent Alberto Carvalho, according to the FBI, which declined to describe the nature of the investigation.
Los Angeles Unified Superintendent Alberto Carvalho
A whistleblower told Democrats on the Senate Judiciary committee that FBI agents had to drive through a winter storm overnight from Quantico, Virginia to Providence, Rhode Island to process evidence at a mass shooting scene because Director Kash Patel’s personal travel had left the bureau without an available plane.
Kash Patel, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), during a news conference at the Department of Justice (DOJ) in Washington, DC, US, on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026. A man suspected of being responsible for the deadly 2012 attack against the American embassy in Benghazi, Libya, is in US custody, FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi said Friday.
The US Secret Service said an armed man was shot and killed after entering a secured area at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida even as the president spent the weekend in Washington.
The entrance to Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, US, on Monday, April 3, 2023. Donald Trump became the first former US president to be indicted, when a Manhattan grand jury Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg had convened in January determined there was enough evidence to proceed with a case against him. Photographer: Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg
The Trump administration spent more than $35 million to deport roughly 300 migrants to countries they had no connection to, doling out millions of dollars in lump-sum transfers to foreign governments without a system to track how the money was used, according to a report released Friday.
Federal agents detain a man after his hearing in immigration court at the Ted Weiss Federal Building in New York City.
A Senate hearing laid bare divisions over President Trump’s immigration crackdown, but also showed Republican concerns over the aggressive tactics used by agents, which resulted in the deaths of two US citizens.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing in Washington on Feb. 12. Photographer: Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration has begun scouting sites for city-backed grocery stores in each of New York City’s five boroughs, pushing ahead on a signature campaign promise that drew widespread skepticism during last year’s electoral race.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration has begun scouting sites for city-backed grocery stores in each of New York City’s five boroughs, pushing ahead on a signature campaign promise that drew widespread skepticism during last year’s electoral race.
A House committee is escalating its investigation into a troubled Coast Guard shipbuilding program after accusing a major contractor of failing to turn over records related to years of delays and cost overruns, according to a letter from the panel’s chairman obtained by Bloomberg News.
Eastern Shipbuilding Group christened and launched USCGC ARGUS (WMSM-915), the U.S. Coast Guard's first Heritage-class Offshore Patrol Cutter (OPC) on Oct. 27, 2023 in Panama City, Florida.
Senior US immigration officials told House lawmakers that officers involved in federal operations in Minnesota were trained on constitutional limits, crowd control and the use of force, as Congress scrutinizes two fatal shootings that occurred during enforcement actions earlier this year.
Rodney Scott, from left, Joseph Edlow, and Todd Lyons arrive for a House Homeland Security Committee hearing in Washington on Feb. 10. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg