Viral video shows protesters disrupting Rep. Tom Suozzi at Long Island temple over ICE funding vote, using crude props and profane insults during event.
The U.S. has approved a massive $15.67 billion arms sales to Israel and Saudi Arabia amid ongoing Gaza ceasefire talks and rising Iran tensions in the region.
As Trump weighs options on a possible strike on Iran, a senior Gulf official told Fox News that Saudi Arabia will not allow the U.S. to use its airspace or bases for such an attack.
Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth is accusing ICE of “needlessly" detaining a 5-year-old child with his illegal immigrant father after the agency said his mother refused to take custody.
Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) visited a 5-year-old and his father at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Dilley, Texas, where they are both being held following their arrests in Minnesota. “I demanded his release and told him how much his family, his school, and our country loves him and is praying for him,” Castro wrote...
Violent attacks in the last week against Reps. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) have amplified already high concerns about the safety of lawmakers, as deepening political polarization and incendiary rhetoric further escalate the dangers members face. Omar was sprayed with an unknown substance Tuesday night while addressing constituents at a town hall in...
House Republicans are warning the Senate against making any changes to a government funding package that includes funds for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), saying any reforms sought by Democrats would not clear the House and would lead to a government shutdown at the end of the week. Conservatives also say they would seek...
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...
