A delegation of House Democratic lawmakers will visit a portion of the southern border on Friday to conduct oversight of the Trump administration’s border policies “firsthand” as authorities continue the president’s mass deportation program.  Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-MS., the ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee, will lead the delegation.  Also going will be Reps. Lou Correa and Sara Jacobs, both of California; Delia Ramirez of Illinois;...

Georgia state House Democrats staged a walkout to protest a vote on a bill headed to the governor’s desk for his signature prohibiting taxpayer-funded sex change surgeries for inmates.  The bill passed on a 100-2 vote, and both recorded no votes were from Democrats. The legislation, SB 185, sponsored by Republican state Sen. Randy Robertson, bars the Georgia Department of Corrections from providing taxpayer-funded transgender medical treatments, including...

“Mind-boggling” is the word Space Force Gen. Chance Saltzman used to describe China’s explosive advances in space as he warned the U.S. is on a path to losing its dominance in orbit. Testifying before the bipartisan U.S.-China Commission on Thursday, Saltzman said China is “heavily investing” in both ground-based and space-based weapons designed to disable enemy satellites, including kinetic strikes, radio-frequency jamming and directed energy weapons. The U.S.,...