President Trump on Thursday suggested the United States will “very soon” take action against alleged Venezuelan drug traffickers on land after weeks of repeated strikes in the Caribbean. “In recent weeks, you’ve been working to deter Venezuelan drug traffickers, of which there are many," Trump told military personnel in remarks on Thanksgiving. "Of course, there...
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) opened up in a revealing Wednesday interview alongside his wife Kelly, sharing some of the challenges he has faced since taking the reins of the lower chamber amid Republicans' razor-thin majority. Johnson in an interview on The Katie Miller Podcast said his life was a daily “triage” packed with constant...
War Secretary Pete Hegseth and wife Jennifer spend Thanksgiving serving meals to Navy sailors supporting Southern Spear, a mission targeting narco-terror networks across Latin America.
A federal judge has asked the Justice Department to provide information on what materials are subject to protection and how it will protect victims of the deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as documents get released.
President Trump doubled down on his claim that a group of Democratic lawmakers with backgrounds in military or intelligence service have committed sedition by encouraging servicemembers to defy unlawful orders. In a pair of posts on his Truth Social platform late Saturday, the president said those lawmakers should be in jail, rather than defending themselves...
Once celebrated as “the world’s most deliberative body,” the U.S. Senate has sunk to new lows. Buried in the 394-page bill to end the federal government shutdown, one provision serves as an example of what Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) has called “self-serving, self-dealing kind of stuff.” Easy to miss in the 24/7 news cycle preoccupied...
President Trump said Jack Nicklaus, the retired professional golfer, will oversee an overhaul of the golf courses at Joint Base Andrews. Trump told reporters he was tapping Nicklaus as the architect of the project on Saturday before boarding Marine One to head to Andrews, where he later took an aerial tour of the landscape. “We’re...
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) on Sunday said he is pessimistic about the bipartisan push for a congressional stock trading ban becoming a reality, describing the issue as the "fox guarding the henhouse." "We're not going to pass anything," Burchett said during an appearance on John Catsimatidis’s radio show, “Cats Roundtable,” on WABC 770 AM. "Or...
A new strain of the flu called subclade K could make for a particularly nasty flu season across the country, according to public health experts. The strain already caused Japan to declare an influenza epidemic. The United Kingdom's flu season started a month earlier than usual, a trend also playing out across the Atlantic. U.S....
Legal experts and White House critics are worried the Justice Department (DOJ) could become a piggy bank for those with grievances as President Trump and a number of his allies pursue million-dollar settlement claims. While Trump’s push for $230 million in compensation for two probes into his conduct would be the most lucrative of the...
Justice is elusive for many impacted by the deadly realities of a multi-billion dollar industry: human trafficking. A KXAN investigation reveals while Texas is a leader in legislation to stop it, few people actually face trafficking charges. We uncover difficulties Texas prosecutors face in dismantling modern-day slavery and what it means for those seeking accountability.
State Department officials on Saturday aggressively pushed back on claims shared by some senators that President Trump's 28-point plan for peace in Ukraine originated from Russia and is not the administration's position. Earlier on Saturday, PBS NewsHour correspondent Nick Schifrin reported comments from Sens. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) and Angus King (I-Maine) where the lawmakers claimed...
Texas Governor Greg Abbott confirmed that Texas National Guard troops who were deployed to Illinois in October have been ordered to return back to the Lone Star State before Thanksgiving.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's shocking announcement that she is leaving Congress in January is still reverberating in Washington and beyond. The news, delivered Friday in a lengthy statement, appears to have caught some people off guard — including President Trump, whose feud with the Georgia Republican and the beef's rippling effects played a role in...
With Thanksgiving less than a week away, the holiday season is here whether any of us are ready or not. Last year, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) estimated that nearly 39 million people were screened at U.S. airports between Dec. 19 and Jan. 2 — so you can always count on a busy time at...
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has warned pivots to "exercise caution" when operating in the region around Venezuela because of the "worsening security situation and heightened military activity" in and near the South American nation as tensions with the United States simmer. The FAA's advisory, issued on Friday, notes that "threats could post a potential...
NCAA athletes and athletic department staff will not be allowed to bet on professional sports after the organization's membership voted Friday to rescind a rule change that would have permitted those bets. The move follows a string of high-profile gambling cases that have raised questions about the integrity of competition in college and pro sports....
