Minnesota officials face a Jan. 9 deadline to turn over child care funding records after the Trump administration froze payments amid fraud allegations.
President Trump said that United States personnel captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife and were flown out of the country as the U.S. military carried out "large scale" strike inside the nation in the early morning hours on Saturday, an operation that came after a monthslong standoff between the two leaders. "This operation was...
Supreme Court weighs Trump tariff authority while White House prepares to name next Fed chair, with both decisions carrying major economic implications.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) claimed Tuesday that Politico reporter Josh Gerstein was “inciting violence against federal agents.” Gerstein, a senior legal affairs reporter at the outlet, said Monday on the social platform X, “At some point, the amateur effort to knock on doors of home daycares intersects with robust stand-your-ground laws.” The post referred...
Pollster Frank Luntz on Tuesday said Republicans would face an uphill battle with voters if the government shuts down in January due to health care deficiencies. “The shutdown that we experienced, the longest ever in American history, started off hurting Democrats more than Republicans; ended up hurting President Trump more than anybody else,” Luntz said...
Flu activity is rising sharply across the country, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), with some areas seeing record-high numbers of illnesses. The numbers come as experts brace for a particularly harsh season driven by a new, mutated variant of the virus that is circulating widely. According to...
Minnesota state Rep. Kristin Robbins (R) says that she warned Gov. Tim Walz (D) about alleged fraud within the state’s social services programs, but to no avail. “He has turned a blind eye for so long that he cannot deny there were so many whistleblower reports, so many media reports,” Robbins told the New York...
Iran on Monday threatened a “harsh and regrettable” response to any aggressive action from the U.S. following President Trump’s warning to Tehran and Hamas. Trump, who met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Florida on Monday to try to advance a ceasefire deal in Gaza, said Iran “may be behaving badly” and threatened unspecified...
Hospitals, nursing homes and other medical facilities are struggling to gain ground on a drug-resistant and deadly fungus that has infected at least 7,000 people in 2025, according to tracking by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shared a video Tuesday of its agents in Minnesota, amid a federal investigation into alleged fraud within the state’s social services programs. The video, which DHS shared to the social platform X, shows a pair of agents from its Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) providing a person in a store,...
The Trump administration's military operations to pressure Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro by targeting "narco-terrorists" have broadened to include a land attack, according to reports out Tuesday. The CIA carried out a drone strike on a port facility in Venezuela last week, The New York Times and CNN both reported. President Trump has described the operation...
The Trump administration on Monday reached an agreement to reevaluate thousands of National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant applications that were stalled or cut because of their perceived connection to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. The agreement between the administration, unions and Democratic state attorneys general resolves part of a lawsuit filed against the administration for canceling hundreds of millions of dollars in research funds. A federal judge in Boston previously ruled that the terminations were unlawful...
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani (D) will hold a private swearing-in ceremony late Wednesday night at an abandoned subway station built more than a century ago. "When Old City Hall Station first opened in 1904 — one of New York’s 28 original subway stations — it was a physical monument to a city that...
Democratic strategist David Axelrod says President Trump’s focus on lavish renovations at the White House and Kennedy Center could hurt Republicans on the ballot in the 2026 midterms. In an interview on CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront,” the former Obama administration official compared Trump to Marie Antoinette, the 18th-century French queen who became known for royal...
