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President-elect Donald Trump used different strategies to tackle the flow of migration to the U.S. during his first term, and that will increase in his second, according to an adviser to the incoming president and former administration official. “There will be a lot of emphasis on controlling the border and working with Central American and South American countries to do so,” Carlos Trujillo, who was ambassador to the Organization of American States in the first Trump term, said in an interview. Border crossings hit record numbers in the first three years of the Biden administration after pandemic-era restrictions were lifted. Over the summer, the administration put in place strict asylum restrictions that led to an over 50% drop in the daily number of people encountere...

A teenager is in critical condition in a British Columbia children’s hospital, sick with Canada’s first presumptive human case of avian influenza. “This was a healthy teenager prior to this, so no underlying conditions,” said provincial health officer Bonnie Henry in a news conference on Tuesday. “It just reminds us that in young people this is a virus that can progress and cause quite severe illness and the deterioration that I mentioned was quite rapid.” British Columbia health officials said on Saturday the province had detected Canada’s first human case of H5 bird flu in a teenager. Henry said the province is still identifying the exact strain, but assumes the case is H5N1. The World Health Organization says H5N1’s risk to humans is low because there is no evidence o...

Tufts University denied Tuesday that it was preventing its students from interning in the office of Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., after he made remarks about transgender athletes following last week’s election. The Boston-area university’s denial followed a reported claim by one of its professors that the political science department would no longer facilitate internships at Moulton’s office. “We have reached out to Congressman Moulton’s office to clarify that we have not — and will not — limit internship opportunities with his office,” the university said in a statement. “We remain committed to fostering an inclusive environment that values diverse perspectives, and our Career Center will continue to provide students with a wide range of employment opportunities across the political a...

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump returned to Washington on Wednesday — entering the White House for the first time since he was voted out of office — to meet with President Joe Biden for a ceremony meant to signal the peaceful transfer of power. The two men appeared briefly for photos, with Biden speaking first and calling for a smooth transition. Trump responded that politics "is tough" but thanked the president for a smooth transition. “You’re welcome,” Biden responded. They did not respond to shouted questions from reporters. Trump and Biden next met privately for a “substantive” sit-down that lasted more than 90 minutes, during which they dived into a variety of pressing foreign and domestic policy issues. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said they discu...

President-elect Donald Trump ’s pick for director of national intelligence, former Democratic lawmaker Tulsi Gabbard , has been accused of amplifying Russian propaganda and would come to the job having never worked in the intelligence world or served on a congressional intelligence committee. Gabbard, who served in the Hawaii Army National Guard and was deployed to Iraq with a medical unit, has long criticized U.S. foreign policy as imperial and heavy-handed. She also has sharply criticized Trump in the past over his approach to the Middle East during his first presidential term, portraying him as dangerous. As director of national intelligence, a position created in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Gabbard would oversee 18 intelligence agencies with a...

Tech billionaire Elon Musk was handed a major win Tuesday evening when President-elect Donald Trump announced that the Tesla and SpaceX CEO would co-lead a new “Department of Government Efficiency” with Vivek Ramaswamy. The announcement reinforces the closeness Musk has managed to achieve with Trump, even after the election. But for some people in Trump’s orbit, Musk’s presence has felt overbearing. Musk has been so aggressive in pushing his views about Trump’s second term that he’s stepping on the toes of Trump’s transition team and may be overstaying his welcome at Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s home in Palm Beach, Florida, according to two people familiar with the transition who have spent time at the resort over the past week. The sources said Musk’s near-constant presence ...

In one of the most prolific “swatting” cases ever prosecuted, a teenage “serial swatter” pleaded guilty Wednesday to making hoax threats to schools, religious institutions and government officials about mass shootings and bombings across the country. Alan Filion, 18, of Lancaster, California, pleaded guilty to four counts of making interstate threats, the Justice Department said. Filion faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison for each charge, federal prosecutors said. From August 2022 to January, Filion made more than 375 swatting and threat calls, including calls in which he claimed to have put bombs in place, threatened to detonate bombs or carry out mass shootings, officials said. He became a “serial swatter” — making false accusations to send law enforcemen...

An eighth grade transgender boy, who was allegedly threatened with expulsion for using the boys restroom, is suing his South Carolina school district and the state over a budget rule that restricts accommodations for transgender students. In a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday, John Doe, a pseudonym for a 13-year-old student in the Berkeley County School District, said that administrators told him in August he could only use the girls restroom or a single-occupancy toilet in the nurse’s office due to a new state rule. The school suspended him for a day when administrators later caught him using the boys restroom, and the principal warned that the punishment could escalate to expulsion if he did it again, according to the suit. “I am bringing this lawsuit because rules like this are damag...

Some Republican senators expressed surprise and said they had little knowledge about who exactly President-elect Donald Trump's pick f or s ecretary of d efense is. “Wow,” Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, said after Trump announced former National Guard member and Fox News host Pete Hegseth as his choice for the high-ranking job. “I’m just surprised, because the names that I’ve heard for secretary of defense have not included him,” Murkowski said. Trump on Tuesday called Hegseth, 44, “tough, smart and a true believer in America First.” Some senators did not know who Hegseth is or much about him. “Who?” Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., said when he was asked about the choice. “I don’t know Pete. I just don’t know anything about him.” Foll...