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A report produced by the office of Sen. Adam Schiff reveals that federal immigration enforcement agencies amassed a gigantic weapons stockpile during the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term.

In total, the report released by Schiff (D-Calif.) finds that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) committed to spending over $144 million on weapons and ammunition over the last year, a massive increase over these agencies’ spending on weapons in years past.

White House senior adviser Stephen Miller and former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau got into a heated Twitter exchange on Wednesday after Favreau dismissed Miller's dramatic reaction to Democrats sitting during parts of President Donald Trump's State of the Union address.

Miller ignited the spat by declaring that Democrats' refusal to stand during certain moments of the speech was "a moment that chills to the bone and which will live for a thousand years." Miller was reacting to CNN conservative pundit Scott Jennings calling it the "moment of the night" when Democrats refused to stand for the American victims of violence at the hands of undocumented immigrants.

The husband of Rep. Tony Gonzalez's late aide, who took her own life after being involved in an affair with the Congressman, spoke out on Wednesday during an interview on CNN.

Adrian Aviles, the widower of Regina Santos-Aviles, spoke to CNN's Erin Burnett about the evidence he still has against Gonzalez. The lawmaker has faced growing calls to resign after text messages surfaced between himself and Santos-Aviles that appear to show him coercing her into a sexual relationship.

Increasing public pressure appears to have caused Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to change his tune about a scandal-ridden Republican.

On Monday, Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) faced calls to resign after it was revealed that he was involved in a sex scandal with one of his aides, who later took her own life through self-immolation. Those calls continued throughout the week and may have prompted Johnson to push back against the lawmaker.

Top Republicans are getting itchy, expecting a shakeup in President Donald Trump's Cabinet, fearing it could drag on to the midterms.

Trump has faced mounting pressure to shake up his embattled Cabinet, and senior Republicans are divided over whether the president should make moves now or wait until after Election Day, Semafor reported Wednesday.

Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) identified a clear pattern in a key tranche of files that appear to be missing from the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case files — and what they might reveal about a large-scale effort by the Justice Department to shield President Donald Trump.

These files, per earlier reports, pertain to an unnamed woman who alleges she was sexually assaulted by both Epstein and Trump in the 1980s, when she was a minor.

Police confirmed on Wednesday that a nearly blind Burmese refugee dumped at a Tim Hortons in Buffalo, New York, by Border Patrol agents last week has been found dead, unable to find his way back home through miles of freezing weather.

The death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a Rohingya who fled persecution in his home country, has sparked fury on social media, with experts horrified at the cruelty of his treatment — and others suggesting federal agents should face homicide charges over the incident.

A whistleblower revealed a "terrifying" warning about President Donald Trump's new immigration force recruits during an interview on CNN.

Ryan Schwank, a former Immigration and Customs Enforcement trainer, told CNN's Jake Tapper on Wednesday that ICE's decision to reduce its training standards for new recruits is already having disastrous impacts. He warned that those impacts will likely get worse as new recruits are required to pass fewer training courses than their veteran peers.

An FBI official who served on a working group tasked with carrying out President Donald Trump's retribution campaign is calling it quits, according to a report.

Marshall Yates, the FBI's congressional affairs director, is expected to step down from the FBI on Friday, CBS News reported, citing sources. The former Capitol Hill operative cited a desire to spend more time with family.

A blind refugee in Buffalo was found dead after Border Patrol agents dumped him across town from his house with no means of getting back, according to a report.

According to the nonpartisan Investigative Post, "Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a nearly blind refugee from Burma who Border Patrol agents dropped off at a doughnut shop Thursday and left to find his way home, 5 miles away, has been found dead. City Hall spokesperson Ian Ott said Shah Alam, 56, was found by B District officers after they responded to a call for a dead body on the first block of Perry Street shortly after 8:30 p.m. Tuesday."

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will transfer a large office building to the General Services Administration in a step toward shrinking the department’s footprint in and around Washington, D.C., Secretary Brooke Rollins said Wednesday.

More than 70% of offices at the USDA’s South Building, in Washington, sit empty on any given day, while deferred maintenance costs have piled up past $1 billion, Rollins said at a press conference in front of the building.

A Democrat spoke out on Wednesday after her guest was "forcibly removed" from President Donald Trump's State of the Union address yesterday.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) invited Aliya Rahman, a disabled woman who was seriously injured by Trump's immigration agents in January, to attend Trump's SOTU on Tuesday. At one point, Rahman was removed from the speech while other attendees in the gallery stood quietly, Omar posted on X.

The House Republican caucus faces a new fight as Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) prepares to force a vote to expose all reports of alleged sexual misconduct by sitting members of Congress.

According to NBC News, "The South Carolina congresswoman’s resolution would require the House Ethics Committee to release all sexual misconduct or harassment reports involving members or their staffers. She introduced it after numerous outlets, including NBC News, revealed that GOP Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, sent sexually explicit text messages to a former aide with whom he allegedly had an affair. The aide later died by suicide and an attorney for her husband confirmed the authenticity of the texts to NBC News."