It wasn’t surprising to learn that there was more to the story of the 5-year-old detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minneapolis last week than met the eye. The heartrending picture of the frightened boy in his winter hat being led into a dark vehicle by a masked officer sparked a visceral response. But as it […]
Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) said he was assaulted at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, on Friday. “Last night, I was assaulted by a man at Sundance Festival who told me that Trump was going to deport me before he punched me in the face,” Maxwell posted on the social platform X. “He...
A top Minnesota public safety official said “we’re in uncharted territory” after his state agency was reportedly shut out of an investigation into the man killed by federal agents on Saturday. Minneapolis resident and intensive care nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti was fatally shot by federal agents amid the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) massive immigration...
The Coalition of the Willing, established by UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron, is a multinational force intended to provide security guarantees for Ukraine as part of a peace agreement with Russia, but its purpose and objectives remain unclear in the absence of a peace deal.
CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss defended her decision to hold a “60 Minutes” segment she thought was not ready for publication, telling her staff in a memo on Wednesday her goal is to win back viewers’ trust. “Right now, the majority of Americans say they do not trust the press. It isn’t because they’re crazy,”...
Ask any Democrats about their Christmas wish for the 2026 midterms, and they will tell you they want a blue tsunami that will clear the Republicans out of the House and Senate, and maybe even President Trump out of the White House. But we Democrats also have a second Christmas wish, one that is even...
Former Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), who publicly announced his Stage 4 pancreatic cancer diagnosis with a notably candid message earlier this week, took to the social platform X late on Christmas Eve to offer a joke about his condition. “umm, we should talk . . .” Sasse, 53, wrote in response to a post...
President Trump knocked his political opponents as “Radical Left Scum” in a Christmas message in which he boasted about his administration’s accomplishments during the first year of his second term. “Merry Christmas to all, including the Radical Left Scum that is doing everything possible to destroy our Country, but are failing badly,” Trump wrote Wednesday...
President Trump is putting his endorsement strength to the test ahead next year’s midterms as he wades into a number of Republican House primaries. Last week, the president rolled out his first endorsements in non-incumbent races, backing candidates supported by the National Republican Campaign Committee (NRCC). While Trump’s backing will likely hold sway in any...
President Trump said on Wednesday that he wants to make sure that “a bad Santa” is not “infiltrating” the United States, as he fielded calls from children who were calling North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) to track Santa Claus’s movements on Christmas Eve. Trump helped kick off the NORAD Santa-tracking tradition, now in its...
Tina Peters, the former Colorado elections clerk who has been at the center of a political fight between President Trump and Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, is asking a state appeals court to recognize the president’s pardon of her state convictions. Lawyers for Peters, who served as a clerk in Mesa County, filed a motion Tuesday...
Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee are urging President Trump to reverse the “unprecedented” decision to recall nearly 30 top career diplomats, leaving more than half of all U.S. ambassador posts vacant. In a letter to the president on Wednesday, the senators warned that recalling the chiefs of mission in at least 29 countries...
The Trump administration on Wednesday issued emergency orders to keep two set-to-be-shuttered coal plants in Indiana running through the end of the year, providing a lifeline to a favored industry while arguing it would ensure people with secure and affordable electricity. Energy Secretary Chris Wright announced the orders directing the Northern Indiana Public Service Company...
The Quad — the U.S., Japan, India and Australia — was conceived as a strategic coalition to uphold a “free and open Indo-Pacific,” a concept articulated by the late Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2016 and later elevated to a centerpiece of U.S. strategy. At stake was nothing less than preserving a rules-based order...
