Republicans cleared hundreds of millions in funding for the U.S. Agency for Global Media, despite President Donald Trump's order attempting to shutter the broadcasting agency last year.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) pushed back on the Trump administration’s claims about the woman who was fatally shot Wednesday by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer. “There’s no indication she’s a protester, there’s nothing that at least you can see on the video, and therefore nothing that the officers on the ground could see...
Vice President Vance and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will brief reporters Thursday afternoon, a day after a woman was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in Minneapolis. The Trump administration has sought to justify the deadly shooting as an act of self-defense. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Wednesday...
The Trump administration is withdrawing the United States’ membership from 66 international organizations, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on Wednesday. The list includes 31 United Nations organizations and several agencies committed to countering the global impacts of climate change and international peacebuilding, including the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, the Global Counterterrorism Forum and the...
Senate Democrats on Wednesday said they are investigating the communications between President Trump and several oil companies regarding the recent U.S. strikes on Venezuela and "efforts to exploit" the South American nation's resources. "The Senators are requesting documents and information regarding the companies’ knowledge of the strikes, discussions with Trump Administration officials before and since...
President Trump, in an interview with The New York Times, said the U.S. could be in control of Venezuela for years. “I would say much longer,” Trump told The Times in a two-hour interview published Thursday, when asked if the U.S. would oversee Venezuela for months, a year or longer. He added, “Only time will tell."...
House Republicans, in a rare show of defiance on Thursday, will take up votes on measures openly challenging President Trump and conference leaders. The lower chamber will weigh a move to override Trump's veto of two bipartisan, uncontroversial bills caught in political crosshairs. It will also vote to extend the expired Obamacare subsidies, an effort...
The Minneapolis woman fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer on Wednesday was a mother and new to the city, The Associated Press reported. Renee Nicole Macklin Good, whose death has sparked widespread outrage in the last 24 hours, was 37 years old and had three children. Originally from Colorado, her move...
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) says that a U.S. military invasion of Greenland would be “weapons-grade stupid” and he doesn’t think that President Trump or Secretary of State Marco Rubio will attempt such a move despite tough talk from some White House officials. “Let me give you my perspective. Even a modestly intelligent ninth grader knows...
