The reverend who called on President Trump to have mercy on transgender children and immigrants during a prayer service for his inauguration said in a new interview she would not apologize for her remarks. “I am not going to apologize for asking for mercy for others,” Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde told Time magazine in an interview published...
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President Trump is turning up the heat on Russian President Vladimir Putin in his first days in power, seeking to pressure Russia’s leader to come to the negotiating table for a deal to end the war in Ukraine. A little more than 48 hours since returning to the White House, Trump said Putin is “destroying...
A former Olympic swimmer has expressed “relief” about President Trump pardoning him, according to a Tuesday report from The Washington Post. “Waking up this morning, I was like: ‘My gosh. Wow, this is over. I don’t have to check in with my probation officer anymore,’” Klete Keller told the Post on Tuesday. “It’s just such an amazing feeling...
Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the Oath Keepers who was convicted of seditious conspiracy in relation to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, was in the Capitol complex on Wednesday to meet with GOP lawmakers — shortly after getting out of prison because President Trump commuted his sentence. Rhodes was spotted in the Dunkin’ Donuts inside...
President Trump on Wednesday pardoned two D.C. police officers who were convicted in connection with a fatal collision with a moped during a pursuit by law enforcement. A jury found D.C. Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Andrew Zabavsky guilty of conspiracy to obstruct and obstructing justice after he plotted with another officer to conceal the circumstances...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued Wednesday over President Trump’s expansion of a program that allows immigration officials to carry out swift deportations. Trump’s Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday issued a rule enabling expedited removals to take place nationwide for migrants who cannot prove they have been in the country for two years....
President Trump on Wednesday directed his administration to relist the Houthis in Yemen as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO) in an effort to crack down on the Iranian-backed militant group. Trump signed an executive order that starts the process to relist the group as an FTO in the coming weeks. The White House cited Houthi...
The U.S. military will support deportation flights and intelligence collection and help construct barriers when 1,500 active-duty troops deploy to the southern border and begin work in the next two days. In a statement, acting Defense Secretary Robert Salesses said the deployment mission began on Wednesday and involves military airlift support for the Department of...