President Trump said he is increasing tariffs on Canada by 10% because of an ad that was broadcast in Canada that featured audio from a 1987 speech from former President Ronald Reagan, where he opposed tariffs.
Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro on Saturday slammed President Trump’s effort to receive a $230 million payment from the Department of Justice (DOJ) as compensation for the various federal probes into his conduct. “I think that it’s rife with conflicts of interest,” Shapiro told NewsNation’s Batya Ungar-Sargon. “I cannot see a world in which that does...
Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) has taken the polling lead over Democratic primary challenger Graham Platner in the Pine Tree State's 2026 Senate race, according to a survey released Saturday. The SoCal Strategies Maine Poll found Mills garnering 41 percent support from likely voters surveyed, while Platner received 36 percent. A fifth of respondents were...
Secretary of State MarcoRubio discusses international stabilization force for Gaza as the Trump administration works to solidify Middle East peace agreement.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced Friday it would end protections from deportation for Syrians living in the U.S., paving the way to return citizens to a country recently ravaged by civil war. The announcement came as Temporary Protected Status (TPS) was set to end for Syrians at the end of the month, ending...
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R) said he’s glad late night comedian Jimmy Kimmel is off the air indefinitely, but he warned that Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Brendan Carr’s threat to take action against ABC sounded like something “right out of Goodfellas,” the classic mob movie, and “dangerous as hell.” “Jimmy Kimmel has mocked me...
The Trump administration turned to the Supreme Court for the second time Friday as it seeks to forge ahead with its efforts to strip protections from deportation for Venezuelans in the U.S. The Friday filing asks the high court to block an appeals court decision that found Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem lacked the authority...
Former Transportation Secretary and Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg criticized Republican redistricting efforts at a Thursday rally in Indiana, accusing the other party of “cheating” in their attempts to redraw congressional maps. “They want the outcome of the election to be decided before you even get to go vote,” Buttigieg said during the rally, which...
Federal prosecutors said Friday they will seek to imprison the person who attempted to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh at his home in 2022 for at least 30 years and up to life. Prosecutors’ sentencing memo came as the defendant’s public defenders newly indicated their client now uses female pronouns and goes by Sophie Roske. “She has not asked...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Friday signed a slate of bills regarding climate and clean energy in an effort to “lower electricity costs, stabilize the petroleum market and slash air pollution.” The measures signed into law include legislation to increase climate credits on utility bills, expand regional power markets out West, add $18 billion...
Fewer Republican voters said the U.S. is headed in the right direction following the recent killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah, according to a survey released Friday. The new Associated Press (AP)-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll found that now over half of GOP voters, 51 percent, think the country is heading...
Mike Eisner, the former longtime CEO of Disney, is criticizing the company's current leadership for suspending Jimmy Kimmel following pressure from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over comments the comedian made about the recent assassination of Charlie Kirk. "Where has all the leadership gone," Eisner wrote Friday in a post on social platform X. "If not...
The Senate on Friday confirmed Mike Waltz as President Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations, filling a key post days before the United Nations General Assembly kicks off in New York next week. Waltz’s nomination was delayed for months amid pushback from some Senate Democrats, although Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) had expressed support for his...
Taliban officials rejected President Trump’s suggestion that Bagram Air Base near Kabul could return to U.S. control after it was abandoned during the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan under the Biden administration. The Taliban indicated it is willing to talk with the Trump administration about the base — which was built by the Soviet Union...
CNN anchor Jake Tapper called ABC's decision to suspend comedian Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show a "direct" violation of the First Amendment, accusing the broadcaster of stifling speech critical of President Trump and his allies. “If we do not have the ability to criticize, mock, investigate our leaders, we are no longer the United States of...
Three Russian fighter jets flew into Estonian airspace on Friday in what the country’s top diplomat called an “unprecedented and brazen intrusion.” The three Russian MiG-31s flew into Estonian airspace for 12 minutes, Margus Tsahkna, Estonia’s minister of foreign affairs, wrote in a post on X. Tsahkna said that the Russian charge d’affaires was summoned...
