Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday pushed for “dialogue” between the United States and Venezuela amid recent tension between the two countries. “The signals coming from the United States change, and so we must see. … On the one hand, it seems there has been a telephone conversation between the two presidents; on the other hand,…
Top House Democrats are accusing the Trump administration of scapegoating a Navy admiral to deflect blame for potential war crimes. The Democrats contend the White House decision to single out Adm. Frank Bradley as the person who ordered a “double-tap” strike against suspected drug runners in the Caribbean is part of a broader pattern of…
President Trump’s threats to crack down on immigration are leaving migrants bracing as the administration said it will close the door on many legal pathways to the U.S. following a shooting that killed a National Guard member. Since the Wednesday shooting killed 20-year-old Sarah Beckstrom, Trump and his Cabinet members have proposed a dizzying number…
President Trump’s threats to crack down on immigration are leaving migrants bracing as the administration said it will close the door on many legal pathways to the U.S. following a shooting that killed a National Guard member. Since the Wednesday shooting killed 20-year-old Sarah Beckstrom, Trump and his Cabinet members have proposed a dizzying number…
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) said Tuesday that Republican leaders are “looking at other places” to include a measure that would block state AI laws after running into difficulties adding the provision into an annual defense bill. The push to include AI preemption in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), an effort backed by […]
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Tuesday that he did not “stick around” to see the second U.S. military strike in early September against an alleged drug-trafficking boat that killed two survivors in the Caribbean. “I watched that first strike live. As you can imagine, at the Department of War, we got a lot of…
Billionaires Michael and Susan Dell unveiled plans to donate $6.25 billion to investment accounts for 25 million children Tuesday. The two joined President Trump and Republican officials at the White House to formally announce their donation, which Trump described as “one of the largest private donations in American history.” “It’s an amazing act of just…
The Trump administration is backing Monsanto in its effort to get the Supreme Court to shield it from liability over cancer claims related to its Roundup weedkiller, a move that could anger the Trump administration’s allies in the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement. The Trump administration filed a brief with the Supreme Court arguing […]
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday labeled President Trump’s pardon of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández as “truly disgustingly” as the administration receives bipartisan blowback for the action. Schumer laid into the president over the move, which saw Hernández pardoned mere months into a 45-year sentence after being convicted on drug trafficking…
Right-wing media figures Laura Loomer and former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) were among members of the press who sat for a rare briefing with Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson on Tuesday. Gaetz, the lawmaker once floated for attorney general and now a host for the pro-Trump media outlet One America News Network, was called on…