As the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) remains without funding, air travel nationwide has been impacted. Employees of the Transportation Security Agency (TSA), which is housed within DHS, are working without pay as of early Saturday morning — when the funding lapse began. According to DHS’s shutdown contingency plan published in September, just more than...
President Trump is throwing his support behind year-round sales of high-ethanol gasoline amid significant congressional debate over the issue. “In the campaign, I promised to support E15 all year round,” Trump said during a speech in Iowa, referring to high-ethanol gas, called E15 for its ethanol content of up to 15 percent. “I am trusting Speaker...
Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen on Tuesday called for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to be “defunded and disbanded” after a U.S. Border Patrol agent shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Saturday, the second deadly shooting involving federal law enforcement this month. Cohen wrote on the social platform X that he had planned...
Fox News host Dana Perino on Tuesday pressed Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin on labeling Alex Pretti, the second Minneapolis resident shot and killed by federal immigration enforcement officers this month, as a "domestic terrorist" after administration officials differed on using the term. Perino played a clip of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem...
The Senate heads back to Washington on Tuesday as a partial government shutdown looms. But Democrats are eyeing funding for Department of Homeland Security (DHS), after the weekend killing of a Minneapolis man by a Border Patrol (CBP) agent. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) has indicated he intends to move forward with a six-bill...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) threatened to lead impeachment proceedings against Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem if President Trump does not fire her amid turmoil over immigration enforcement tactics in Minnesota. “Donald Trump must fire Kristi Noem immediately,” Jeffries wrote Tuesday in a post on the social platform X. “Or Democrats...
Florida Republican Rep. Carlos Gimenez expressed concerns Tuesday that the Trump administration’s tactics in its hard-line immigration crackdown could hurt the GOP heading into the midterm elections. “Politically, it’s hurting our chances at the midterms — and I’m just being frank about it,” Gimenez told Newsmax. “And the most important thing we have to do...
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney doubled down on his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last week, during which he backed Greenland’s sovereignty and pushed back on President Trump’s tariff agenda. “To be absolutely clear, and I said this to the president, I meant what I said in Davos,” Carney told reporters...
UPS is planning to cut up to 30,000 operational jobs this year as the package delivery company continues with its turnaround efforts and reducing the number of Amazon shipments that it handles.
President Trump is traveling to Iowa on Tuesday to tout his economic agenda ahead of the 2026 midterms. The visit to Des Moines is the latest on Trump's tour, after he spoke in Detroit and Pennsylvania in recent months. The president has seen falling approval ratings amid rising concerns over inflation and affordability — which...
President Trump on Monday endorsed Indiana state Senate candidate Tracey Powell (R), making good on his threat to endorse challengers to Republicans in the state who blocked redistricting efforts last year. Powell is running to replace incumbent state Sen. Jim Buck (R), who has represented the Hoosier State’s 21st District in the state Senate since...
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) said he met with Border Czar Tom Homan on Tuesday and tha tthe two agree to an "ongoing dialogue" after two residents of Minneapolis were killed over the last month in separate altercations with federal law enforcement officials sent to the state as part of President Trump's deportation crackdown. “Governor...
A senior Greenlandic official dismissed President Trump’s desire for the U.S. to gain sovereignty over the land on which its military base sits. Naaja Nathanielsen, Greenland’s minister of industry, raw materials, mining, energy, law enforcement and equality, told USA Today on Sunday that the president’s proposal is a “red line.” Trump claimed to the New...
