Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and his caucus want the DHS funding bill stripped from the broader package, teeing up a partial government shutdown in the process.
Venezuela's acting president Delcy Rodríguez rebukes U.S. interference, telling Washington to stop giving "orders" to Venezuelan politicians amid tensions.
DHS releases disturbing voicemail threatening ICE agent amid Minneapolis unrest, calling for immediate action against those targeting federal officers.
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...
The White House will present plans for its ballroom construction at the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) meeting next month. The “East Wing Modernization Project” was added to the agenda of the Jan. 8 NCPC meeting, during which administration officials will give an “information presentation” on its controversial project. The presentation is often seen as...
For some of the world’s poorest people, BRICS — originally Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — is becoming a Trojan horse for Moscow’s war machine.
The Kennedy Center’s annual Christmas Eve jazz concert was canceled Wednesday after its longtime host declined to perform in protest of the recent changes to the performing arts center's name. Chuck Redd, who’s hosted the holiday “Jazz Jams” since 2006, said he made the decision after seeing President Trump’s name added to the building, which...
The Texas Education Freedom Accounts (TEFA) program will allow eligible families to use $10,474 for their child's private school tuition and expenses for the 2025-26 school year, but the Comptroller of Public Accounts is asking the Attorney General to bar schools affiliated with CAIR or the Chinese government from receiving funds.
