Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Friday said it is an "absolute lie" that he suggested renaming Penn Station after President Trump, a claim that the president made earlier in the day. "Absolute lie. He knows it. Everyone knows it," Schumer said in a post on the social platform X. "Only one man can...
Former Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday accused the White House and President Trump of a cover-up for blaming a staffer for posting a since-deleted video depicting former President Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes. "No one believes this cover up from the White House, especially since they originally defended the post,"...
President Trump on Friday said he "of course" condemns a since-deleted racist video posted on his social media account depicting former President Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes, but declined to apologize for the post. Trump told reporters on Air Force One while heading to Palm Beach, Fla., that he "just looked...
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers on Tuesday detained a 5-year-old boy and his father in Minnesota after the boy came home from preschool, according to several media reports. Columbia Heights Public School District Superintendent Zena Stenvik told Minnesota Public Radio that Liam Conejo Ramos and his father were approached by masked federal agents in...
The Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) newest immigration crackdown, “Operation Catch of the Day,” is underway in Maine. “We have launched Operation Catch of the Day to target the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens in the state,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a Wednesday statement. “On the first day of operations,...
A Cuban immigrant's death in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Texas has been ruled a homicide, according to The Associated Press. ICE said in a press release earlier this month that on Jan. 3, a Cuban migrant named Geraldo Lunas Campos had died while in custody. The agency said Lunas Campos,...
President Trump departed Davos, Switzerland, where he met with world leaders and unveiled his new Board of Peace in Gaza at the annual World Economic Forum. Earlier Thursday, the president participated in a signing ceremony for his peace board initiative alongside a handful of world leaders. No major European allies attended the Thursday signing ceremony,...
Challenges to President Trump’s tariff regime could soon be at the center of business in the House, as Democrats and tariff-skeptical GOP members will have the opportunity to call snap votes that set up a loyalty test for Republicans. House Republican leadership this week declined to extend past Jan. 31 a prohibition on calling snap...
Vice President Vance is in Ohio on Thursday morning to sell President Trump’s economic agenda, as the 2026 midterm elections inch closer. In his visit to Toledo, Ohio, Vance is expected to tour an industrial shipping facility and deliver remarks on how the Trump administration's policies impact the Midwest. Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy...
President Trump and his administration rolled out the Board of Peace initiative for Gaza in Davos on Thursday featuring leaders of over 20 countries that notably did not include major European Union allies. Countries that have agreed to join the board include Argentina, Belarus, Morocco, Vietnam, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kosovo, Hungary, Egypt, Turkey, Qatar, Jordan,...
Millions of Americans from New Mexico to the Carolinas are bracing for a potentially catastrophic ice storm that could crush trees and power lines and knock out power for days, while many northern states all the way to New England could see enough snow to make travel nearly impossible, forecasters say.
President Trump said the Republican Party has “a good bench” of potential candidates to run for the White House in 2028, but he declined to name an early favorite to run as his successor. In an interview that aired Wednesday evening on NewsNation’s “Katie Pavlich Tonight,” Trump was asked whether he thinks there’s a likely GOP candidate who could carry on his...
