The Senate confirmed Gregory Cook 49-27 and ended debate on 10th Circuit nominee Daniel Domenico and 5th Circuit nominee Anna St. John. Domenico’s final vote is Monday at 5:30 p.m. ET, with four more district nominees queued.
DHS says Rony Alexander Gomez-Alberto, accused of trying to storm a United cockpit and claiming a bomb, was granted asylum by a judge on his third illegal entry after saying he feared being killed for being transgender.
DHS says ICE deported 483,200 people in FY2026, the most in its history and nearly as many as Biden’s three full fiscal years combined, and made more than 491,000 arrests. Democrats now want to “end” it.
About 1,500 migrants left Tapachula on Nov. 10, telling reporters Democrats will let them in. The White House answer: the border stays shut, and Mexico faces doubled tariffs if it doesn’t stop them.
The Justice Department says it has court authorization to seize or restrain more than $1.2 billion of the $6 billion-plus North Korea stole from Binance, and has dismantled infrastructure behind “FaceStealer,” a deepfake-and-stolen-webcam scam that took more than $400 million.
In a Nov. 9 letter, White House Counsel William O. Scharf told Rep. Robert Garcia that Democrats’ vows to hand out subpoenas like “candy” and “Mardi Gras beads” point to probes built to harass, not legislate, and that process designed to intimidate “may cross the line into blatant criminality.”
DHS says the man accused of claiming a bomb and trying to reach the cockpit of a Newark-to-New Orleans United flight had been removed twice and released by an immigration judge in 2020. What catch-and-release costs, and where sanctuary rules really come in.
The House sent Thomas Massie’s Hegseth impeachment resolution to committee, 211-204. Massie was the lone Republican no, 11 Democrats skipped the vote, and Democratic leaders say January is ‘just the beginning.’ The war-powers argument deserves a real vote, not impeachment theater.
A new federal indictment ties three IRGC and Kata’ib Hizballah operatives to nearly 20 attacks and attempts on Jewish targets in Europe and the U.S., plus a plot against a British base housing American forces. One allegedly steered it by phone from a New York jail.
Detroit voters elected Kahlilia Davis to the 36th District Court on Nov. 3. The Michigan Supreme Court suspended her for six years in 2023 and barred her from exercising the powers of the office, so she cannot take the bench until 2029.
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