A group stops for lunch at the bottom of Lower Yosemite Falls in Yosemite National Park. (Eric Thayer / Los Angeles Times)When is Park Service staff checking a visitor’s citizenship status? Advertisement“National Park Service staff are not checking immigration status, citizenship, or residency beyond what is necessary to confirm eligibility for a specific entrance fee or pass,” said Elizabeth Peace, an Interior Department spokesperson. AdvertisementGelatt said she doesn’t believe National Park Service staffers will share a person’s resident or citizenship status with ICE. The National Park Service staff has been reduced by 24% since January of last year, which means fewer fee collectors and IT specialists who are needed as the new fees are implemented, Pierno said.

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When Edson pressed for a response on the violence in Iran, Trent pivoted to the recent ICE shooting on American soil. During his speech, the vice president claimed, “The precedent here is very simple. You have a federal law enforcement official engaging in federal law enforcement action — that’s a federal issue. He was doing his job.”The vice president also called Good a “deranged leftist” in one of many X posts regarding the killing. Minnesota officials have been blocked by the Trump administration from reviewing the evidence they are collecting from the ICE shooting.

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Unpredictability is part of the strategy,” a Western military official told Reuters later on Wednesday. AdvertisementIranians gather while blocking a street during a protest in Tehran, Iran on January 9, 2026. (Photo by MAHSA / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images) MAHSA via Getty ImagesAn Iranian official has said more than 2,000 people have died. Iran asks regional states to prevent a U.S. attackTrump has openly threatened to intervene in Iran for days, without giving specifics. Direct contacts between Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi and U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff have been suspended, the official added.

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WASHINGTON — FBI agents searched a Washington Post reporter's home on Wednesday as part of an investigation ​into sharing secret government information, officials said, in a move that advocates said threatened press freedom. Attorney General Pam Bondi said federal agents had executed the search at the request of the Defense Department. ‌Trump's Justice Department last year reversed a policy that had barred prosecutors from seizing records from reporters in ⁠most circumstances. The Washington Post said on X that ⁠investigators told Natanson she was not a focus of the probe. Under owner Jeff Bezos, the world's fourth-richest person, the Washington Post has shifted its formerly left-leaning opinion section to the right, but its news coverage remains nonpartisan.

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AdvertisementThe official added that direct contacts between Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi and U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff had been suspended, reflecting mounting tensions. In an interview with CBS News on Tuesday, Trump vowed “very strong action” if Iran executes protesters. An Iranian official told Reuters on Tuesday that about 2,000 people had been killed. Asked what he meant by “help is on its way”, Trump told reporters on Tuesday they would have to figure that out. Trump on Monday announced 25% import tariffs on products from any country doing business with Iran - a major oil exporter.

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The State Department revoked more than 100,000 foreign visas in 2025, more than twice that of 2024 in the final year of President Joe Biden’s administration. In 2024, the department revoked 40,000 visas. The State Department revoked more than 100,000 foreign visas in 2025. Nearly 500 students lost visas for drug possession and distribution and hundreds of foreign workers lost visas because they were believed to be abusing children, according to a department spokesperson. In August 2025, the Trump administration announced it was reviewing all 55 million foreigners who have valid U.S. visas.

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The FBI raided the home of a Washington Post reporter early on Wednesday in what the newspaper called a “highly unusual and aggressive” move by law enforcement, and press freedom groups condemned as a “tremendous intrusion” by the Trump administration. The warrant, she said, was executed “at the home of a Washington Post journalist who was obtaining and reporting classified and illegally leaked information from a Pentagon contractor. The federal investigation into Perez-Lugones, the Post said, involved documents found in his lunchbox and his basement, according to an FBI affidavit. The criminal complaint against him does not accuse him of leaking classified information, the newspaper said. Press freedom groups were united in their condemnation of the raid on Wednesday.