House lawmakers voted Thursday to direct the Department of Homeland Security to extend temporary humanitarian protections for several hundred thousand Haitians in the US.

Two nonprofits and a Texas resident are accusing US officials of refusing to comply with various environmental protection and historic preservation laws before proceeding with plans to build a border wall in the “Big Bend” sector along the Rio Grande River.

Immigration enforcement agencies are grounding equipment and facing gaps in investigative work as the ongoing Department of Homeland Security funding lapse prevents them from paying contractors who maintain critical assets, top officials told lawmakers.

A group of registered nurses brought from the Philippines to work at US medical facilities advanced claims under federal and state laws prohibiting human trafficking.

A federal court issued a preliminary injunction in Maryland’s suit to stop the Trump administration from developing an immigration detention center in the town of Williamsport.

After teacher Janet Rau learned that a carcinogenic gas was being released from an industrial plant near her school in 2019, she started a campaign for more oversight. Five years later, the Environmental Protection Agency issued rules requiring facilities that use the gas to better monitor and cut their emissions of it.