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WASHINGTON (AP) — A former Homeland Security official during President Donald Trump’s first administration who authored an anonymous op-ed sharply critical of the president is calling on independent government watchdogs to investigate after Trump ordered the department to look into his government service.Miles Taylor, once chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security, warned in an interview with The Associated Press of the far-reaching implications of Trump’s April 9 memorandum, “Addressing Risks Associated with an Egregious Leaker and Disseminator of Falsehoods,” when it comes to suppressing criticism of the president. That memo accused Taylor of concocting stories to sell...

NEW YORK — The immigration officers sat in their vehicles before dawn near a two-story building. A New York subway line rumbled overhead. After about two hours, an officer’s voice crackled over the radio. “I think that’s Tango,” he said, using a term for a target. “Gray hoodie. Backpack. Walking quickly.” The officers surrounded and handcuffed a 23-year-old man from Ecuador who had been convicted of sexually assaulting a minor. Kenneth Genalo, head of Enforcement and Removal Operations for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in New York, said a popular misconception is that officers can sweep into a community and pick...

Donald Trump has announced a new campaign proposal on United States immigration — barring “communists” and “Marxists” from entering the country. The Republican former president, who is making another bid in 2024, on Saturday said he would use “Section 212 (f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act” to “order my government to deny entry to all communists and all Marxists.” The announcement was reminiscent of Trump’s ban on travelers from several predominantly Muslim countries during his first term… […] He also said there needs to be a “new law” to address communists and Marxists who grew up in America, but...

An American journalist presumed missing near war-torn Chechnya has turned up safe and sound. The Cox Newspaper chain's Washington bureau chief, Andy Alexander, has confirmed that the newspaper has heard from its Moscow-based reporter, Rebecca Santana, who was on assignment in the volatile North Caucasus. Mr. Alexander says she telephoned her bosses Wednesday to say that she is alive and well and returning to Moscow later in the day. Mr. Alexander says Ms. Santana expressed surprise about the concern over her whereabouts. He said nothing untoward appears to have happened to her and that her call was good news....

A US reporter based in Moscow, who was last seen near the war-torn republic of Chechnya, has been missing for three days, the US embassy said in a statement on Wednesday. "We can confirm that a US citizen reporter who lives in Russia has been reported missing since Sunday, February 8, in the area near Mozdok, North Ossetia [which borders Chechnya]," the embassy said, without identifying the journalist. Moscow police told AFP that Rebecca Santana of Cox Newspapers has been missing from Moscow since Sunday and they had launched a missing person's investigation.