A federal appeals court ruled late Wednesday that the Trump administration acted illegally when it ended legal protections that gave hundreds of thousands of people from Venezuela permission to live and work in the United States.
President Trump said he ordered his team to reopen airspace over Venezuela on Thursday, four weeks after the U.S. raid to capture strongman Nicolas Maduro and several years after commercial airlines paused direct flights to the South American country.
Congressional leaders and the White House are discussing a plan to avoid a second prolonged government shutdown by passing a short-term stopgap spending bill for the Department of Homeland Security.
Video of Alex Pretti’s previous confrontation with federal immigration agents shows that he had allowed himself to become consumed by a deranged political ideology that legitimizes street violence, which explains how he found himself in the lethal position he did in his last confrontation. Newly released video from Jan. 13 in Minneapolis shows Pretti screaming […]
President Trump on Thursday will sign an executive order that aims to coordinate a federal plan to combat drug addiction and substance abuse. The "White House Great American Recovery Initiative" will advise federal agencies to issue grants in support of addiction recovery and education, according to the fact sheet obtained by CBS News. The panel...
The Senate Agriculture Committee advanced part of a key cryptocurrency bill Thursday without Democratic support. The panel voted 12-11 along party lines to advance its portion of the market structure legislation, which aims to clearly divide oversight of crypto markets between two financial regulators. The vote marks a major step forward for the bill in...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed charges against the man who attacked Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) at a recent press conference, The Associated Press reported. Anthony Kazmierczak, a 55-year-old man, has been charged with forcibly assaulting, opposing, impeding and intimidating Omar after he sprayed the Minnesota congresswoman with a mixture of water and apple...
Seven Republican senators on Thursday voted against advancing a six-bill funding package to keep the government open past Friday, citing concerns about the ballooning federal deficit and what they saw as the failure of the so-called appropriations minibus to significantly cut spending Sens. Ted Budd (R-N.C.), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Ashley Moody (R-Fla.),...
Democrats have been getting hammered with the same question for months: Where’s your plan? Well, now they’re putting it on paper. And it’s really not some abstract, academic wish list; it’s three very specific demands tied to Homeland Security funding, coming as the clock ticks toward a shutdown deadline and after federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis last weekend. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says his caucus is...
Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s (D-Minn.) announcement Thursday that she’s running for Minnesota governor makes her the fourth lawmaker in the U.S. Senate to launch a gubernatorial campaign. Klobuchar joins a growing number of politicians looking to get out of Washington, D.C., and back to their home states. Sens. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Michael...
The Trump administration has reportedly taken meetings with a fringe, far-right separatist group from the oil-rich province of Alberta, Canada, amid rock-bottom relations between Washington and Ottawa. British Columbia Premier David Eby on Thursday sharply criticized the meetings between the Alberta Prosperity Project (APP) and the Trump administration as amounting to “treason,” responding to reporting by...
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem did not speak during President Trump’s Cabinet meeting on Thursday amid the administration’s shift in messaging on federal immigration operations in Minnesota. Noem was not the only Cabinet secretary to sit silently and not be called on during Thursday's televised meeting, however the president has had each secretary speak in...
Why are left-wingers STILL denying that Charlie Kirk was killed by someone on their team? It’s been months, and I thought this vicious lie had been debunked numerous times. But here we go again. Tiffany Cross is a progressive pundit and podcast host. She previously had a show on MSNBC, and now makes occasional appearances on CNN. This week, she joined the...
