FIRST ON FOX: The Trump administration is changing how some asylum claims move through the immigration system, allowing U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to refer certain applications directly to immigration judges without first interviewing applicants in an effort to reduce the nation’s asylum backlog. The interim final rule, which takes effect immediately, gives USCIS the authority to send some asylum applications to immigration court without conducting an...

Acting Director of National Intelligence William Pulte announced Sunday that his office has completed a fourth batch of layoffs. “Since becoming Acting Director of National Intelligence, our team has been smartly, and carefully, reducing the size of [the Office of the Director of National Intelligence], re-focusing ODNI on national security, the law, and the statute,” he wrote in a post on X. “As of this evening, we just...

Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky argued Sunday that the war with Iran has “weakened” the United States. “The U.S. has been significantly weakened by the war with Iran,” the congressman wrote in a Sunday post on X. “This administration depleted our missile defenses, drained our oil reserves, sacrificed our men & women, inflated the price of consumer goods, increased our debt, and neglected our domestic needs…” he...