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President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will deliver remarks from the Oval Office Friday morning. Follow along for live updates.

U.S. authorities have arrested and detained Canadian and European travelers at U.S. borders in recent weeks.

U.S. Sen. Mark Warner asked officials at the Department of Homeland Security and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement to explain how a U.S. citizen came to be detained and handcuffed in Manassas, Virginia, earlier this month. Jensy Machado, who says he voted for President Donald Trump, told Telemundo 44 that on March 5 ICE agents blocked in his pickup truck not…

U.S. Sen. Mark Warner asked officials at the Department of Homeland Security and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement to explain how a U.S. citizen came to be detained and handcuffed in Manassas, Virginia, earlier this month. News4’s Jackie Bensen reports.

Advocates spoke about the importance of transgender service members, after a federal judge blocked President Donald Trump’s ban on those who identify from serving in the military. News4’s Dominique Moody reports.

A federal judge has ordered immigration officials not to deport a Georgetown University scholar that the government detained until the court has had a chance to rule.

While big questions about the agency’s future remain unanswered, here is everything to know about its history, and some of the plans conservatives have pushed for dismantling it.

A federal judge ordered immigration officials not to deport a Georgetown scholar detained by the Trump administration and accused of spreading Hamas propaganda in the latest battle over speech on U.S. college campuses. Northern Virginia Bureau Reporter Drew Wilder is following the story.

D.C. faces the possibility of having to cut more than $1 billion from its budget over the next six months. Mayor Muriel Bowser remains hopeful the House of Representatives will approve Senate legislation that would exempt D.C. from the massive cut. News4’s Mark Segraves reports.

News4’s Aimee Cho breaks down the order and what it means for the department.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to close the Department of Education.

The D.C. area has one of the largest populations of Black wealth in the country due in large part to federal government employment and contracting opportunities, but some worry they’ll see those gains disappear as the region feels the impact of President Donald Trump’s cuts to agency staffing and spending. Investigative Reporter Tracee Wilkins and the News4 I-Team spoke to...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday calling for the dismantling of the U.S. Education Department.

Federal immigration authorities have detained a Georgetown University graduate student from India who was teaching at the Washington institution on a student visa, his attorney said Wednesday. Masked agents arrested the graduate student, Badar Khan Suri, outside his home in Arlington, Virginia, on Monday night, attorney Hassan Ahmad said. The agents identified themselves as being with the Department of Homeland...

Badar Khan Suri, a Georgetown University graduate student, was detained by ICE and is currently in Louisiana waiting for an immigration hearing. News4’s Joseph Olmo shares that Suri’s lawyer calls his arrest “beyond contemptible” in a statement.  

President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at dismantling the Education Department. Follow along for live updates.

President Donald Trump is set to sign an executive order Thursday calling for the shutdown of the Education Department, an agency Republicans have talked about closing for decades.

A federal judge gave the U.S. Department of Justice an additional day to answer questions about three deportation flights to El Salvador after his order Saturday for the planes to return to the United States. The government motioned Wednesday for more time to answer Judge James Boasberg’s questions about the deportation flights, calling the judge’s queries “a picayune dispute...

Voters shared concerns about changes to the federal workforce and other things at a town hall in Frederick, Maryland, hosted by Democratic U.S. Reps. Jamie Raskin and April McClain Delaney. News4’s Dominique Moody reports.

President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order Thursday calling for the shutdown of the U.S. Education Department.