Amelia Benavides-Colón

Your girl is officially based in D.C. covering Virginia politics for @NOTUSreports as a member of @AJI_Fellowships🎉 Add me to your listservs, send tips and let me take you for coffee: [email protected] 💖

Democrats were quick to defend the party’s New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani this week after President Donald Trump threatened to arrest him over his campaign promises to enact sanctuary city policies. notus.org/new-york/democ…

The Pentagon is withdrawing 700 active-duty Marines from duty in Los Angeles, the latest pullback from President Donald Trump’s controversial deployments to the city in response to immigration-related protests. notus.org/us-news/pentag…

New from FAA, the air traffic control tower in North Dakota - which had cleared the flight for landing - is a private company. "Air traffic services were provided by the Minot air traffic control tower, which is run by a private company. These controllers are not FAA employees."

The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a near-miss between a passenger Delta flight and a B-52 bomber over North Dakota. notus.org/us-news/faa-in…

Nearly all of them voted to scale up Trump’s mass deportation agenda. Some are quietly working to protect select immigrants from it. House Republicans are grappling with the administration’s hardline enforcement policies playing out in their districts: notus.org/immigration/re…

NEW: Senate Judiciary Republicans advanced a slate of judicial nominees, including Emil Bove and Jeanine Pirro, on their own Thursday morning as Democrats walked out of the committee hearing. notus.org/senate/senate-…

U.S. Capitol Police said they arrested a 23-year-old Oregon resident Wednesday morning after his vehicle was found parked in a congressional staff parking area filled with various weapons. notus.org/congress/capit…

NEW: Dems and Republicans will play *together* in tonight’s Congressional Women’s Softball Game — which they say keeps the little bipartisanship left in Congress alive “We all have to do hard things,” one lawmaker said, “we can’t keep hating each other” notus.org/congress/congr…

DHS dismissed a report about overcrowding and food shortages at immigrant detention centers, saying Monday that it was “FAKE NEWS.” notus.org/immigration/dh…

Norman, Oklahoma was ready to build the same kind of flood warning system that could have saved lives in Texas — until Trump took away the funding I found a long list of places with similar stories👇 notus.org/climate-enviro…

Big Tech is hiring fewer recent grads than before. Now, California lawmakers worry that Congress won't be ready for a world where most coders are replaced by AI. “We’re deeply unprepared to respond to this issue,” Rep. Sam Liccardo told @NOTUSreports. notus.org/technology/law…

Texas State Senator Angela Paxton filed for divorce from her husband Attorney General Ken Paxton today, adding a new wrinkle in an already ugly Senate primary. notus.org/texas/ken-paxt…

Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill are calling for an apology after Florida Republican Rep. Randy Fine seemingly referred to Rep. Ilhan Omar as a “Muslim terrorist.” This isn't Fine's first attack against Muslims in Congress. notus.org/congress/democ…

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. abruptly cancelled a U.S. Preventive Services Task Force meeting this week, raising alarm bells for members worried that it might be Kennedy’s latest target for a purge. notus.org/health-science…

Zohran Mamdani won NYC's mayoral primary on a campaign of housing affordability. Some Democrats in Congress agree it should be a top priority. “Certainly it lets us know that cost is the biggest issue,” Rep. Darren Soto told us. Latest w/ @samuellarreal_ notus.org/housing/zohran…

Exclusive: Internal White House emails I obtained detail the Trump administration’s scramble to strip millions from the University of Pennsylvania after a senior official told staff that “POTUS wants to see more action against universities.” notus.org/trump-white-ho…

A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from preventing migrants who crossed the southern border anywhere other than a recognized port of entry from applying for asylum. The Trump administration told me they "expect to be vindicated on appeal.” notus.org/courts/judge-b…

Rep. Carlos Gimenez of Florida has formally launched a bid to become chair of the House Committee on Homeland Security, according to a letter of intent obtained by NOTUS. notus.org/congress/rep-c…

A federal website hosting congressionally mandated climate reports has gone dark, eliminating one of the country’s most reliable sources of information about climate change. notus.org/trump-white-ho…

As California wildfires rage during peak wildfire season, the state's National Guard wildfire unit is understaffed due to Trump's deployments to LA. The commander in charge of the LA troops is requesting a portion of them return to wildfire duty. notus.org/california/tru…