• Live Updates: Supreme Court considers Trump's order on birthright citizenship

    Live Updates: Supreme Court considers Trump's order on birthright citizenship

    Apr 01, 2026 01:09 PM EDT

    Many of the arguments in today’s case go back to the Supreme Court’s 1898 ruling in the case of Wong Kim Ark, which said a U.S.-born child of Chinese nationals was a citizen. In that ruling, Justice Horace Gray wrote that Fourteenth Amendment “affirms the ancient ...

  • Israel's parliament approves death penalty for Palestinians convicted of murdering Israelis

    Israel's parliament approves death penalty for Palestinians convicted of murdering Israelis

    Mar 30, 2026 06:31 PM EDT

    ... 7, 2023. There is a separate bill under consideration dealing with punishment for the attackers. Some opposition lawmakers worry that the bill could harm future hostage negotiations. Israel exchanged some 250 hostages taken during the October 2023 attack for thousands of Palestinian prisoners. The Public Committee against Torture in Israel ...

  • News Wrap: Mullin sworn in as Homeland Security secretary

    News Wrap: Mullin sworn in as Homeland Security secretary

    Mar 24, 2026 10:45 PM EDT

    ... after it had designated Afghanistan a sponsor of wrongful detention earlier this month. Afghanistan has rejected allegations that it engages in what's known as hostage diplomacy. Here at home, many people in Hawaii are starting to clean up and assess the full scope of the damage left behind from ...

  • Afghanistan releases American national Dennis Coyle after more than a year

    Afghanistan releases American national Dennis Coyle after more than a year

    Mar 24, 2026 02:56 PM EDT

    ... still seeking the immediate return of Mahmood Habibi, Paul Overby, and all other unjustly detained Americans,” Rubio said. “The Taliban must end their practice of hostage diplomacy.” Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi said his country “has not arrested citizens of any country to achieve political goals,” according to a ...

  • Swalwell sees attacks from left and right as California's race for governor heats up

    Swalwell sees attacks from left and right as California's race for governor heats up

    Mar 20, 2026 06:19 PM EDT

    ... voted last year in favor of a GOP-sponsored resolution condemning an attack on a Colorado demonstration that was being held in support of Israeli hostages, which left one woman dead. The resolution expressed “gratitude” to law enforcement, including ICE. His campaign added that he has proposed restrictions on ICE ...

  • Trump has 'no plan' on how to end Iran war, Sen. Murphy says

    Trump has 'no plan' on how to end Iran war, Sen. Murphy says

    Mar 18, 2026 10:50 PM EDT

    ... difference on how the administration is breaking the law in the way that they implement and enforce our immigration laws. Let's not hold TSA hostage. Let's not hold the Coast Guard hostage. Republicans refuse to open up TSA and the Coast Guard, because they want to use the ...

  • Joe Kent, top counterterrorism official, says Iran posed no imminent threat as he resigns over Trump's war

    Joe Kent, top counterterrorism official, says Iran posed no imminent threat as he resigns over Trump's war

    Mar 17, 2026 03:35 PM EDT

    ... his social media reach that was joined by Nick Fuentes, a popular right-wing influencer who has said that Jews are holding the U.S. “hostage” and once proclaimed that “Hitler was awesome, Hitler was right.” Kent later disavowed those ties and stated that he rejected all “racism and bigotry ...

  • Middle East experts discuss Trump’s pressure on NATO to reopen Strait of Hormuz

    Middle East experts discuss Trump’s pressure on NATO to reopen Strait of Hormuz

    Mar 16, 2026 10:40 PM EDT

    ... flowing through the straits while a conflict would be ongoing. The thought process was, you degrade Iran's power projection capability and ability to hold hostage the straits. And then when that's complete and the timing is right and the conditions are set, then the U.S. would move ...

  • Israeli strikes in Gaza killed 12 people, including 2 children and a pregnant woman, hospital officials say

    Israeli strikes in Gaza killed 12 people, including 2 children and a pregnant woman, hospital officials say

    Mar 15, 2026 05:42 PM EDT

    ... been women and children, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. They were among more than 72,200 Palestinians killed in the war, which was triggered when Hamas-led militants attacked southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. The militant attack killed over 1,200 people and took over 250 others hostage.

  • U.S. stocks rebound from sharp losses, while oil prices leap on worries about Iran war

    U.S. stocks rebound from sharp losses, while oil prices leap on worries about Iran war

    Mar 02, 2026 09:37 PM EDT

    ... also lower than analysts expected. Stocks in the housing industry struggled as higher Treasury yields could translate into more expensive mortgage rates. Homebuilder D.R. Horton lost 3.7%, and Builder FirstSource sank 4.7%. Helping the U.S. stock market to bounce back from its early losses were oil ...