Capitol Times

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump signed two new executive actions Thursday aimed at tightening U.S. citizenship rules and cracking down on so-called “birth tourism,” launching another major immigration initiative after the Supreme Court rejected his previous effort to broadly limit birthright citizenship in June. Trump said he believes the latest actions are constitutional and designed to address what his administration describes as abuses of the nation's immigration system....

The U.S. Senate on Friday confirmed Cameron Hamilton as Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), installing the former Navy SEAL at the helm of the nation's disaster response agency during one of its most turbulent periods in recent history. The confirmation came as part of a Senate package approving 74 Trump administration nominees, including David Cummins to lead the Transportation Security Administration and Daniel Perez as U.S. ambassador to Brazil. Advertisement...

Washington's Democratic establishment suffered a humiliating political setback Tuesday after Rep. Haley Stevens lost Michigan's Democratic U.S. Senate primary despite benefiting from more than $60 million in outside support—one of the most expensive Democratic primaries in U.S. history. Campaign advertising tracker AdImpact reported that $63.9 million in outside advertising backed Stevens, accounting for nearly 78 percent of all spending in the race. The largest contributor was AIPAC's United...