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The question is no longer whether Trumpism will survive beyond Trump; the question is how Trumpism will continue to evolve and whether American democracy is prepared for its next phase.
The White House said Sunday night that a U.S.-Colombia agreement had come together in the wake of a back-and-forth between the two countries over topics including immigration and tariffs. "The Government of Colombia has agreed to all of President Trump’s terms, including the unrestricted acceptance of all illegal aliens from Colombia returned from the United...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered the suspension of visa issuance at the U.S. Embassy in Bogota, Colombia, the State Department said Sunday. In a media note, the State Department’s Office of the Spokesperson said the secretary “immediately ordered a suspension of visa issuance at the U.S. Embassy Bogota consular section” in the wake of...
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Sunday that “Colombia and all nations should be on notice” after President Trump said he was placing tariffs and a travel ban on the South American country. “Colombia and all nations should be on notice - Congress is fully prepared to pass sanctions and other measures against those that...
The White House said that a ceasefire involving Israel and Lebanon had been extended in a Sunday statement. The ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel, announced by former President Biden in November, is now set “to be in effect until February 18, 2025,” the statement reads. An earlier ceasefire agreement had a time span of 60...
Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Sunday ordered an increase of import tariffs on goods from the United States in retaliation to President Trump's tariffs and sanctions. Petro, in a post on the social platform X, said he ordered the "foreign trade minister to raise import tariffs from the U.S. by 25%." "American products whose price...
Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) said Sunday he will introduce legislation to sanction Colombia this week after the country’s president reportedly denied entry to two planes carrying deported migrants from the U.S. “This week I will introduce legislation to impose new sanctions on Colombia for refusing @realDonaldTrump’s migrant repatriation flights,” Moreno wrote on the social platform...
A top Department of Justice (DOJ) official and President Trump’s “border czar” were in Chicago overseeing “immigration enforcement efforts,” according to officials. “The DEA, along with our @TheJusticeDept partners, is assisting @DHSgov and other federal law enforcement partners with their immigration enforcement efforts,” the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) Chicago Division said in a Sunday post...
Vice President Vance defended President Trump’s decision to issue sweeping pardons to roughly 1,500 individuals charged in connection to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, including to those accused of assaulting police officers. In an interview on CBS News’s “Face the Nation,” host Margaret Brennan asked Vance about remarks he made two weeks...
President Trump’s new federal hiring freeze has congressional lawmakers and former service members worried that operations at Veterans Affairs (VA) medical facilities will be hindered. The government-wide freeze, which came on Day 1 of Trump’s presidency via executive order, could prevent critical health care roles from being filled and complicate care for veterans, its critics...
The chair of Yad Vashem, Israel’s official Holocaust memorial, said Sunday tech billionaire Elon Musk’s call for Germans to “move beyond” the crimes of Nazi Germany is dangerous for the country’s democratic future. “Contrary to @elonmusk advice, the remembrance and acknowledgement of the dark past of the country and its people should be central in...
