The Republican-led House passed its first bill of the new Congress on Tuesday — a strict border measure named for a 22-year-old Georgia nursing school student whose murder last year by an immigrant in ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate voted today to advance S. 5, the Laken Riley Act, teeing the bill up for a final vote on Monday. The first immigration bill of the new Congress, the proposed law would ...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an immigration detention measure into law, marking his first legislative win days after he took office as the Republican-led Congress angles to execute his ...

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R), President-elect Trump’s pick to head the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), is appearing for her confirmation hearing before a Senate panel Friday. The purview ...

Jose Ibarra listens through an interpreter during his trial at Athens-Clarke County Superior Court in Athens, Ga., Nov. 20, 2024. automation The suspect accused of murdering Laken Riley on the ...

CHEROKEE COUNTY, Ga. — Hundreds of people gathered in Cherokee County on Saturday morning for a 5K to raise money in memory of Laken Riley. Riley was murdered while out jogging on the University of ...