President Donald Trump is poised to sign the first bill of his new administration. It's named after a slain Georgia nursing ...

The Laken Riley Act, as the bill is known, directs the authorities to deport immigrants who are accused — not yet convicted — ...

Who was Laken Riley? Georgia nursing student who was brutally killed by Jose Antonio Ibarra, who entered the US illegally in September 2022.

President Joe Biden will deliver a eulogy at President Jimmy Carter’s funeral. The U.S. Senate will vote on whether to advance the Laken Riley Act. The House has scheduled a vote on legislation ...

The first of these is the Laken Riley Act, being reintroduced by Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., and teed up for a vote by the end of the week. The measure was named for the 22-year-old Augusta ...

The Laken Riley Act would require ICE to detain immigrants without legal permission who commit theft-related crimes. The bill, named after a Georgia nursing student killed by an immigrant without ...

Democrats in the U.S. Senate on Thursday helped Republicans advance an immigration bill named after murdered nursing student Laken Riley, but some experts are questioning whether they really know ...

The Laken Riley Act was named after the 22-year-old Georgia nursing student who was murdered in 2024 by a Venezuelan man who entered the U.S. illegally. The bill mandates the detention of illegal ...

ATLANTA — The U.S. House of Representatives has passed Republican-backed legislation named in honor of Georgia murder victim Laken Riley as the first act of the new Congress. The Laken Riley Act ...

The Senate voted 84-9 on Thursday to begin debate on the Laken Riley Act, with only nine Democratic senators voting against it and five not voting at all. The House passed the bill by a vote of ...