News from December 2025
By Federal Newswire | Dec 23, 2025
House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) commented on the recent report from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, which showed a 4.3 percent increase in gross domestic product for the third quarter.
By T. J. Graves | Dec 23, 2025
A Tampa resident has pleaded guilty to transmitting a threat to harm a member of the United States House of Representatives.
By Federal Newswire | Dec 23, 2025
Senator Richard Blumenthal, Ranking Member of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, has criticized the Trump Administration’s Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for its recent decision to halt abortion care and counseling for veterans.
By C. M. Ingle | Dec 23, 2025
A Chicago woman has been sentenced to nearly three years in federal prison after pleading guilty to a hate crime for throwing an incendiary device onto her neighbors’ porch.
By T. J. Graves | Dec 23, 2025
A federal grand jury in Los Angeles has indicted four individuals associated with an anti-capitalist and anti-government group for allegedly planning to carry out bombings in Southern California on New Year’s Eve.
By Federal Newswire | Dec 23, 2025
Rahmanullah Lakanwal, a 29-year-old Afghan national living in Bellingham, Washington, has been charged in U.S. District Court with federal offenses related to the fatal shooting of National Guardsman Sarah Beckstrom and the serious injury of...
By Federal Newswire | Dec 23, 2025
Yesterday, Congressman Roger Williams, Chairman of the House Committee on Small Business, sent a letter to the Small Business Administration (SBA) as part of an ongoing investigation into fraud and concealment in the SBA’s COVID-era lending programs.
By Federal Newswire | Dec 23, 2025
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced on December 23, 2025 that it had recently arrested three individuals—Jose Jimenez-Munoz from Mexico, Fredy Garcia-Canan from Guatemala, and Fernando Manzanares-Cruz from El Salvador—each with...
By Federal Newswire | Dec 23, 2025
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement addressed Senator John Hickenlooper in several posts on December 23, 2025, emphasizing its role in detaining individuals accused of serious crimes and referencing recent law enforcement operations in Colorado.
By F. E. Simons | Dec 23, 2025
Vanessa Valdez, a 42-year-old resident of Burtonsville, Maryland, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in a federal unemployment insurance fraud case.
By T. J. Graves | Dec 23, 2025
A fourth individual has been sentenced in connection with the 2021 kidnapping and murder of a Wilmington resident by members of the Shotgun Crips gang, according to an announcement from Benjamin L. Wallace, U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware.
By Federal Newswire | Dec 23, 2025
Wei Qiang Lin, a resident of Brooklyn, New York, has been sentenced to 24 months in prison for trafficking reptiles.
By Federal Newswire | Dec 23, 2025
Two Honduran nationals, Arlen Saul Castillo, 29, and Jonathan Esteban Osario Lopez, 32, pleaded guilty to illegal re-entry into the United States.
By Federal Newswire | Dec 23, 2025
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has released details about several individuals described as some of the most serious criminal illegal aliens arrested by its law enforcement agencies in 2025.
By Federal Newswire | Dec 23, 2025
A bipartisan delegation from the House Appropriations Committee, led by Vice Chair Mario Díaz-Balart (R-FL), recently traveled to Nigeria to assess security threats and religious persecution.
By Federal Newswire | Dec 23, 2025
On December 23, ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles announced the results of Operation Highway Sentinel, which led to the arrest of 101 undocumented truck drivers on highways across California.
By Federal Newswire | Dec 23, 2025
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced three separate arrests in mid-December involving noncitizens with previous serious charges or convictions in the United States.
By Federal Newswire | Dec 23, 2025
Two Mexican nationals, Jorge Luis Gonzalez-Roman, 39, and Jose Clemente Trujillo-Mejia, 42, have been arrested and charged with illegal re-entry into the United States.
By Federal Newswire | Dec 23, 2025
Secretary of State Marco Rubio held a call with French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot, according to Principal Deputy Spokesperson Tommy Pigott.
By Federal Newswire | Dec 23, 2025
The U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division has reached a proposed consent decree with LivCor, LLC, a major landlord owned by Blackstone, to address claims of information sharing and algorithmic coordination in rental markets.
