While the closure of the Turkish pipeline has prompted an uptick in Kurdish oil smuggling via Iran, a larger network that some experts believe generates at least $1 billion a year for Iran and its ...

An executive order issued by President Donald Trump this week that seems to give him huge power to interpret the law is ...

Other experts pointed out that past efforts to deploy military might against drug traffickers have failed to slow the flow of ...

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Gen. CQ Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is visiting troops along the U.S.-Mexico border to assess the ...

SAN FRANCISCO – President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order calling for the swift elimination of the ...

President Donald Trump’s sweeping promises have translated into a whole-of-government approach for immigration enforcement. In other words, nearly every major Cabinet agency is an immigration agency ...

Donald Trump’s new commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, says the president wants to get rid of the Internal Revenue Service.

President Donald Trump can do very little to dismantle the Presidio Trust, experts told the Chronicle. And any moves Trump ...

Government employee unions file a lawsuit against federal government and President Donald Trump’s administration concerning ...

A federal judge Thursday found the Trump administration violated a restraining order meant to stop it from suspending ...

Lawsuits are challenging President Trump’s abrupt decision to send men awaiting deportation to the American military base in ...