The Justice Department (DOJ) sent a letter to Congress on Saturday outlining its justification for redactions made in the released Jeffrey Epstein files, according to Politico. The six-page letter to the leaders of the Senate and House Judiciary committees also included a list of “all government officials and politically exposed persons” named in the files...
The Supreme Court on Friday took up a bid from Bayer to limit liability for pesticide makers, including Bayer’s Roundup weed killer, which has become the subject of numerous cancer suits. The court said it would take up the company’s petition, which was backed by the Trump administration. It said it would only evaluate the question of...
President Trump's name will soon be attached to several miles of Sunshine Boulevard in Palm Beach, Fla. The president will participate in the renaming ceremony on Friday after commissioners voted last summer to designate 4 miles of the stretch running from Palm Beach International Airport to his Mar-a-Lago resort as “President Donald J. Trump Boulevard,”...
Reza Pahlavi, the exiled crown prince of Iran, on Friday called for the U.S. to take decisive action against the “instrument of repression” in Tehran to stop the brutal crackdown on anti-government protests and warned against any deals with the country’s autocratic leaders. “The United States has a choice,” Pahlavi said during an event at...
Tens of thousands gathered Friday in front of the U.S. Embassy in Havana to protest the deaths of Cuban officers killed during the U.S. operation that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. The protesters also called for the release of Maduro, a close ally of Cuba who now faces trial on drug trafficking charges in a...
President Trump said Friday that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney should be making a trade deal with China, an economic U.S. adversary the president has been going after during his second term. “That’s OK. That’s what he should be doing. I mean, it’s a good thing for him to sign a trade deal. If you...
Norwegian Labour Party lawmaker Raymond Johansen on Thursday ripped President Trump for accepting the Nobel Peace Prize from Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado. Machado presented Trump with the prize Thursday during a White House meeting after months of lauding the president in his push to oust regime leader Nicolás Maduro and for his war...
A day after her meeting with President Trump, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado expressed confidence that the U.S. is moving toward free elections in the country, but she acknowledged it would be a “process that has several phases.” During a press conference hosted by the Heritage Foundation in Washington on Friday, Machado criticized Delcy...
Millions of Americans will have a chance to view the Northern Lights on Friday and Saturday, according to an aurora forecast from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center.
President Trump on Friday floated slapping potential tariffs on countries that oppose the U.S. acquiring the Danish territory of Greenland. Trump made the remarks after describing threatening European allies, including France and Germany, with 25 percent tariffs if they did not pay more for prescription drugs. “I went through country after country,” Trump said at...
CIA Director John Ratcliffe met with Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodríguez on Thursday in Caracas, the same day President Trump met with Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado at the White House. Ratcliffe, the most senior administration official to visit Venezuela since U.S. Special Forces captured Nicolás Maduro, traveled to the Latin American country at...
