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The $45 billion for immigration detention in the "Big, Beautiful Bill" represented a long-sought win for private prisons.

A right-wing commentator who has possibly tweeted about Hooters more times than anyone is now Trump’s nominee for U.S.

A federal judge has shut down Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship order, despite the Supreme Court’s previous ruling.

The FBI is searching for Benjamin Hanil Song in connection with a July 4, 2025, shooting at the Prairieland Detention Center ...