Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico fiercely denied a Politico report that he was “shocked” by President Trump’s state of mind during his visit to Mar-a-Lago this month. Politico, citing five unnamed European diplomats, reported that Fico told EU leaders at a summit in Brussels last week that his meeting with the U.S. president left him...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday that oil companies were not tipped off ahead of the Trump administration’s incursion into Venezuela, appearing to contradict past statements from President Trump. “The oil executives were not involved whatsoever in any of the planning on this matter,” Rubio said during a Senate hearing. “All of those executives learned about...
Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk said her organization will match the federal government’s $1,000 deposits in new “Trump Accounts” for the children of its employees. Kirk wrote Wednesday on social platform X that her husband, the late conservative activist and Turning Point co-founder Charlie Kirk, “spoke so often about the importance of young families...
Families and organizations have begun to identify the six victims killed in a Sunday plane crash in Maine. Passengers were on board a Bombardier Challenger 600 that erupted in flames after an engine fire. Lakewood Church employee Shawna Collins died on the aircraft, a church employee told The Associated Press. She served at the mega...
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) will speak to reporters Wednesday evening, a day after she was sprayed with an unknown substance during a town hall in her home district. Omar has taken a defiant tone against the Trump administration's surge in federal agents to Minnesota in the wake of two fatal shootings in Minneapolis involving immigration...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday urged patience on U.S. efforts to rehabilitate Venezuela’s oil industry and eventually return the country to democratic governance. The secretary’s remarks came during a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Rubio’s first appearance before lawmakers since the Trump administration’s audacious operation that resulted in the capture of...
The mayor of Portland, Maine, said he wants to personally speak with the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as the agency expands operations in his city and state. “That’s a person just like me, nothing special, but we took an oath to be responsible,” Mark Dion, a former county sheriff, told MS...
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Wednesday criticized Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s assertion that the U.S.'s capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro was not an act of war. During testimony in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Rubio reiterated the Trump administration’s position that the mission to capture Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores,...
The FBI is taking over the investigation into the attack on Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) at her town hall event on Tuesday, the Minneapolis Police Department confirmed Wednesday. A spokesperson for the department confirmed the FBI would be taking over but did not provide further comment. The FBI did not immediately respond to a request...
A group of Republican senators is open to splitting the Homeland Security appropriations measure off from a six-bill government funding package that needs to pass by Friday to avoid a partial government shutdown that would affect the Pentagon and other major departments. Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, said “a...
The federal agents who fatally shot Alex Pretti were placed on administrative leave on Saturday, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official told NewsNation, the Hill’s sister network. Pretti was shot and killed by a Border Patrol agent and a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer in Minneapolis on Saturday. He was the second person...
Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) warned the Trump administration on Tuesday that the state "will not be intimidated" by the administration's surge in federal immigration enforcement. “Today, I say to the people of Maine: We will not be intimidated. We will not be silenced," Mills said during her final State of the State address. "And...
An internal review of the Alex Pretti shooting, reviewed by multiple news outlets, does not mention that he brandished his weapon before being shot, as at least one Trump official initially claimed. The preliminary review by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said two federal agents fired shots at Pretti after he resisted arrest, Reuters...
