President Trump, responding to the shooting death of anti-ICE activist Alex Pretti, appears on the verge of withdrawing federal agents who have swarmed Minneapolis to hunt down illegal immigrants, sparking increasingly violent street protests.
President Trump disparaged his own Cabinet meetings in an interview published Monday, saying they are "boring as hell" and can't wait to get out of them while denying that he's lost some of his vigor.
President Donald Trump announced that his border czar, Tom Homan, will go to Minneapolis this week following the fatal shooting of an ICU nurse Saturday in the Midwestern city that has become the epicenter of opposition to the president's controversial immigration crackdown.
Vice President J.D. Vance was the top choice for the Republican presidential nomination in a straw poll conducted at the National Pro-Life Summit, the latest in a series of polls putting him at the front of the 2028 pack.
The White House accused Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and other state officials Monday of urging agitators to protest against immigration enforcement and cause chaos in Minneapolis' streets as a distraction from federal fraud probes against the officials.
President Trump's trip to Iowa on Tuesday marks a pivot to domestic issues in a make-or-break midterm year, after an intense focus on foreign trade and settling wars during the first 12 months of his term.
Democrat ic officials and voting-rights advocates are raising increasingly urgent warnings that President Trump's immigration crackdown in Minnesota is part of a broader effort to influence the 2026 election.
Senate Homeland Security Committee Chair Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has sent letters to the heads of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to testify before his committee amid growing public controversy over immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis and other communities. Paul informed the leaders of...
The Republican Party’s determined defense of President Trump’s deportation efforts is cracking in the wake of the fatal shooting of a second civilian protester in Minneapolis over the weekend. For the past year, GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill have been virtually united in supporting Trump’s immigrant crackdown, saying the deployment of federal law enforcement officers...
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), a frequent independent voice among Senate Democrats, condemned the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota but said he is unwilling to force a government shutdown over funding disputes involving the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). In a statement Monday, the Pennsylvania Democrat called for the federal operation to end as he mourned...
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) pushed for the retraining of every federal immigration officer in the wake of two shooting deaths this month at the hands of federal immigration authorities in Minneapolis. “Well, the first thing we have to do is demand that they pull these officers out of all of our cities and that...
The U.S. Coast Guard suspended the search Sunday evening for the lone survivor of the U.S. military’s strike on an alleged drug boat in the eastern Pacific on Friday, an operation during which two suspected “narco-terrorists” were killed on impact. The Coast Guard ended its effort at 7:46 p.m. PST after 56 hours of searching,...
Former NBA player Chris Dudley on Monday announced his bid to unseat incumbent Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek (D) by vying for the Republican nomination. Marion County Commissioner Danielle Bethell is also competing in the GOP primary. Dudley launched a gubernatorial campaign in 2010, after playing 16 seasons of professional basketball for the Cleveland Cavaliers, New...
The Education Department and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced on Monday they are seeking enforcement action against Minnesota over its policies around transgender athletes. The two federal agencies opened a Title IX investigation against the state’s Department of Education and High School League in response to policies allowing transgender girls on women’s sports teams. The...
