President Trump said Saturday that he expects his pick for Federal Reserve chair, Kevin Warsh, to easily make it through the Senate confirmation process. “He’s very high-quality person. He should have no trouble getting through,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One, suggesting Warsh could pick up some Democratic support. “I think he might get Democrat...
Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee (D) has won the special election runoff for late Rep. Sylvester Turner’s (D-Texas) seat, according to a Decision Desk HQ projection. Menefee defeated former Houston City Council member Amanda Edwards (D) in the Saturday runoff, after they were the top two vote-getters in the November primary. The Lone Star State’s 18th Congressional...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) pushed back Sunday on the Trump administration’s justification for capturing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. “There's been no evidence that the administration has presented to justify the actions that were taken in terms of there being an imminent threat to the health, the safety, the well-being, the national security of...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio believes it is too early to discuss holding elections in Venezuela. “All of that, I think, is premature at this point. There’s a lot of work to be done here,” Rubio told host Kristen Welker on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” After U.S. forces captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his...
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced overnight that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) would allow airlines to resume flights in the Caribbean after flights were cancelled over U.S. strikes in Venezuela Saturday. "The original restrictions around the Caribbean airspace are expiring at 12:00am ET and flights can resume," Duffy wrote on the social media platform X...
North Korea on Sunday fired a number of ballistic missiles to its east prior to South Korean President Lee Jae Myung heading to China, the South Korean military said, according to The Associated Press. Per the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff, the military identified multiple launches of ballistic missiles in the capital region of...
President Trump's operation to oust Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Saturday drew a sharp response in the U.S. and abroad, from outright praise to fury, with some expressing gladness over the end of a dictator's regime tempered by concern over how it was handled. The massive covert operation, in the works since late summer, followed...
Surprise U.S. strikes on Venezuela and the capture of that country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, are putting the crescendo on a combative first year at the Pentagon for Secretary Pete Hegseth. Hegseth, who with President Trump rechristened the Department of Defense as the Department of War, has sought to restore a “warrior ethos” to the military,...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is escalating the Trump administration's attacks on Minnesota by freezing all federal funding to the state's childcare providers. Day care operators and advocates have few answers about how the sudden stoppage will impact their communities. They said the restriction is putting providers at risk of closure and...
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is now on U.S. soil after the Trump administration captured and removed him from power. Late on Saturday, Maduro reportedly arrived at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., after being flown into the city by helicopter, senior law enforcement officials told Jackie Koppell and Andrew Fischer Espitallier of NewsNation, The...
