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Judge halts Trump’s $10 billion social safety net funding freeze

A federal judge on Friday paused the Trump administration's $10 billion social safety net funding freeze, temporarily restoring grants to five Democratic-led states. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) had said earlier in the week that the freeze — impacting child care and family assistance funding in California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New...

Trump calls for one-year 10 percent cap on credit card interest rates

President Trump on Friday night called on credit card companies to cap interest rates at 10 percent. “Please be informed that we will no longer let the American Public be ‘ripped off’ by Credit Card Companies that are charging Interest Rates of 20 to 30%, and even more, which festered unimpeded during the Sleepy Joe...

Washington National Opera to leave Kennedy Center amid Trump takeover

The Kennedy Center on Friday confirmed the Washington National Opera (WNO) will leave the renowned venue. “After careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to part ways with the WNO due to a financially challenging relationship,” a Kennedy Center spokesperson told NewsNation. “We believe this represents the best path forward for both organizations and...

Federal judge blocks Trump from cutting childcare funds to Democratic states over fraud concerns

Minnesota, California, New York, Colorado and Illinois won a temporary victory Friday in a lawsuit over a federal funding freeze related to fraud concerns.

How woke Hollywood stifles messages of freedom

Films that are individualistic tend to be very successful — but Hollywood wants to...

House Democrat: ‘Part of the intent’ of Maduro ouster is to send Venezuelans back

Democratic Rep. Ami Bera (Calif.) said Sunday that the Trump administration’s motives for capturing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro goes beyond stopping the flow of drugs and sanctioned oil from the South American country. “I do think part of the intent of the administration is now that they have a different administration in Venezuela that they...

Epstein, health care and a shutdown fight: Here’s what the House faces in January

The House will return from a holiday break to face sagas that have vexed the chamber for months. Debates on health care and attempts to revive expired ObamaCare subsidies will stretch into January and the first quarter of the year. An end-of-month funding deadline poses a threat of a partial government shutdown. And the Department...

Rubio: Venezuela strikes ‘a law enforcement operation,’ not ‘invasion’

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Sunday that the U.S. military activity in Venezuela this weekend did not require congressional approval because it was a law enforcement operation, not a prolonged invasion of a foreign country. In an interview on ABC News’s “This Week,” Rubio defended the operation against claims that it was illegal....

Top House Intelligence Democrat labels Venezuela operation ‘imperial adventure’

Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), the ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, on Sunday labeled the recent U.S. operation in Venezuela an “imperial adventure.” “Look, this is a long pattern and a particularly egregious example of a pattern of this administration not giving a hoot about the United States Congress, which, by the way, Jim...

Buy any of these beef cuts between 2014 and 2019? You may qualify for payment in $87.5M settlement

If you purchased any of the more than 280 cut types, you may qualify for a payment.

Noem: Venezuelans under TPS can apply for refugee status

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Sunday that Venezuelans in the U.S. who were previously under temporary protective status (TPS) can apply for asylum. “Every individual that was under TPS has the opportunity to apply for refugee status and that evaluation will go forward,” Noem told host Gillian Turner on “Fox News Sunday.” Noem ended...

Trump threatens Maduro successor: The Atlantic

President Trump on Sunday reportedly threatened Venezuela’s new leader, Delcy Rodríguez, after the U.S. ousted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. "If she doesn’t do what’s right, she is going to pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro," Trump told The Atlantic's Michael Scherer in a Sunday phone interview. Rodríguez, who assumed her role shortly...

Jeffries: Administration has shown ‘no evidence’ Maduro posed ‘imminent threat’

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) pushed back Sunday on the Trump administration’s justification for capturing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. “There's been no evidence that the administration has presented to justify the actions that were taken in terms of there being an imminent threat to the health, the safety, the well-being, the national security of...

Rubio: Talks about Venezuelan elections ‘premature’

Secretary of State Marco Rubio believes it is too early to discuss holding elections in Venezuela. “All of that, I think, is premature at this point. There’s a lot of work to be done here,” Rubio told host Kristen Welker on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” After U.S. forces captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his...

Target is expanding: Here’s where new stores are expected

Have you been longing to go for a Target run, only to have no Target to run to? That could be changing soon.

Don’t let this housing crisis go to waste

Overly restrictive zoning, cautious lending and anti-development politics created a long freeze in housing production.

Flights resume after FAA restricts Caribbean airspace following Venezuela strikes

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced overnight that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) would allow airlines to resume flights in the Caribbean after flights were cancelled over U.S. strikes in Venezuela Saturday. "The original restrictions around the Caribbean airspace are expiring at 12:00am ET and flights can resume," Duffy wrote on the social media platform X...

North Korea fires missiles ahead of South Korea leader’s visit to China

North Korea on Sunday fired a number of ballistic missiles to its east prior to South Korean President Lee Jae Myung heading to China, the South Korean military said, according to The Associated Press. Per the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff, the military identified multiple launches of ballistic missiles in the capital region of...

America First is putting human rights last

The Trump administration’s foreign policy does not make America safer, stronger, or more prosperous.

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