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Update: ICE spokespeople directed Wisconsin Examiner to a post made on X (formerly known as Twitter) announcing the arrest of Kevin Lopez, 36, a Mexican citizen, who the post said is facing state charges of sexual assault of a minor, and sexual assault of an unconscious victim. The post states that Lopez had been previously arrested by local authorities for cannabis possession. Online court records confirm the charges against Lopez.

Another Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrest was made at the Milwaukee County Courthouse on May 7. Chief Judge Carl Ashley said he was told the arrest occurred after a court hearing. Since March, at least four people have been arrested for immigration enforcement in or near the courthouse. Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan was charged with obstruction after escorting a man sought by ICE into a public hallway outside her courtroom.

India and Pakistan accused each other Thursday of carrying out waves of drone attacks, as deadly confrontations between the nuclear-armed foes drew global calls for calm.

The fighting comes two weeks after New Delhi blamed Islamabad for backing an attack on the Indian-run side of disputed Kashmir, which Pakistan denied.

Robert Francis Prevost, the first pope from the United States, has a history of missionary work in Peru but his powerful role within the Roman Curia has also given him a keen grasp of the inner workings of the Church.

The new Leo XIV, who was born in Chicago, was entrusted by his predecessor Francis to head the Dicastery for Bishops, a key Vatican department that advises the pontiff on appointments.

Germany's new Chancellor Friedrich Merz discussed the Ukraine war and trade rows with US President Donald Trump on Thursday and said the United States remained Berlin's "indispensable" partner, using their first phone call to attempt to heal frayed ties.

Since Trump returned to the White House, he has rattled Europe with head-pinning changes in security and trade policy, while his top administration officials have strongly supported Germany's far-right AfD party.

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to allow it to revoke the legal status of hundreds of thousands of migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela.

Solicitor General John Sauer asked for the lifting of a lower court order barring the administration from ending humanitarian protections for migrants from the four nations.

New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman said President Donald Trump’s praise for newly elected Pope Leo XIV is a sign he’s trying to tamp down his constant brawling.

Speaking to CNN’s Jake Tapper on Thursday, Haberman said Trump’s warm compliments for the new pope in a Truth Social post – where he said it was “a Great Honor for our Country” to have the first American pope, who he said he looks forward to meeting – was a shift in his previous tone toward the Vatican.

New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman suggested Thursday afternoon that a connection of one of President Donald Trump's picks may have gotten her name nixed from a prominent role in his administration.

Haberman joined Jake Tapper on CNN's "The Lead" to discuss new reporting that Trump is considering Fox News co-host and former New York judge and prosecutor Jeanine Pirro to serve as interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.

President Donald Trump's acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia was spat on by an irate woman while on air giving an interview to Newsmax, and right-wing commentators threw an immediate fit.

Ed Martin, a far-right legal activist, has repeatedly stirred up outrage and chaos as D.C.'s top federal prosecutor, including sending intimidation letters to a number of organizations Trump was annoyed with. After he publicly praised a Nazi-sympathizing Jan. 6 rioter who dressed up as Hitler, Senate Republicans pressured Trump into withdrawing his nomination to serve in the role permanently. He is now reportedly considering Fox News personality and former New York judge Jeanine Pirro for the role instead.

President Donald Trump held an Oval Office event with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer on speaker phone Thursday morning to discuss what Trump painted as a new trade deal, which he said he negotiated.

But the purported "deal" led two writers at The Bulwark to crack up laughing.

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) continued her takedown of Haverford College President Wendy Raymond on Thursday, whom she accused of hiding behind scripted remarks at a congressional hearing on antisemitism a day earlier.

It marked the second straight day Stefanik, a member of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, publicly rebuked Raymond after the college leader appeared on Capitol Hill to answer questions surrounding campus antisemitism.

President Donald Trump announced this week that he would end the Digital Equity Act, which provided $2.5 billion in grants to ensure everyone had equal access to the digital economy.

"I have spoken with my wonderful Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, and we agree that the Biden/Harris so-called 'Digital Equity Act' is totally UNCONSTITUTIONAL," Trump wrote Thursday on Truth Social. "No more woke handouts based on race!"

Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance wrote Thursday that a new filing from the lawyers of a Maryland father detained and sent to El Salvador could mean someone at the White House must testify.

Kilmar Ábrego García was sent to an El Salvador prison in error, according to a Justice Department attorney, despite another judge barring the move.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was well-known and controversial for his conspiracy theories even before being appointed to head up President Donald Trump's Department of Health and Human Services, ranging from the idea that fluoride in tap water is injuring people to the long-debunked idea that vaccines are poisoning children. But now he is pushing a conspiracy theory so bizarre it's virtually incomprehensible to people not tapped into the right-wing media ecosystem, Anna Merlan wrote for Mother Jones.

Specifically, last week, Kennedy confused onlookers by proclaiming, “We have ended HHS’s role as the principal vector in this country for child trafficking. During the Biden administration, HHS became a collaborator in child trafficking for sex and for slavery, and we have ended that. We’re very aggressively going out and trying to find these 300,000 children that were lost by the Biden administration.”