A woman who lost her grandson to gun violence defended President Trump at this year's White House Black History Month event, telling critics to "get off the man's back."
The federal government is under a partial shutdown after the Senate passed a five-bill funding package and a two-week stopgap measure, but the House will not vote on it until returns on Monday. Senate Democrats vowed to block what previously was a six-bill funding package that would channel money to several federal department, including the...
Minnesota’s standoff with the Trump administration amid its immigration crackdown in the state has made a political tinderbox of the Twin Cities, as devolving clashes between protesters and federal agents stoke fears of a bigger brewing conflict. Local officials have deemed the surge of immigration enforcement officers a “federal invasion,” doubling down in the courts...
President Trump said Saturday that he hopes “enough people will use their heads” to bring a swift end to the partial government shutdown that began this weekend. “I think it’s going fine,” Trump told Fox News’s Jacqui Heinrich regarding government funding. “We had a big GDP…I lost a point and a half because of the...
A federal judge in Texas on Saturday ordered the release of the 5-year-old boy and father who were transported to a detention center in the state amid the Trump administration’s immigration operations in Minnesota. In a Saturday opinion, U.S. District Judge Fred Biery admonished the administration’s removal of Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, Adrian...
Texas A&M University said on Friday it will end the school’s women’s and gender studies degree program. The university wrote in the announcement that the interdisciplinary program was ended due to new school restrictions on curriculum topics and a lack of student interest. The school noted that the program’s students will be allowed to complete...
Former CNN anchor Don Lemon ripped media corporations that “bend the knee” to President Trump and his administration on Friday, a day after federal authorities arrested him following his coverage of a protest at a Minnesota church earlier this month. “The way to stand up to a bully, to a tyrant, is not to bend...
Rock legend Bruce Springsteen on Friday made a surprise appearance at an anti-Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) benefit concert for the families of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, two U.S. citizens killed in shootings during federal immigration operations in Minneapolis. Video taken of the concert showed Springsteen, guitar in hand, recalling when he wrote his new...
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) hit back on Saturday amid a mounting effort from a super PAC to replace him in the upcoming midterm elections, saying he is being unfairly targeted for pushing for the release of the Epstein files. “It was not a hoax, I cannot be bullied, I am not done, and this is...
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) on Saturday said he and city officials were "disappointed" after a judge rejected Minnesota's effort to prevent the Trump administration's surge of federal immigration officers to the state. "Of course, we’re disappointed," Frey said in a statement obtained by NewsNation, The Hill's sister network. "This decision doesn’t change what people here have lived through...
US law requires fishing vessels to be built in US shipyards, resulting in an aging fleet that is less safe, efficient, and competitive, and more expensive to maintain than modern vessels built abroad.
White House border czar Tom Homan on Friday said President Trump remains "serious" about his crackdown on illegal immigration in the U.S. as tensions spike in Minnesota following two fatal shootings involving federal agents. Homan dismissed reports that Trump was "backing off on his promise on mass deportation" in an appearance on Fox New's "Hannity."...
President Trump has invited several nations — including key U.S. allies — to join his "Board of Peace" to oversee postwar restoration efforts in the Gaza Strip, but several world leaders have rejected the request while one country had its invitation revoked. The board was established after the first phase of Trump's 20-point peace plan...
