In his first interview since being sworn in as defense secretary, Pete Hegseth sought to clarify how the federal government plans to use Guantánamo Bay to detain migrants being deported from the United States.

Trump said he doesn’t trust some countries to hold potential deportees who have been convicted of serious crimes

Donald Trump says he will use a detention center at Guantánamo Bay to hold tens of thousands of criminal immigrants in the U.S. illegally.

Newly sworn-in President Donald Trump on Monday revoked the Biden administration's last-minute decision to remove Cuba from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism, the White House said.

Donald Trump's team say the pause in some federal assistance still applies, but the withdrawal of the memo has sparked further confusion.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel condemned President Donald Trump's announcement that 30,000 deported migrants would be housed at the Guantanamo Bay Naval base. Díaz-Canel called the move an "act of brutality" and said the base is "illegally occupied" in Cuba in a post to X on Wednesday.

US President Donald Trump reversed Joe Biden's decision to remove Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism, just hours after his inauguration. Biden had planned to remove Cuba from the list in exchange for the release of 553 prisoners.

This is not the first time the naval base has been used to hold refugees trying to enter the U.S. illegally | Opinion

Critics, including the human rights organization Amnesty International, slammed President Donald Trump ’s announcement about opening a detention center at Cuba’s Guantánamo Bay to house up to 30,000 undocumented immigrants. “We’re going to send them out to Guantánamo,” the president said Wednesday, just before signing the Laken Riley Act into law.

Sometimes more talking doesn't produce more clarity. One afternoon, Trump told reporters that there were “no surprises” when Republican Sens. Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski decided to oppose Pete Hegseth to lead the Pentagon. The next morning, Trump said he was “very surprised” by their votes.

Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, is back on Capitol Hill on Thursday facing a second Senate panel in as many days as he vies for confirmation to lead a nearly $2 trillion agency.